Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-10-01
TIE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL,
1t is Well Built and Well Managed
Home, Whether Mansion or Cottage

1t is Well Built and Well Managed
Home, Whether Mansion or Cottage.
To achieve the house comfortab BILE it is
necessary to start with sound princi-
pies and to keep constantly in mind the
ends for which home is established.
A home should yield rest, refreshment
and inspiration to the members of the
family: should be the place in which
each member gathers renewed courage
1t follows, then, that those parts of the
house which most affect the daily health
and happiness of the household should
be equipped first and most thoroughly,
and that those rooms which are shared
with the outside world should not be
beautified at the expense of more i'm
portant portions.
A well-furnished and well-managed
kitchen, which shall daily send forth
three savory meals, and from which the
spirit of strife shall not arise, filling
the whole house like a miasma. is of
more moment in the house comforta BILE
than drawing-room that shall be the
envy of every woman who sees it.
Sleeping-rooms supplied with the best
springs, mattresses and blankets, and
filed with an atmosphere that is fresh,
but not raw, and mild without stuff
ness, are to be preferred before the
costliest carved cabinet from Holland,
filled with treasures from Vienna.
1t is not that a beautiful drawing
room is not desirable thing. 1t is as
goodly and attractive in the house COM
Portable as elsewhere. 1t does con-
tribute more than a little to the comfort
of the woman who has planned it, and
of the husband whose house and whose
wife are admired because of it's beauty.
The point is that it is not the first thing
or the second thing, perhaps not even
the third thing: that, if need be, the
house comforta BILE can flourish without
it, and that. if the money at hand is
limited, the drawing-room should be
considered last, and that in any case it
should not usurp an undue proportion
of thought or attention.
In furnishing a home of seven or
eight rooms, unless a lavish use of
money is possible, the money may well
be divided into three equal parts, to be
distributed among the three floors of a
city house-one-third for the basement
of kitchen and dining-room, one-third
for the parlor floor and one-t third for the
arrangement of the rooms is different,
but the proportion of money for the
three classes of rooms should be sub
stantialy the same. Where the supply
of money is practically unlimited,
there will naturally be a larger num-
Der of rooms to furnish. and the
distribution of the increased money is
largely a matter of taste But in such
a case, if the house comfortable is de-
sired rather than the house artistic or
the castle display, it will be the part Of
wisdom to make liberal appropriations
for the kitchen, and, above all, for the
dining-room, where a lavish use of ar
tistically beautiful furnishings, of fine
linens and dainty china, is more con-
ducive to comfort than in any other
part of the house. 1t is also wise to
provide we'll for the sittingrooms, the
smoking room, the nursery, the sewing
and sleepingrooms, rather than to
reserve the bulk of the expenditure for
the drawing rooms, and leave the rest
of the house to be filed up by chance.
The latter course is too often followed
by those who have much money as well
as by those with little. AS to that
large class of people who must furnish,
if they furnish at all, on much small
err scale, their case is by no means hope
less, but it requires more careful and
detailed consideration than can be given
in a general Introductory chapter.-Chi-
cago Herald.