The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-11-28
FOR NEWLY MARRIED COUPLES,
How to Furnish n House and Where the
Outfit should Be Purchased.

How to Furnish a House and Where the
OUTFIT Should BE Purchased.
OF all the wonderful ideas people
take up there are few to equal il
strangeness the notion a good many
persons appear to possess of the spend
ing value of money, and when sudden
ly called on to lay it out judiciously
and carefully it is hard to imagine any
thing 50 ''sair left tae themseils," t.
use an old Scotch ID ON, as these good
folk
There is a great advantage in getting
most of your furniture at one large,
good store, instead of wandering
around, trying for special economies,
which is that, in the first case, the shop
keeper or his assistant will generally
take an interest in your warts, and,
knowing what you have got. will sug.
gest many little alterations that will
add vastly to the convenience and
beauty of your purchases; even if not
sensibly decreasing your actual sum
total. 1t is not possible to catalogue
all the different sorts and shapes OF
furniture kept in large establishment,
and very often the shopmen will be able
to point out articles which will
exactly meet your requirements,
and which they on their side are
equally glad to sell off. even at little
discount, as, though Just the very thing
for you, they might not suit the tastes
of one in fifty of their other customers.
A very good plan in buying bedroom
furniture is to buy very simple, mex
pensive suit for your own room, to dc
until you know what you really have tc
spare for decoration, and then you can,
when all the actual necessaries are pur-
chased, consult your taste as well as
your purse, and relegate your first set
to the second OF spare bedroom
1t is wonderful, when you come to
look into the matter. how very little fur.
niture is actua ly required. in a bedroom
especially. AS a rule houses are over
crowded. to the great increase OF dust,
and consequently work. We are al
last beginning to replace the old fash.
toned, tightly nailed down carpet by
the bare boards, stained or otherwise,
and loose rugs, which can be taken up
and shaken at any time, and, in case OF
illness, can be rolled up and put away
bodily. Then. again, it has dawned on
us that our dressing tables do not re-
quire petticoats or our beds vallances,
all of which alterations add amazingly
to the airiness and cleanliness of either
bedroom or sick room.
The great thing in furnishing is to
consider the rooms to be provided for
under all their aspects, and then to
make up your mind as to what il
wanted and stick to it. You must not
go changing about, now trying one
fashion and then another, or the result
will be frightf1l incongruity. A thing
may be lovely in and by itself, though
it will utterly at once spoil the effect OF
your room. OF course. If money is nc
object, and you can afford to get rid OF
furniture as soon as it grows common
or you are tired of it, well and good;
you may allow yourself some "fancies,"
but when your purchases Will have to last
you pretty nearly your lifetime it be-
hooves you to choose such as will not
carry their date legibly on their surface.
Above all. remember that if you are
to live in a room, your. surroundings
must bear close inspection. Those
"sweetly pretty" plaques and panels Of
impossible flowers and improbable
dickv birds may do well enough for a
day or two, but in a month or SO you
will become more than dubious as to
their coloring. and utterly disturbed by
their drawing. and these states of mind
are fatal to comfort. II you can not
afford the really good in any branch OF
art, do not be content with indifferent
specimens, but try for less ambitious
style OF beauty. ''Vieux SAKE" is de-
licious, but its modern imitation, which
one sees only too often, is usually base
calumny on its lovely original. and
good honest Japanese or ordinary pot
terry. would, in the long run, be fifty
times more satisfactory. Orchids are
doubtless beautiful. but it is not given
to every one to own such luxuries, and
the common buttercups and wild hon
eysuckle will be exquisite in their own
style, and undoubtedly better than
waxen protraits of the gorgeous exotics.
N Y. Herald.
In his Historical Sketches of the
town of Swampscott, Mr.. Waldo
| Thompson states that about 1881 Mr..
John M. Ives. Of Salem. received two
or three marrow squash seeds from a
negress whose husband was a cook upon
one of the merchant ships. Captain
Lord, from Valparaiso. He also OBJ
tanned the tomato seed in the same
manner as .'.love APPLE and after
growing them year or two back of his
store he was told by sea captain that
they were eatsble and from that time
they wers used a. food. --4esfoy Tran
script