The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-29
AB0UTASUMMERC CHANGE
HOW ONE WOMAN GETS 1T WITH
OUT LEAVING HOME.

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The Philosophy CT Complete Set of
New mpressions-A Summer Wild
over Regains His Wife and There is
Now in Progress a Second Eoney-
moon.
tcopuiGhtl
NEW YORK, June 2S.-This is the season
when the city house greets you with
pursed-up lips and hands behind its back, as
if to say, what's your business herel Don't
you know that every well-regulated person
leaves town before the Fourth of Julys Its
windows are boarded and its doors bolted
and barred. If. perchance, any life stirs
behind its masque of desolation, it walks
with bated breath in dim rooms, amid
white-cIothed furniture aud bookcases
swathed in sheets, like ghost proving at
night in graveyard.
One house in a tree-shaded street in
Brooklyn does not share this aspect of DESC
lation. The turf in its front ward is green
and not dust-covered. There are wide
cool-looking awnings above its windows
and honeysucke vine which chambers up
by the front steps is in full blossom. The
woman of this establishment is one whose
name most of you, probably, would recog-
ulLo. lST DOOhS udNe a lame LnaJ
Is growing, she mas not rid herself
of a certain old-fsshioned view of
wifely obligations. why should L."
she said to a bird of passage yester-
day at quaint little lunch that was fare
well banquet in view of the birds fitting,
why should | be my husbands better (off1-
half and 'recuperate, while he lives at a
stutfy boarding house, and is deprived of
home comforts that make the heat of the
Nv on a n "a hot oil to- . H.
summer is change. | have taken the
money that two months at the Catskills or
at the seashore would cost me, and contrived
an entire changef for myself, for my husband
and our two grown-up sons right here. It's
fair play all round.n
Fair play is something so admirable and,
in the matter Of summer vacations so rare
that by your leave am going to describe
for the benefit of sumner widowers" in
city or cou try, her "change" at has
transformed the house so completely that"
said its mistress, II quite forget we are
in town and fancy ourselves when the moon
comes up and the scent is strong from the
honeysuckles away off in some restful spot
in second honeymoon. We've not spent
a summer together in two years. The boys
laugh at us because we actually hold hands :"
The change began with the hall. | should
like to see what my friend, the literary
woman with her ideas about "a complete
alteration of Surroundings would do with
the conventional city hall, but as it happens
now please don't tell me it always does
happen so in utopian sketches, because this
tale is true-it so happens that her house is
In new and rather unconventional block,
and, moreover, is on a corner. Thus it comes
about that her hall is in the nature of a
small reception room with stairway on the
left fireplace opposite the entrance and
doors on the right to the parlors The finish
is oak and the tones of the wall paper pale
olive and cream. From this hall she has re-
moved the carpet-it was rich deep red,
and it is a part of her theory that red is to
be banished in June t at il may come back
with double check in November-and had a
dark oak stain applied to the floor. This
was part of her ''spring cleaning" during
which the ve-mentioned husband and
sons went on weeks fishing excursion
Just in front Of the stairs she has placed a
rug of soft, cool. looking colors, and
in the doorways, In lieu of the
heavy chenille portieres, she has
hung two of the bamboo and
bead curtains that are sold in the japanese
stores, but are made at home very easily by
stringing the bamboo and heads on fishlines
fastened to pine strip. To get wholly
new impression" she has taken out the hat
rack, substituting a pretty little glass of
oak with iron hooks aud small oval mirror
in the middle. The room thus gained is
given to reed-bottomed piazza chars, ready
when the sun is gone TO be taken outside. In
the fireplace stands big jug, notified olive
and brwon, and filled when 1 saw it with
daisies. g becomes another man, she says,
1.-THE minute he enters this other hall"
When g" passes into the parlor his
bitterness must be intensified. These are in
line front and rear, the back parlor being
fitted as library. Here, too, the carpets
have come up and the heavy curtains down.
The woodwork is cherry. think my friend
was tempted to enamel it-think of the itch
ing of ones fiugers with enamel at 25 cents
a pot-but she bravey refrained. She has
laid the floors with that fine Japanese mat
ting which is so firm and close of texture
and so odd In deslgn with its scattered hero
glyphs of brown eastern characters, aud
withal so cheap, costing OILY 20 cents yard.
The walls are papered a delicate pink and
this, through reluctantly, she has suffered to
stay, and turned to the windows for further
expression OF her revolutionary ideas.
MY windows" she says, ARE the eyes of
my house, through which l can look out at
the world and it looks in on me-" These
eyes she has newly lidded for the refresh
| ment of vacation gazing with pink-iow-
cred cretonne in one of the summer designs
of scatter ed sprays on a cream ground.
"Cretonne sounds cheap at 80 cents a
yarQ, she answered douDblngly, 'DuC tneSe
curtains had to be lined with a cream-col-
ored sateen cream and gold are the colors
for Innings because the more delicate sa-
teens fade) and the cost of making was 81
much that, although they are so very
pretty, should take Chinese silk hangings
| if had it to do over again"
For sash curtains inside the draperies she
has used a cream-colored muslin, flecked
with large spots of pink and ecru. 1t comes,
l think, fifty inches wide and costs 40 cents
yard.
But the furniture. "My parlor things,
this in half apologize explanation, reeded
reupholstering, so instead of putting them
into linea overalls, just sent them away
| In their stead she has not put in great
many articles, for nobody wants to see 9
summer vacation house crowded, but has
| bought a few pieces of wicker furniture
which costs less than rattan and can't be
twisted into shapes so preposterously
! ugly. These she has left of their
natural color and fitted with India silk
cushions. The gem of the room is
long wicker lounge with two heads, over
which, that it may still be cool and yet not
too hard to the feelings, has been thrown
one of those queer-looking Bagdad curtains
that everybody thinks so artistic and that