Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-02-03
Oh = AorER IN A Room.
Artistic Furnishings Give Evidence of Re
ncd and Cultivated Taste.

Artistic Furnishings Give Evidence of Re.
flied and Cultivated Taste.
SHOW me a girls room and I'll tell
you what manner of woman she is" is
an old saw in the womans book Of
character study and the other day,
when ushered into a room unlike any
other in the universe, it needed no
oracle TO announce that it was the nest
Of ladybird with ideas and originality,
happy faculty Of making the best OF
things, and an artist by instinct if not
by profession. The first thing to at
tract attention was a wonderfully sun
ny window, with sash curtain OF that
yellow silk, covered with the soft gray
shadows of dancing vine leaves. The
window had an unpleasant outlook, and
the silk for its decoration had been car
ried to veranda, where vine made
the shadow of its graceful leaves upon
the floor. She had laid the silk down
where the shadows were most perfect
and then had fixed them forever with
soft gray wutcr-colors and gathered it
in her window sash. Beneath the win
yellow cushion, and draped across the
window pole and down one side the
window curtain of striped grenadine
white, with yellow and dull blue and
olive-in the curtain. Besides it was a
revolving bookstand filed with maya
zines and new books. A white fur rug
stretched out in front, and on this were
more cushions, the heavy ones of which
| form seat.
Another thing to attract attention
was one of the gayly colored Guayaquil
hammocks draped across one circle of
the room, making with its fringes and
tassels, a brilliant decoration. Some
one had given the hammock to the
woman, who didn't see a veranda from
one summer to the next. But she had
ideas if she didn't have the veranda, SO
she put up hooks in diagonal corners of
the room and suspended the luxurious
web there on when she wanted to for
! get how busy she was. When not in
use more hooks simply draped the
bright netting against the wall. And
table, which was made after the old
douchess fashion, ample and low
enough for its possessor to utilize rest
fully sitting in the low white chair
which stood beforeit The table was
made Of wooden frame, which she
herself designed, the top padded, GOV.
cred with pale silesia, and then with
dotted muslin. All about was frilled
n curtain of the silesia, with the muslin
over it, fluted frill at the bottom, an.
other at the top.
The mirror was one of the old-fash'
Toned kind, with the upper half pic
ture, the lower half glass. There
were painted cupids in the picture and
the muslin dropped down each side oi
it. On the table were most delicate
china trays with ivory brushes inlait
with a tiny cypher of silver on the
back and china powder boxes and hair
pin boxes and all the paraphernalia Of
the toilet in china receptacles. with one
or two bits of silver polished to the las
degree Of brightness. One couldn't her
loving the woman after one glance a
the toilet table, which was the daint
lest ever arranged, except the one from
which it was copied, and which they
will show you still il the apartment O
Nine. de Remusat The bed was O
brass with white hangings over the fain
green Innings, and with an old-fash
Toned valance of muslin beneath it,
counterpart of white, with green rib
bons threaded in and out of it's open
work border N. Y. Sun.