New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-08-30

An ENGLISH HOUSE DESCRIBED BIZ A FRENCH
MAN.-You enter. The house, which is not
usually wider than two or three ordinary win
dows, can afford only the narrowest possible
space for staircase. This staircase is nearly
always Of wood, and creaks dreadfully when
trodden upon. 1t is covered with band of car
pet or oil cloth The windows are ornamented
with painted blinds You enter your sitting
room. A carpet covers the floor all the year
round, but carpet, linen bands, and scraps of
oil cloth, almost hide the fundamental carpet,
The walls are covered with blazing pattern
after French design. Some friends gave me
some prints to hang up, but the landlady was
Mortified at the idea of driving nails into her
splendid paper, and placed my presents upon
chairs. This accounted for what had noticed
in England, and had mistaken for carelessness,
viz that in order to avoid driving nails into
the walls, the English will stand pictures upon
chairs about their rooms. Even for Rubens
or a Lawrence they will not drive nail through
paper of the value Of two shillings q piece
An immense table, covered with an immense
fringe, takes up an immese space in my sitting
room. / lift the cloth and discover a table, as
substantial as a bridge, supported by enormous
columns. 1t cannot be q table; it must be an
entresol. [ can throw my papers and books
carelessly about it-even when the vast break
fast tray is upon it-and then desert steppes
of great extent are left around. Should this
table become in the course of ages fossil it will
discover to future generations specimen Of the
colossal furniture of our time
Then there is a long massive, faded sofa, that
has suffered the effects of the carboniferous
atmosphere it is hard, and in no way invit-
ing, The eye even does not care to rest upon
it, and the eye is right. People who try it leave
it, wondering whether it was originally built to
contain GOALS Chairs which can be lifted only
with two hands, are distributed here and there,
but the most curious part of the furniture is a
huge ebony affair opposite the windows. Think
of two towers united by platform or terrace.
Each tower has two stories. The first tower is
divided in two parts-let us say two rooms
Under the platform, which is ornamented with
a massive sculptured balcony, is secret pas
sage, which, but for its Babylonian proportions,
might be called a drawer. From the fiat and
polished terrace there must be fine view.
never asked the use of this wooden edifce it
might be either a fortress or an organ. If we
| were all about the size Of Polyphemus should
say it was perhaps an ugly sideboard in some
dining-room inhabited by Cyclops. But as
| human affairs stand, cannot see what use it
can serve, except, perhaps, for barricade! Do
you wish by chance to roast an OK, come to my
room in LONDONDERRY thing is colossal here.
The CRATE is so large that it is impossible to
make little fire in June. 1t wants no little
effort to lift the shovel or longs Above this
colossal CRATE is glass but placed SO high thai
can but just catch glimpse of my eye browt
in it. Two immense bell-ropes, with cockades
as large as the top of a hat, complete this for
midahle furniture; in the midst of which mar
is Lillputian. l need not dwell upon the de
tails of my bed room furniture The bed, which
should be capacious, is narrow, like the bertl
on board a steamboat; the mattress is, as
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