Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-04-14

With any OF these cover your lounge.
Make two large, square pillows of
the same substance as the mattress,
and set up at the back. IfYou happen
to have one Or two feather pillows
that you can spare for the purpose,
shake them down into square shape
and cover them with the same print,
and you viii then have four pillows
for your Iounge-one at each end
and two at the back, and you will
find it answers all the purposes of a
sofa.
It will be very pretty thing now,
to cut out what are called lamb
rikjns of the same material as
your lounge, to put over your win
dOws, which, are to be embellished
with white muslin curtains. The
cornices to your windows can be
simply strips of wood covered with
paper to match the bordering of
your room, and the lambrikins, made
of chintz like the lounge, can be
trimmed with fringe or gimpSof the
same color.
The curtains can be made of plain
white muslin, some of the many
styles that come for this purpose. If
plain muslin is used, you can orna-
ment with hems an inch in width,
in which insert strip OF gingham
or chambray of the same color as
your chintz. This will wash with
the curtains without losing its color,
or should it fade it can easily be
drawn out and replaced.
The influence of white muslin cur
tains in giving an air of grace and
elegance to "a room is astonishing.
White curtains really create room
out of nothing. No matter how
coarse the muslin, so it be white and
hang i'll graceful folds. there is a
charm i'll it that supplies the want
of multitudeS of other things.
Very pretty curtain -mnslin can be
bought for thirty-seven cents yard.
1t requires six yards fer window.
Now, get your men-folk to knock
up for you, out of rough, unplaneu
| boards, some square, ottoman frames
stuff the tops with just the same
material rs the lounge, and cover
them with the self-same chintz.
Now you have, supposing your Sc
| lected color to be green, a green
lounge III the corner and two green
ottomans you have white muslin
curtains, with green iambrikins and
borders, and your room already looks
furnished. If you have III the house
any broken-down armchair, repos-
ing in the Oblivion of the garret,
draw it out-drive a nail here and
there to hold ii firm-stuff and pad
and stitch the padding through with
a long upholster's needle, and cover
it with the chintz like your other
furniture. Presto-you create an
easy chair
Thus can broken and disgraced
furniture re-appear, and being put
into uniform with the general suit of
your room, take 4 new lease of life.
If You want a center-table consider
this-that any kind of table, well con-
cealed beneath the folds of hand
some drapery, Of II color correspond
ing To the general hue of the room,
will look well. Instead of going to
the cabinet-maker and paying from
thirty Ia forty dollars upon little
narrow, cold, marble topped stand,
that gives Just room enough to hold
a lamp and 4 book or two, Just re-
fleet within Yourself what a center
table is made for. Ii you have inyour
house Il good broad, generouS-topped
table, take it, cover it with an ample
cloth Of green broad-cIeth. Such Il
cover, twoand a half yards square,
of fine green broadeloth, figured with
black and with "A pattern border OF
Crape-leaveS, has been bought for ten
dollars. In u room we wot OF 1t
covers a cheap pine table. such AS
you may buy for four or five dollars
any day but you will he astonished
to see how genteel an object this
table makes under its green drapery-
We set down our center table, there
fore, as consisting mainly of IA nice
broadcloth cover, matching our cur
tains and lounge.
We are sure that any one with "a
heart that is humble" may COM
mand such a comfortable and cloth
for fifteen dollars, and a family of
five or six may all sit and work, or
read, or write around it, and 1T is
capable of entertaining a generous
allowance of books and fknick-
knacks.-Hcdrh and Homo.