Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-01-03
ENLIveNlNe THE GAME.

entertaining Woman Makes Thing.
Agreeable at the Card Table
While in one of the larger cities a
snort time ago paid a visit to a some
wnat curious furniture store" said one
OF the ladies at the euchre table. She
knew perfectly well that it is not a
GOOD plan to talk when playing euchre
.. any other game that requires a lit
Tie thought and calm reflection, but
AFTER she had started there was no
STOPPING her.
The store" she continued, after
ASKING what card was trumps, was es-
Pecially devoted to the sale of Colonial
furniture and was wonderfully sur
prlsed to find out that the demand for
the qhaintly shaped articles was large.
~, is it my turn to play? What's
trumps? Let me see-I guess I'll play
that.
The furniture was nicely made and
handsomely finished, but it seemed
strange to see whole store crowded
with curious STRAIGHTFORWARD rockers,
with an extra piece running down the
back and fitting into an extension of
the seat; or big, comfortable settles
upon which half dozen people might
Ind room to bestow themselves; or
mammoth bureaus and high-post bed
'steads with canopy tops. (My deal !!
why, dealt the last time. No? Well,
then, hand me the cards.)
Il could scarcely realize that we were
In a modern store, and when the pro-
prietor invited US into the real antique
room whats trumps?) began to think
that must have been transferred to
the time Of my great grandmother.
"He explained that the furniture dis
played here was made by hand, and
treated to a battering process that
gave it the appearance of age and wear.
He said they sold it for just exactly
what it was, but that he had no doubt
that many customers palmed it off on
their visitors as furniture that had
been handed down to them from colo
NAL times. Excuse me, did clubs lead?
I thought it was a hearty
''Sorne of them, he said, requested
that their purchases be carefully COW
cred up when delivered at their resi-
dences Il pass)-and others even went
SO far as to have the articles boxed and
delivered by an express company. So
far as the manufacture of the articles
LII ILLS TOOm was cOHCeTHeu, Jne Qccc)-
ton was complete.
''They looked as though they had
grown old and stained by a century's
constant use. The rockers on the chairs
were worn thin in the center, and it
was not difficult to imagine that they
had been used to rock the babies of
every generation from the days of
witchcraft to the era of the trolley car
''In some cases the arms of the chairs
bore the marks of the jackknives
welded by naughty boys in the days
of Roger Williams. Even the rungs of
the chairs bore the marks of foot heels,
supposed to have been made a century
ago. did 1 take that trick? Thank
you.)
These real antique goods sold for
big prices. 1t cost money, we were
told, to whittle, shave, hew and carve
these old patterns. 1t could not be
done by machinery, which makes it's
work much too perfect, but had to be
made by implements almost as crude
as were those used by the people of a
hundred years ago.
Then, when completed, the article
had to be treated to the aging process
all of which required time and atten-
ton. But then-as the dealer said
people who wanted that kind of furni-
ture could afford to pay little extra
for it,
just then the other side took the last
trick and won the game.-Utica (N.I