Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-05-14

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Mrs II. Mop ombley has ) su-
'perb chamber, which . saii,dl "a have .
tin decoration merely $2o. 900.
The ceiling is q painting in three panels
by Mr.. Edwin III. Blashfeld That Of
the centre is a circle with design sip
nifcant Of rosy sleep. The other two
PANELS are oblongg,, and one is q
beautiful piece Of decorative work, in
which a spirited panoplied figure is
chasing away the spirit ofevil DREAMS.
The room is fitted up in mahogany,
and this has been very beautifully
carved. The princi pal motives Of the
design are chile ren's heads, and these
are conceived ia the best spirit of
Renaissance decoration. .s . s.
Mr.. J.IW. Bookwalter has recently
brought over from Italy some magnifi-
cent bedroom furniture which he has
had made for his house at Springfield
@. This is of Italian walnut darker
and richer in color than:our walnut.
The bed was designed under his direc-
TONS. Across the top Of the head
board is design which suggests birds
perched upon telegraph wires, with
their heads tucked under their wings
and ready for sleep. Below, the prin-
cipal ornament is a ring of children
dancing, carved in relief, as that above,
in the wood. On the footboard is
female figure reclining and about given
over to the benign influence OF sleep,
and near her birds nesting, ready TO
Iclose their eyes. On thetwo low posts
of the foot are children seated, carved
outsof the solid wood. The bed room
of a young girl in one of the newly
built houses is like q bower. The. wood
is white mahogany, with it's satlny
grain. The roof of a bay window
makes an alcoves in the room. This
is entered through a pillared arch. The
columns are fiuted with capitals of
carved roses. Festoons of carved
roses drape the alcove. Inside is a
dressing-table of white mahogany
fitted up with swinging brass mir
ror and salmon-pink silk dra-
peries. The two thanking windows OF
the alcove are hung in salmon-pink
silk curtains, and have window-seats
upholstered in pale-blue brocade, and
fortified by silk cushions of various
hues. The beadstead is OF white ma
hogany, carved in garlands of roses,
and from the half canopy hang pale
blue silk curtains. The furniture of
the room carries out the design. Over
hanging all this is a ceiling of pale blue,
with radiating circles and sections.
They are garlanded with pink roses,
and among the roses swallows are
perched. Opening off the room is a.
toilet-room fitted up with every lux
ury.
| From the point of extravaganza,
nothing exceeds that Of the bedroom
of a child, a little girl of 9. The floor
is inlaid and in the centre is q carpet
OF thickly-plied Wilton, pearly in
ground, overstrewn with roses. The
ceiling is painted. Alattice apparent
ly half shuts it in, and over it climb
wild roses. In the center the sky ap-
pears. One trailing branch has wan
dered out across the blue, and around
the roses on it's stem swarm of but
terflies futter, making, in fact, the
central ornament OF the ceiling. The
walls are hung with pale-gray silk, bro
caded with rosebuds. The woodwork
swhite mahogany, beautifully carved.
The mantel has festoons of roses
carved in relief above the fire-facines
OF white onyx.
Just outside the brass fender-rim is q
cushion Of blue velvet, where the little
feet are warmed The furniture is of
white mahogany. The bed has a half
canopy and on the outer edge twodoves
are perched. and from their beaks, on
each side, aregarlandsof carved wood,
carried over to the guardian doves
perched OH heposts. These garlands
contine curtains of silk boiling cloth,
thin as a fairy web, embroidered with
roses, pink and yellow, dropping their
petals from fold to fold. On the bed
IS spread on which roses seem to
have been thrown in careless luxu-
rance The mirror reaches to the
floor and is set between two chests of
drawers. It is framed IN composition
ornamented with cream and gold, and
above is ~ panel model in relief in
which a mermaid combs out her long
hair Off this chamber, the appoint
ments of which cannot be enumerated,
is a dressing room lined with white
enamel TILES. Here is a porcelain bath
and marble toilet, ON which are laid
the superb silver-mounted toilet arti-
cles and where a maid is in attend
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