The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1890-10-17
PHILOSOPHY IN COUcHES.
The Soothing Influence OF Nap on .
Long Easy Lounge.

| The Soothing Influence OF q Nap on q
Long Easy Lounge.
A room without a couch of some
sort is only half furnished. Life is full
of ups and downs and all that saves
the sanity of the mentally jaded and
| physically exhaused fortune fighter is
the periodical good cry and the mo.
| mentary loss of consciousness on the
upstairs lounge or the old sofa in the
sitting-room. There are times when
so many of the things that distract us
could be Strengthened out and the way
made clear if one only had a long,
comfortable couch on whose soft bosom
he could throw himself, boots and
brains, stretch his weary frame, un-
mindful of tides and tapestry, close
his tired eyes. relax the tension of
his muscles and give his harassed mind
chance. Ten minutes of this sooth-
ing narcotic, when the head throbs,
the soul yearns for endless, dreamless,
eternal rest and the hands involun-
tairly reach out for cold lead or Rough
On Rats, would make the vision clear,
the nerves steady, the heart light and
the star of hope shine again.
There isn't doubt that the longing
to die is mistaken for the need of a
nap. Instead of the Immortality of the
soul business men and working wo-
men want regular and systematic
doses of doing, and after a messy
bank in the shade of an old oak that
succeeding Junes have converted into
tenement of songsters, there is moth
ing that can approach big sofa or a
~,
where tired nature can turn her face
to the wall and snooze or sleep away
the gloom.
There is in nearly every parlor an
article of furniture that answers to the
name of sofa, but it is not worth the
space it covers or the time needed to
keep it in order. Either it is too good
for daily use, too scratchy for any liv-
ing creature but the family cat to rest
on. too stuffy for comfort or too sud-
denly abridged for the occupancy of
any one but the baby after he has
passed the period of long clothes. The
reason for the existence of the two
armed, yard and a quarter. velvet
tufted. hair-cloth sofa cannot be di-
vined, nor is it easy to understand why
imber-legged. carpet-faced lounges
are purchased by domestic economists.
If the luxurious Turkish couch with
the delicate spiral springs and downy
cushions is beyond the limits of the
family purse there are other equally
good reasons why it should not be
coveted. In fat where the rooms
are small and often dark, such an arti-
Gle would be as bulky as the old four
posted bedstead, the towering what
not or the ceiling scraping shleboard.
Delicacy of design is needed, although
fragility is not to be tolerated. Album
dant means will suggest the novel and
beautiful, but the article in question is
within the compass of economy. In
stead of paying $40, $50 or $50 for the
upholstered couch allow yourself $15
and see what invention will do. In
the shops where specially is made of
willow furniture there are couches by
the hundred to be had for an average
of $12.
Don't consider the high backed sofa
for Il minute, unless you intend it to
fill space merely between two win
dows in a room that is never used. If
the back is well made it will cost $3.50,
and if not the squeak will set you
crazy. Let me suggest that you pay
$40 for cane lounge and to make sure
about the fit measure your length on it
and scorn any size that does not give
you an extra six inches for your feet.
If there is a space in your room you
can, by paying $13, have long cane
lounge made with two heads. Have
the feet blocked on the floor, place it
against the wall and with some five or
six pillows you have the nearest APP
proach to an ideal couch the money
can procure. If the cane is hard to the
feelings single Turkish curtain may
be had for IS, or with that amount any
woman can fashion cotton comforta-
bic, silk on one side.
Perhaps by enduring $40 or $13
cane lounge the purchaser can indulge
her asthetie taste in $25 carriage
robe of silk plush, $50 rug or $50
leopard skin, draperies that will last
dozen years and hold their beauty to
the end.
t. There must be a time when ones
head will ache and the limbs grow
tired, and what can be more restful
than to pillow ones self on a cool,
clean, long couch of this sort, in
quiet room, away from everybody, even
care itself. A word about pillows.
Don't cover them with stuff. rep or
velvet. If you can't afford light flow
cred silk. get English cretonne and
wait for special sale in remnants of
China or India fabrics.