The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-01-15

with care and Judgment may be followed.
It says:
To begin with. the walls of the white bed
room should be hung with q pretty tor
quoise-blue paper, the floor covered with
plain carpet of a deep gold shade, and the
bed draperies of white spotted muslin, edged
with lace. The woodwork should all be
painted white and the enameled suit should
match. The window curtains would have
Of white din,ity. edged with tiny white ball
fringe, to be replaced in winter by thick ones
of turquoise-blue serge. The writing table
placed in side window looking out over the
garden, must be furnished with bowl of
flowers, and it would be just the room for
great blue and white jug of wall flowers
in the spring, or a mass of Chinese pinks in
the summer.
But this would be suitable scheme for
small room, and one of larger size ould
be fitting shrine for some real old furni-
ture. To keep this in countenance the walls
should be covered With chintz paper in one
of the old world patterns, and the window
curtains should be of real old chintz, VI if
this is not obtainabie, of its modern repro
duction. If there are cupboards in this
room the doors should be concealed with
portieres of Florentine cambria
The furniture in the apartment will be as
beautiful as anything in the house, The
| wardrobe Is treasure in itself, but the cabi-
net makers of old days seemed to ignore the
necessity of dressing table and washstand,
therefore for both of these one of the small
sideboards of the period must be called into
request. They make lovely toilet tables,
crowned with a shield-shaped glass, and
the beautiful inlaid wood preserved by mats
Of fine white linen, adorned with dainty
stitchery. On the top of the Withstand /
think there might be flat surface of pale
salmon pink tiles. I know that these can
be arranged mounted on kind of thick
canvas for hearth and require no fixing,
80 there can be no reason why it should not
be as easy to adapt them to the top Of the
sideboard, which is to form washstand.
This piece of furniture should have brass
rail at the OK some twelve inches above
the slab, and on it should hang curtain of
salmon pink silk to form at the same time
a background and splasher.
In spite of all modern prejudices, there is
no doubt that the bedstead in this room
should be wooden one. The footboard
must be of iplaid mahogany, like the rest of
the furniture, but the four posts may be dis.
pensed with, and a handsomely carved and
draped canopy substituted. The bedding,
however, may be of the present date, as the
universal wire wove mattress can be fixed
to any frame, and everyone woul be willing
to dispen sc with the mountainous spring
mattress and feather beds which were the
pride of our ancestors, and to which they
solemnly assembled by pair of steps. A
bedspread should take the place of the usual
counterpart, and be one of those pieces of
needlework which become heirlooms in a
family. A plain piece of white linen must
be hemstitched all round with an insertion
of drawn threadwork, and groups of all
kinds of old.fashioned flowers embroidered
upon it in natural colors. columbines, piDks,
gillifowers, mallows and lilac will all work
in beautifully, and it will be case of "the
more the merrier."
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FoR THE HoUsEHoLD DEPARTMENT.