The Newtown bee., 1893-03-17
SPRING FURNITURE STYLES.

A Bright and Able Survey of the Question by A.
 G. Baker, Proprietor of the HawleyVille Furnl-
 ture Emporium.
 Dear Sir: In reply to your request that I give your readers and those in search of furniture an inkling of the new spring styles I will say that while l know of no change of styles to revolu- tionize the appearance of furniture as the much talked of change in crinoline will revolutionize the appearance of wo- man. yet many minor and some quite im- portant changes and advances have been made in materials and designs. In up- holstered goods
 NOTHING CAN BE PRETTIER and more durable than some of the new patterns, broad, deep. roomy, spring edge couches, in subdued shades of plain, figured and mottled corduroy, or in pretty patterns French Critonne. The cheap couch has about had it's run and the average buyer who cannot conven- iently spare the money for good one very sensibly waits until he can. What to-day is considered a good couch is not quite ''thing of beauty and joy for ever." but it's next door to it. The com mon article known as bed lounges cheap. hard, ungainly, uncomfortable things at best, either by night or day, are
 NOT MUCH SOUGHT AFTER. Improvements in cabinet folding and portable cot beds have driven them to the wall. There has been a wonderful improvement in the finish and develop ment of native woods, especially oak and birch. The saw-mill man is now an ar- tist who by saving at the right angle brings out the hidden beauties of the grain as it was never brought out be- fore. This is especially true of oak. Some of the guartered oak table tops of to-day are marvels of beauty in the wood itself, to say nothing of design. The light old English finish is particu- larly adapted to
 FINE CHARTERED OAK.
 Birch has been almost an unknown wood in cabinet work but it is now con- ing forward with rapid strides, thanks to the sawyer, and some of the handsomest and richest bed room suits in the coun- try are now in curly birch. It can truly be said that we are now passing through very conservative, common sense peri cd as regards style in furniture. Bed- steads are just right, neither too high nor too low.
 CHEAP, FLASHY CARVINGS, even in low priced work is giving place to the plainer. Fine high priced work is now rich, plain and massive, rather than gaudy with an over supply of carvings.
 The manufacture of furniture has un- dergone great changes of late. The large manufacturer used to in many in- stances turn out general line of furni- ture giving no special study to any one article. Now you finG specialists in the manufacture of furniture as much as in For instance 300 men will be employed by one manufacturer to make
 NOTHING BUT PARLOR TABLES. The designer for this house must be man of refined and cultured tastes, one who has made parlor tables study. He must be to parlor tables what w. Ham, ilton Gibson is to the insect and botani- cal world. The productions of this house are of course tables Of artistic beauty and merit, while he who manufac- lures in small way and cannot afford the special designer must necessarily turn out more or less ugly patterns or wait and steal the designs of the larger
 THEREFORE, AS RULE
 the sample rooms of the. large concerns contain the pretty patterns and the small ones the homely or else the last years copied patterns of the larger, only one more instance of the survival of the fit test and the crowding to the wall of the small man. The cat and the squirrel playing together in the same cage, fun for both until the cat prefers to play alone.
 White enameled iron and brass beds are now made in neat patterns at very reasonable prices and are coming more and more into use. They match up very nicely with white maple and birch. The
 'sHoUsEKEEPERs' DELIGHT"
 has at last been found in roll top ex- tension table, the top being in shutter form like the top of a roll top office desk and extending by means of crank, very nice, but high in price yet. Refrigerators are improved upon each year but prob ably the very best thing on the market to-day is lined throughout with heavy glazed stoneware, as sweet and clean as bottle.
 Side-boards with china closet attach. ments are being sold quite extensively and some of the late designs are wonder fully pretty.
 SOME OF THE PRETTIEsT
 parlor, side and corner tables have late ly been placed on the market that we ev. CT saw, and take it ali in all there never | was a time in the history of the country when such variety of unique and pret l.ty designs in fine finished goods in all lines were placed before the people te select from as now, and no buyer neec l stock up her home with homely furni look around. Yours truly.@TA. c. Ba ker, Hawleyville, Conn.,, March 14, 1893