The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-05
FURNITURE FOR
SMALL INCOMES
The Problem of the Living Room and the Small Income
Suggestions for the Woman Who Would Have an
Artistic Room at Small Price-Green Walls and
Burap Are Effective Combinations.

auctions and secondhand furniture
shops The pieces should be of real
mahogany and have coverings of good
silk or damask or well selected tapes
try. These will wear well and look
well for a long time. Such a set of
parlor furniture may be purchased at
from thirty-five dollars up. Anything
costing less than thirty-five dollars
should be thoroughly examined before
it is purchased. The colors in the up
holstery should combine dull shades of
rose and orange, ivory and pale brown.
These form charming grounds for the
designs worked upon them, which
should be harmonious so that each up
holstered piece may give the color eff
feet of it's ground pattern.
The furniture is the most serious con-
sideration, as it will take several weeks
to save enough out of small salary
to invest in it. There are people who
will ask, why not get 1t on the in
stallment plan?" This is, indeed, an
easy way, but a very expensive one in
the end, and any sensible woman
would rather exercise a little patience
and wait until she can purchase what
she wants outright. Patience is a vir-
tue which the woman who exercises it
in furnishing a room well on a small
sum will possess to the full by the time
that room is furnished. The set of
furniture does not include many items
that go to make up a homelike room,
but it will do until curtains have been
purchased for the windows and por-
there's for the door. If the woman who
occupies the room have plenty of time
she can employ it in making handsome
borders of Renaissance lace braid and
sewing them to curtains of plain net.
| She can, if she likes, set an elaborate
design in the bottom of each curtain.
This would be easy in comparison to
the task of a very wealthy elderly
couple who amused themselves in long
winter evenings by making two of the
handsomest machrame curtains ever
| manufactured. Ruffled bobbinet cur
! tains with lace inserting may be had
| at $1.20 pair and an Irish point-so
| called-at 81. These are neat and
| pretty. Really handsome point Arab
curtains, or Brussels, may be purchased
at Sc and So, almost too high a price
for the room in question. Cheap, fancy
| lace curtains cannot be too carefully
avoided-they would give a common
| look to the whole room. Charming
velour portiers of old rose, fifty inches
wide, may be purchased for seventy
! five cents. Cheap velour looks and
wears better than cheap rep. Very
pretty India print stuffs may be pur-
|
| money.
If the room is to be a sleeping apart
merit narrow but comfortable divan
| bed and mattress can be bought for
| two or three dollars. This should be
covered with India print or Velours to
harmonic with the color of the por-
tiers, and piled with as many square
cushions as can be conveniently used
for the purpose. The owner of the
couch should not decorate it with
cake-walk pillows and college cushions,
and. similar Serversions of the art
beautiful, but with discreetly selected
cushion covers of silk or Eastern stuffs
| in soft harmonious colors that are not
hard upon the sight or the pocketbook
| Squares for cushions can often be nick
ed up at bargains from % cents to 81.
| A touch of gilt gives a pretty note
| of color to room in old rose and green
and, in the course of time, a nice lit
| tie French gilt chair can be bought for
two dollars and a half. Cheaper ones
are apt to almost cry out to callers
that "all is not gold that gIitters." as
the gliding flakes off with use. One or
| two rich-hued ottomans, in colors to
harmonize with the room, can be add
ed in their turn. These, at a good
| Oriental shop, will cost 81 each. or a
| nimble-f fingered woman can buy a four
leeH-CeIlI ottoman ana cover 1t herself
with Oriental material in old rose
cream and bronze patterns
Tables do not come with parlor sets
of the style mentioned so that small
table of Adams make to match the
Chippendale or Adams set (the two
styles are almost the same), should be
procured as soon as possible A cover
of Eastern stuff or of linen with drawn
patterns will do. the richer the East
ern stuff the better, of course.
The bric-a-brac and vases should be
of colors and materials to harmonize
with other things in the room. Bronze.
Cloissonne ware, some of the lovely
ornaments in highly polished green
toned pottery and touches of rose col
or here and there in the ornaments, all
are likely to add to the effectiveness of
what ought to prove a very pretty and
refined looking room, whose furniture
would bear close inspection and all of
whose articles should wear we'll and
keep their freshness, as articles of
good quality usually do.
May Wilkinson Mount.