Crossword-Solution: TIDIES 6 letters, 19 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Yes, sir; you have, for a fact.” He glanced from the lithograph framed in gilt and red plush--the two little girls at their prayers--to the “I'm Grandpa” and “I'm Grandma” pictures, noted the clean white matting and the gay worsted tidies over the chair backs, and appeared to contemplate in ecstasy the framed photograph of McTeague and Trina in their wedding finery.

The last time she came up she carried a bundle of the gay tidies that used to hang over the chair backs.

None of your feminine fripperies here! None of your chair-backs and tidies! This man, it was seen, groaned under no aunts.

There were also a big plush sofa and two haircloth rocking-chairs, of walnut, covered with cotton tidies.

Everything from the white ceiling to the sweet-smelling matting that covered the floor was spotlessly clean; the cane-bottomed rocker near the curved window-seat with its pretty pillows told of days when a convalescent might look in comfort at the garden beneath; the counterpane, with its old-fashioned rose pattern, the little white tidies on the back of each chair, and Mandy crooning beside the window, all helped to make a homelike picture.