St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-19

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but am not stuck up about 1t. This
particular bovine canine had tail
which was like the very soul Of wit.
This is purely gratuitous obituary
notice of the daWg. for he persisted
last year when the sausage was ripe.
The room Name and l had was on the
third floor, commanding view of win
dowS in q white washed wall, and an
alley where fragmentiZed bric-a-brac
| doomed among the untrammeled tin
cans of forgotten civilizations. 1t had
an antique oak mantlepiece aud large
cracks in the floor.
| One day Name wrote story for her
department about how two girls fur
nished a fat for IS, l think it was.
They bought an inIaid cabinet and a
Turkish rug or two at secondhand
store for mere song, painted their fur
nlture white with embossed pictures on
it. papered the dingy walls with artistic,
inexpensive paper, put mating on the
floor. gilded the stove pipe ana made
perfect bower of beauty of
the place. The next day Name
and l started out to fol-
low their example, for Name
had read about it so many times in
women's papers that we thought it
would be as easy as rolling off log.
We went to several secondhand stores,
but they didn't seem to have any inlaid
cabinets or mahogany writing desks.
There wasn't even Turkish rug.
bought one lounge that We intended ~
cover with old rose cretonne, and
smother in sofa pillows, but we found
| that it had been multitudinouSly pre-
empted previous to our pun chase, and
I ~ To trixr fn IN
called the JanitOr the concierge, to com
ply with the feeling of la belle France
dom that pervaded the flats. The land
lord had stepmother whose grand
father was French Canadian, and
everything about the building had a
charming and bizarre French air. Char
ley used to say it was the fault of the
ventilation. He called the janitor a
garcon once, but the man wanted to get
up scrap about it, and Charley had to
take it back.
Name had read a description of a
| beautiful chair made of barrel. so we
bought sugar barrel and made one.
we sawed the slaves Off half way round
and bored holes just where we wanted
| the seat to be. Then we tied ropes
across to hold the crimson cushion we
| Intended to sit on. We fixed the bot
toms of several old chairs that way. 1t
took four clothes lines. Name uphol-
i stored the barrel chair with one of her
last summers frocks. There wasn't
In the back with red calico. 1t
looked very nice from the front.
we gllded one of Charley's overshoes,
nailed it to board and tied bow of
! gen d'arme blue ribbon to it, to make a
| holder Tor SpOolS and button hooks and
combings. We thought 1t was an odd
one, but we found 1t was one of his best
pair, and Charley didn't like it very
well. The girls in the story put putty
| III the cracks i'll the floor. but we tried
papier machc. We chopped up whole
lot OF newspapers and put them to soak.
linen we poured them all over the floor
and damned them into the cracks with
the poker and Names curling tongs.
Inc water soaked through and took off
the plaStering in Charley's room. but
the paper stayed in the cracks very
nicely.
Then we began on the walls. Charley
got us /; brush and lot of paste from a
Dill poster he knows, and we bought the
paper. 1t was right thin, but the pat
tern was exquisite. We lathered one
side of the room, and then cut the paper
into strips. Then Name put box on
top OF the table and got up and pasted
the 1lrst strip Oh. 1t wrinkled some,
ana when we rubbed it to make it
smooth, the pattern Smeared a good
deal, but we didn't mind that. The next
strip we accidentally got up side down.
and had to take it off. We forgot to
notice about matching, but Name said
NOBODY would notice about that. After
a while the paper began to tear, and
| no 81,
Ihey Wadded up and wrinkled dread
FULLY, so we decided to take them
of, and k3somine the rooms. We did
the walls IN warm tone of gray, with
req border and ceiling. Something
got the matter with the brush, and it
moulted all over the walls. They were
a regular dappled-gray, and the red
border ran down a good deal, beside
lot or splashes we got on when we
painted the ceiling red. Charley said it
looked like a slaughter house, so we
thought we would paint the floor and
the woodwork and wait for the walls to
dry before we went over them again.
we bought nine cans of white paint and
put 1t on thick so that one coat would
be enough. 1t didn't take very well OH
the varhsh Of our bed and bureau, but
the embossed pictures stuck beauti-
fully.
While the paint was drying we did
some fancy work and gilded a lot of
things. This took US four days. The
paint wasn't dry yet, but we laid news
papers on the floor to keep it off our
shoes. We made a duchess dressing
table out of an old box and some red
cheese cloth. 1t didn't stand very
steady, but that made it all the easier
10 dust. Finally we decided to have one
grand finishing day. Name was to kali
Soniine, while rubbed the paint to
make 1T dry. Name accidentally sat
down in the barrel chair and | had
dreadful time getting her out, for she
telescoped into 1t. You see we forgot
to nail the slaves together at the top,
ana they spread out. l was rubbing
the paint with turpentine. 1t came off
IN spots good deal, but | kept on.
when suddenly Name gave an awful
howl; the box slipped and the kalso-
mine brush struck ME on my back hair,
whlle the red kalsomine can, and the
gray kalsomine can, and Name and the
table got all mixed up on the floor.
Charley came rushing up stairs, and
seeing US reeking in kalsomIne, dashed
off for doctor. We narrowly escaped
the, patrol wagon, for the turpeutine
broke loose, and we were Just welter-
ing in gore when Charley came back:
and after that-well, while Name and [
were down In Chicago on a vacation
next day, Charley hired man to clean
up, and we've gone back to the folding
bed and the blue carpet. We haven't
time for bower of beauty. l..
ROSAMUND LINDSEY.
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