Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-04-16

shavinCs or husks Cover this with
green English furniture print The |
glazed English comes at About twenty-five |
cents yard, the glazed French at seven
" five cents u yard, aud n nice article Of
yard wide French twill VERY strone) is
from seventy i've to eighty cents yard
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. If you happen to have
one or two feather pillows that you can
spare for the purpose shake them down
iuto square shape aud cover them with
the same print, aud you will then have
four pillows for your lounge-opc at csch
end and two at the back, and you will
find IL answers all the purposes Of . sofa
II viii be very pretty thing, pow, to
cut out what are called lambrikius of the
same material as your lounge, to put over
| your windows, which are to be embel.
| lishcd with white muslin curtains. The
| Corniccs 20 your windows can be simply
| strips of wood covered with paper to
/ match tho bordering of your room, and
/ the lamhrkins, made Of chlntz like the
/ lounge, can be trimmed with fringe OF
gimp of the same color.
The curtains can be made of plain white
muslin, or some of the many styles that
come for this purpose If plain muslia is
used, you can ornament them with hens
an inch in width, in which insert strip
ut bingham 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 curtains
in giving an air of grace and elegance To q
room is astonishing. White curtains really
create y room out of nothing. No matter
how coarse the muslin, so IL be white and
hang in graceful folds, there is y charm in
it that supplies The want of multitudCs OF
other things.
Very pretty curtain-muslln can be
bought for thirty seven cents q yard. 1t
requires six yards for II window.
Now, get your men-lolk to knock up
for you, out of rough, unplanCd boards,
SONS square, ottoman framcs-stuH the
tops with just the same material as the
lounge, and cover them with the self-samG
chintz
Now you have, supposing your selected
color to be green, q green lounge in the
corner and two green ottomans you have
white muslin curtains, with green lambri
lins and borders, and your room already
looks furnished, If you have in the house
any broken.down arm chair, reposing in
the oblivion of the garret, draw it out
drive nail here and thCro,t to hold it firm
stuff and pad, and stitch the padding
through with leng upholster's needle
aud cover it with the chintz like your
other furniture. Prcsto-you create ar
easy chair.
Thus can broken and dsgraced furni
tire re-appear, and being put into uniform
with the general suit OF your room, take
new lease Of life.
If you want a center table, consider thi,
! that any kind of table, well concealed
/ beaeath the folds Of handsome drapcry, O
, color corresponding TO the general hut
, of the room, will look well. Instead o
, going to the Cabinet-maker and paying
] from thirty to forty dollars upon it'll,
I narrow, cold, handicapped stand tina
; gives just room enough TO hold lamI
and book or two, just reflect within
Q yourself what a Center-tabe is made for
| If you have in your house good broad
' generous topped table, take it, cover 1t will
8 an amplc cloth Of green broadclotll
. Such u cover two and a half yards'squart
Of fine green broadcloth, figured wit
n black aud with plttern-bcrdor of grape
h leaves has been bought for ten dollars. Il
4 room we wot OF IL covers n cheap pin
y table, such rs you may buy for four or nv
i dollars any day; but you will be astoI
f ished to see how genteel an object TIL
table makes under its green drapery. w
{ set down our center table, therefore, a
{ consisting mainly of a nice broadclot
o cover, matching our curtains and lounge
). We are sure that any one with
:, heart that is humble" may command sue
:, q centertable and cloth for fifteen dollart
r and family of five or six may all sit an
# work, or read, or write around it, and it
y capable of entertaining generous allow
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