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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mansons2005, post: 255801, member: 121&quot;]Having practice great restraint in withholding posting any trivia or drivel until the &quot;important&quot; portion of this thread was concluded, I shall now hold forth with a memory inspired by the photo Brad posted..................</p><p><br /></p><p>Back in the late 1930s we moved into the townhouse my Grandparents occupied, for the duration of WW II. The bedroom assigned to my parents was stuffed with heavy Victorian furniture (earlier that Brad&#039;s photo) and my mother insisted on refurbishing. Thus resulted what was know in the annals of family history as the Great Mirror War between my mother and my grandmother (her mother-in-law). </p><p><br /></p><p>Gram had no problem with moving out the old furniture, but when Mama&#039;s &quot;Moderne&quot; stuff was brought in Gram told Mama she was a fool and she would be sorry.....................The room was painted and papered, the furniture came in and the mirrors were hung over the dresser and over the dressing table...........they stayed there for about a month and Mama decided that the furniture arrangement didn&#039;t suit, so she shuffled things around, which necessitated having the mirrors rehung...................which necessitated having the painters/paperers back..............at which point Gram started her &quot;I told you so&quot; routine.....................according to Gram &quot;proper&quot; dressing tables and chests had the mirror attached for just this reason - you could move the furniture without the expense of redecorating.................for years and years when ever Mama and Gram (who cordially disliked each other) would have a disagreement Gram would pull the &quot;I know best, wasn&#039;t I right about the mirrors?&quot; card.................and I once heard my mother say to my father &quot;If I thought it wouldn&#039;t be lost in a void, I&#039;d shove that mirror down your mother&#039;s throat&quot;.....................and that was in the 1960s, 25 years AFTER the incident...................[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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