The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-05-21
Bedrooms.

New York Mail and Express.
Mrs. H. Mop. Twombley has a SUI
perb chamber, which is said to have
sost-in decoration merely-$20.oo0.
The ceiling is a painting in threepanels
by Mr.. Edwin H. Blashfeld. That of
the centre is q circle with design sig
nificant OF rosy sleep. The other two
PANELS are oblong, and one is q
beautiful piece of decorative work, in
which a spirited p%anoplied figure is
chasing away the spirit ofevil dreams.
The room is fitted up in mahogany,
and this has been very beautifully
carved. The principal motives OF the
design are children's heads, and these
are conceived in the best spirit of
Renaissance decoration.
Mr.. j. w. Bookwalter has recently
brought overfrom ltalysome magniti-
cent bedroom furniture which he has
had made for his house at Springfield,
o. This is OF Italian walnut darker
and richer in color than our walnut.
The bed was designed under his direc-
tions. Across the top of the head
board is a 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 q ring of children
dancing, carvedinrelief, as that above,
in the wood. On the footboard is q
female figure reclining and about given
over to the benign influence OF sleep,
and nea her birds Nesting, ready to
close their eyes. On the two lowposts
of the foot are children seated, carved
out of the solid wood. The bedroom
Of a young girl in II OF the newly
built houses is like abower. The wood
is white mahogany, with it's satlny
grain. The roof OF a bay window
makes an alcove in the room. This
is entered through apillared arch. The
columns are tluted with capitals of
carved roses. Festoons OF carved
roses drape the alcove. Inside is q
d~ressing-table OF white mahogany
Tilted 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 hall 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 8. The floor
is iniaid 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 APP
pears. One trailing branch has wan
dered out across the blue, and around
the roses on its stem a war; OF but
!. ~tertlies futter, making, in fact, the
, centra! ornament Of the ceiling. The
walls are hung with pale-gray silk, bro
. caded with rosebuds. The woodwork
is white mahogany, beautifully carved.
The mantel has festoons of roses
r carved in relief above the fireefacings
/. OF white onyx.
Just outside the brass fender-rim is a
:: cushion Of blue velvet, where the little
! feet are warmed. The furniture is OF
Y white mahogany. The bed has q hall
$ canopy and ON the outer edge twodoves
are perched, and from their beaks, on
i each side, aregarlands o carved wood,
e carried over to the guardian doves
perched on theposts. These garlands
%confine 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 a spread on which roses seem tc
n have been thrown in careless luxu
q rance. The mirror reaches to Tho
floor and is set between two chests o
drawers. 1t is framed In composition
ornamented with cream and gold, and
above is a panel model in relief, II
= which a mermaid combs out her long
hair. OFF this chamber, the appoint
n ments of which cannot be enumerated
is a dressing room lined with white
enamel tiles. Here is a porcelain BATH
y and marble toilet, on which are laid
the superb silver-mounted toilet arti
cles and where a maid is in attend
ance.