The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-09-17
FAMILY BOXES.
Suggestions to Those Who Live in Re
strfctcd Quarters.

suggestions 60 ThoSe VINO Live IN R0a
strictcd Quarters.
To those who are living in close
quarters, whose closet room is not ex-
tensiEe. what boon is found in the
covered boxes that are at the same time
a convenience as q seat and useful re-
ceptacle! What comfortable look q
sitting-room has if the windows are fur
nished with broad window seats whose
artistic covers do not give the faintest
suggestion of the motley contents OF
toys and books in one, or the pile OF
garments waiting for the leisure mo-
ment in the other. The stool covered
with carpet, with tassels at the corners
and rollers that allow of easy move
ment from one place to another, is just
the thing for fancy-work that is only
picked up when the friends make an
evening visit. Then there is the more
homely and less artistic soap box,
covered and lined, and standing ready
in the bedroom for the shoes that per-
sist in tumbling out of the shoe-bag,
or, with pocket in the cover for darning-
cotton and darner, is used to hold the
damaged hosiery ready for the member;
for some people have the same repug-
nance to doing the family darning be-
fore the chance public of the sitting
room that they have to doing the family
washing. The Decorator and Furnisher
has suggestion for a paper-box that
is timely and will be welcome:
"Ribbon-decked bamboo frames are
pretty and useful contrivances for hold
ing the current literature of the day, but
every woman knows that every man,
through some Unborn perversity peculiar
to his kind, is always liable to demand
the immediate production of some es-
pecial newspaper of date more or less
remote, and, unless afraid of setting
small olive branches an example of pro.
family, is too apt to rend the air with
clearly expressed adjectives not de-
signed to compliment the mistress of a
house, etc., etc. A happy relief for a
housekeeper who does not love to have
three hundred and sixty-fiye newspapers
upon her sitting room table simultane-
ously, is box to stand under desk or
table, or, not appropriately, in a cor
ner by itself. Take a soap-box-it
"Ouiu NC ndIu w ulu paper upon
homemade furnishing that does not in
troduce the inevitable soap box-nail
the top on closely, so that it is a COM
plete box, and have it sawed in two, di-
agonally (let an expert handle the saw
or mutilation to box or sawyer may be
the RESULT. Line both sections with
thick pink satin paper, and cover the
outside with dark felt. putting row of
furniture gimp with brass-headed nails
all around the sawed edge. Put the
two parts of the box together with
hinges, and by the aid of screw-eyes
fasten two slender metal chains on each
side like trunk braces to keep the lid
from falling back.
In putting on the hinges let the bot
tom pieces of the box be the highest in
the back, so that the opening is lowest
in front A little experimenting with
scissors and a paper matchbox will
make the position clear. No fastening
is necessary, but ahasp and paddock can
easily be added as safeguard against
the ravages of combustible-seeki
house-maids and other foes to mans di-
vine rights. 49, Christian Union