Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-03-28
JOGS AND CORNERS.
SOME SENSIBLE IDEAS ON FITTING UP
ODD BREAKS IN ROOMS.

How to Convert the Ugliness of Recess
Into Beauty--You Can Make of 1t Book
case, p Writing Room. a Wardrobe or a
Closet, as Best Suits the Situation.
Many ambitious little housewives, long
ing to possess picturesque as well as COM
Portable homes on small means, fail to
give their surroundings the proper study.
1t is surprising how many rooms have
picturesque possibilities little suspected or
appreciated by their owners that, properly
treated, would convert these same apart
ments into abodes of beauty. Many
housewife has been annoyed beyond meas
ure by an unsightly jog that made all her
efforts to beautify her room Of 30 nyau
M WHAT ar IN Sig> world, the jog was there in
it's incorporating ugliness. In these
days of artistic ingenuity joys and inches
are not only tolerated, but hailed with
pleasure, rs arc other SO called defects,
giving opportunity, as they do, for the ex-
ercise of an ingenuity that converts them
into beauties.
A recess in the wall, Or a jog, as it is
more frequently called, can be tastefully
fitted up as wall bookcase with but little
trouble If the walls Of the room arc pa
pered--and it is to be hoped that they are,
as staring white walls are very inartistic
the jog will probably be papered too.
But if the paper shows an aggressive pat
tern it will not serve well as background
for the books and ornaments, and the jog
should in such cases be papered with Il
plain paper of suitable coloring. A flock
paper which will look like II velvet lining
will DO preferable, and the color should be
such as to harmonic we'll with the wall
color. Maroon and golden olives mako
good backgrounds for books. If the jog
runs all tho way up to the ceiling, have a
panel of lattice in squares let in at tho top,
and under this set a pole in sockets, So
cured to side pieces Of wood nailed up for
tho purpose Of securing the lattice tran
som. This pole might be 1 inch brass
rod, from which to suspend curtains be-
fore the shelves. A really elegant appear
anco will be given to the room If tho lat
tice is nicely made and the curtains are Of
good color and design.
III the room shows walls covered with
paper Of q pronounced pattern and color
ing, the lattice might be of mahogany
color and the curtains of perfectly plain
material. If, however, the room has walls
of single color, the curtains may show
either set figure at intervals or else an
all over figure, but the colors should be
quiet and subdued. The shelves of this
impromptu bookcase may be Of simple
pine OF some other wood that can be stain
cd by rubbing in thin oil paint Of tho de-
sired color. If the shelves are not all
needed for books, some may be utilized for
the keeping and display of bric-abrao. In
a bedroom the jog may be turned into a
clothespress, with shelves, or into ward
robe or closet.
inches may be readily converted into
wall cabinets by means of lattice doors
made to fit the opening, or by means Of "a
small transom, with curtain hanging d.
rectly beneath. A small jog, or niche, by
means of fancy locked doors, may be
changed into medicine closet Or repos-
itory for private papers. "A moro fanciful
| treatment with japanese fretwork and
shelves will mako charming wall cabinet
| for bric-a-brac. Much depends upon tho
size, form and location as to what one
may mako Of such recosses.
A square, stiff looking apartment may
| be made much pleasanter by "A picturesque
treatment of ono Or moro Of the corners.
| For instance, il lattice transom placed
across the corner, with il brass pole and
handsome curtains beneath it, will furnish
| cozy corner in which may DO placed q
| triangular divan, with two square pillows
| A triangular wooden box, with a mattress
to fit, covered with some oriental looking
dark fabric, such, for instance, as a Chi
| nese rug OF a Bagdad couch rug, with two
large square pillows to stand against the
wall, will be very pleasing, or tho corner
may contain table and chair, or desk
and chair to be partly revealed by the
half withdrawn curtains. Two corners
| of large room might be arranged in this
manner, giving a charming variety to the
form of the room, besides giving extra
space for certain bits of furnishing. In a
dining room one or more corners may be
artistically fitted with glass doors and
serve for china closets Alcoyes in bed
rooms are always more pleasing when cur
tanned OIL with some dainty furnishing re-
vealed from behind the curtains, and an
alcoye in u sitting room may be curtained
off to form very attractive library.
Especially pleasing is the old fashioned
window, with its deeply set and paneled
easement, affording ample space for a
pleasant scat. An old fashioned cottage
window-one Of the long, low windows set
above q long, low seat, with paneled back
and sides-is treasure troye to the lover
Of the picturesque II it is an eastern OF
northern window it will DO best to have
curtains across its whole width, run on
two slender brass rods, the curtains to be
two Or three or four, according to the
width Of the window; if two, trimmed at
the inner edge with tassel braid or II four,
tho two center ones thus treated. Cream
swiss, powdered with large dots in cream
color or i'll deep pink or yellow, will make
beautiful curtains for such window. II
the window has a southern or western
aspect, a holland shade will be necessary
over the sash curtains. II such window
has broad sill, a few potted plants will
give finishing touch to its beauty. The
long low scat should have Its long OF d.
vided cushion covered with some pretty
and durable material, with several small
pillows Exchange.
Shoes and Looks.
An exchange gives this good advice:
The girl that has the best time at dance
/ is the one that looks fresh, bright and
happy. Sho may MT be pretty, she may
/ not, be clever. but she will have numerous