The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-04-29
How a Millionaire Had Two Rooms
Fixed Up for His Aged Mother.

. LEW. lOrk 3
A house decorator, we'll known In
New York. has recently had. an. uns
usual order. He was asked to decor
ate and furnish suburban house
which had just been built by a multi
millionaire The house is a superb one
and is 10 be furnished according to the
latest LAWS OF decorative art but in
one room the owners Individual ideas
are TO be carried out. Y on and my
Wife can settle the rest OF the house.
and I'll pay the bills said the mfi-
lionaire, but I'm gong to run nay
mothers room. I've got q blessed old
mother who was born in saalitsle New
England town, and lived there until
my father died ten years aEos Then
she came to IFS. and she hasn't been
happy. She adores us all, and we've
given hereevery cafref and luxury, but
she doesn't ht in. She was too old to
be reset. She thinks orr home is all
very gorgeous and wonderful, but in
her own heart / Know she. doeSu' like
it. She learned her canons of taste
in village iR' the New Hampshire hills
and modern ideas jar her. She has
gone slipping around on our HARDWOOD
floors and sitting on the edge .ofsour
Louis Quinze furniture, and Keeping
her dress away from the satin cushions
piled up on our coUches. and Shutting
her eyes When she passed our marbles
She never has slept well in that brass
bed, with the silk and lace fub-dubs
and the clleval glass bothers her.
Nov, I'm going to put her where
she belongs for the rest of her days
I've got big sunny room for her, with
a bed room off from it. l want you to
make these rooms fifty years ago. You
can spend anything you please, getting
stuff togetherf only don't make it one
of those colonial art effects. I want. a
red Brussels carpet With flowers over
1t on that sitting room floor. and a,
hit and miss rag carpet in the bedroom,
an old fashioned white sprigged cur
talns and a green flower stand full of
geraniumS in one of the windows. Buy
old-time mahogany furniture the rigid
kind, that nobody but q New England
woman could be comforta BILE on and be
sure YOU have some stiff straight
backed little rocking chairs. If they
squeak, why, all the better. Have
some crickets and tables with leaves
that shut down and funny gilt framed
mirrors with painted pictures set in
ar the bottom, Get a big grandfather
clock and pictures of George and
Martha Washington and some, wax
flowers under glass. and crocheted mats
and patchwork bed covers. and sam
piers. and. candlesticks. and-oh. yolr
ought to know all about il. You've
seen those houses. and you canget the
stuff II you hunt for it and pay enough
Tor 1t. It's got to look the real thing;
not bit too elegant. you know.
Then mother'l have place to go
when she can't stand the modern part
of the house any longer. She can Just
slide of &C. her own rooms and feel at
home, and the youngsters can go uD
there and sit on the crickets / bet
they'll think It's the incest place in the
house. Don't know but ItwiH myself
Sure, you understand? Think you can
do IL? All right. I'm due at the Of
fee OH, say! Don't forget a canary
and cat--ra tortoise shell cat. / sup
pose they aren't in your line but you
can have some one look. them up. I've
got no time. but I've got the price"
I'm immensely Interested in it, says
the decorator. .Of course, L EsaVe to put
all my artistic principles in my pockets,
but those rooms are going TO be the
real thing.