The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-12-13
ARTISTIC FURNISHINGS.
How to Select Wisely for Style, Quality
and Price.

How to Select Wisely for Style, Quality
and Price.
zone of the most essential points in
furnishing" remarked careful house
keeper, ''is to see that you get good
carpets carpets that will wear we'll
and that will not soon 60 out of style.
This, of course, is on the supposition
that you do not propose to change your
carpets with every slight change of
fashion, but may desire to practice
perfectly comfortable economy. Good
wearing quality and good taste do not
necessarily mean that the carpet must
be expensive. In choosing, subdued
colors- neither extremely light nor
Oakland small patterns are best in the
long run. Then come the curtains,
which are very important, because you
have to think not only of interior, but
also of exterior effects. When curtains
and carpets are bought, if your means
are moderate, you can then buy your
furniture slowly, adding to it carefully,
redressing and covering old furniture,
thus econOmizing as much as you
please"
Tapestries and ingrains seem to be the
best carpets for people of moderate
means; and now that all grades of them
are so beautiful in design and colorings,
the housekeeper of refined taste, though
not wealthy, can easily crafty them in
this direction.
Among curtains, especially among the
richer fabrics, there is great deal Of
brocade, and the flowers are quite as apt
to be overshOt as woven into the goods.
Old rose and pink tints are much used
this season, and they combine finely
with grays and browns. In colors there
is nothing better for wear and a good
general effect than Madras. 1t comes
forth this season as popular as ever, and
some new grades have been added. One
handsome Madras~set was silk striped,
with dash of tinsel. 1t was very
heavily fringed, which added much to
its beauty.
and more popular. Irish point excel,
too, as they have a rich appearance
even when not costly. Among white
curtains Irish point and Nottingham
lace are the most satisfactory, unless one
pays very high price.-N. Y. Star.
He Could Drive.
The first colonel of the First Maine
cavalry was bluff John Goddard, an iron
sided old lumberman. Before the war
he used to take gangs of men into the
woods every winter.
Late one fall in the 'sfifties' a tall,
lank Yankee came into Col. Goddard's
Office and asked for employment as
teamster.
"Do you know how to drive oxen?''
asked Goddard.
81 rather reckon do" was the BASH
full response.
Suppose l was a yoke of oxen," said
Goddard, getting down on all tours" on
the Office floor, land suppose would
not haul, let me see what you would do
to make me come up under the yoke"
The Yankee objected at first, but when
he was told that his winters work de-
pended upon the trial, he took the long
braided oaken OK goad and began to
flourish it over the kneeling Goddard's
head.
"Hish, Bright; get up there, Golden
Come here, Star; gee off, Liru," he yell
ed in turn, but never a move did God
dard make. Finally, getting weary, the
teamster inserted the steel brad into
Goddard's trousers. The coming cavalry
colonel got up in a hurry, and the
Yankee was hired at his own price,
proving the best teamster in the gang.
When the cavalry regiment was organ
lied the humorous teamster went to the
front as private. and when he fell
fighting under Grant he had set of
ieutenant's epaulettes on his shoulders.
lewiston Journal.
Queen Victoria's pet dog is York.
shire terrier that weighs "a pounds and
cost $75.
"A handkerchief in the possession
OF the Empress of Russia is said to have
cost $1,000. 1t took seven years to
make it.