The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1878-11-29

six yards of blue and cream co'ored mating
OF a nice quality, which he had bought for
fifty cents yard also eight rolls of pretty
gray wall paper, at fifty cents a roll. When
the paper was up and the mating was down
our front room was very clean aud cool TO
look at.
But we could look at the pretty mating
aud blue gray paper in Merriou's store Just
as well, said Harrie. And don't see where
we are to get any furniture. Our ancestors
did not leave us any antique chairs.
We will make the curtains first, said Bes.
sic, cheeriuly, coming in at that moment,
with her hat on, and a bundle in her nands.
I've just been down street and bought the
materials.
And Bes lie opened her bundle and dis.
played roll of snow.white muslin and some
pale blue cretonne.
| paid forty cents II yard for the muslin,
she said, and | bought fifteen yards. Five
psrds 10 window will be plenty it is so
wide. Aud the cretonne will make charming
shades, IL was sixty cents, and here are six
yards. Wen make some lambrequins of i.
too, for the winlows,au for that ugly wood
en- mauleI.-heif You can make some blue
and white tassels, Harrie, like those on your
tidy, but larger. And here are the fixtures
for the shades. They cost a dollar and
half for the three.
So we hung the blue shades in our three
windows, with blue and white croched tas
sci pendant from each and over them we
! drapod the fall white muslin curtains with
pretty blue lambrequins at the top. Harrie
sacrificed her freshest blue ribbons to loop
the curtains, although Harrie is blonde and
blue ribbons are very becoming, twisted
among her golden ringlets.
Why it is charming she cried, admiling
regarding the effect from the doorway. Now
Bessie bring in your furniture
Ben will bring the table this evening, said
Bessie. And | can promise a lounge and
Two arm chairs and a pair of ottomans.
There my ideas and the money will give
cut together.
Ben did bring the table great round
|
enough, certainly, but he planed it smooth,
and stained the legs with amber, in imta-
tion Of walnut and even that did not mat.
ter much, for very little of them showed
when Bessie had covered it with a sheer
cloth, abstracted from the dining room.
There now she replied, in triumph; could
anything be neater? 1t will hold piles o.
books and papers, and that's all we want il
for. Who's going to lift the cover to see il
it is walnut? We will cover it with white
cloth for the summer (thank our stars we've
plenty of table linen , and next summer
promise to save $40 from my alowarce.tc
buy Il cover for it. | bad Ben make it nice
and big, because hate a small table | likt
one that everybody can gather around anC
be sociable.
After the table followed at intervals of
day or two, the other articles which Bessie
had enumerated. First, a louuge-perhap
ir would be better called a sofa-composet
of long packing box, with one side knock
ed out and a ,quare block under each corner
These square legs were stained with amber
in imitation OF walnut, like the table legs,
Bessie expended all the rest of her none
r for hlue.and white chintz-a distractingl
pretty pattern, and bought at a bargain
With this she covered that unpromising sof
,tuili.g the cushion with corn husks an
r the two big square pillows were oramente
{ AT each corner with Harres pretty tasse
u Upon my word, the sofa was as pretty a
ar icle Us the Bcntons had in their house.
J.. Then Ben brought Us too large casks
e or hugshoad, or whatever you call them
J. sawed down leng,hwi-e to the proper heigh
e for scat, and then sawed off crosswise, az
70 q hoard fitted in. These also were covert
IA with the pretty chintz, and well cnshion'
with husks and they made the coziest arr
lr chairs imaginable. Harrie finished them {
A. with crochet and nettod tides. Bessir's @
1t tomaus were simply two soap boxes Gu hio
t. ed on top and covered with chintz
p, We took few chairs from the other room
h and add ,d.to this array. We cut engravln
! out Of old magazines and framed them wi
g. straw and pssse partout; took the fine Ian
,r scape painting from the dining room, n,
+ brought il into the parlor; Bessie broug
>, down her pet chrome Of the Ceuci from h
~, bedroom and placed it between the Easte
windows lastly we filled two great cont
shells with growing vines and Suspend
NJ, them at each corner OF the high, old-f
NJ ed mante'shelf, ow prettily upholstered
blue cretonue and our front room W
m finished,
" say nothingabout the flowers with viii
our room was adorned, but perhaps th
did more than anything else to make o
". room attractive to Us and to all our trien,
- It was cool and dainty to the eye, and
summer our friends kept telling Us hr
: pleasant it was to ccme in there and
down. sam and Mile Benton came in
ten Of an evening, and they thought i
prettier room than their mothers grand pi
!, lor.
10 And all for S35.
rs And 43 cents says Harrie,
nd PauperiSm and Extravaganza