The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-21
A LUXURIOUS COUCH
Any Woman Can Make This
Cosy Nest for Five
Dollars.
ALL SORTS OF SEATS DISCUSSED
Beautiful Evening Gowns Seen in
London - Discourse on Eye
lashes = Dark Locks the
Latest Thing in Hair.
Ill SORTS OF SEATS DISCUSSED

No room, however beautifully ar
ranged, says the Philadelphia Press, can
be said to nave achieved its mission of
comfort and ~rest-giying without a couch.
A plant, capacious. easy divan is more
truly tired Natures sweet ~restorer than
sleep itself, for sleep is not always rest
giving; but just to stretch ones tired
self on the ideal couch is to the weary
soul a foretaste of that happiness which
is promised to the good.
A slim purse is no obstacle, to the pos
session of a couch. Any clever woman
can make much out of little; not a
scraggy apology of a couch, either, but
a soft, seductive, peace-giving affair, fit
to make angels envious-if angels use
couches.
A bachelor girl in Philadelphia-for
there are one or two in the City of
Homes-went to housekeeping in a
couple of rooms recently. She was a
hard-working little woman, whose
weary limbs at nightfall had tested the
hidden joys of a couch in her old home.
How to live without one she could not
imagine, but she was too poor to buy
one. This is what she did. An army
cot costs but $2-those with springs, s..
She thought it economy to invest in one
WILL p1IllSS. Liz dOuplS llhl "oS
sent from home, off her old bed. Plac-
ing the cot against the wall of her
pretty den she laid the mattress upon it.
letting one-half rest up against the wall
horizontally. The whole arrangement
she covered with two italian slumber
robes-at a cost of $3.50 a piece-and her
couch was complete. The mattress
against the wall made a comfortable
back and a harmonious ground for the
half dozen pillows, which she piled
against it. The whole thing, not count
ing pillows, of course, cost her only So.
AN ELABORATE SAILORS BUNK.
A swinging couch is the latest improve
ment of this charming luxury. A woman
who has a charming arrangement OF TINS
kind is the envy of all her friends. she
has impaired to me the secret of it's con-
struction. She went down to one OF our
ship yards and had a regular sailors
bunk made. 1t was of denim, strapped
tightly over the wooden frame with taut
cords; it is impossible to give more direc-
ton thar this for its making, for it IS
like a nautical knot only to be done by
a nautical man.
This she swings from two large hooks
in her sitting room, letting it reach about
eighteen inches from the floor. She COW
cred it with artistic ~hangings that mao
formerly served for portieres, and, of
course, added the necessary complement
of pillows. She declares that she never
knew how delicious sleep could be until
she had made her swinging couen, This
season with the keyboard facing. the
room. The approved arrangement is to
with its back to the room. OF course
this necesSitates some arrangement tnat
will hide the bare unadorned. back,
woman seizes another opportunity to
improvise a place for resting. A pretty
ana cheap way Nc hang so some nl. simple pie
a small brass rod which a carpenter can
ground put a settle or wen an old trunk
b bnaaea viii and an against1 If ff fnrth sart a eafn-
plaeed in n oval H1se git frames are dainty,
box, the length of the piano. and as high
as you wish it for a small sum. Very
often it is possible to buy from some
Just suit. Cover this with a mattress
II II larger nss sh %sssa sample mp sm mattresses msfs
ones to be ordered. What becomes Of
them al? Perhaps when discarded one
from the dealer.
TO return to what can be done, how
ever. place you p0X agaaIfSL ule pldiIo-
with a rug or old curtain.
THE BEST THING IN SPREADS.
Many women are using the old fash
toned blue and white counterpanes which
were in vogue a generation ago These
quilts make a dainty. charming GOVERNS
and the girls who can resurrect them
from old chests and trunks need look
no further for their couch drapery.
OF course cushions are heaped up on
all these touches. as many as you can
muster.
/ am reminded in writing of the swing
ing couch. of an exquisite affair in the
house Of a Fashionable woman who has
of teak wood, the high ends being
carved. 1t is swung to the ceiling by
bronze chains. 1t is luxuriously up-
holstered and heaped with Persian silk
pillows.
I e1n assure you that when. a visitor
is SO fortunate, as I was, to be invited
up to the room, she sees a very pretty
picture, with the lovely. hostess lying
curled up in this couch in a soft dress
ipo oOmp of mink and hT1a