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Home Comforts by Cheryl Mendelson
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“The streets are paved with brick and are clean as any chamber floor,” noted a 17th-century observer of the famously neat Dutch. As the historian Simon Schama has reminded us, Dutch housewives in that era followed their cleaning rituals with military prec
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