The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-08
IT'S PASSE ANYN Az
Local Furnishers Don't Defend the
Cozy Corner Because It's 4
Dead One
However, They Don't Agree With
Chicago Ladies as to It's
Harmfulness. ~. ~.

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Minneapolis has not been beguiled in
coy corners. This city learned for, the
first time yesterday, through the sagacious
medium Of Chicago club women, how
noxious is the nook of which a Wisconsin
poetess chants: s,s*.~s"a- ~>,.--ssg -;
"a Moorish lamp, ! * - E..., 49,. 49,
s@ A glowing lampd - =.
A sunset lamp in corner snug! - 49,. 3
. u..zs,, a. A Turks divan, 49,.
A man? <:=.s ~. II
T Yes! No! ~ ~.
A sweetheart there to hug" ~. = ! I
Local experts In the art Of furnishing
were even surprised yesterday to hear that
after discussion, that, coy corners-not
Miss Thurston's play, but the sequestered
tete-a-tete in drawing room, boudoir or
hal1-are filled with microbes Of immoral
ity. -
1.-THE red walls, the subdued lights, the
downy cushions!"-a catalogue Of demon
alization !-'They can't be nice, can
"But we never thought Of it before, did
we?'' replied another Mortified member.
Mrs Watkins had thought of it--Mrs.
George Watkins, former president Of the
club and pole star Of the state fedora
ton. mo well-ordered home,'' declared
Mrs. Watkins, mo home mindful Of its
moral tone. would ever T. possess such
things. There is a barely possible ex-
cuse''-she didn't tell what it was--"for a
cozy corner in ones. own bedroom, But
even there the corner should be decorated
in blue and white tones, which tend to
elevate ones Thoughts *e- = =.
A second speaker added, with her eyes
upon some enemy. 'Ia saw. so many cozy
corners and sofa, pillows in q house once
that truly Z doubted whether the mistress
Of that house was q, moraasi Wenanp
We'll. red; is q warm coloE. of course, y
commented, Frank III. Waterman, vice
president Of the local firm of John S.
Bradstreet &, Co.. sfurnishers and decor:
ators, land these rosy little corners might
BECOME too sultry for a Mary MacLane
but I should suppose that no mere art sug-
gestions would ever tempt the calm rea:
soners #of Chicago clubs. - ~ <
EHStill. society heretis not totally lost.
It has unconscfously put Satan behind it.
It has given up cosy corners long ago
because they gathered so much dust, the
women said. In fact; we haven't fur
nished a coy corner in at least ten years
Zone reason for this change Of fashion
was the difficulty. Of getting genuine orr
entail rugs. A cozys corner without its
rug is like a scandal about; men. The
woods are full Of oriental rugs, Of course
They come from the orient, no doubt. Blu,
they are made to order for American and
European dealers. and are lacking in art
istic value, which we require. We sci.
dom recommend rugs to our customers
nowadays; the real article is so hard tt
get and SO expensive. We usually advise
instead, that they order some hand tuftet
carpets or rugs to be made from specia
designs either in this country or Grea
Britain. = '--
''But If the little Moorish lamp and thu
t comfortable couch in; the coy corner i!
| a violent temptation we never traced an!
gossip to that source. -. =, 81.
| Morris E. Moore Of Moore &. Server
| furnishers. agreed that the cozy, corner Il
not SO popular as it was. : : 3. 49, 49, -
Perhaps said he. that's because it il
often enclosed too tightly with long, thicl
curtains. People may think it looks I'm
sociable to wander off into such seclu
sion. But we can make a corner decora
tive and comfortable without making
too coy So 5,s
Other persons agreed that Moorish
! lamps and Persian couches could not Ion;
harmonic with the traditions Of a Puritan
| ancestry. Priscilla, in her gown of home
/ spun, would never have lolled with an UNI
| troubled conscience upon the padded pill
/ lows of a heretical l1aren, nor could Ich
i abod have held Priscilla's yarn in safet
/ beneath the throbbing light that glow
!! upon an odalsnue. r. \ .....: ~