Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-14
MAKING A COZY CORNER.
An Endeavor to Make a Home More
Comfortable and How 1t Ended.

An Endeavor to Make a Home More
Comfortable and How 1t Ended.
From the New York Herald.
I'm down on any newspaper Home De
partment, remarked a gentleman wearing
| off his look of settled melancholy in an up
town restaurant. They're always telling
! what nice things can be made by everybody
with a little taste and very little trouble
and springing some new thing on the un
wary and unsuspecting. / wonder who
writes those things, Ell? Not married
man, I'll bet horse. Nor woman with
any husband or home of her own. My own
opinion is that most Of those wonderful
household matters are written by folks who
don't know anything about it-just as most
Of the things about children are written by
people who never had any children and
know nothing about children.
But. you see, my wife believes every
thing she sees in the newspapers She prides
herself on being a great manager. Shell
spend 81 to save fifty cents. The other day
she saw picture in the Sunday Herald
about prize fiat or something of that sort;
something that looked too sweet for any
thing ana all that, and could be nad for al
most nothing. She threw out pretty strong
hints about it, but did not bite. One day
when / was very tired and either had to
stand the racket of the children on the sit
ting room sofa or go to bed, she casually
remarked how nice 1t would be II we had
one of those comfortable divans in the
quiet parlor, where l could lie down and
rest.
That is probably the way Eve did the
business of Adam and the rest of US. She
most likely said that those particular apples
were very nice looking, and then dropped
the subject right there. That is the way
my wife would have done. 1 didn't say
anything just at that time but the deadly
poison of that idea had entered my mind.
dreamed about a divan, and in my sleep !
saw myself reclining luxuriousy upon a
crimson couch, backed by pillows of softest
down and canopied by siken hangings.
1t wouldn't cost much she said one
day when she caught me unconsciously
drawing a design of a cozy corner. Then
she figured out how much could be done
with SIS. Finally 1 was committed to the
scheme. / shopped, l struggled among the
counters, 1 skirmished with upholsterers, /
haunted paint shops. / gave up business
temporarily and devoted my entire time to
the domestic situation.
We'll, the bills are just coming in," sigh
ed the victim of art, land have already
passed the hundred-dollar mark. You see,
the divan and the coZy corner business
was such decided success that my wife
had to have some new hangings. Then the
chairs looked little too dingy for the new
hangings, and she suggested that it would
cost very little to have them done over in
white and gold. A cheap screen or two
seemed merely letting the horns and tail
go with the hide, and away flew another
tenner. In the meantime / never did so
much hard work in my life My hands are
blistered.my thumb nail is in mourning from
familiarity with the tack hammer, and am
dead broke
And after all this my wife saws our
divan Is too nice for me to lounge on, and
so far as comfort is concerned I'm lust
where was at the start