St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-13
A BACHELOR APARTMENT.
How One Man Decorated HIS Rooms
TastefuIly.

-hch eiS apt 10 III up their rooms
with a good deal of taste and to take
as great pride and pleasure in dec
Grating their transient abodes as any
aesthetic woman might de- A little
hachelor apartment, consisting of a
sitting room and bed room. which is
pretty enough 10 belong to a woman.
ana yet has certain masculine indi-
Viduality, has the two rooms connected
by pair of folding doors. These are
made really pretty feature by. the
simple and ingenious device of leaving
them open, hanging heavy curtains in
the opening, and then pushing a long
broad sofa about six feet into the in
ner room; this completely fills the
apartment, and gives the effect of a
tented d1van, the sofa, of course, be-
in heaped up with cushions, which are
admirably chosen. The curtains Of
sage-green velvet are made long
enough to be pushed back by the sofa
and then reach the floor, thus forming
the tent, while enough of the drapery
hangs on either side to give access to
the room within. The window curtains,
too, are arranged with the same clever
adaptation, for the windows are high
and ugly, like most of those in the old
fashioned New York houses The eff
feet of their height is lessened and
their light softened by a curious green
ish lattice-work Of Indian grasses,
about a foot and a half deep; below
this, on a slender brass rod, are pale
green China silk curtains, and about
a foot and a half lower, on another
heavier brass rod, hang heavy cur
tains Of the same sage-green velvet
as those back of the divan. The effect
of the grass lattice and the clear light
green of the silk curtains above and at
the side of the heavier ones is partic-
ularly pretty.
lie
covered with great punches of pink
roses, connected with garlands of green
leaveS-and here, too the effect of the
high ceiling is broken by deep beV-
eled plaster cornice, covered with a
design of garlandS. This is painted
white, as is also the paneled wooden
wainscot. The floor is covered with a
plain green drugget, which is again COW
cred with rugs and skins, and the
heterogeneous collection of furniture
is distinguished for the comfortable
stuffed chairs and beautiful specimens
of Chippendale, Sheraton and Vernis
Martin. The mantel shelf is covered
with specimens of beer mugs and tank
ards, and the chimney adorned with
pipes of all nations, from the peace
pipe or calumet of the American In
dian to the chibouk of the Turk and
the nargileh of the Persians.
In striking contrast to this luxurious
room, the bedroom is of almost auStere
simplicity, bare WaXed floors, with only
drugget before bed and washstand,
a brass bed and the necessary furni-
ture of a sleeping apartment being all
it contains, an adjoining bathroom
completing the establishment.
New Woman as a Housekeeper.
1t is a mistake to suppose that the
race of good housekeepers died out with
our grandmothers. / know one small
woman who could give some of those
blessed old DANES points on housekeep-
ing that would make them open their
eyes. 1t requires greater executive abil-
ity to manage house that is dainty
and artistic in all its belongings than
one whose chief characteristics are
baroness and cleanliness.
Draperies and bric-a-brac and downy
cushions represent work in the way of
airing and busting and beating that our
grandmotherS were strangers to. Not
that there were no curtains or cushions
in the good old days, but they were by
no means so universal and were found
principally in homes of wealth, where
there were servants galore.
The houSekeeper who has inspired my
present theme is what might be called
a new woman" She is physician:
she has a commodious and elegant home
winch is always IN perfect order and
perfectly managed; she has four young
children, whose wardrobe and educa-
tions and amusements are managed
with the most perfect generalShip; she
is a member of Sorosis, and finds time
for social pleasures as we'll, and, best
of all, her husband, himself a profess
sional man of note, is happy and proud
of his wife.
Down to the smallest detail her house
keeping is perfect system, perfectly
managed. The mattresses of the beds
are all encased in muslin slips, which
are laundered with regularity; there are
laundry bags in each room for collars
and cuffs and handkerchiefs; in the but
ler's pantry hangs bag of heavy linen.
in which is kept by itself all soiled table
napery.
There are silken bags for dust cloths
in some out of the way corner of each
room, and little feather bric-a-brac
busters at hand wherever needed; there
are always a whisk broom and hat
brush in the hall, and large and small
brooms and dustpans on each floor The
library and guest room contain materi-
ais for writing letter, and in the let
ter room is also well appointed work
basket, which enables the fortunate &C.
cupant to take the stitch in time that
is popularity known to save nine. There
are probably few working housekeepers
among the new women, but in their
ranks viii be found a new and better
class-the executive housekeeper.