Daily globe., 1883-10-30
WOMAN AND HOME.
Words from Anxious Mothers Con.
cerning the Little Ones.
Eolufayy Suggestions IA itchen Wi1s
.on,--Decsration and Fashion,.
How to Brighten the Sit
ting-EoOEn.
Fannie B. in Minneapolis Housekeeper.1

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| a ''home-fairy'' to begin with must have
30 for1nality here and the room should be
| the prettiest and cheeriest In the house.
| When the room is entered it should be so
bright, 50 cheerful, that sadness and de-
! preston drop away. A sombre room viii
! give any one the blues, and for this reason
Use all that is possible Of the bright martial
red; it tarouses triumphant feelings, Joy and
gayety.
| Get a carpet with g. deal of scarlet in it;
cream-colo-ed ground with deep scarlet
roses is very pretty, if one can afford a
! Brussels, if not. the new ingrains have beauti-
ful designs and brightcolorS.
Numbers Of small, oddly-shaped tables, low
and high are placed about the room and
used for books works, photographs, and
whatever one has lying round" Or ono
large table, that symbol of coinradeship and
content, and it should always be covered
with a quite, rich beautifully bordered
cloth.
Gypsy tables and window stands are
covered with dark, 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. If you
have a couch that is stiff and ugly, tly what
q lew SCIJ CUSHIONS Will 90.
4 handy man with few carpenter tools
could soon make nice easel ont of black
walnut, also screen and pedestals An old
secondhand cabinet, in dead black, might be
bought for a little, and, slowed away in
shady corner, would look as well as new, to
hold few bric-a-bTac; and for pictures Sc
lect few choice engravings in plain frames
When you have an old fashioned cupboard
in the sitting-ro that you don't seem to
know Just what to do with, take off the
doors, paint the inside deep rich red, or
cover the 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 crnaments-any-
thing odd and pretty. Or it may be used for
the book case. Or arrange curtains on rod
10 draw across tho opening. A few of these
| taStefully arranged things give an air Of
comfort and luxury to 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 basket, books or pots of flowers.
An ordinary stone jar, such as pickles and
other things are kept in, may be painted
cbocolate-brown or dark red, and decorated
with ferns, flowers, birds and butterflies
Ginger jars, small stone jugs, whatever has
good or classical shape, may be made
thing Of beauty, if harmony and taste are
carefully observed.
There must be a bracket here and there
beneath a picture, where a pot of ivy can be
placed to form a graceful framing to the
Porprait, perhaps of some loved one, or for
an engraving or pretty chrome.
A bunch of cats, with long, even stems,
ted with band Of wide satin ribbon and
suspended by the same under picture, is a
SIMPLE pretty decoration within the reach Of
almost any one.
A large paInpas plume with five or six long
peafowl feathers, using the plume as a back
ground for the feathers all tied with band
of peacock blue Or green ribbon, is often fast
sued on the wall in corner, over the door,
over or under a picture, or on the upper cor
ners OF an easel or high nlIlsic stand. IftheSe
ara pressed in packing, shake them over the
CRATE or near the stove, aud the heat viii
spread and make them fluffy.
Large vases filed with one large or three
smaller paInpas piumes, make pretty corner
piece and also add much to the attractiveneSs
Of nlantel-shelf One or two bright tinted
fans, hung on the wall, bunch of catkins,
or an empty birds nest, tied with a bright
bow Of ribbon or fastened on the picture wire,
for always hang pictures with the common
wire, it does not show but little, no dangerof
moths in the cord, a large vase in the corner
flied with sprays of autumn leaves. ferns, OF
wild grasses are also desirable Ornamental
tons.