The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1869-04-17

AnaYlngS or hueks Cover CnlS Win |
green English furniture print. The
glazed English comes at about twenty-five
cents yard, the glazed French at seven
ty-tiVe cents yard, and nice article Of
yard wide French twill (very strong) Is ]
from seventy five 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
into square shape and cover them with
the same print, and you will then have
four pillows for your lounge--one at each
end and two at the back, and you will
find 1t answers all the purposes of sofa
twill be very pretty thing, now, to
cut out what are called lambrikins Of the
same material as your lounge, TO put over
your windows, which are to be embel-
lished with white muslin curtains. The
cornioes to your windows can be simply
strips Of wood covered with paper to
match the bordering Of your room, and
the lambrlkins, made Of chintz like the
lounge, can be trimmed with fringe or
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 muslin is
used, you can ornament them with hens
an inch in width, in which insert a strip
of bingham or chambray of the same color
as your ehintz. 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 a
room is astonishing. White curtains really
create room out Of nothing. No matter
how coarse the muslin, so it be white and
hang in graceful folds, there is charm in
it that supplies the want of multitudes Of
other things.
Very pretty curtain-muslin can be
bought for thirty.seven cents q yard. II
requires six yards for a window.
Now, get your men.folk to knock up
for you, out Of rough, unplaned boards
SONS square, ottoman frames--stuff the
tops with just the same material as the
lounge, and cover them with the self-samt
ChintZ
Now you have, supposing your selected
/ color to be green, a green lounge in the
, corner and two green ottomans; you have
/ white muslin curtains, with green lambri
I kins and borders, and your room already
|, looks furnished If you have in the hous'
/. any broken-down arm. chair, reposing il
the oblivion of the garret, draw it out
n drive nail here and there TO hold it firm
4 stuff and pad and stitch the padding
!. through with lsng upholster's needle
!. and cover it with the chintz like you
!. other furniture, Presto-you create a
+ easy chair.
h Thus can broken and disgraced furni
a ture re.appear, and being put into uniform
e with the general suit of your room, tax
J. a new lease Of life.
/ If you want a center table, consider thi
3 that any kind of table, well coneeale
Il bepeath the folds of handsome drapery, {
le color corresponding to the general hu
is of the room, will look well. Instead {
,e going to the oabinet-maker and payin
IS from thirty to forty dollars upon littl
at narrow, cold, marble-topped stand th'
le gives just room enough to hold lam
and book or two, just reflect With
re- yourself whata comfortable is made 70
ID II you have in your house good broa
~ generoGs-topped table, take it, cover 1t vii
Ee an ample cloth Of green broadclot
10 Such a cover, two and half yards squar
. of fine green broadcloth, figured wit
m black afd with a pattern-border of crap
n leaves has been bought for ten dollars.
ilt room we wOt Of it covers cheap pil
oy table, such as you may buy for four or fl
et dollars any day; but you viii be asto
of ished to see how genteel an object II
table makes under its green dTapery. v
At set down our center table, therefore,
et consisting mainly Of a nice broadclo
ye cover, matching our curtains and lounf
II. We are sure that any one with
To- heart that is humble" may command su
ri a comfortable and cloth for fifteen dolla
er and family of five or six may all sit a.
Of work, or read, or write around 1t, and il
Nv capable of entertaining generous allo
,er ance of books and knick -knacks. .--Hea1
,a- and Home.