The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-17

was originally intended to represent the
time OF Louis XVI. and is finished of in
white and gold. Mrs. Cleveland has made
1t al oddly-pretry room by furnishing il in
colonial STYLE No two pieces in the room
are Of the same pattern, though mostly in
mahogany, aud, with the exception Of the
piano, which is modern, no article is less
than century old. Even the rugs on the
polished hardwood floor have softened the
step OF slippered feet for ten and fifteen
decades.
Cream colore1 silk embroidered with gold
constitutes the hangings. Two old-time
sconces adorn either side Of the mantel, and
the walls are relieved by several water
colors, and two fine etchIngs, THE Lost
Chord and Drifting" by Reginald Coke,
New York artist.
THE PRESIDENTS LIBRARY.
The library Is at the rear of the second
story. Mrs. Cleveland has invaded this
apartment also, and with true feminine
instinct has made it too handsome for ordi-
nary work-a-day use. Three sides of the
room are lined with low bookcases, broken
in two places. aud the inches occupied by
divans loaded with eider-down pillows.
covered with deep Orauge-colored India
silk. The portieres and window curtains
are of the same material. A large carved
table occupies the center of the room,
while near the window stands a unique
writing desk OF rosewood. It was originally
an upright piano or spinet, but altered 10
its present purpose. 1t is Of English make,
and was brought to the United States In
1914 by John Quincy Adams on his return
from England, after his term as minister
to the court of st. James. The spinet was
packed up in Massachusetts,, where it had
been carefully preserved as a historical
relic all these years
THE PORTRAIT GALLERY.
photographs or engravipgs of several
distinguished men adorn the walls, among
them Abraham Lincoln and Henry Ward
Beecher. There are also two rare old por-
traits Of George Washington and Martha
Washington that were found recently in
Maryland.
The library floor is OF polished hard wood
and covered with tiger and white bear skins
and Angora goat skinnings.
Tho sleeping rooms are in the third story.
and are as interesting in their way as the
other rooms In the house, for the same love
for the antique is shown throughout. The
Presidents room, for instance, contains an
old-fashioned mahogany four-post bedstead
and ancient chairs and tables. A gem of a
rag carpet that did duty in New + lgland
home full century ago, and which is as
bright to-day as when it left the loom.
covers the floor. White dimity, fecked
with red, constitutes the hangings.
MRS. cLEvELAND's OWN ROOM.
Mrs. Cleveland's own room is moro
dainty. indigo-blue and cream are the pre-
vailing colors In portieres, curtains and up;
holstery. The bedstead is high old four
poster that came originally from Spain and
long occupied the room Of state In New
Orleans mansion. An old rocking-chair ins
white and gold and an English secretary OF
| a time that ante-dated George ~, are
among the rooms furnishing.
The guost-chamber is a museum of anti
| quities. Rag-carpet rugs are on the floor,
a tall clock that was old when Washington
was born stands in corner and fiirts with
a spinning-wheel at the other side. An all
| night visitor at the Clevelands occupying
| this room would warm himself at Frank
| lin stove that came from down East some-
| where. IL the fire did not burn well there
are pair Of bellows to help it. He would
sleep on ur-posted bedstead OF the Roger
Williams period.
A warmng-pan hangs in the room ready
for use IL the sheets should happen to be-
cold or damp. While waiting Tor bedtime
to come around he can sit In the high
backed chintz-covered rocker, or the stiff
backed, rush-bottomed, uneasy affairs that
made the children of our real old-time an
cestors 80 unhappy. In fact it would re-
quire no effort at all to imagine one's-self
back in Salem in toe days Of witchcraft and
| the blue-laws.