Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-05
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YOU, Cicely, love, that will be fne-especi-
ally if you'll go to work and paint set OF
tiles for the fireplace underneath-dark red
nasturtiums, raspberry vines sumach leaves,
on cloudy cream colored back. What DO
you say? don't know whether an open
CRATE will warm the room or not-we can
but try"
ssBut there are all the rest of the walls
bare still, said poor Sissy, with her lions
in the way.
Just as Pretty as Pictures
'I know it, but we have so few pictures
to spare from the parlor. To be sure, there
are our ivy and our wax plant I'll tell
you, we can buy couple of iron brackets
for quarter of a dollar apiece, and tram
a great way to make up for the absence of
pictures.
"But we've lots of cabinet photographs
of people," said Sissy, Frightening "We
can case them in stiff paper and make
Jacobs ladder of them in narrow ribbons
and hang them up like Japanese panels.
We can have a panel or two, I suppose;
they don't cost anything to speak Of
'fBut what we will have, and that will
cost nothing" exclaimed Bella, ''is big
wall pocket, made out of the fragments of
the boxes and painted to match, and little
pot of German ivy or Wandering Jew in
each corner, to grow over and hang down,
and two great green pine branches, that
will keep green for months, crossed in it
like angels wings, and in the middle per-
feet armful of barberry stems, just foun-
tain of scarlet grace and beauty all winter
long, That's enough for one side of a
room."
''But, after all, with no other picture
how bare the room will be!'
"Do YOU think so? Oh TO- we must make
a lounge of piano box and some cushions;
papa likes lounge in the dining room, and
with his armchair and mammals wicker
rocking chair, guess it will do
"But I do wish we had decent table 1t
takes so many cloths to keep this one look
ing nice; and that makes so much washing
and ironing"
"we might polish the top of this"
$50 we might"
How They Fixed the Table.
sewe could scrape it with sand-paper.
and oil it and varish it. just the thing!
Then, instead of a cloth, we can have
large napkin at each place; and napkin is
SO easy to wash and iron that we can have
as many clean fresh ones as we choose, and
plate and knife and fork and spoon and
crocheted with thread will be Just the thing
for the salts and the peppers and the butter
bowl; and I will crochet some large ones
with piping-cord for the piece de resistance.
ssBut there are other dishes-coarse, hate
full, old-stone china" continued Sissy, will
ing to indulge what she felt to be Bella's
dreams
"We can get lovely Japanese dishes for
cents apiece-buy two or three at time
until we have displaced the whole lot of the
old ones Oh, mean to make this dining
room SO charming that papa and the boys will
look forward to coming into it, and will in.
vite their friends to come, and be proud of
it. And you're such a nice little cook,
Sissy, you'll do the rest. Oh, shan't we
have gay times round the festive board in
such a delightful roomp'
without any money for even the first
beginnings
"It doesn't take much money-half
dozen dollars or so. Let me see-five for
the carpet square, three for the paint and
paper and varnish, and then the satine, and
the brackets, and-oh, 1 think $40 will
do it,
ITO hear you talk one would think dollar
bills grew on bushes"
$50 they dc. I'm going out to pick some
now. Come with me-you need a walk-it
isn't mile away. I'm going into the hill
pasture, and we will cut off whole branches
of the barberry bushes, and trim off the
thorns and the leaves, that only dry up and
drop and make litter, and then we will tie
them into punches, generous punches, and
send them into towE to the florist 's-the ex-
press will be only quarter-and he will
give us 10 cents bunch for them. Well,
now you see! 1t will only take 100 of them
to make our dining room all we want it to
be- OF course, its work. And it is worth
while to make the dining-room something
like family altar
HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFoRD.