The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-09-05
MAKE HASTE SLOWLY.
How n Young Couple of Modest Income
Should Furnish Their Home.
New York.

Income
Should Furnish Their Home.
What a great mistake the average
young couple with moderate means
make in attempting to furnish home
complete with a few hundred dollars the
first month or year of their married life.
Quito 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 and then that is really good They
are unwise enough to wish to begin
where their fathers and mothers left off.
Each has left comfortable home, 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 i'll the world as downy IL nest
as she left.
Neither one considers perhaps that the
pictures, books and the hundred and one
things that make up 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 filled with ordinary
things. l do not mean to say that the
well furnished home should contain moth
ing but massive and costly furnishings.
Far from 1t. There are countless coZy
hooks, shelf here and there, an ideal
window seat which the ingenious house
wife can fashion with very little expense.
They not only cost trif1e, but are ar
tistic and add greatly to the comfort
and beauty Of the home. In fact,
home without these honey" things is
not half home.
The one thought uppermost in the
minds of the young married couple is,
however, that their homo 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 countless inferior articles be-
cause they cannot wait with patience for
few years to bring them the handsome
and substantial furniture that will make
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
build the nest piece by piece, but the
satisfaction gained in tho end in having
home to DO 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
complete with Il sum which should 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. A good
quality of mating can be bought for
much less than an inferior carpet and is
far more attractive. Add a rug now and
then. A tasteful rug is "a thing of
beauty and a JOY forever" 1t will ont
last any carpet and saves the expense of
having to be rehtted whenever 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 for the same
money and perhaps less.
MARY MATHEWS EATON.