Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-07-08

communicating with the galleries, and are
entered through folding doors. In sum-
mer the doors are usually left open, and
are replaced by curtains hung across the
entrance. Sometimes the walls are white
washed, or covered with encaustic tiles.
and the ceilings are formed either of cedar
beams, or of carved wood, representing
ornaments or flowers, fruit and fish, paint
ed IN brilliant colors and gilded. The
floors and stairs are either of slate, marble
or encaustic tiles, or of slate and tiles
and marble and tiles combined. Furni-
lure, as a rule, occupies very little space
III Moorish house. In the principal
apartment one generally finds three cush-
ions covered with rugs and carpets placed
on the floor in an alcove so as to form three
sides of square, in the center of which
stands hookah or nargheel, or an elegant
vase filed either with pomegranates or a
bouquet of choice flowers. The room. &C.
cordingIto its size, has one or two very
narrow windows crossed with iron bars.
so that the little daylight that penetrates
within enters at the doorway. Scattered
over the floor are few cushions and
dIvans, and quantity of mats and car
pets. Some ornamental stands, looking
glasses in curiously shaped frames and
one or two stout-bodied guitars, called
honatro, hang against the wall, while lamps
OF dlfferent-colored glass dangle from the
ceiling. In the sleeping apartment of the
women white muslin curtain. often
trlnged with gold lace, is attached to
loose cord across the entrance to an al
cove and half conceals a small iron bed
stead or low couch. Here the floors are
partly covered with carpets and mats,
sometimes two or three inches deep, as in
the ordinary livingroom; colored glass
lamps, too, hang suspended from the cell
ing, and perforated wooden shelves, mir
rors and mandolines rest against the walls.
Here and there are large Turkish Golfers.
painted in many colors, containing the
Moorish beauty's wardrobe. Some of
them may be open, for the lady has per
haps just completed her toilet. Peering
into them we find they contain various ar
ticles OF feminine attire thrown pell-mell
together as if they had been tried on and
rejected by their capricious mistress.
There are little jackets covered with small
gold and silver ornaments, cloth and silk
cattans, trousers of almost every size and
material, from those of ordinary long
cloth or muslin to those of satin and bro
caded silk deliberately embroidered with
gold and silver thread; there are a vast
number Of f0a1tns, too, for fastening around
the waist, beautiful chemisettes, silk hand
kerchiefs and Tunisian tissues of almost
every imaginable shade and color. In
another part of the room we find one or
two ornamental WhatnotS painted like the
trunks and shelves already mentioned,
and covered with scent-bOttles, little gold
and silver caskets, ostrich eggs, rosaries,
silk muffiers, long strings of ambe: beads,
tag-shaped fy-t1appers, and fans made of
ostrich feathers with small mirrors in the
center; there are few walls and various
toilet necessaries, such as k0heM for the
eyes, he117oG for staining the hands and
feet different sorts of cosmetics and pastes
for removing hair from the body. On the
top of one of these pieces of furniture is
a large silk handkerchief containing the
lady's jewelry. There are massive gold
rings for the ankles, bracelets, brooches for
fastening the ha5k, large earrings, orna-
ments for the hair, rings for the fingers,
and necklaces composed of gold coins of
almost every country in the world strung
upon long ribbons. On a painted wooden
stool stands the bronze bowl in which the
beauty washed herself, and beside it is
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. vase that con-
tanned the water for her toilet, while soft
Turkish towels, pretty Moorish slippers,
and a few long-strings Of orange blossoms
or jasmine lie scattered about the floor
Al the World O0er