Wichita eagle., 1890-01-22
MAKING HOME AN EDEN.
Simple Meaus by Which 1t Can BE Dol
without a Great OUTLAW

simple Means by Which 1t Can BE Done
Without a Great Outlay.
No one pretends TO deny that the last de-
cade Of passing years has produced wonder
full changes in house furnishing, and today 10
Oscar Wilde lecturing through the country
would have right on his side in declaring that
the American home was devoid of ornament,
because as race Americans were satisfied 10
call four bare walls home. Whether the
words of the aforesaid Oscar awakened a
spirit of desire in our hearts TO be surrounded
with beautiful colors and beautiful, things or
whether the young disciple CHANGED to speak
at exactly the right time, 50 that the seed fell
upon good ground and sprang up and
brought forth good fruit, it matters not; the
fact remains that the change has established
itself, and IN every home is felt.
Obi we have needed much more teaching
to bring the world TO see, as do poetic and
artistic souls, the actual things of beauty on
which our eyes rest each moment-the grace
full flowing line in some inexpensive drapery,
the pleasing outline capable of being pro
duced by the use of commonplace material
well designed.
1t is as good to be awakened to the beauty
and culture to be found in tasteful surround
ings as to that perhaps more subtle loneliness
In the every day phases OF nature.
The old idea that money lavished broadcast
was the necessary fertilizer TO produce beau
tiful interiors has been exploded, and the
proof is the answer to a question which may
be safely put to all the world: do you see
the most charming and attractive rooms
among the richest people of your acquaint-
anceF' That the answer viii be in the mega
tive is as certain as it is natoral-for riches
bring great, many roomed houses, which in
themselves are impediments to that atmos-
phere of homeness which must at once appeal
to the senses or the realization of beauty is
chilled and must ever remain unappreciated.
When house contains a stately drawing
room, formal in its elegance; an uncomfort-
able reception room in the highest style of
the uphoisterer's art; a cold and barren
music room, carpeted for the music's sake; a
library, formidable and unapproachable,
with Its tier on tier of crowded and dusty
book shelves; a long, corridor Ike picture
gallery hung with too many works of art 70
know and love-where is the homei Ahi
surely it will be found in somebody's bed
room, with great sunny windows and flower
ing plants; there viii easy chairs flourish and
the reign of comfort be found. why is it
that somehow or other we all get into this
roomP win come to be joke 10 that family
unless the overwhelming Importance Of great
wealth has crowded out all sense Of humor
from their lives.
And in smaller but pretentious homes in
great cities there is something Of tho same
desolation, for rarely does any one really
live on the first floor The great front room,
long and narrow, with the pieasantest win
dows in the house, the very place which
should by all means be the living room, Is
furnished far too grandly for daily family
use. and, like the keeping room OF cur grand
mothers, is kept sacred TO the visitor
For beauty and comfort and enjoyment
and home, give me tie house That somebody
lives in who knows how TO live-with one
great apartment which is sitting room and
library combined, where there is space
enough for the piano, even if it be grand,
and a coy tete-a-tete corner screened of.
where bay window is full Of plants, and
books and pictores are everywhere, like the
of well loved friends, always with Us;
room IN which the couch Is a READ one. wide
and soft, with quantities of cushions, and
the chairs suggest comfort in their
table, well Furnished, gives evidence of inter
with the outer world and work
baskets and magazine repeat the houssly tale
Of lite enjoyed; room from which a mug
gerry opens as wide alcove, suggesting
szDoxe aud thought. and beyond which il
pleasant hall way mot q ROOM wherein, besides
the Usual furntxhings, stands little desk and
a comfortable chair or two-tbst trade
l.
not intrpde upon ths family privacy, M. may
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the long hal should be aivided from fhs En-
trance by a move or less alabgrats screea IT
or spindle work, having an Arc.sed
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