The times., 1897-05-16
THE ECONOMY CLUB.

| The hammock had come out on the porch
/ for the first time this season, and barring
! mended place where Dick had put his
! foot through il last October. seemed as
| strong as ever and as ready for fun TWAS
| homemade hammock IN the first place
Rose and Dick had made 1t one vacation
| when they were at the seasho ore with 10th
| ing particular TO do on rainy days. There
| have been directions for making hamnoe ks
| III all the papers and magazines at one
| time or another, and y0B will probably see
1 some before very long. Suffice it to say
that besides having peculiar strength and
I gorgeousness, due TO the carefully selected
| twine and Dicks strong young fingers, that
| hammock has the glory and the beauty II
| the whole summer In it Woveninto its red
and yellow bands We're evenings by the
drftwOod fire, and days in the old sailor
loft, where somebody read Treasure ISL
and and David CopperfIeld'' 20 them as
they worked; there We're days by the sandy
beach and days on the pi0ey point just
out OF sight of the ocean That hammock
has more than paid for itself
Rose has since been adding to its hearty
and comfort by many pillows She has a
fancy for pillows, not the Teady-made ones
which re sold in the shops, but individual
pillows, and her collection is really worth
seeing. There is the pillow made from a
piece OF her gFandnother's bali gown-very
carefully handled, that pillow, with its
brocadc flowers and satin. There is an
other covered on one side with Indian EN-
broidery and filled with pine needles.
There is a funny little round one, as hard
as a brickbat, which Is a Teniniscence Of
the old sofa on which the children used to
play atgraadmother's and whic hsfnally had
to be consigned 70 the attic becauseits SOn-
stItution had suffered Fl rom so many pillow
fights. The pillow, with its horsebair co Fcr,
was saved froin the wreck and recovered
with piece OF silk tapestry, and is justthe
thing to slip under the middle of one 5 spine
in hammock
There are other pillows, covered with
silk and tapestry and siikohne and Gre
tonne anG a piece OF college nag. and q
square or grandnother's patchwork, and
almost anything else that pillow can lie
covered with, but none Of them too COOL to
be fired DICKS word for it, across the
room in a pillow fight. Pillow fights are
an institution in that house
Somebody has been collecting statistics
about divorces, and has found that neany
nine-tenths OF them are more or less in
Juced by things being thrown at theiHiured
party. The instinct OF throwing things is
notconfined to boys, and though the mother
of Rose aud Dick and their yOrlger brothers
and sisters never formulated any theory To
the effect that a pillow fight was good
safety valve for young tenpers, suspect
thatitis. If Rose and Dick have some small
disagreement and Rose catches up a down
a point, t doesn't hurt him, even il il hits
him, and it emphasizes the point much bet
ter than peppery adjeetives. And the dis
agreement is likely to end in frOlic
Be that as it may, Roses pillows are
very pretty, veEy numerous and very Use
ful. Not all of them are hammock pillows
by any means Some of them will come in
play these balny nights, when everybody
feels reluctant to go indoors and light the
gas and attract June bugs and mosquitoes.
and the whole family gathers on the steps 20
hear some one play the guitar You have
seen those porch seats which are simply
round or square cushions with one OF oil
cloth and the OtherOf denim They aTeeasy
to make and pretty and useful when made
One OF the quaint and pretty adIuncts 20
Roses rcomis sort ofd warf seat a,IeOut
uncompromisingIy rectangular, and ron
OF cotton and some excelsior. She also
bought some cretonne of a POWERED pat
tern, all bIosSoning out with red roses nd
forget-me-aots on q cream ground She
tackled this straight around the sides and
back Of the box, putting most Of the taeks.
OF course, on the edge which came under
the lid end on the bottom. on the lid she
put layer OF excelsior and over that
layer Of cotton and tackled more cretOnne
over it so as to make a thickIy-cushioned
seat. Then she made cushion, Just ths
same length as the box and about twothirtt
its height, covered it with the cretonne and
tackled it tightly TO the back of the box
The result is what looks like a LiIIiputian
sofa. She keeps her boots and shoes in
side and sits on it when she wants a par
ticularly low seat.
One of the pretty fashions OF pillow
ma king is to have the two sides different:
cne blue OF pink and the other old gold. for
a couch. One can turn up the yellow side
on dull gray day when more sunshine is
desirable or add note OF pink or blue 20
the room by a different arrangement We
are beginning to see that the aTrangementOf
things is important and that il .iOes not
matter so much whether our furniture all
matches as whether it makes a hdr-
monious color scheme. The japanese house
holder viii spend ten times the trouble and
great many more hours in planting a
tree in his garden than any American would
think of taking He is very particular that
it shall ne in exactly the right place 20 lend
an added grace to the landscape one
touch of blue, or pink, OF scarlet VIII make
such difference in a TooEl sometimes that
ones spirits feel { instantly, ike a change
in the atmosphere And it doesn t need
very sensitive person to feel this either.
ANY laborer knows that there is a difference
between kitchen with pot of red geran-
iun in the window and Kitchen with
nothing visible bot pots and pans, and, other
things being equal, he hkes the red gera-
MUM Kitchen best
1t might be good thing II our girls, in
stead Of irving to paint pictures and pIac-
ques, would study the artistic arrangemeut
OF rooms more than they do But this is
only a suggestion.
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