Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-13
KITTY,S COOL ,
 WHITE ROOM 5 By Carolyn Wells.
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| N N DI@&A4A, MI S- 1oA bAoS as she entered the dining-room, where her husband and her daughter were at breakfast one August morn ing; 'I wish the weather would turn cooler. What does the paper say, John?'
 There is no prospect of a cool wave That isn't very encouraging, my dear. I wish I didn't have to go down to the office"
 t'I wouldn't mind the heat" Mrs. Curtis continued, "but the St. Clairs are coming out from New York to lunch with us. and it is so trying to have company this awful weather"
 Well" said Kitty. philosophically, five can't help it; we'll do the best we can and they won't suffer any more than we do ourselves"
 "Well. good-by, dears," said Mir. Curtis; sgive my regards to your friends, and if don't come home to- away Hello, here comes Tom to mow the grass. Kitty, won't you run down cellar and unlock the door so he can get the lawn mower?"
 Kitty went down the cellar stairs with a hop, skip and a jump, and opened the door S1r Tom. Then she started to go baW, but paused for moment in the cool, damp cellar, and it was then that her bright thought struck her.
 She stood still, looking round her, and as her plan grew in magnifcence her eyes danced with glee, and she ran upstairs calling:
 "Oh, mamma, I've thought of the loveliest scheme for to-day. We can make a parlor down cellar that will be just beautiful"
 70, child, you're crazy. The cellar is damp and dark and Mrs. St. Clair would be mortally afraid of rheuma- tism; and, besides, don't propose to entertain city company in the eel lari''
 But, mamma, I mean to make it all pretty and attractive. Just come down and look at it.'
 Unwillingly Mrs. Curtis let herself be dragged down by her energetic daughter, and when she felt the cool, moist air, she began to think there were some possibilities in her daughters plan.
 Now, you go upstairs, mamma, and don't bother or think about this | and when it's all done I'll call you" Then Kitty told Tom of her enter | prise and the handy man-of-all-work entered into the spirit of it with I great enthusiasm.
 The part of the cellar which Kitty proposed to utilize was directly un- der the parlor and of the same size | and shape. It was scrupulously clean, with hard cement floor and whitewashed brick walls, and had a large bay window.
 | As safeguard against rheuma- tism Tom brought great pile of old newspapers and laid them thiclxly over the floor. Then he spread down l the white linen crash that just fitted | the parlor floor for dances and se- cured it by heavy weights in the cor ners. Then, following Kitty's in- structions, and aided by her willing and energetic self, he brought down wicker chairs and tables and the rat | tan couch from the veranda, which Kitty covered with large white lin- en sheet, draping it prettily at the corners anu duulnB several Wultc plI- | lows.
 Then she asked Tom to bring down from her own room two large, cool looking etchings in white frames and | hang them on the cellar walls. Fur ther decorations were two or three pale colored posters representing sea views or mermaids, and here. and there Japanese fan.
 The windows were high and small, with iron gratings. These were cas- | fly arranged with fresh sash curtains of dotted swiss. The ceiling was the | worst, for it was of rough, brown rafters, but with little thought and some trouble it was canopied I with four sheets, which added great l ly to the white effect Kitty was striv- ing fer. Also an unsightly post which held up beam was twisted with white cheese cloth, with sprays Of green asDara@us pinned op. and n @