Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-07-22
MAKE HASTE SLOWLY.
How Young Couple of Modest Ineom
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How a Young Couple of Modest Income
should Furnish Their Home,
What a great mistake the average
young couple with moderate means
make in attempting to furnish home
complete with few hundred dollars the
first month or year of their married life.
Quite naturally they are all ambitious
to have their little domicile coy and at
tractive, but they are not willing to make
their home gradually by adding a little
now aud then that is really goad. They
are unwise enough to wish TO begin
where their fathers and mothers left off
Each has left comfortable home, a lux
urious one perhaps, and the young man
has foolish pride--foolish when he can
not afford to crafty ito give the dear
est woman in the world us downy nest
as she left.
Neither one considers perhaps that tbs
pictures, books and the hundred and ons
things that make MP the luxurious home
are an accumulation of years
Neither do they realize that cheap fur
niture only grows cheaper; that it is bet
ter by far to have few pieces really
good than house filed with ordinary
things. do rot mean TO say that the
well furnished home should contain poth-
ing but massive and costly furnishings.
Far from it. There are countless cozy
aQaks, p shelf here and there, an ideal
window seat which the ingenious hogse-
wife can fashion with very little expense
They not only cost a tribe, but are ar
tistic and add greatly to the comfort
and beauty of the home. In fact, a
hei4a without these honey" things is
not half a hoihS.
The one thought uppermost Ia tns
minds of the young married couple is.
however, that their home must be fur
nished at once in some way. Conse-
quently they rush madly into buying
things they don't like and filling up the
house with countlesa inferior articles be.
cause they cannot wait with patience fol
few years to bring them the handsome
and substantial furniture that will maks
them in the end so much happier
1t is not by any means an easy matter
in this age of fast living, wealth and
luxury to be content to wait and thus
paid the pest piece by piece, but the
satisfaction gained 10 the end II hayin9
n home to be proud of and one worthy
Of the name is well worth the waiting.
There are few don't" planks which
should be incorporated into the platform
of every young married couple starting
out to furnish home.
Don't try to furnish dining room
complies with sum which shonld be
paid for the table alone. The buffet and
regular dining chairs are not necessities
Wait and add the other articles as your
purse will allow. Inexpensive cane
chairs, which can be afterward used in
the bedroom. will answer every purpose
until you can afford to buy handsome
ones.
Don't buy cheap carpets. 4 good
quality Of mating can be bought for
much less than an inferior carpet and is
faf mnre attractive. Add rug now and
then. A tasteful rug Is "a thing Of
beauty and JOY forever" 1t will OUT
last any carpet and saves the expense of
having to be refittcd whenever q change
is made.
And last, but not least:
Don't frequent the auction room in the
vain endeavor to find something for
nothing. Ten to one you will get an
article you don't want and which you
can buy at any retail store Tor the SANG
money and perhaps less.
MARv MATHEWS EATON,