The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-29
comes, think, fifty inches wide, and costs


40 cents yard.
But the furniture "My parlor things"
this in half apologetic explanation, needed
re-upholstering, so instead of putting them
into linen overalls, just sent them away"
in their stead, she has not put in great
many articles, for no one wants to see a
summer vacation house crowded. but has
bought few pieces of wicker furniture,
which costs less than rattan and cannot 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 a long wicker lounge
with two heads, over which, that it may
still be cool and yet not too hard to the feel
ings, has been thrown one of those queer
looking Bagdad curtains that everybody
thinks SO artistic and that cost 50. These
ara woven by hand by the native workmen
IN stripes nine inches wide. Five solid
color stripes are then sewed together and
the figured pattern put on in loose-meshed
stitchery. My friends curtain is brown,
stitched with pink and cream, and the
lounge is heaped with six puffy cretonne
cushions. Here that happy Blank, won
der II might not call him Richard especi-
ally as it is not his name, stretches himself
when his head aches and his limbs grow
tired. You don't have company in this city
in summer and you can stretch yourself,
clean and long, and forget care.
In the back parlor in window recess
stands student chair in wicker, in which,
as | understand the situation, Richard,
when he IS not lying on the lounge, reads
his newspapers. 1t has high, square back
and broad, roomy seat; it is cushioned
with cretonne, and it has a basket at its
side for waste literature.
From the high wooden overmantels in
both rooms all the familiar brio a brac has
been taken away. IF | saw that little
ter, am sure | should find OUT said my
friend, that had not really gone away.
Tse polished wood has been left to show it.
self, cool and bare, with here a scarf of silk
and there a jar of roses or a quantity
shaped pitcher Some of the pictures have
been taken down and etchings substituted.
MY one extravaganza" smiled the lady,
SIS she pointed to delightful marine in
water colors hung opposite the couch, ''to
rest Richards eyes, feel obliged to find
space somewhere to say that Richard is a
Wall street broker, but that believe he is
appreciative.
These summer parlors do not run to
screens, but to cut off draughts where all
the windows are open is frame of light
bamboo, standing by Richards couch and
hung with breadths of India silk in pink
with geometrical design in cream-all the
new India silk patterns are conventional
and making pleasant nook elsewhere is
another covered with Japanese paper A
little table of painted maple and the great
Hover jugs i'll 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 colorings under the oak table.
Perhaps did not 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 material is really Isle
thread in ecru, barred horizontally with
green, and costing anywhere from S. to $40
per window. In the middle of the table
stands rose bowl, and morning, noon and
night this is kept filled.
My enthusiasm carried me upstairs; per
haps yours will not mount to the second
story. at would be the same old CITY
house." insisted this Quixotic woman, ''un-
less l had a fresh bed chamber Her
pretty room has pale green woodwork and
the walls are hung In pattern of flower
ing hops in white and green. Here. again,
She had not time or courage for any radical
perhaps even there was an at
tachment to the pretty paper, but change
OF expression has been got if not a change
of features, by having down the white lace
curtains and having up art draperies of
printed muslin in rustic vine pattern of
green on white ground. Nobody could
grudge one such trifiing satisfaction,
smiled she triumphantly, ''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 boil
ster for the head or the arm, If one curls
up for breath of the cool night, in such a
tempting situation. A wonderful sleepy
hollow lopnging chair, steamer chair length,
is of wicker with chintz headrest. Two
or three little pictures, such as one gets
with the best of the art magazines, are
framed in white lace frames.
For the boys room-boys are ALWAYS
boys to their mothers, though men grown
the summer novelty is curtains of sheer
white muslin, a very old style revived.
They have tambour pattern decoration.
and are infinitely prettier than the Noting
hams, though they are sold as low as s.. so
u pair.
There ought to be room to talk about the
hangings of split bamboo to wall in the
little piazza, but since there is not, | must
say there is hammock swung across one
corner of the back parlor 1t sounds pro
fame, but those parlors are meant to be lived
III. In the front parlor should nave item
lied big pouf OF two firm chintz cushions.
such as are used for seats in French draw
ing rooms, especially for children.
And what will you do with all this stuff
next winters''
Put it in an empty room or pay storage
1t is really less trouble than to get ones
house ready to shut up, pack and unpack
ones trunks, and clean house that holds
accummulatiol of dust. 1t costs
less, and it is more fair. 1t gives us all
change"
ELIZA PUTNAM HEAToN.
NOTICE