Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-12-17
ARTISTIC FURNISHINGS.
How to Select Wisely for Style, Qualit
and Price.

How to Select Wisely for Style, Quality
and Price.
zone of the most essential points in
furnishing" remarked careful house
keeper, sis to see that you get good
carpets-carpets that will wear well
and that will not soon go out of style.
This, of course, is on the superstition
that you do not propose to change your
carpets with every slight change of
fashion, but may desire to practice a
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
dark--and 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 a 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.
Muslin curtains are becoming more
and more popular Irish point excel,
TOO, as they have 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 "fifties" a tall
lank Yankee came into Col. Goddard's
Office and asked for employment as a
teamster.
"Do you know how to drive oxenr'
asked Goddard.
Il rather reckon do" was the BASH
full response.
suppose was yoke of oxen" said
Goddard, getting down on "all tours" on
the office floor, land suppose | would
hot maui, let me see what you would do
TO make me come up under the yoke"
Inc Yankee objected at first, but when
ne was told that his winters work de.
pended upon the trial, he took the long
braided oaken OK goad and began to
nourish 1t over the kneeling Goddard's
head.
"Hish, Bright; get up there, Golden.
Come here, Star; gee off, Liru," he veil.
ed IN turn, but never a move did God.
dard make Finally, getting weary, the
teamster inserted the steel brad into
uoodards trousers. The coming cavalry
eoionel got up in a hurry, and the
Yankee was hired at his own nrice
proving the best teamster in the gang
"hen the cavalry regiment was organ
Yea the humorous teamster went to the
'front.' as private, and when he fell
nlghtlng under Grant he had a set O,
reutehants epaulettes on his shoulders.
'ewiston Journal.
LQueen Victoria's pet dog is a York.
cost $75. pouuos ana
handkerchief in the possess;on
OF the Empress of Russia is said 90 ha,a
make it: 'n years 10