Looking back on years of living in a working-class home in the North of England, I should saythat a good living room must 11 three principal things: homeliness, warmth and plenty of goodfood. The living-room is the warm heart of the family and 12 often slightly stuffy to a middle-classvisitor. It is not a social centre but a family center; little entertaining goes on there or in the frontroom, if there 13 to be one; you do not entertain in anything approaching the middle-class 14 Thewife's social life outside her 15 family is found over the washing-line, at the little shop on the corner,visiting relatives at a moderate 16 occasionally, and perhaps now and again a visit with herhusband to his pub or club. Apart from these two places, he has just his work and his footballmatches. They will have, each of them, friends at all these places, who may well not know what theinside of their house is like, having never "stepped across the threshold," as the old 17 phrase hasit. The family hearth is 18 for the family itself, and those who are "something to us"(another favoriteformula) and who look in for a talk or just to sit. Much of the free time of a man and his wife will 19be passed at that hearth. Just staying in is still one of the most common leisure-time 20.

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　　11. L 12. M 13. A 14. C 15. G 16. F 17. E 18. N 19. H 20. I