Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-04-17
Chairs and Tables.

THE best chairs and couches are those
which you like best, and which best
conform to the natural contour OF
the human figure in repose. a
couch should allow of the feet being put
up. If necessary, and should be of such
a shape that you can lie upon it, either
full length or half length, with perfect
comfort. To be really serviceable 1t
should not be covered with pale blue
satin or maize-colored taboret, but with
a good tapestry covering in a neutral
hue, say sage-green or dark, rusty red,
to wear well. The tapestry should not
be too fine to lie down upon, or even,
in the privacy of family life, to lay ones
feet upon. And the whole couch should,
if possible, turn toward the fire, so that
its occupant may have his face toward
the cheerful glow At the same time,
little wickerwork table-black and gold
if YOU will-may hold lamp for read
ing. As to chairs, couple OF good,
well-stuffed easy chairs, also covered in
the same tapestry, and arranged so as
to look toward the fire, ought to be sufli-
cient for luxury, while six or eight little
ebonized and cane-bottomed gossip
chair are the simplest and prettiest toe
casional'' furniture you can have. The
gossip-chair has curved back which
exactly fits the natural curve of the body,
and the seat slopes gently downward
and backward, so as to give one the best
possible support with the least angular
ity or awkwardness. With these pretty
little clean cane seats, black wicker
work chair, two easy chairs and couch,
you should have enough places for
family and guests in a quiet household.
Tables are of very little real use in a
drawing-room; still, We must have one
or two to give the whole furnished
/ look. A spare table near the bay win
| dow will allow of jardiniere and fern
or india-rubber plant to stand in the
sun. You can have nothing better than
black and gold for this purpose: An
/ other, round, of course, is needed fol
afternoon tea. There must be some
place to Law books and other heavy ar.
ticles and the table for this office should
be solid and should stand against the
wall. Nothing remains but the piano
and that must naturally be placed where
the exigencies of space demand. Few
articles of furniture are more difficult Il
manage than the coal-scuttle. 1t is
always getting in every body's way
and it can hardly be made presentablt
even by the utmost pains of the strug
Cling decorative imagintion. 1t l.
almost lamentable to think of all the
useless efforts lavished by the human
intellect upon abortive coal-scuttles
Perhaps the best solution of the prob
lem is that which combines semitic ant
what-not in one comprehensive whole
having box for the coal beneath, ant
one or two shelves for knick-knack
above. This composite piece OF furni
ture may then stand against the wal
beside the chimney piece, where it add
to the prettiness of the room, instead
being an unsightly incumbrance
Moreover, the weight of the coal give
stability to the what-not, and prevent
it from having that topple-down look St
common with its kind. Any such sug
gestion of imminen. catastrophes shoul'
always be avoided in drawing-room
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