CHAPTER XXII.

FURNITURE.--BOTTLING, PRESERVING, AND LAMPLIGHTING.

Universal Supply of Convenient and Ornamental Furniture Due to Modern Inventions and Machinery.--The Furniture of the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans.--Tables.--Modern Improvements.-- Combined Tables, Desks, and Chairs.--Special Forms of Each.-- Beds: Advance from the Ponderous Bedsteads of Former Times.-- Modern, Ornamental, Healthful Styles.--Iron, Brass, Springs, Surgical and Invalid Chairs and Beds.--Kitchen Utensils.--Vast Amount of Drudgery Relieved.--Curtains, Shades, and Screens.-- Great Changes Produced by Steaming and Bending Wood.--The Bentwood Ware Factories of Austria, Hungary, Moravia (1870-73), in Vast Beech Forests Followed in other Countries.--Modern Chairs of Various Kinds.--The Dentist and the Theatre.--Bottle Stoppers.--Enormous Demand for Cork Exhausting the Supply.-- Modern Substitutes.--Fruit Jars, etc.--Lamplighting, Ancient and Modern.--Revolution Produced by Petroleum.--Wickless and Electric Lamps. 354