Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-27
MRS. vANDERslLT'S BoUooIR.

the mill lS more than compensated by
the advantage of having her care at
home.
MRS. vANDERelLT'S BoUDoIR.
The Money Queens Pet Apartment
Fitted ut n Cost of $l2O,OOO
New York World: A friend at Paris
sends me IA description of the work or
dered by Mrs. Vanderbilt for her own
boudoir in New York and which has
| Just been packed for shipment. She
merely indicated the general character
of the room, wishing il to be in green
and gold, and rave the contractor carte
blanche for the rest. The panels Of the
wall are green, with overlaid work of
gold wood. The green wood is of elm,
dyed in sulphuric acid. the gliding be-
ing on the oak wood. The panels stand
four and II half metres high, aud the
whole room is sever metres long by
four metres broad. The room in New
York, for which these boiseries are des-
tined, is six metres high, so that there
will be a space of one and II half metres
between the gold cornices of the panel
ing and the ceiling. The interstice will
be covered with imitation stone.
The carving of the gilt wood is mar
velously executed. The style is Louis
XIV. at its best. Above each panel is Il
small panel of gilt oak. carved into
allegorical figures. Scroll work is
~abundantly applied. On the four prin-
cipal panels is let in a panel of Lyons
silk with q pattern of baskets of flowers,
the silk costing at wholesale price $42 n
yard. The fireplace is of castirou with
| allegorical figures. The mantel is of
rose-colored marble, known ms Rose du
Var. On the mantel are set, in guise of
caryatides. two satyrs Of green bronze,
each holding aloft u branching gilt can
delabrum. Each satyr costs 81 900.
Above the mantel, ard reaching up
to the c%ornice, is a heavy gilt bevelled
mirror, which is in great part concealed
by the picture let into the black wood
frame. This frame will contain, when
the boudoir is fitted up in New York, q
portrait of Nine. de Pompadour, by
Boucher, which Vanderbilt bought
some time ago for S., 900. In the center
of either lateral wall is a door of gilt
bronze in each lattice. These doors
are made to slide open. The furniture
of this marvellous room is of gilt walnut,
covered with lampas, and counts
for 10000 extra. The panel wood
work, including the mantel, costs
$50 900. So that the whole boudoir,
with the furniture, pictures
and accessories, will represent
| "ppio'''S N'Sh "hNS VI Vi-OSOo''
A Woman's Wit.
1t is quite commonly claimed that u
woman is not adapted to business pur-
suits, and vet there is abundance of evil
dence to prove that in an emergency q
woman's ready wit will prove superior
to a mans heavier powers.
The following incident we'll illustrates
the kind of an occasion that will call
out the keen weapons of a woman's wit.
Some years ago when ''road agents.
abounded in Montana, a woman "a
travelling by coach to join her husband.
One day "A fellow passenger said to her,
II have a thousand dollars in my
pocket book, and feel uneasy about the
road agents. Would you mind conceal
ing it about your dress and returning it
at the end of the journey? II the high
waymen do stop us they are less likely
to search you than me?"
She acceded to his request, hid the
money in her dress, and the stage drove
away without meeting a road agent
until toward evening. Then the shout,
''Throw up your hands!' was heard.
The driver promptly pulled up, as four
men ON horseback, with masked faces,
covered him with their pistols.
Two of the highwaymen then rode to
each side OF h coach and ordered the
passengers to give up their arms, which
they did promptly.
"Now, She'll out!" said the robbers.
The passengers handed out their
pocketbooks; even the man who had
called in the woman's aid gave up a
few dollars.
He was congratulating himself upon
his caution when he heard the woman
say, in a quiet way:
II have got "a thousand dollars, but /
L suDDOSn | mnst give them mn
Suiting the action to the word, she
handed over the mans roll of green
backs.
The robbers rode away, and her the
man gave expression to his feelings by
abusing the lady and accusing her of
betraying her trust from sheer fright.
She smiled mysteriously.
At the end of the journey she asked
him TO stay all night at her house, and
said that her husband would be glad to
see him.
Eyes, ma'am, l will come to your
house," he said, in the tone of an in
iured man; Its the least you can do,
ma'am, seeing that you have left me
without a cent in the world"
AT the lady's house he was treated as
a distinguished guest, but neither host
nor hostess offered him one word of ex-
PLANTATION that night, and he went to
bed a sad, irritated man..
The neXt morning, as he entered the
dining room, the host shook hands with
him and said:
Here are your thousand dollars, sir,
which my wife yentured to borrow in
an emergency. She had twenty thou
sand dollars, which she was bringing to
me, concealed in her dress. She
thought by giving up at once the thou
sand dollars entrusted TO her by you
she would save herself from being
searched by the robbers.
Her quick wit saved me from a
heavy loss, and | am much obliged to
you for the use of the forced loan.n
Breakfast was a far more cheerful
meal to the man than the supper OF the
night before.
How She Went 20 Bed.