The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-29

and hare with here scarf of India silk
and there a rose lar or a quantity sbanad
pitcher. Some of the pictures have been
taken down and etchinRs substituted. NV
one extravagance!' smiled the lady, as she
pointed to delightful marine in water
eolors hung opposite feel sge ob Sien to res.
snace somewhere to say that Richard ia
WALL afreet broker, but that believe be ia
these summer parlors do not run to
screens. but to cut off drauRhts where all
the windows are open is a frame of light
bamboo, standing by "h.chard's' couch
and hung with breadths OF india silk in
pink with geometrlcal aeslgn IN IN cream
tional-and making pleasant nook else
where is another covered with Japan
ese paper. A little tabla of painted maple
and the great flower jugs in the corners and
the book shelves merit attention, but it is
necessary to pass to the dining room, which
is en- suite with the parlors and like them
has floor covered with mating, with an
''art square, in terra Gotta colorlngs under
the oak table. Perhaps l didn't say that
on the parlor floors one or two rugs are
used. but not in sufficient numbers to be
hot looking. The dining room curtains
are silk stripes, as they are called; the ma
terra! is really Isle thread IN ecru, barred
horizontally with green, and costing any,
where from SIS to $40 per window. In the
middle of the table stands rose bowl, and
morning, noon and night this is kept filled,
Nv enthusiasm carried me up stairs, per-
haps yours will not mount to the second
story. 1T would be the same old CITY
house," insisted this Quixotic woman, "un-
less had fresh bed chamber Her pretty
room has pale green woodwork and the walls
are done in pattern of Towering hops in
white and green. Here again she had not
time or courage for any radical alterations,
perhaps even there was an attachment to the
pretty paper, but change of expression has
been cot # not a change of features by hay
ing down the white lace curtains AID having
up 'art draperies'' of printed muslin in a
rustic vine pattern of green on white
ground. sNobody could grudge one such
trifling satisfaction smiled she triumph
antly, 'for the stuff is forty-six inches wide
and costs only II cents a yard" The
dressing table is hung with the same cool
fabric, and it makes the canopies OF the brass
and iron bedstead. Here as down stairs
there is mating for the floor covering. A
deep window seat is cushioned with green
and white chintz and along the window
ledge lies window bolster for the head or
the arm if one curls up for breath of the
cool night in such tempting situation A
wonderful sleepy hollow loungin, chair,
steamer CHAIR length, IS OF Wlcker with
chintz headrest. Two or three little pic
lures. such as one gets with the best of the
art magazines, are framed in white lace
frames.
For the "boys' rooms''-boys are always
boys to their mothers, though men grown
tho summer novelty is curtains Of sheer
white muslin, very old style revived.
They have tambour pattern decoration,
and are infinitely prettier than the Noting
hams, though they are sold as low as $3.50
a pair.
There ought to be room to talk about the
hangings of split bamboo to wall in the
little piazza, but since there isn't ! must
say that there is hammoc swung across
one corner of the back parlor. It sounds
profane, but those parlors are meant to be
lived in. In the front parlcr should have
itemized a big pouf of two firm chintz
cushions, such as are used for seats in
French drawing rooms especially for chill
dren.
''And what will you do with all this stuff
next winter?"
"Put it in an empty room or pay storage
It is really less trouble than to get ones
house ready to shut up, pack and unpach
ones trunks, and clean house that holds
summers accumulation of dust II
costs less and it is more fair. 1t give Ut
all summer CHANGE"
ELIZA PUTNAM HEA1oN.
COpyl icht.