The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-01-15
he back, and you will find it answers all

with white muslin curtains. The eornices
to your windows can be simply strips of
wood covered with paper to match the Dor
dering Of your room, and the lambrikins,
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 chintz. This will wash with the cur
tains 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 yard. 1t requires
six yards for window.
Now, get your men folk to knock up for
you, out Of rough, unplaned boards, some
square ottoman frames-stuff the tops with
just the same material as the lounge, and
cover them with the self-same chintz.
Now you have, supposing your selected
color to be green, green lounge i'll the
corner and two green ottomans you have
white muslin curtains, with green lambri-
kins and borders, and your room already
looks furnished. If you have in the house
any broken down armchair, reposing in
the oblivion of the garrett draw it out
drive nail here and there to hold it firm
stuff and pad, and stitch the padding
through with long uphOlsterer's noodle.
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 new
lease of life.
If you want comfortable, consider this
that any kind Of table. well concealed
beneath the folds of handsome drapery, of
a color correspanding to tile general hue Of
the room, will look well. Instead of going
to the cabinetmaker and paying from thirty
to forty dollars lpon little narrow, cold,
handicapped stand, that gives just room
enough to hold lamp and a book or two,
just reflect within yourself what centre
table is made for. If you have in your
house good, broad, generous topped table,
take it, cover it with an ample cloth OF
green broadcloth Such cover, two and
a half yards square, of fine green broad
cloth, figured with black and with a pat
tern border of grape leaves, has been bought
it covers cheap pine table, such as you
may buy for four or five dollars any day j;
but you will be astonished to see how gen.
teel an object this table makes under it's
table, therefore, as consisting mainly of a
nice broadcloth cover, matching our cur
tains and lounge.
We are sure that any ono with "a heart
tre-table and cloth for. fifteen dollars, and
family of five or six may all sit and work,
or read, or write around it, and it is capa-
BILE of entertaining generous allowance of
books and knick-knacks.
You have now for your parlor the follow
ing figures
Wallpaper and border. IS so
Thirty Yards mating, Is 90
Centre table and cloth, 10 90
Muslin for three windows, 10
Thirty yards green English chintZ,
at IS cents, so
Six chairs, at 50 each, IL 90
Total, SOL IS
Subtracted from eighty dollars, which
we set down as the price Of the cheap, ugly
Brussels carpet, we have our whole room
papcred, carpeted, curtained, and furnished,
and now we have nearly twenty dollars for
pictures.
Now for pictures.
You can get Miss Oakley's charming lit
tic cabinet picture Of
"The Little Scrap Book Maker for" s. SC
Eastman Johnson's " Barefoot-Boy" ) 0C
Newman's Blue-fringed Gentians," 6 0C
Bierstadt's ''Sunset in tho Yosemite
Valley, 10 0C
(The three last are by Prang.)
Here are thirty-two dollars worth of
| really admirable pictures of our most con
scientious American artists, from which
you can choose at your leisure. BY send
ing to any leading picture dealer, lists o.
pictures and prices will be forwarded t.
| you. These chromos, being all vanished
can wait for frame% until you can affore
them. We have been through this calcu
laton merely to show our readers how
much beautiful effect may be produced b.
! a wise disposition of color and skill in ar
rangement.
If any Of our friends should ever carr,
it out, they will find that the buff-paper
with it's dark, narrow border, the gresl
chintz repeated in the lounge, the otto
mans, and lambrikins, the flowing, white
curtains, the broad, generous centrc-table
draped with its ample green cloth, will
when arranged together, produce har
meny of color and an effect of grace an
beauty far beyond what any one piece o
even half a dozen pieces of expensive cab
net furniture could. The great, simpl
principle Of beauty illustrated in this roor
is harmony Of color.
You can, in the same way, make rec
room by using Turkey red for your DIR:
periss or a blue-room by using blue chints
Let your chintz be of 4 small pattern, an
one that is decided in color.
We have given the plan OF a room wit
mating on the floor because that is abost
lutely the cheapest cover. The price {
thirty yards plain, good ingram carpet, :
81 so per yard, would be but forty-fi,
, dollars; the difference between forty-fi,
and fifteen dollars would furnish a roo
go