St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-11
A MAIDEN'S INGENUITY.
1t Changes a Chamber of Horrors
Into a Bower OF Beauty.

1t Changes a Chamber of Horrors
Into a Bower OF Beauty.
For the clever Encouragement of a
hopelessly ugly room the ingenious
lighter OF Methodist clergyman de-
serves all untading palm of victory. On
the occasion of the latest ministerial
move this young woman found that the
room which fell to her share in the new
parsonage was a hopeless combination
of blue kalSOmined walls, pink and
white woodwork and carpet in which
bright blue, green, red, yellow and
black were about evenly represented.
A bedroom set of faded oak. with black
stripings, produced a whole which
would have driven one in self-defenSe
to the flesh pots of Egypt. A board
shelf across the cutoff corner, where
the chimney was, displayed yellow
drapery. which. however, by no means
covered the old-time stovepipe hole be-
meath.
The Methodist maiden was pretty
much diSheartened at first, but she
plucked up courage and ideas and pro-
ceeded to reVolutiOnZe things. In the
first place she said she would cover that
Josephian carpet with bed-ticking All
her friends exclaimed in diSapproval.
"Bed-ticking! they said, with ironical
chances.
But she did. She bought blue ticking
with fine white lines running through it,
so that the blue stripes were not more
than quarter of an inch in width. 1t
is the cleaneSt. coolest floor covering
you ever saw. 1t does not show dust
and it just answers the blue of the walls
like lower note in chord of music.
m Mo rff nnlr kn1 ,I~s
iron bedstead, not expensive, in its
white. demure dressing. The bureau
was an old one painted white, and the
washstand was distant relative with
the same white paint in its veins.
The yellow silk came down from the
mantel, and pink silesla covered with
white Swiss, and with a rutfie of the
Swiss around the edge. went up. A
tempting array of books went up, too,
and the daintiest pink and pearl Jap
aneSe fan covered the unsightly stove
pipe aperture. Half over the fan and
fitting the angle Of the wall was a little
bamboo bookcase of only two shelves,
and on top of it were few little trifleS
such as every girl hasa bonbonniere,
a fat wicker cologne bottle, and pretty
girls picture in tiny gilt frame.
Across that end of the room, with the
iCdu COoily puolleu UGIWt6u IIlG Will
dow and the little low bookcase. was
wide lounge covered with creamy Gre
tonne, with pattern of pinkish flow
ers. A couple of big cushions lay in
the corner, almost reaching to the
oyerhanging ruffle of the mantel dra-
perry. One rocking chair of light con-
structiOn, the seat of which the indefati-
gable girl covered with the same Gre
tonne which was on the lounge, and one
straight chair completed the furniture,
with the exception of a three-leaved
screen and surerba. Superba is the
name the young Woman gave to an
empty box, we'll padded with cotton on
the top, and that has been covered with
blue denim, deep flounce of which
reaches to the floor on all sides. Superba
occupies the little space between the
low bookcase and the dresser. 1t is
right under the gas jet, and, as de-
lightful place for picking out books and
browsing here and there through the
pages, superba deserves its name.
Altogether, that room is so trans
formed from Its aboriginal horror that
even the most critical parishioner
could not say anythi NJ but "Well DONE"