The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-26
SUITED FOR ANY ROOM.
Model Styles in Bookcases Made in All
 the Hard Woods.

Model Styles in Bookcases Made in All
 the Hard Woods.
 In many houses receptacle of some kind is provided for books in every room in the house, unless, perhaps. we except the dining room, usually kept for the sole purpose of dining. With out books a room lacks its best orna- i ments They add the charm of comfort and homeliness, besides being a useful possession. To fill an odd corner there is nothing 50 nice as a prettily designed bookcase. Naturally we should not use the same design for different rooms. In this, as in all things, appropriate ness has to be considered. It must suit the style of room and be in keeping with the other furniture. Knowing where we wish to place it, there can be no difficulty in getting just the thing, for among the countless designs. it must be possible to please even the most fas- tidious taste. They are made in all the hard woodstock, mahogany, walnut, ebony and ashland look best when they are the same as the surrounding furniture.
 For the library it is very usual to have fitted bookcases in oak or walnut, which are sometimes carried from floor to ceiling, but may be made only half way to form g. dado, the top shelf being furnished with handsome moldings and forming a ledge for the display of a few choice ornaments. Then, again, they are separate pieces and for valuable or rare books are finished with glass dors. With the Sheraton designs these doors have thin wooden mouldings stretched across the glass, and very often 8 writing table is combined with the bookcase, which makes it a partic- ularly appropriate piece for room of limited size. In the sitting room hall a dwarf oak bookcase, with nicely carved pedestal mouldings, looks extremely well and will be found very handy for books of reference and magazines which may find home behind silk curtain fastened to the bottom shelf.
 The drawing room bookcase is lighter and more elegant in design than the others and should be made in Chippen- dale mahogany or inlaid wood. If it has to stand out in the room very decorative style is the cabinet book case, which has small shelves for orna- rnents and china cupboard all com bined, being also sufficiently large for the ordinary sized room, while a less expensive and elaborate affair may be made of ash, enamelled white and fin- ished with good mouldings at the edge of the shelves. The design has not the cabriole legs, but is more after the fashion of the dwarf bookcase, the bot tom being finished with plinth.
 A still simpler bookcase may be made by fitting three shelves into recess and finishing the edge with small bead moulding, or even a good silk fringe, and suspending a silk curtain from the lowest shelf to the floor be- hind which newspapers, etc., may be placed. This style, again, is very use ful in the bedroom, and is so readily made that any one who has an idea of carpentry can manage to erect one for himself at a small cost. Then, again, there are the small hanging bookcases, or rather shelves, which are usually found in bedrooms and girls sitting rooms and are always useful and pret- ty wall decorations, and the revolving bookstand, which is not so suitable for bedroom use as for the drawing-room library. Made in mahogany, with in laid satin wood top, it looks very hand some and can play the part of orna- mental table as well as bookstand.- Chicago Chronicle.