"Our small group of reporters arrived one midafternoon after a lengthy bone-chilling ride through the winter-silent landscape. It was not yet dark. There were twelve or thirteen boys and girls and a small staff in a grand but bleak house. Its walls were bare, it's floor stripped of rugs; a few rooms had linoleum on the floors. The house's vast windows were white with glare from the snow-covered mountains.
It was impossible to tell the ages of the children, they were so stunted. They were very glad to have visitors, and they clung to us, grasping our hands as they showed us their classroom; a former salon, now filled with narrow, neatly made cots; a library long emptied of books, its shelves containing a few toys and games; and the dining room, where we ate an early supper on a table covered with yellow oil cloth."
~ Paula Fox
"Children of the Tatras"
The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/106394.The_Coldest_Winter
Oil cloth is wipeable, and you can make it so.
https://www.instructables.com/Make-Your-Own-Oil-Cloth-DIY-Waterproof-Outdoor-Bun/
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