Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-08-26
A Boys Room.

"A 1tOy>S fNOOm.
Let the girls monopolize the white and
gold furniture, but give the boy a room
which is more like barn than Jewel
casket.' Let him be at the top of the
house, where he may dance jigs undis-
turbed and have room to stretch his
growing body. The cheap oak sets
which are sold are quite nice for a boy
who does not criticise carving or ex-
anime the grain or design too closely.
He should have chiffonier and a wash
stand, with pretty, fancy pitcher and
basin. The floor. can be. stained or COW
cred with mating and one of those Jap
anese rugs which come in such beauti-
full tints flung over it. The bed can be
of wood if a set is bought, but iron
painted white is always to be preferred.
And it is always advisable to give
boy a single bed, in which he will be
obliged to lie still and grow straight and
tall, rather than three-quarter bed, in
which he can go to sleep cuddled into a
letter "C'' or stretched out so as to form
a geometrical figure.
If he is one of the hospitable kind who
will have friends to visit him, and there
is no other place in the house to store
away the visitor, the boy will have to
share his couch with them, of course,
and in that case a three-quarter bed will
be necessary. 1t is we'll to make
cover for the boys bed. Snowy pillows
and white quilts are kept immaculate
enough in the girls rooms, but the boy
will probably manage to smear both
with ink, dusty coat, wet umbrella
or any of those dirty things which a boy
always has ready to annihilate order
with at one fell swoop. A cover of pink
ish-red cretonne or colors which will
correspond to those of the furniture or in
the rug, made to stretch across and
reach down to the ground, is always
useful, and the boy stands much less in
awe of it than prim, snowy bed, which
would delight anyone else's eyes.
The boy should have desk and good
sized table, which will encourage him to
observe some order with his belongings.
The reason very often that a child does
not keep everything in it's place" is that
there has never been place for every
thing, and if the boy has table for all
the traps SO dear to his heart and desk
where he can have his school books and
do his lessons and write to his grand
mother. he will probably grow into an
orderly, studious and dutiful youth
smaller things than these have civilized
people-although / do not believe every
boy is a savage. A set of book shelves,
which can be bought for 81. or which, if
ion and stain himself. should hold all
those wild, delightful romances, which
make his hair stand on end A COM
Portable room will keep him from rum
ming away out West; let him read. The
boy should black his own shoes, so let
him make a large box which can be di-
vided into two parts-one for the blacking
apparatus and one for his shoes. These
boxes covered with carpet and high
enough for seat can be bought, but the
expense is tritling to have an ordinary
box, and it will be quite as useful, and,
if covered with cretonne, quite pretty.
An open fireplace is a great charm in a
boys room; there he can roast potatoes,
burn his love letters, make taffy and
have roast-nut parties, and it is health
full, cheerful and not expensive addition
to any room. Have pictures on the wall
gay ones of bright colors or black and
white sketches, just as the boys taste
goes. He will choose them, and under
further direction place them prettily.
Above all, give him liberty, let him give
little parties up there; permit him to hang
a skeleton on the chandelier if he wishes
to, or to have a scarlet curtain on the
book shelves if he prefers it to your dainty
choice of pink and blue. Guide his taste,
but let him exercise his own individuality.
A picture of Buffalo Bill charging on a
wild mustang hanging over the foot of his
bed, where he can see it the first thing in
the morning, would be to some boys far
more beautiful than four feet high of
Lincrusta Walton or Bouguereau's Holy
Family in a fine meZzotint.-NeW York
Commercial Advertiser.
Obedience Worth More than Geography
This lesson Of law and obedience is one
that needs to combine with love in the
very first instruction given to the child.
When a boy hears his father say, My
son, do this" the impression made upon
him needs to be like that made upon
the old Hebrews by 'Thus saith the
Lord His father is the only almighty,
practically, that the boy has during the
first years of his life. Obedience is worth
more than geography Charles H.
Parkhurst d. D., in Ladies Home Jour
nal.