The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-29
4 SUMMER CHANGE
One Way to Get 1t Without
Leaving Home.
AND AT LESS EXPENSE, TOO
The Philosophy of Complete Set of New
ImpressionS-A Second Honeymoon
Now in Progress.
AND AT LESS EXPENSE, TOt

For THE SUNDAY HERALD. = Copyrighted
This is the season when the city house
greets you with pursed-up lips and hands
/ behind back, as if to say, whats your
| business here." Don't you know that
every well-regulated person leaves town
before the Forth of July! Its windows are
boarded and its doors bolted and barred
If, perchance, any life stirs behind it's
masQue of desolation, it walks with bated
breath in dim rooms, amid white-cloihed
furniture and book cases swathed in sheets,
/ like ghost proving at night in grave
yard. e.
One house in a tree shaded street in
i Brooklyn does not share this aspect of de-
ISOLATION. The turf in its front yard is
green and not dust covered There are
wide, cool-looking awnings above its VIM
dows, and honeysuckle vine, which
Chambers up by the front steps, is in full
/ bloom. The woman of this establishment
is one whose name most of you, probably
would recognize. Though her books have
fame that is growing, she has not rid her
self of certain old-fashioned view of
wifely obligations. why should II she
said to a bird of passage yesterday, at a
quaint little lunch that was a farewell ban
quent in view of the birds fitting, why
should be my husbands better Off half
and recuperate, while he lives at a stuffy
boarding house and is deprived of the home
comforts that make the heat of the city en1
durable? What we all need in the sumner
is change. | have taken the money that
two months in the Catskills or atsthe sea-
shore would cost me and contrived an entire
change for myself, for my husband and for
our two grown up sons right here. 1t is
fair play all round" a.
Fair play is something so admir- able 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 country, her change" SIT has
transformed the house so completely that"
said its mistress, Il quite forgot 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 a secono 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. I 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 IS it hap
/ penS-now please don't tell me il always
does happen soin utopian sketches, because
this tale is true-it so happens that her
house is in anew and rather unconventional
block and, moreover, is on a corner Thus
/ II comes about that her hail is of the nature
! oil d small reception room with stairway on
the left, fireplace opposite the entrance and
doors on the right TO the parlors. The fin,
ish is oak, and the tones of the wall paper
a pale olive and cream. From this hall she
has removed the carpet-it was a rich deem
red, and tits part of her theory that red is
TO be banished in June that it may come
back with double cheer in Northumberland
had Il dark oak stain applied to the floor
This waSa part of her "spripg cleaniug.D
| during which the above mentioned husband
and sons went on weeks fishing excur-
| sion. just in front of the stairs she has
placed rug OF soft, cool-looking colors.
and in the d0orways, In lieu of the heavy
chenille porJeres, 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 strlnglng the bamboo and
beads on fish lines fastered to pine strip.
To get wholly new impression, she has
taken out the hat rack, substituting pretty
little glass OF oak with iron hooks and n
small oval mirror in the middle The room
thus gained is given TO reed bottomed piazza
chairs, ready when the sun is gone to be
taken outside. In the fireplace stands big
Jug notified olive and brown and filled,
wnen l saw 1t, with daisies. - becomes
another man y she says. 1.-THE minute he
enters this other hail.
When Blank passes into the parlors his
bitterness must be intensified. These are
in line front aud rear, the back parlor being
fitted up as a library. Here, too, the car
pets have come up and the heavy curtains
down The woodwork is cherry | think
my friend was tempted 10 enamel it-thiuk
OF the itching of ones tiuger5 with enamel
at p cents pot-but she bravely refrained.
She has laid the floors with that fine Japan
ense mating which is so firm and close of
texture and so odd in design, with its scat.
tered hioroglyphs of brown eastern char
acters, and wtna so cheap, costing only 20
cents a yard. The walls are paperel a
delicate pink, and this, though reluctantly.
she mas suffered to stay, and turned to the
windows for further expression of her rev.
olutlonary ideas. My windows she
says, ''are the eyes of my house, through
which look out at the world and it looks
in at me-" These eyes she has newly lidded
for the refreshnent of vacation gazing
with pink-tlowe ed cretonne in one of the
summer designs OF scattered sprays on
cream ground. "Cretonne sounds cheap at
81 cents per yard she answered doubt
ingly, but these curtains had to be lined
with cream coloced satin Cream and gold
are the colors for Innings, because the more
delicate sateens fade) and the cost of MAX
ing was so much THAI although they are so
very pretty. should take Chinese silk
hangings If l had it to do over again.,
For sash curtains inside the draperies
she has used cream cOlored muslin, f1ecked
with large spots of pink and ecru. It