The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-11-04
Furnishiur the sittinx.Roo

A coy bedeckment of the home, and the
sitting room comes in for first conten,r3a.
| ton, being, as it is, the real living room
of our abode. whether as large as a Van
derbilt mansion or seven-room and bath
rented by the month embodiment Of
The sitting room, being a much less for
NAL apartment than the drawing room, It
is not necessary that it should contain any
'shoW" pieces of furniture, but books.
easy chairs, good-sized tables, lamps and
writing tables-anything calculated to add
to its general comfort. Above all things.
it should reflect the individual tastes and
habits of the people who are to occupy It.
In such a room the decorations should
be kept quite simple in character and
chosen with the idea of forming a good
background for both pictures and furni-
ture. If patterned wall paper is used,
the design should he one which the eve
follows with pleasure, and the c0loring is
better subdued than light, as rooms that
the room is rather small it is nice to have
perfectly plain paper. which has the ef-
feet of increasing the apparent size.
All the woodwork, including the mantel-
piece, must be painted ivory, and the few
er the colrs used the more pleasing and
rcstful the result will be. The hdngings
and chair coverings should be in the same
une, Tue carpet OeIns III contrasting
color.
Near the window, which should not be
overdraped with curtains, writing desk,
with pigeon-holes, drawers and cupboard
should find place, with comfortable
lounge covered in a good cretonne. The
shape of all the furniture must be sim.
pie, with the least possible ornamental.
ton, but we'll constructed and suitable
for its various purposes.
Inn fvvv<N "a Vn0 \
er necessary, on which there should be
space for the books and employments OF
the moment, and it is of the greatest i'm
portance that there should be space in the
room in which to move about, or there
cannot be comfort, and an overcrowded
room cannot lay claim to being well ar
ranged =
Now, this is of course only my idea Of
real comfortable apartment, but as q
suggestion may l hope that it will aid
some housewife who is thinking of fur:
nishing and arranging so that home will
seem MS attractive as the club to the man
who supports it.-Philadelphia Times.
The Best Poets for Girls to Read.
Il believe, my dear girl, every good
poem you read is going to make better
| what would be called the ideal side Of
your nature, and is going to make you
appreciate what is really melody in words:
You know the old books of poetry, and il
| seems to me that there is not much that
! is thoroughly good among the new except
those written by the poet of our time,
Rudyard Kipling. You can arrange a
| long list of the older poets in whom you
| viii find pleasure. Naturally begin with
Shakespeare and then come down, not
| very far, to the two Brownings, then to
some parts of Byron, then to that unhap.
by boy, John Keats, then to Pope, then
to some parts of Shelley, then to Tenny.
son. and, looking for the great souls right
in our own home, you will meet and greet
| Aldrich, the gentle; Sydney Lanier, the
musician; Poe, the mystic; and best of all
! more in the Ladies' Home Journal. ]