The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-01-02
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A MORNING PARLOR
An Indispensable Room Iii
Any Well Regulated
House.
FOR THE LADIES' USE
Should be Informal and CHEEKY
Mary Anderson's Wardrobe
Edna Lyall's Dream
Children.

A morning room has become now a
necessary part of every well equipped
house, says the Philadelphia Press" 1t is
very English, of course, but then Ameri-
cans have found many excellent things
TO copy from their British cousins, and
this is by no means the least of hem
Town houses. wen the newest, have
generally a comfortable second-story
front room which is taken for this pur-
pose. Here the formal guests are not
and it Is a general living room
for the family in the evening. Here the
society woman receives her most init
mate friends and hears the last bit of
gossip or scandal. gives her orders to
her household. writes her letters and re-
vises her lists.
An open fireplace is a necessary fea-
ture of the morning room, and wood, not
coal, must be burned. The fire need not
burn all day if economy has to be con-
suited. but until IL o'clock it must be
kept going.
A large rug that will cover nearly the
entire room is preferred to a carpet.
This will be expensive, for ones dearest
friends are apt to be critical, and it will
never do to ave a cheap rug where it
will show so prominently, but expensive
rugs wear well. SO there. is some COM
fort in the expenditure after all.
Bookcases, centre table and writing
desk. a lounge and plenty of comforta-
BILE chairs are necessary furnishings of a
room in constant use. Nc fixed law as
to every piece of furniture matching
need prevail, but the bookcases and a
look better if of the same wood.
Inside sash curtains are now a law, and
as all the windows in a house are drap-
ed the same. the morning room must
needs match.
The innner curtains or portieres will
look best If of a material to match the
covering of the lounge n chairs. Red
or green corduroy is a capital material
and color for this p The lighter
colorings soil all this too quickly for a
room SO constantly used. Denim even
can be utilized for this purpose, and an
exceedingly pretty room just finished has
even the walls hung in bright red denim
to match.
If the room has a sunny exposure it
will be possible to use black paint and
have bookcases of ebonized wood. This
would be gloomy without sunlight, so
that point must be well considered.
A table in the center of the room has
long been considered questionable, but
in this room is quite the correct thing,
and a great comfort it is to be able to
get around a table and find ones favor
tie books and papers.
Bric-a-brac is not necessary to the fur
nishings of a morning room, but there
will be found space for some nice bits
on top of the book shelves. ~Engravings,
etchfngs and photographs should be used
in preference TO paintings, although a
of the room is a place where are collected
together things of all sorts that are not
too bright nor good for daily use.
A tea table within reach, burt not prom
and a chat with just one person over a
cup of tea is never more enjoyable than
under such circumstances.
1t is complained that we are growing
more and more formal all the time, and
the stiff drawing-rooms are pointed out
in evidence of how little home life and
home look there is in these days. So
ciety grows apace, and an ordinary VS.
iting list numbers over l,5N names, SO
it canno be wondered. at II there must
ing of formal acquaintance, while the
inner circle of friends n relatives are
received on a more familiar footing, ana
do not find the formality n stiffness
which outsiders carp at and wonder
about.
4 morning room and boudoir are not
the same things at all, although they
possess many points in common, for a
boudoir generally opens off a bedroom,
and is indeed, a sort of glorified dress
more OF the nature of a library. The
larger houses admit of both the latter,
h11t as the larger houses are still in the
minority the morning room prevails