Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1880-12-16
How to Choose Wall Paper.
BY PEN DRAGON.

1t was country store and among thor.
q md other things they kept about fifty differ
eat patterns of wall paper The house-cear.
lag season had commenced as the clerk was
well aware, for be had sold about seventy
five papers oftacks every day fora week.
She walked briskly upto the counter with
that air which plainly says, II mean bust
ness" and said, "Goed morning sir, Welb Eve
come to look at your wall papers. I've been
+ q week trying to get ready to put the paper
ON our parlor.l told John If he didn't have
the carpets shook and the ceiling whitewashed
I'd tear the old paper off and leave it just so,r
and the Rev. Jonathan Soarhigh, our new
minister, is coming with his wife to spend
week at our house till the, parsonage can be
made ready. They're coming next week, and
tell you, wasn't going to have that room
looking so, but these men folks they never
-" Here the clerk interrupted her with,
''That's satin of fine quality and exquisite
design. This pattern is very neat and tasty.
That is also much admired. But, if the apar'-
ment is light and airy think should prefer
this, or if the ceiling ish high, something of this
description would be very desirable" and so
he talked on while she looked over the fifty
samples and said, "This is a. trife too dark,
that ''too small figure" the other, ''consid-
ering the hight of the room is unsuitable,
and, s.if it wasn't for that center dot believe
I should take that II do like the figure of
this but the ground is to light" and, ''that,
that would be perfectly lovely for the dining
room, but you know my parlor"-and, like
the atomatc talking machine after it is
wound up, she ratified away about the dis
lance from the mantel to the ceiling and, and
a certain fine bracket built in the northwest
corner, &C. &C., till the clerk began to feel
faint. At last size returned TO the paper and
went through the whole fifty samples again,
and to the great relief of the clerk, in the
course of an hour aud thirty minutes she had
selected some of two different kinds which
she remarked she would take home and
and bring back the kind she didn't use."
Next day in the afternoon she came in and
pleasantly remarked, "Well, I have conclud-
ed to bring them both back. Mrs. Look
sharp called yesterday afternoon and we final
ly concluded that they wouldn't do. Now if
you will please show me those darker shades.
That one with the shade Of green In the leaves
and an invisible violet in the center. I've
almost made up my mind that that will do +"
The clerk smiled blandly and brought that
particular one as well as half dozen other
samples and in fifteen minutes had the whole
fifty spread before her. She looked ut that
and this and that and the other, and, at last, |
after an hours inspection from different points
and in different shades of light she softly
said, 'I'il take five rolls like that. There's 1
more in putting on paper than anyone would
think. But if / should get that on and it
it shouldn't suit me what should dol" The |
clerk remarked reassuringlythat once omit
couldn't fail to prove highly satisfactory to
the most fastidious, and thought with sigh
of relief "Shes suited this time" m,
The next forenoon as he was busly engage
ed in measuring off three yards of blue ribbon
for handsome, black-eyed young lady, and
laughing and flirting in manner highly agree
able to both himself and the angelic being
before him, who should stepin aud up to
the counter but this same identical lady with
the five rolls of paper. She gave him pleas
ant nod of recognition and said, when I
came to look at this paper thus morning
thought ita little too dark. My parlor isn't as
light as it ought to be. When we built want
ed another window towards the street, but
Johns always just so contrary and we never
had it and now Eve always got to get light
paper | don't know as i shall want five
rolls either. You see, the mantel is"
'There, madam" said the smiling clerk as he
spread the samples over the counter, "There
is our assortment. l think you will like
this. You see it is not only light and airy,
but of elegant design, and this, you perceive,
is rare combination of shades and tints and
the pattern is said to be an excellent copy of
one of the frescoes found upon the walls of
magnificent palace recently excavated at the
ruins of Pompeii," &C., and so he talked and
store with the same five rolls she had carried
home four days before, and as she never re-
turned to exchange them it is supposed they
were placed upon the walls Of that parlor and
gave entire satisfaction. If there is any moral
to this tale it may be that, "First impressions
are best," or it may not A fellow who once
was clerk in country store. but who went
into other business and made fortune and
now lives at his ease. related the above to US
as part of his experience, and as there has
not been lawsuit in New Preston in whole
week and newsis mighty scarce we write it
down as illustrative of ''human natur" if MOTH
ing more. 49, ~ So sI