The herald., 1895-04-04

strong, healthy boy finds indispensable
to his comfort.
Across the hallway, with its window
seats and pretty corners formed by the
winding stairway, is the dainty little
room set aside for Miss Consuelo's sitting
room. The walls are exquisitely done in
pale lavender, fecked with silver; there
is frieze of white and purple violets,
and around the footboard these dainty
colors are repeated in punches of lilacs
Joined by loops and bow knots of silver
ribbon.
The room is to be furnished to suit the
delicate coloring of the walls and ceiling.
The little bedroom opening is all gold
ana white. as every maidens 5 should be,
the ceiling of clouds and cupids will
furnish just the needed amount of color
ing to make the room perfect.
On the third floor are the guest rooms,
three in number, the first to be fitted in
rich Grange color and white, the second
in blue and silver and the third in old rose.
Across the hall is the suite devoted to Will
lie X. Vanderbilt, Jr., the sixteen-year-
old son, who is now at college. The suite
consists of sitting room, library and bed
room. These rooms young Mr.. Wander
bilt will have decorated and furnished to
suit himself.
. On the fourth floor is the smoking
room. quaint little apartment in Moor
ish coloring,. the sewing room and gym
nasium. Mrs. Vanderbilt and Miss
Consuelo are members OF the Micheau
Bicycling Club and are getting to be ex-
perts on the wheel. This room, which
will be called the gymnasium, will have
the floor arranged so as to deaden all
sound, and here they will practice on
their wheels in little bicycling hall OF
their own. Miss Consuelo is vely clever
with the foils and she and her girl friends
will have great bouts here on the damp,
rainy days, when she does not care to go
out to the Berkeley Lyceum Gymnasium.
From the roof. which has tall, artistic
railing about it, there is a magnificent
view of Central Park, and Mrs. Wander
bilt will probably utilize this big space in
giving unique roof garden entertainments
during the pleasant evenings of the fall
and spring. There is an elevator in the
house, of course, for this has come to be
a necessary adjunct to all of the modern
houses.
The kitchen and the servants quarters
are removed from the house proper, in
wing, which is not visible from the street.
Most of the servants will go with the Van
derbllts into their new home. They will
not need more than half of the forty who
were necessary in the great house they
are leaving. Mrs. Vanderbilt is just
and sensible mistress and her servants
have been with her for years, and appre-
ciate the kindly interest which she feels
room i'll the new house and can count
upon Mrs. Vanderbilt continuing her
old custom of sending them to the thea
ter occasionally, and of providing course
dinners on Christmas and Thanksgiving,
to which they are allowed to invite their
friends.
In week or more Mrs. Vanderbilt and
Miss Consuelo will sail for Europe to pur
chase some of the beautiful new things
for their house which millionaires' seem
to think they can get nowhere outside of
Paris. 1t is said Mrs. Vanderbilt will buy
genuine articles of the several periods in
which her rooms are to be fitted and that
she has set aside. another $250,00 TO be
spent in this way.
1t is supposed. though no one really
knows, that she lump sum which Willie
$40, 900, 900. Five hundred thousand is not
so much to pay for a home out of so
great fortune. MILDRED MOORE.