American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-06-22
How to FURNISH a Summer Bedroom
Economically and Prettily.

For a country bedroom to be used prin-
cipally in the summer, papering should
be selected with prevailing tint of very
delicate pink, as it contrasts well with the
white draperies for the windows, with the
rich green of neighboring trees and fields,
and with the clear blues of sky and
water The woodwork, if painted,
should be white with the panels of a soft
shade of what we familiarity call "Quaker
drab."
If one possesses such relic of departed
days as an old carved mahogany field bed
stead, this summer bedroom will prove
fitting home for it if in place of the damasks
and satins of former times, which have
vanished thread by thread long before our
day, we add grace to its otherwise some
what barelooking posts, by draping them
with Swiss muslin curtains, or with
cheaper but almost as pretty ones of mos
quito-lace, which can be looped aside
with crocheted bands of pale pink cord.
For the window cornices, take plain pine
mouldings-Of the kind known among
carpenters as an "ogee"-stain them black
walnut, and fasten to the top of the win
dow-frames. These will project enough
of themselves for use in low cciled
room, but where the ceiling is over ten
feet in height they should be brought far
ther from the wall by means of fiat strips
of board, of the width you desire, nailed
fast to the top of the window, and to
which the molding can be screwed.
From these cornices should depend
curtains of the same material as
those which drape the bedstead.
1t is supposed that these directions are
being given to some young housekeeper
who has more taste than furniture or
| money. She can make a toilet table
which shall be at once pretty and mex
pensive, by fitting into an angle of the
Ia hxtx fxx-f, a
that there may be plenty of light-at a
height of about thirty-two inches from the
floor, broad board rounding on the out
| er edge in this manner n. On the top of
| this fastcn a thin cushion covered with
| pink Calico and this again with thin white
muslin From this table-shelf let full
frills of calico and muslin depend to the
| floor. Over it should be suspended dag
onally d small mirror and one need not
| be much distressed if the frame should be
a little broken or furnished, for it can be
draped with artistically- arrangcd folds of
| transparent muslin or lace, and look all
| the pretticr.
In another corner place a wash stand by
| fitting in two boards of smaller size, but
of the same shape as for the toilet-table.
| The upper one, which has round hole
| for the reception of "A basin, should be
about thirty inches from the floor, and
| stained black walnut.
| A comfortable ana pretty lounge can
/ he made from a packing box about five
| feet in length, two in width, and fifteen
ipchcs in height. placed on casters, and
| fitted with "A lid 1t will serve as a box
to hold bedding, and with n thick, soft
cushion and two large pillows, the whole
covered with the plain pink calico yelled
with transparent white, will form a most
! inviting looking lounge.
An old-fashioned round stand, draped
like the toilet-table, will be "A pretty nova
! BILE table.
! The mantcl piece, which should he low
and broad, can be covered with the pink
and white, n full frill of the same, from
six to eight inches in depth, shading tho
| front
To make clothes-closet, put two plair
shelves, about one foot apart, across al
| angle or in recess, the upper one at +:
4 height of from six to seven feet from the