The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-13
WOMAN N HOME.
Words from Anxious Mothers Con-
corning the Little Ones.
SalutHry suggestions--EItehen Wis
dom--Dfcorntion and Fashion,
How TO Brighten the Sit
ting-Room.

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A "home-fairy" to begin with must have
no formality here and the room should be
the prettiest and cheeriest in the house.
When the room is entered 10 should be so
bright, SO cheerful, TINT sadness and de-
preston drop away. A sombre room will
give any one the blues, and for this reason
use all thnt is possible of the bright martial
red; it arouses triumphant feelings, joy and
gnyety.
Get a carpet with a deal Of scarlet in IT.; a
cream-colored ground will deep scarlet
roses is very pretty, If ono can afford a
Brussels, II not, the new ingrains have beauti-
full designs md bright colors.
Numbers of small, oddly-shaped tables, low
and high, are placed about the room and
used for books, works, photographs, and
whatever one has flying round" Or one
large table, that symbol of comradeship and
content, and it should always be covered
with a quite, rich beautifully ordered
cloth.
Gypsy tables and window stands are
covered with dirk, rich stuff, the valance
around caught up in small festoons and fas-
tened with bows or tassels, finished round
the edge of the table with cord. II you
have n couch that is stiff and ugly, try what
a few soft cushions will do.
A handy man with a few carpenter tools
could soon make a nice easel out of black
walnut, also screen and pedestals. An old
secondhand cabinet, in dead black, might be
bought for a little, and, slowed away in a
shady corner, would look as well as new, to
hold a few bric-a-brac; and for pictures Sc
lect a few choice engravings in plain frames.
When you have an old fashioned cupboard
in tho sitting-room that you don't seem to
know just what to do with, take off the
doors, paint the inside a deep rich rcd, or
cover tho sides and shelves with cloth OF the
same red shade. Put a straight piece of
leather, pinked on the lower edge across the
shelves, and fasten with brass upholstering
nails. In this alcove or recess put all the
quaint vases, china, brass ornaments-any-
thing odd md pretty. Or it may DO used for
tho book case. Or arrange curtains on a rod
to draw across the opening. A few of these
tastesully arranged things give an air OF
comfort and luxury to a room hardly to be
estimated by the small amount expended.
Small gypsy tables, covered with pretty
material and fringe, are just the thing for
the work bqsket, books or pots OF flowers.
An ordinary tot jar, such as pickles and
other things are kept in, may be painted q
cbocolate-brown or dark red, and decorated
with ferns, flowers, birds and butterflies.
Ginger jars, small stone jugs, whatever has
a good or classical shape, may be made q
thing Of beauty, il harmony and tasto are
carefully observed.
There must be a bracket here and there
beneath a picture, where "A pot of ivy can b.
placed TO form n graceful framing 20 thu
porprnit, perhaps of some loved one, or for
an engraving or pretty chrome.
A bunch of oats, with long, even stems
tied with II band of wide satin ribbon anc
suspended by tho same under a picture, is Q
simple, pretty decoration within the reach Of
almost any ono.
A large pampas plume with five or six lonl
peafowl feathers, using the plume as a back
ground for the feathers, all tied with a bant
of peacock blue or green ribbon, is often fast
ened on the wall in a corner, over tho door,
over or under a picture, or on the upper cor
ners OF on easel or high music stand. II thes
are pressed in packing, shake them over thu
CRATE or near the stove, and the heat vii
spread and make them fluffy.
Large vases filed with ono large or thre
smaller pampas plumes, make a pretty corne
piece and also add much to the attractivenes
Of a mantel- shelf. One or two bright-tintet
fans, hung on the wall, a bunch of catkins
or an empty birds nest, tied with q brigh
bow Of ribbon or fastened on the picture wire
0or always hang pictures with the common
wire, it does not show but little, no danger o
moths In the cord, n large vase in the corne
hlled with sprays of autumn leaves, ferns, o
wild grasses nre also desirable
tions.