The Helena independent., 1893-11-19
Be ORIGINAL At HOME.
Il Il Said 70 Be 4 Fact That Most
Women Are Plagiar-
lists
x Genuine Comfort to Visit where
There 10 Domestic
Originality.
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the Fsrniturs Arouad Bsfsre II
Takes Root.

Ono OF tbs worst conditions in the world
ts getting into rut. It may be very
comfortable, fleece lined rut. But we have
no business there. Some phase of our ex-
istcnce 10 sure to be growing cramped by it,
Change is not always improvement, reiter-
ates sententious old saying. It isn't, but
q least 1t Is change.
Nature has set us grand example in
this matter of variety. The shadows never
fall exactly alike any two successive hours.
II we don't 20 on with the lesson for our
selves 1t is our own fault. Our eyes crave
change Of vision as much as our stomachs
crave variety in diet. To be sure, not ev-
cry woman can shift her family frequently
into new scenes, but at least she can alter
and vary their environment, and she can
also discover many fresh ways of accom-
plishing monotonous duties.
The writer has in mind several old fash
toned housekeepers who declare: II am
Obliged to keep everything in my house
arranged just as it always has been. NY
husband says he doesn't feel at home with
things changed about" The moral Of this
Is things" shouldn't have started in life
With asettled abiding place. Because the
sofas and chairs have found desirable spots
to lodge in is no reason why they should
take rootin those special spots. When one
OF the conservative husbands runs across a
good book he doesn't think he must read
that and no other all the rest of his days.
II stir my house up with a spoon every
week or two" says wise housewife, "and
lind that complete change in household
environment is as refreshing to tagged
senses as bath is to a tired body" After
q judicious periodical Encouragement of
such household goods as one is already pos
SCISSOR of comes next in Importance that Of
selecting new ones. This must be careful
choice of such things as will fill our needs,
and at the same time be altogether individ-
ual and suggestive of ourselves alone and
not our neighbors, Miss Jones or Mrs.
Smith - no matter how estimable Miss
Jones or Mrs. Smith may be. It isn't al
ways as easy to do this as it seems because
the baneful custom of wedding gifts often
DEGREES that several brides in the same
block shall build their modest homes about
some such incongruity as a half dozen gor-
geous piano lamps, thus thrusting them at
once into a class. But as far as house
keeper is responsible she must furnish her
apartments with decided favor of origi-
nality.
where the women had ideas of their own
about decoration, exclaimed 1T is gen
uine comfort to visit about here from one
house to another. Each woman's little
parlor is quite different from her neigh
boris. In my old home everybody had a
green Brussels carpet on their drawing
room, the piano at just such an angle and
an invariable jar of roses on the marble
shelf of the pier glass till"-think of it, YOU
who find life so sweet-"I hated the smell
of roses"
It is a curious thing that so many women
besides the members Of this young wife's
home circle should be content to adopt an
others decorative principles to build home
upon. But so it is At one time the aver
age American home looked like Japanese
bazaar, then we passed through a Dutch
period, and now we are in the midst of a |
Turkish era. When a woman is neither a |
Japanese, Hollander nor a Turk, why |
shouldn't she prove herself an eclectic and |
select the best from every nationalty's |
sense of beauty9
In urging originality for the home, a
word OF caution is necessary. It is that
fussiness be earnestly avoided. A certain
sculptor and his wife occupy rooms that
are on the wrong side of the unique. The
ingenious husband has partitioned off one
of the tall rooms to make a boudoir for my
lady. A room would be tall, indeed, that
could still boast sufficient height after aft
er half of 1t had been substracted. This
one wasn't tall enough. A little inside
balcony landing, with an ornamental bam-
boo railing running about it, makes further
ravages on space, and padded walls and
crowded divans and hulking suits of armor
add their own sense of clutter and the be-
ing stuffed to a bursting point One visitor
has always felt that she ought to get out
side of this dolls house and move the host
and hostess about with her hands through
the tiny room, as she once did gay arrav
Of paper ladies and gentlemen residing in
diminutive mansion altogether resembling
this
On the right side of unique are some
other rooms supreme in their individual
ity. One is papered in dull Venetian red.
Its furniture-it is library-is of plain,
polished oak. A dark, golden brown rug
covers the floor, and the danger of sombre-
ness is relieved by gorgeous tiger skin
fastened against the one door. An i'm
mense bowl of rich blue china, heaped with
great yellow oranges, standing on low
oak bookcase, further enhances the bril-
liant effect that is sealed and made sure by
q pile OF gay sofa pillows of iridescent col
oring. Another charming small apartment
of this class is furnished throughout in va
rious tones of soft silvery green, set off by
. single solid gilt chair, with gay rose
brocaded cushion, bright brass fire irons,
lamps and candelabra. Neither of these
two rooms are expensive but both are a
delight to every visitor.--Philadelphi
Times.
500 Reward, 800.