Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-09-14
NEAT AND COMFORTABLE.
Different Styles of Chairs That Give
Room Character.


Different Styles of Chairs That Give q
Room Character.
The character of a room depends
largely upon the chairs chosen for its
occupancy. If they are of solid wood,
with straight backs, set in rigid lines
around the room, they tell more plain
ly than words the uncompromising mar
rowness of the housewife in some mat
ters- If, on the contrary, they are
comfortable chairs, softly cushioned
and set at angles that invite friendly
chat or the perusal of the magazines
and newspapers on the center table,
they tell their tale quite as effectively
OF home comfort and cheerfulness. We
have known women, kindly intentioned
though withal somewhat tiresome, who
insisted that ever thing must match
Their chairs were Ill of the same pat
tern, and even the vases and ornaments
on the mantels went in pairs. Happily
this absurd method is out of fashion.
The day of the furniture set is gone by
and we may choose our chairs for use
and comfort, and not for display
The most elegant parlors of to-day
have no two pieces to match, though as
whole every detail of form and color
is harmonious In this matter we have
learned great deal from the orientals,
who seldom make two ends of their
rugs alike, but delight in that endless
variety of ornament and color which
never wearies the eve. The great diff
Guilty in dealing with a room furnished
in individual pieces is to make it har-
monious whole It requires an artist
to do this in room ella borately fur
nlshed. In plain parlor it is neces-
sary to avoid detail and to aim at sim
piicity of effect. Elaborate, ornate
chairs which would suit a Louis XIV.
drawing room are out of place in such a
parlor. On the contrary, rattan chairs,
comfortably upholstered, ''overstuffed''
Turkish chairs, well-cushioned divans
and rockers innumerable, fit themselves
into place with becoming grace.
The present fashion of cushioninp
every chair in the room is comfortable
and ornamental one and gives the chance
for great deal of display in the cover
ing of the cushions, the tufting and
general upholstery Most housekeepers
prefer to have their cushions finished
equally well on both sides, so that they
are adjustable and may be easily turned
and busted Dainty rockers of reed are
so cheap now that they are within the
reach of everyone's purse. A very pref
ty rattan rocker may be bought for two
dollars and dainty wooden rocker for
even less. These chairs are sometimes
sold at a lower price in the unfinished
woods, SO that they may be decorated
at home in enam Is. A chair in pale
al II.
cushion of yellow brocade, or with
white cushion scattered with butter
cups, makes very picturesque parlor
chair. A cream white enameled chair.
painted in a sketuhy style with roses
and cushioned with a bit of rosebud
or even ere onne makes pretty
near tie fresh muslin cur
tains
There are good many odd-shaped
chairs, corner chairs, sometimes called
Millions chair from the fact that the
poet is sometime pictured as sitting
In such puritan-shaped chair when
debating to his daughters. There are
high backed spinning chairs, which in
spite of their quaintness make
very comfortable seat when well
There are Chinese chairs
with great arms to rest on, which are
ideal resting-places on the piazza or in
the summer parlor. There are great
chairs of Moorish huslk-worlk, which are
in figure, so that they make |
the most comfortable seats and have a |
quaint character ike everything else
that comes from Moorish lands There |
are quaint little French rockers, fussv |
little sewing chairs, which are as |
coquettish in their appearance as the
ladies of that far land. There are
comfortable German sewing chairs,
ample and softly cushioned-just the
chair that grandmother would select |
for her own knitting; and many others,
for the choice in shape and style is
almost endless.-N. Y. Tribune.