Morning journal and courier., 1891-09-25

shiftless lot, who had rather pick up pre- carious living selling buffalo horns than stay on the reservations, where they can live @ great deal better, and where the government will feed and otherwise pro- vide for them. The government does not give a cent from one years end to another to these renegades who leave the reserva- tions, but they prefer to lead a squalid life near the whites, where, though it is strict ly against the law, they can occasionally get drink of forty-rod, than to be decent Indians and live on the reservations.
 "Waal," said an old gentleman from Vermont, ''I've been travel'1' around good deal lately. I've seen nice looking Chinese women in San Francisco, and handsome Japanese girls in Seattle, but haven't seen single Indian woman on the plains who wasn't horrid old thing. If these are specimens of Indian women I don't wonder the race is dyin' out"
 Hardwood Floors and Wood Car
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 From Harper's Bazar.l
 The most healthful flooring is the hard. wood, or it's humber relations, the painted or stained floors. They do not get full of dust and moths, and are readily cleaned. They remove the heaviest load from the semi-annusl house-cleaning, while after contagious illness they do not need special fumigating. They are, on the other hand, expensive from their own cost, and from the rugs they require to remove the bare ness and to reduce the household chatter. A house with wood floors throughout is 8 noisy place where the family is of any ,1arftor,1orlxy Sffad for dining-room, sleeping-rooms, the i- brary and music-room; but halls, stairs and sitting room are more comfortable carpeted. In the drawing-room & rich eff feet is more cheaply attained with carpet than with rngs, and the room being less used, its care is less burdensome.
 Hardwood floors are of maple, oak or Georgia pine, and should be tightly laid and "blind-nailed." The expense varies with locality. Wood-carpeting, or Ameri- effort to supply floor equally as good as permanent hardwood floor, but more easily applied. The wood, either walnut, oak, cherry, or any two alternately, is one quarter of an inch thick and in narrow strips or blocks, which are glued to a cloth back The straight carpeting comes twen- ty, twenty eight and thirty-si1 inches in width, and will roll up like oil-cloth, weighing seven pounds to the yard. Plain borders are made ip three and one-half, five and six inch widths, and corners, cen ter pieces and strips to form mitre lines come in the various woods. Such carpet ing costs from one dollar and half to eighteen dollars per square yard, that for the latter price being designed intricately with center-pieces and elaborate borders in oak, cherry, mahogany, maple, rose wood and walnut. These prices are for the goods uncut and measured before lay ing, the laying and finishing being sepa- rate expenses. Only carpenter or cabinet maker can lay these caapets, full direc- tions being given by the city firms that supply them. But carpenters in the coun- try have found trouble in giving this car pet it's proper finish, and explicit direc- tions should be secured with the goods. The finish is generally done in shellac, but hard oil or waxed finish is sometimes pre- ferred.
 A carpet of this kind, including the lay ing and finishing, will cost about the same | ss body Brussels carpet of the same size, | and will last lifetime. It can be laid over an ordinary floor, and being so thin, doors aud thresholds do not have to be cut | down. To order it, make a drawing oi l the shape of the room, showing where are all the Wlnuo"s, Ooors, prO1ectlons ana Ie | cesses, and carefully measuring and indi- | eating the spaces.
 Some floors are too poorly laid to be painted or stained, and the cost of hard
 wood or wood-carpeting must be avoided In such case, "kiddermaster," heavy | ingrain, is an excellent and warm cover ing. It is a yard wide, alike on both sides comes in all plain colors, and costs eighty cents yard. It makes an effective back 1 ground for rugs, but looks we'll when used | alone