The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-06-23

without saying. AS fitting appendage
register has been provided in which
the denizens of the state may regist q,
their arrival, length of visit. and city
address. This room also contains a
large and beautiful painting of Min
nehaha Falls by Alexis Fournier of
Minneapolis
The fourth and last room in the suite
is the smoking room. Here is found
peace, quiet and solid comfort. The
room is decorated in the Indian red
shades and contains fire place in which
natural gas is burned. A very hand
some fire screen of black walnut and
bead embroidery attracts much adj
miration from the gentlemen. This
screen is the joint work of Miss
Haynes and Mrs. Emil Schoyen
of Mankato. The screen is
for sale and~will add much to any per-
CONS library as piece of furniture and
souvenir of the fair.
Apartments For the Ladies.
The suit of three rooms across the
hall are devoted to the ladies. There is
charming room in green and gold for
the Woman's Auxiliary board, with a
fireplace and private toilet room, also
private entrance from the main hall.
Double doors lead into the reception
room, which is as beautiful as an au-
tumn landscape in dream, its warm
russell old red colors in wall, ceiling,
floor, draperies and furniture.
The frieze in this room was designed
by Mrs. Amelia Centre of Minneapolis,
and represents the state flower
in beautiful scroll design.
This room also contains Mehlin grand
piano, made expressly for the ladies of
the state, and loaned by the manu-
facturers of Minneapolis, and is
much appreciated by every musician
who enters the building. The case of
this instrument is of mahogany, hand.
somely carved. This room also contains
handsome stained glass window, de-
signed by Mrs. Weston of Duluth.
Opening off the: reception room one
enters the reading room, fitted up in
delicate shades of green. This room
contains mantel contributed to the
use of the Ladies' Auxiliary by the
women of Pipestone City. The
mantel is made of the his
toric pipestone, is handsomely in
laid in mosaic design and contains a
center piece representing a book of
Songs of Hiawatha resting upon large
peace pipe and tomahawk, the whole
bringing out pretty thought. The
hearth is composed of one solid piece of
polished jasper from the celebrated
quarries in Pipestone county. The
over mantel is a case of Pipestone
curios loaned by Mr.. H. G.. Austin of
Pipestone City, and are for sale after
the fair.
Rich Furnishings From Minneapolis.
The entire furnishing of these three
rooms was loaned by the Bradstreet-
Thurber company of Minneapolis. They
gave the choicest things they had in
their establishment and sent Messrs.
Fillmore and Buggy here to place the
furniture and decorations. Among the
most beautiful things to be found in
the rooms is an old Gobelin tapestry,
300 years old, valued at $500. Two
solid mahogany tables, one of which
was used by Governor Mckinley dur
ing the national convention in Mime
apolis, valued at $3.50 and 1925. An
exquisite dead gold cabinet filed with
art treasures. Also chairs, touches,
lamps, bric-a-brac and indeed every
thing that goes to make modern home
of luxury. The furnishings in this
suite of rooms are worth $4,000 and
afford a fitting testimonial of the enter
prise and generosity of the Bradstreet
Thurber company.
The Faribault Furniture company,
through Senator Stockton, has sent
a handsome desk for the use of
the ladies.
Minnesota people may well feel salts
fed with the building and its comforts.
and visitors proclaim it the contest and
most homelike of any on the grounds.
BABE HUNT.