The Jersey City news., 1898-10-10
I IDEAS for UMolnefl


buy the necessary odds and ends 10 conn
plete one's room or ones house
Other women have to buy furniture Dy
the wholesale. for a house is to be reno
waited. or a new house moved into.
And how it does take time! One can
spend a morning, over one piece.
Ii your are furnishing new room
don't make the mistake of getting a
set in light wood; that is. if you can help
yourself. White mahogany and curry
maple are very pretty, but when they
are genuine they are beyond the purse
Of the average buyer. Even the depart
ment shops won't sell set Of fine maple
under s0o. and the durability Of the
cheaper sets is to be seriously doubt
ed
Then light woods are no longer artistic
or fashionable. Everything must be
dark The light had its day, but 1t IS
over.
If you must furnish a sleeping-room.
get a white. enameled and brass bedstead
and odd mahogany pieces. Our Colonial
ancestors knew what lovely furniture
was. and the love for 1t today has spread
through every class of people.
To buy it off-hand in the shops Is
an expensive task, but the woman with
genuine love. for the beautiful wood will
take time and pick up a piece at a time
In the antique shops or department stores.
| feel as if my education was almost
complete in mahogany after a summers
buying. I know now how to tell the age
Of piece as a jockey does that OF
horse by making it disclose it's teeth.
/ have been testing mahogany side
boards and dining chairs since June and
l find that with care wonan-provided
she has man to assist her choice VINO
knows and loves mahogany-ca make a
very good furnishing with the same
amount of money it would take to get
conventional pieces.
One convenience in furnishing he'd
room prettily is the almost absolute use
of the enameled beds. The manufacturers
are turning them out at SO inexpensive
a rate these days. One firm has the
prettiest and daintiest in full size for
81 80; the scrolls at footboard and head
board are of brass.
1t is unnecessary to go into the merits
of the white and brass iron bed. The
housewives have shown their appreciation
of this departure by selling the heavy
wooden affair wherever they could get
a price for it. The supreme cleanliness
of it is tlle great factor, allied to the fact
that it is so artistic and dainty.
1t can be dismembered and dropped
into the bathtub and a stream of hot
water and suds poured over it, quickly
dried and replaced in a mornings clean
ing. This done once month gives a.
woman a delightful sense that the dust
and more Objectionable features which a
wooden bed constantly invites is absent
from under her pillow.
It is rather odd fact that men are
zealots in the use of these cleanly, pretty
beds.
Added to the reasonable price Of the
bed, exceedingly comfortable mattresses
Of cotton are being sold for 49, This
brings the entire price of the bed down
to 5000.
The bureau or dressing case and
washstand are easily picked up.
*xs
found an adorable mahogany wash
stand on Pine street. which was big
enough for bureau; the columns were
futed and the inside of the drawers was
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the test of an antique.
So many women have old-fashioned
pieces which they are having done over:
the Pine street men polish them up to an
exquisite luster. For curtains one wants
Swiss or fiowered organdie, with deep
lace -insertioned ruffles, caught back by
very broad bands of ribbons and fat
bows. Organdie is the favored material
for sleeping room windows.
Everyone now wants a little wicker or
antique table at the head of the bed on
stick of porcelain (brass preferred) and
the few books one loves the best with the
little pitcher of water and a glass.
If one is looking for washstand sets of
china for So most attractive ones are for
sale. The very prettiest Of these are the
Dutch shapes-squat pitcher ana broad
bowl
Colonial blue and white are the most
durable colors and prettiest where blue
is the color Of the room.
If one starts off with certain wall paper,
that paper must be taken into consider
alton with everything one buys.
For the sitting room. which is never so
formal and ugly as the drawing room,
one wants to start with a huge divan.
j man was asked why he went to see
one girl SO often: he was not in love with
her He answered she had the most COM
Portable. divan to sit on he knew of in
town ii is those little arts in ease that
make a man fall in love with woman,
i beiieve,r he answered ut is born in