Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-05

| have been clipping out of the weekly papers
| for years? There's enough of them to cover
the wall all round three feet from the floor,
put on so as. to seem to melt into one
another, as if they were a continuous story
| of something. And then thick coat of
yellow varnish over them, and there won't
be anything, well, more unique, in the
| finest house in town."
'Wouldn't it be a alittle-a-conglom-
| crate 90 said Sissy.
''Not in the general effect But if you
| prefer, we can put straw mating on, all
| around the, wall, standing up Just its
| width, the little holdings tackled over it,
and then punched every few alternate
inches with big brass-headed nails, like
tufting; that looks very chic, but it costs
more"
"Why don't you say Spanish leather and
be done with it? We can get one just as
easily as the other But the floor
'sWell, so cents worth of shellac will
make .hat-'
TT isn't hard pine; it's just common,
'Then we must paint it brown and var
nish it, and get one of those ingram squares
that cost $5 for the middle. And then, you
see, we will have the shell done"
"And that is all, said Sissy.
Decoration Made Easy.
'Oh, no, indeed. I'm going to have a
board"
ga sideboard! I should like to know
where it's coming from! l should think
you had Aladdin's lamp"
"Better There's one of the packing
boxes; it's just the length of that sidetable
1 should like to know what we learned
Slojd for at school if we can't plane that
box perfectly smooth. Then we will let it
rest on the table, but fasten it to the wall,
the open side to the room, and put shelf
in it or cleats, and paint it reddish brown
and lacquer it, and there you are!''
"Well. declared
"The big cream-colored jar the olives
came in, will go to the top of it, and that
clumsy pitcher, and those queer earthen
dishes that look like something foreign, and
cost 10 cents piece. And we can pick out
the prettiest Of our plates and cups and
saucers to arrange on the shelf, and behind
it and under it, till you get time to paint
something, maybe, and the plated coffee urn
we never use, and 1 think it will be rather
taking"
'It will make lot of dusting."
"Well, then, we can have brass rod put
up with two little brass hooks, and run a
curtain on it of satine or something of the
Sort cream-colored ground with fine red
sea-moss in it, or else all plain old gold-or
red and brown print of tiny palm leaves.
am going to make a screen of that, any,
way, to stand before the door, just tack it
ON both sides of little clothes horse with
little brass nails, SO we had better have the
sideboard curtain to correspond; suppose
the whole thing could be had for dollar.
''Oh, you can get everything, Bella! You
only have to say, Presto! Change!' and
there 1t is, said the ironical and despairing
Sissy.
'efhen I shall say, Presto! Changer to
the mantelpiece."
"How?"
A Candle Box Mantel.
'T will get some candle boxes and raisin
boxes, and saw them in two; they come all
smooth; and paint them like the rest of the
wood work, and set them on the shelf, one
at each end, and nail them to the wall, and
one on top of the other. But 1 shall take
the glass ont of that old frame first, which
used to hang in the back chamber, and
stand it up in the middle, and hold it in
place by the boxes on each side, and by a
bit of the molding at the bottom, and some
tacks at the sides behind the boxes. and Mt