Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-04-26
MRS. JONES' PARL0R.
NJ THAT beat for words that dunno
az can tell you about Miss Jones an

a. can teH you ABOUT Miss Jones al
her house beautiful, said Mrs.
Smith. That's what Miss Jones calls it.,
but | never could see anything beautiful in
havin a lot OF things strung around to catch
the dust. That amt me. OF course, il amt
none Of my business what Miss Jones does
to her house. She was one of the Higsinses
before she married Jones, and they do say
that Jones has aged fast. The Higginses al
ways was a highfalutin set, an Miss Jones
she was the highfautinest of 'em all. We
amt been very friendly to the Joneses since
they took my hired girl away from me, an
| dunno when I've been in her house be-
fore.
Il just said whom that happened, and |
was left to do my own work and bein' sick
at that, an Miss Jones bein' as well as
anybody as lazy as her ever can be- that |
never would ag'in 60 into her house. But
after thinkin it over an a seem the doin 5
goin OH over at the Joneses ] lowed such
sctions on my part wasn't Christian like.
II saw last week somethin' was goin' on
in Miss Jones house. She was changing
her parlor curtains an stirrin round con
siderable for her. Miss Jones is natchcrly
lazy an as shiftless a housekeeper as know.
Az this disturbance in the Jones house
looked to me as ii they might be going to
give a party. Says | to myself this morn
in' Miss Jones an | were girls together
an it's my duty to be neighborly, 50 will
lust drop in an call an let hygones he by.
cones.
Miss. Jone. didn't expect me an !
raped on the parlor door on purpose. |
knew il | went around to the side door tina t
| she would never invite me into the parior.
| Mss' Jones opened the parlor door an she
was Just rs annoyed as she could be at my
catchin' her lookin' as she did. She was
wearing an old wrapper, which was soiled
with paint an torn. IL made me feel pleas
ant though, an told Miss Jones not to
mind how she looked Then ! surveyed the
parlor. It was sight. never saw any
| thing like it except once when ! went Il
the theater and saw the Black Crook
"'For land sakes. Miss Jones, what you
been doin' with your rarIor?'
1--we been gettin' some effects. said
Miss Jones, in lofty, ss-you-please tone
That's what we need in this town. I'm
strivin' for the house beautiful. 1t will bc
All object lesson to all my friends.
Indeed, says ], just like that
""Yes.' says Miss Jones, we are q hard
an unartistic community, an now that I've
! seeH lut uHut III S'll W iehN NlC way "
! higher things
"'since. when did you see the light!' say
l. lookin' around carelessly
MY attention was turned to art when
went down to the city last fau, an sine"
then I've read How to Make Parlor Furni.
ture Of Discarded Boxes and Barrels" and
other standard works on tho house beautr
full
1T made me smile to myself to see how
Miss Jones puckered her mouth when she
said beautiful.
What are all those trappm' in that COR
ner,' said |.
That's an oriental effect
"'You don't say,' says l. That stuff in
the cushions looks to me just like silesia. ]
suppose it came from India, though. Curl
Jus, too: that pole that holds the tent 81
printed cotton up looks like Jones O!d
Join ted fishin' rod, an it seems 20 be hung
TO the ceiling with your old dogs chain.
ait isn't the material which counts in
effects, said Miss Jones. a-curling up her
little finger just she used to when shl
spoke Of her manicure set. rs color an
shape an er-er general effect. That's what
the house beautiful teaches. Unless you
have an artistic temperament you won.
understand me-
The more looked at that corner the
more IL puzzled me. The print cotton was
spread over Jones fishing rod like a tent.
The corners were cushioned. an under the
tent hung Jones' old coach lantern. 1t
beat the circus, an TO think Of Miss Jone.
ioin' it an ben' so lofty about it. declare
| wouldn't have been more surprised il
she'd shook hands in the new tangled up.
to-your-chin style.
"It'll I've real comfortable place for
Jones to Mt when he pulls off his boots
nights, said |. | knew that remark wa.
mean but declare | couldn't help saym' it,
Miss Jones has been after Jones ever since
they was married, you know, to wear shoes
which ia more genteel, instead of boots, but
Jones won't do it.
This is my colonial corner, said Miss
Jones, just to make believe she didn't no
tice my remarks about the boots. There wa,
an old clock that wouldn't have in my
tered old table in that corner.
You don't say say. I, not knowing
what comment to make.
YES, says Mise Jones, talking as ii
she was repeating u copy hook, for true
beauty of lines, W. have to go back 10 the
I'D colonial furniture. IL is so simple an
it grows on one. One good piece OF Old
colonial furniture will educate whole
household in time
What kind OF an education do you think
Jones will get out OF those old fddle'back
chaTs?' said ], 'muscal!'
Mr.. Jones hasn't an artistic tsmpera-
ment,' said she. He is too materialisus'
That sounded like Ingersol or agno.-
ticlsm or .ometMn' like that, an | just
Tads6 back TO shallow water again. Since
Miss Jones formed the readn' an history
circle two years ago an' got diploma she
has used big words. We'll. now, | swan, ii
you think her India corner an her colonial
corner were funny, you should have seen the
walls. They were covered with hop sscking.
Looked just like the bottom ut hop kiln
for all the world. Miss Jones had put up
SONS old cracked plates ali around the place
where the border should be an they looked
dreadful unhandy,
What you got hop sacking an plate,
on your wall for. Slss' jones' says |.
For artistic effect says she, am il
you knew anything about the house and
home beautiful'yOu wouldn't ask such foo,-
ish questions
Hoghty toighty, Miss Jones, says !,
just like that, who asked you to say whether
my questions are wise or fOOliSh:'
You are always prying into other peo.
pies Affairs, says she. With that ] says very
cool like:
Miss Jones, when the hired girl You
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