The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-17
FURNITURE FOR SMER.
HOW TO FURNISH THEUNTRY
HOUSE THIS YE

Light Woods-To Fit d Chintz
Bedroom - Last Centu Fashions
Revived in Han9ings tretonnes
and Liberty Cottons.
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NEW York, June 15.-AS dresses Of
our grandmothers are thiummer the
styles. 80 also for the countiouss are the
furniture and the hangingIndeed one is
necessary to the other. TEay soft sweep
ing gowns of India silkdled close be
meath the arms, the sc skirts falling
straight and even, the tinpdices laced up
the back, the puffed sFes that extend
only half way from shoer to elbow, the
kerebiefs and the snowy ks encircled by
strings Of pearls, the he piled high on
cushions, the delicate ct in high-heeled
buckled shoes of the oldrne beauties who
VIII soon be saunterinhp and down the
box-bordered walks ofcountry gardens
would be sadly out 9plaee, even at so
modern an entertainmt as lawn party,
ameng nineteenth cenfy plenishings. If
we sannot often builCn houses which are
occupied for a part dhe year only, the
heav, mahogany sts1.ases which used to
resp0d to the touejf lightly flying feet
we ca introduce. aa n our June fittings
are lberally introusing the brown and
yellowwalls, the hih wooden mantels with
frieze # a canthus nd decorated with heads
crownd with cvls aud wreathed with
amaralth, the depest fireplaces, the old
brass ndirons, sovels, bellows and tongs,
the posned fioos strewn with rugs, the
sconceswth thar twinkling candle lights,
the for-post tSter beds, the high-backed
chairs, heluaiIt old rockers and tea tables
which Her USED by ladies in the country
which lads nov dress to represent.
That mapgany is fast regsining its old i'm
portance g's almost without saying. There is
springing p, even among people of moder-
ate means fome notion of founding fam
lies, and u idea of permanence implies a
root in til soil, country house almost
equally imprtant with the place in town,
the accumution of belongings not to be
hustled abotat May movings, in a word,
solid mahoiny rubbed till it shines like
polished glaS
With mahsany goes chintz aud the two
make faTite country combination.
Hardly prentious new house at Tuxedo
or Lenox with has not its chintz bedroom.
Old-fashlonedchintz, you may believe, in
designs that were called the new India
printings' inbred years ago. Reds and
creams and oft blues and yellows abound
in the colorlgs, adapted especially to the
hard dark pod furniture and trim. To
correspond vth the chintz hangtngs come
the new chitz wall papers, reproducing
the same crem gowns and the same pat
terms, but outped in colors instead of filed
in.
l have seem charming chintz bedroom
Of ffcfo
Island, on witch comparatively little
money was expnded, but which admirably
illustrates the iea; the floor stained very
dark red, rubhd with shellac varnish and
made soft to Do feet by the addition of a
few good rugs nd strip of rag carpet,
which is the owneIs especial pride the wood
work mahogany, with deep paneled win
dow seats and aligh mantel, tiled with
brownish red tils with golden lights in
them; the bed ahGge mahogany, four
poster, with bras tester rails and canopy
pr satin-finished clntz, the ground of which
!s pale delicate geen, with hints of brown
agured with golde rod sprays and the deep
nd cardinal f1ovrs. The same lowered
cnIntz makes the bedspread, the w1ndnw
Curtains, oushionssa the window seats and
upholstery for thshigh-backed rockers and
a most sumptuoU divan, which has for its
foundation hevy old straight-backed
mahogany sofa, picked up in secondhand
furniture shop, stripped of its horsehair
covering and oven in exchange riot of
chintz cushions. The wall paper has the
shadowy green lhintz ground, with golden
rod and cardinil flowers in outline. The
picture rail is mahogany and the frieze is
like the side wall except that the flowers
are printed solid, precisely as on the hang
lngs. The ceiling is tinted in a still more
delicate shade ofpale green.
And does not the dark wood and deeper
;olorings prodUce heavier, hotter effect
han is appropriate for August and July
The water greens are introduced to save the
eoolness, and il another favorite combina-
ion the creamy ground of chintz and wall
aper preserves the mahogany from the
lspicion of sultriness. Besides, the country
ouse is no Logger roughly finished struct-
re, occupied for ten weeks or three
onths only, and becoming uninhabitable
soon as the autumn chill strikes through
suntinished walls. II receives its tenants
soon as the bobolinks begin to sing, en-
rtains the major part of the company of
Q, twelvemonth, and, if not SO far from
wn as to Inconvenience seriously the bust
S. man of the household, often sees the
ristmas stockings hung in the light of
ingleside, the winter fitting cityward
ng for a comparatively brief period.
sldedly the country cottage has a right
n by year to richer and more servicea-
furnishings.
dght wood trimmings have not vanished
y have merely divided their empire.
new enameled furniture is very pretty
tasteful, both for parlor and bedroom,
ugh FAR less serviceable than the mahog-
Much the same effect, indeed, can be
iuced ID brass and iron and wicker at
fourth the cost and half the risk of
age. remember delightful little room
~ OF the mountain cottages of Onteora,
s owner is one of those new products
'plution, the girl bachelors who set up,
simmer, INDEPENDENT households. This
lg bachelor, whose parents go to the
de while she perches with Dora Wheeler
NE rest OF that artistic colony among
jatsk1lls, seats herselftin wicker rocker
loned with Morris patterned cretonne
sort of crushed strawberry or salmon
shade. Her bed is iron, knobbed with
y, with valance of the cretonne and
ssldof lace lined with cretenne. A cheap
washstand bought at the nearest coun-
.store has been sturned into the most
tdul OF toilet tables by the use of Gre
% covered with dotted Swiss, the walls
covered with creamy paper in a
- Seize design of narrow pinkish stripes
.lade corresponding to the cretonne, al
sung with bouquets tied with futter-
Aobons. The ceiling is very delicately
s4led round with flowers. With Gre
W hangIngs andihalf dozen little pict-
asuch as one gets with the art maya
1u framed some in white and some in
~ iacquered frames, the room comes as
ne the midsummer ideal as one often APP
pa'hes where narrow limits are set to