page 1R, undated
Mary Hindman
Sitting room
1/2 double bolts for wall4 "4" for ceiling
? 3' bolts border
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Dining Room
4 double for walls
3 1/2 - Ceiling
3 - border
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Parlor
6 double for walls
4' " ceiling
3 1/2 border
Kitchen
5 double wall3wall "3" Border
Notes and Illustrations
Here, Mary is (presumably) making a list of wallpaper to order for her house. The terms "parlor" and "sitting room" aren't generally used today. In 1907, "parlor" would be the more formal room, ideally kept clean and orderly at all times, where guests would be entertained. It was the more public-facing room typically used for formal family affairs such as weddings, and funerals. According to the Wikipedia article on Parlors:
In the English-speaking world of the 18th and 19th century, having a parlour room was evidence of social status. It was proof that one had risen above those who lived in one or two rooms. As the parlour was the room in which the larger world encountered the private sphere of middle class life (the family's face to the world) it was invariably the best room (it was often colloquially called that) in the home. The parlour frequently displayed a family's best furnishings, works of art and other status symbols.
The "sitting room" would be the more private informal room where children could play and would be the room more akin to what we now call the "family room"
.