Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-01-23
A RICH NEW YORK BELLIES BED.
ROOM.



MilliOnaire's Daughter Sleeps.
From the Chicago Herald
Would you like to see how New York belle
OF miilionairism sleeps? can crafty you, 80
far as to describe with literal exactness the bed
room of young woman whose name is printed
as often as any bodys In the society reports.
Into 1t was conducted, quite in the same mat
ter-ofcourse way that the little Lady OF the
house did everything that she willed, and there
we found the knick-knack which we were
seeking for me to criticise or admire. But
confess had eyes only for the room. 1t was
quite as interesting to me as If il had been the
bower OF q princess; more so, In fact, for more
persons see behind the scenes In princess lie
than In those of young American million
masses with the interior Of great mansions,
places, and abodes of the wealthy, but they
show us only the drawing rooms and dining
to us all a view of the bed room Of a young lady
of fashion. i don't know how they can do is
exactly, but that Is for them to find out.
never saw a more beautiful, cosey, in every
way delightful place thar the sleeping room of
this young princess of fashion-ths eldest child
pale gold on faint slate color. The gift bedstead
was pushed against square OF plated silk of
corner. Just such another square of plated
silk rose to the ceiling above the washstand.
On that we're only pitcher. bowl, soap dish. and
but ali the eoesat
great sheet OF bevelIed looking glass, six feet
high, swung on brass rods above the floor in
one corner for the young woman to see her
whole attire in. She had also q folding glass to
reflect her ears, back hair and neck.
air register, a dressing stand laden with pretty
toilet boxes and bottles, an ivory clock like q
bird cage in which ivory canaries trfIled sweetiy
ing chair TO match the wall paper and furni-
ture, pretty little prie-dfen for the young
woman to say her prayers upon as fashionably
q of n1n MAG
completing general effect that was exquisite,
dainty and Inviting beyond computation.
had nae
ana painted and worked" SO to speak, but
did not see it.
1t was while was in her sleeping room that
noticed that nowhere In the whole house during
whole days stay had I seen a single hint OF
d1sorder-no shoes in sight, no article Of cloth
sort-everything, in short, as neatly ordered as
if was a critic invited to call and see the per-
lection OF home discipline. l confess that tiny
pair OF kid slippers, peeping from under the
edge of the bed, or a hat and pair of gloves
thrown upon a chair, would have made the
maiden with it; but it was the rule of the house
for such things not to be. Think OF it. Eight
servants to wait upon four persons.
The room in which the family assembled for
conversation and the entertainment of COM
pany was across the hall from the parlor. 1t
but the carpet, chairs and various appoint
ments were not quite so new; In fact, they
were worn just enough to be comfortable. The
two front windows and one at the side COM
manded a general view of 9Th avenue, and I
noticed while l was there that the ladies
watched what went on In the street with the
same curiosity their poorer sisters possess; but
they sat SO far back from the space between the
curtains that, while they could see every body,
nobody could see them from the street.
noticed, also, that when friend called at
the house, if either mother or daughter saw the
visitor in time she would go to the door herself
before the person had time to ring the bell.
And l observed another thing. There must
have been $4,000 in china, glass, bronze and
marble In this sitting room distributed over q
couple Of hundred little things useful and
things ornamental. The members of the house
hold would be glad to talk of any of these beau-
tiful articles; would say what they were, where
they came from, and all about them, except the
price. Money and price and cost, subjects SO
commonly discussed by those OF us who are
obliged to think OF such trihes, were never rnen-
toned.
The folding doors between the front room
and the next room were never drawn together
while 1 was there. The next room was the
library, walled in by bookcases of carved wood
and beve1led plate glass. The man of the house
invited me in there to smoke and read. He
had daily papers, all Of them, on the center Ia
Die, two or three easy chairs, drop light, and q
in, exchanged his shoes for slippers, and his
coat for q loose jacket; then flung himself in a
chair, lighted a cigar and tried to read, while
either his wife or his daughter sat an otto
man at his feet, or on the arm Of the chair he
occupied. Wealth and happiness are said TO be
often strangers. These appeared to be the hap
pfeSt people imaginable.