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spend some money upon it. The walls
are papered in plain gray cartridge pa
per. The ceiling is creamy white with
much plaster ornamentation. Ex-
posure of the room is south-southeast,
has long windows, high ceilings, a
black marble mante1 and oak wood
work"
Use white fshnet curtains, drawn
back and tied with cords at either side
at the windows. Over these use a
drapery of straight hanging moss
green double-faced velour. This is
fifty inches wide, and can be bought
for So yard. These should hang
from brass rod. The green, gray
and white will be found very pleas
ing and restful combination. Upon
the floor use large Turkey carpet in
rich coloring. fit is difficult to find,
or more expensive than desired, a
central rug of Brussels carpet OF
mingled design will look we'll This
should show red. green and tan in the
small figures. In front of the fire.
place with the black marble mantel,
place black fur rug of Japanese goat
skin. These are inexpensive, but very
effective rugs.
The bookshelves for the room can
be built in and should be finished with
black stain. Oak furniture of dull
finish and darker tone than the wood
work should be used. A wide uphol-
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Furnishing a Parlor.

J. E G. writes: 1--WE have
been very much interested in youi
information on Household Dec
oration' every Sunday, and now ask
for some Of your excellent advice in
regard to furnishing the following
rooms:
"For Our parlor we have mahogany
furniture, and etchings with oak and
gilt frames. We would like to know
what wall decorations, hangings, and
rug would be suitable? 1t is a we'll
lighted, large room. In one paper you
advise Hong Kong wicker chairs.
With this furniture. what color should
| get? The room that opens from this
we use as a sitting-room. 1t is long,
narrow and light. ALI the furniture is
oak I would like few suggestions
as to color scheme for walls, rug,
hangings, etc, taking green for a
foundation. The dining-room is large
and square, oak furniture and narrow
shelving on the walls, for which we
would like to get beer mugs and plates
for decoration. The paper is pumpkin
yellow. | intend to get leather-cov-
cred chairs What eolored leather,
mugs, plates, rug and hangings would
be most suitable?"
Use your oak framed etchings in
the living and dining room where
your furniture is also of oak. Dull
crimson figured paper of two tones
would look we'll in your parlor with
the mahogany furniture Choose. If
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Redecorating a Bedroom.

Cora A. L. Z. writes; "Hav-
ing read with much interest your
suggestions on household decora-
tions, have wondered if you would
help me little in fixing up my bed
room. The paper is yellow, like the
enclosed sample. The furniture IS
black walnut. What color shall /
use for the chair cushions, the cur
tain for the bookcase, shirt-waist box
and three-panel screen about five
feet high? Would you use the same
material for all, or would that be
too monotonous?"
Use art ticking, white ground with
yellow buttercups or roses upon il
for your window curtains over Whit
muslin ones, also to cover your shirt
waist box, and make cushions for your
chairs The design should show also
some green leaves. Match the shade
of green in silkoline, IS cents yard,
or thin silk at 80 cents. Full it upon
the rods at the top and bottom of your
screen. This will introduce de-
Gliding note of color into your room
The art ticking costs but IS cents a
yard, and is very good material. If
you wish to use but one set of curtains
at your windows, those of white MUS
lin made with ruffles will look very
well, and the art ticking can be used
only for the cushions and shirt-waist
box.
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you wish to spend so much as their
price entails, some good Oriental
rugs for the floor Three, or even two.
of these will, if supplemented by
black fur rug, which is most inexpen-
sive, give your room rich effect.
IL your paper is of two-toned GRIM
son, linen taffeta, with clusters OF
peonies in shades of crimson and old
pink, and with green leaves and
stems showing against its tan back
ground, would be most attractive. Use
cushion or two of this same material
in the Hong Kong chairs, which I
hope you will use here. These chairs
do not actually require any finish, but
they may be darkened and glazed BY
giving them single coat OF varnisll
which has been slightly colored with
sepia (brown). If you prefer to use a
hgured tapestry upon your walls.
choose plain velour OF velveteen for
your curtains, accentuating some
shade in the paper.
For the living-room wall there is a
green paper on the market which
shows on shadowy background grape
leaves and tendrils 1t sells for 40
cents roll. Use Madras curtains at
your windows, white with figures in
| a shade of yellow that will go well
with the wall covering in your dining
room, thus bringing the two into har-
mony.
The rug in this sitting-room should
show some tans and greens in varying
shades. A good quality of Brussels
carpeting can be used for this, made
TIP with border. In your dining
room use much of delft blue in your
decorative scheme. In plates, either
the real or reproductions of the old
Staffordshire ware will give good col
oring a variety of stems, beer mugs.
Tobys of Dutch ware, Austrian
glass, and highly colored English por-
celain will look WELL with a judicious
tningling of old pewter, brass and COP
per.
If your pumpkin yellow paper Is
plain, or OF two tones, use convcn-
tional design of blue upon white for
window curtains. There need be no
other hanging used. Or, if the paper
seems to require a plain color, use
dull blue pongee, or plain linen taffeta
Of blue for these curtains.
The leather seats of your chairs
should also be Of blue
Use plain double faced velour OF
dull yellow, almost brown, in your
doorway connecting with the green
living-room.
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covered with a sanitary paper.-the
pattern varying in each room. The
ceilings are tinted in corresponding
color, and the judicious use of few
plastic ornaments adds to the effect
And it is in these rooms that the ar
tistic ideas of the housewife may be
shown to good advantage. A few lit
tie pieces of bric-a-brac, a figure OF
two, a bit of burnt wood or leather
work easily give spirit of content
to the occupant.
Heavily nickeled, open, sanitary
Plumbing is used in the bathroom, the
tub being of porcelain and the lava
tory of marble. A tiled floor and
wainscoting and an abundance OF
light, with approved method OF ven
tllatlon, assures not only guarding
against the insidious sewer gas in the
sleeping part of the home, but the abb
solute absence of the disagreeable at
tributes attached to the bathrooms il
many modern houses.
An easy graded stairway leads tc
the attic, where several rooms for the
help may be finished. These rooms
may be made as pleasant and attrac.
tive as any other room in the house
all with good high ceilings and the
benefit of an unobstructed circulation
Of air, and are by no means to be
despised as sleeping apartments, espe.
cially during the heat of summer
Steam pipes lead to these rooms, anC
in the winter they are as warm anc
cosy as they are cool and comfort
able in summer.
All the bedrooms in this house are
we'll supplied with closet accommo-
dations, there also being large liner
closet in the upper hall. The two bed
rooms on the left of the hall on the
second floor are connected by an ar.
tistic arch with door at entrance tc
The rear room. For a suite or in case
Of illness this is very desirable alter
alton from the stereotyped plan O
each room separate in all respects.
Thirtyfve hundred and fifty dollar.
we're the actual expenses incurred il
putting up this house, the figures be
ing taken from the bill rendered By
the contractors, but by omitting
few of what might be called the lux
uries the same could practically b,
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~ Household Decoration
sLUCIDATED BY MARGARET GREENLEAF

green, the color of the border OF the
paper. Please tell me what color to
use in the drapery, the kind OF rug or
floor covering, and what odd pieces
to get, i'll order to remove my room
from the commonplace"
French cretonne, with clusters of
small pink roses and leaves on a
white background, would be charming
with the paper, of which sample was
sent. Make window curtains of white
muslin, ruffied on either side, draped
back, and tied with smart bows, also
OF the muslin. Make I4-inch valance
OF the flowered cretonne to extend
across the top of your window, and
hang curtains at either side over the
the white muslin ones. Make cush-
ions of this cotton for your window
seat. This should be upholstered with
plain green corduroy, choosing color
to match the darkest shade in your
wall paper. Make valance for your
bed of the cretonne, and over this let
the white Marseilles spread drop
This spread should be edged with a
.3-lnch fringe on three sides.
An attractive desk to match your
furniture, some well-placed and filed
book shelves, with a steamer chair of
the long variety, made OF wicker and
stained a golden brown, would be
good additions to this room. For the
chair, use pillows Of plain color, one
OF green, one OF old rose, and one
covered with the cretonne Tall
crystal candlestcks, holding rose
colored wax candles with dainty green
shades, would look well on your dress
ing table or mantel. Your rug
should be either an Oriental one OF
subdued colors. or be made of Wilton
velvet, showing two shades of old rose.
I think delicate water colors, in gold
frames, will look well upon walls the
color Of yours.
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Cheap and Effective Draperies.

Cotton Draperies" asks: Will
you give me some suggestions for in
expensive draperies and bed covers for
several simple bedrooms? Also, what
lis Chinese cotton, what does it cost
and where can | secure it? / wish my
rooms to have style and character.
but can spend but little"
The Chinese calico or cotton is
coarsely woven cloth, and has fig
ures of dragons or birds or chrysan-
themums, clouds or pine trees upon
it. The blue is strong and deep, and
the white very clear 1t is, as has been
said to be, very decorative, and sells
by the piece of from 10 to IS yards
for $3.50. 1t can be bought at the
large importing houses or direct from
the Chinese merchants in cities which
have a Chinatown"
Dainty bedroom curtains and bed
covers to match can be made from
the pretty printed muslins which early
spring each season finds upon the
market These made with three-inch
ruf11es up the front and caught back
with strips of the material hemmed
and tied in a smart bow are extreme
ly pretty, and bed covers to match.
made with a I2-inch hounce on three
sides, go far toward making a bed
room attractive, however plain the
furnishing, and even though the walls
be white.
Last summer | visited a pretty cot
tage in the country where all of the
bedroom walls were white, the house
being just completed. Each OF the
four bedrooms was furnished, as far
as curtains, bed and dresser covers
were concerned, with lowered lawn.
The rooms were charmingly desig-
mated by the flower in evidence on the
curtains.
The rose room had muslin used
in it with shadowy pink roses and
green leaves scattered over it. The
corn flower room appealed to me par
ticularly The muslin here was very
sheer, and the fringed blue flowers,
with the bits Of yellow showing at
their hearts, were exquisite The
toilet set in this room showed the
same flowers painted on the porcelain.
Another room had nasturtiums and
screen of plain, strong yellow silk
oline was used in it, and another
scarlet poppies, in which room the
woodwork was painted black In all
of the other rooms mentioned. il was
ivorv-white.
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Improving a Bedroom.

= "a Canadian Reader" says: MAY l
ask few suggestions for bedroom?
| wish to decorate the room, which is
1ox12, and has bay window / have
lust had window seat built in. The
front of the seat is stained golden
oak. The furniture of the room is
also light oak. The room faces south
and has plenty of sunshine.
please tell me what to use for
draping the windows and bed, and for
covering the window seat The room
was papered last fall The ceiling is
cream with pink rosebuds scattered
over it. The wall is painted gray
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stored couch might be built in under
the window This should be covered
with brilliant rug and have pill
lows in many rich, soft colors upon ii.
Raw silk and velveteen could be- the
fabrics used, and the colors should be
orange, dull blue, crimson and green.
The lamp upon the study table should
be chosen with great care, and the
shade upon it would be effective either
in crimson or orange. Engravings in
plain black frames, together with rich
paintings in frames of gold, would
look we'll upon your walls. On the
top of the shelves, stems and odd
pieces of bric-a-brac could find a place.
In one corner of these shelves stands
plaster cast of the beautiful headless
Victory.
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pleasant outlook ON the madding
crowd" for the housekeeper during
the day The hard pine floor, close
iointcd and oiled, contributes to the
maintenance Of the laws of hygiene,
besides being an object of pleasure TO
the beholder.
The other sleeping rooms on this
floor are arranged with like display
Of taste. Each has Its hard pine floor,
no carpets, but a rug beside the bed
that may be taken into the outer air
each day The woodwork is in clear
pine, painted to match the color
scheme of the room The walls are
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-01-24
Fitting Up a Library

"a Man" wishes help in fitting up a
library, which is for work. but which
he desires to have cheerful and COM
Portable. He says, 81 am prepared to
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-01-24
Plans and Uiews of a Mod
crate Priced But Dery
Tasteful Residence===De-
tails of the Finishing and
Figures Shouting HoU the
Expense Uds Distributed

T \ designing houses to be erected at
4 moderate cost the architect aims
l. to avoid conventionality, but is
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1904-07-14
Tender and True.

Squire Benson was often consulted
in cases Of family difficulty resulting
from the storm and stress of time or
temper, and he derived a good deal of
amusement from the tales told in his
little Office.
is it true that you threw something
ut Mike that caused the swelling over
his eyer the squire asked little wiry
Irishwoman who appeared sobbing at
his door one day half an hour after
her husband had departed.
"Yis, 1 did, said the little woman,
catching her breath, ''but I niver wint
to hurt him, an he knows it we'll
We'd just come home from me cousins
weddin', an l was feelin' kind of soft
to Mike, an | aXed him if he loved me
as much as he did the day we was
married, an'-an' he was so slow an
swerin' me that l up wild the mop an
flung it at him, Squire Benson, for if
we poor women don't have love our
hearts just breaks inside of usr'
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The Habit of Scandal.

Old Mrs. Etheridge had loved gossip
all her life, but, although her ears We're
always ready for it, she schooled her
tongue to disapproval.
Nobody minded what she said, for, al
though she might shake her head and
utter her customary mild reproof, her
eyes never failed to express interest
and desire for more information
The one phrase which rose to her lips
when the tale was ended had become
so habitual that toward the close of
her life, she occasionally employed it
involuntarily.
Have you heard about Edward?"
asked one of the family connection,
moving her chair close to the old lady's
rocker and leaning over confidentially.
Grandmother Etheridge shook her
head and put her hand to her ear.
"They say" announced the relative
in strident tones, that he's making a
splendid name for himself and has
been offered salary of $4,000 by an
other firm and that he Is just as clever
as he can be, has hosts of friends there
in Chicago and deserves them air.
The light of pride and joy shone in
the old lady's eyes, but custom was too
strong for her tongue.
You shouldn't repeat it, DEAR" she
quavered. There's a wrong story
SOMEWHERE
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A Fairly Intelligent Dog.

They were talking of the sagacity Of
dogs.
my Irish setter saved me a curtain
lecture by posting letter for me the
other day." said Longbow, going the
last speaker lone better"
The others tried to look as though
they believed him.
Fact" he continued. wife gave
me a letter to post at breakfast; told
me it was very important; warned me
not to put it in my coat pocket-calls
my pocket her dead letter Office. Well,
l didn't I left it on the hall stand
remembered it when I got to my office;
called up the maid; told her to send
Major to the telephone. Hello, Majev
| said. Get the letter off the hall stand
and give it to the postman.' MAZE rec
Ognized my voice. barked comprehen-
sion of the message, took the letter in
his mouth and went and stood by the
nearest letter box until the postman
came to collect the mail; wife got an
answer that night and never suspected
I'd forgotten to post it,"
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'I've heard of him., said he circum-

1--WE heard of him." said he circum-
specify.
Hes my IDEAL" explained Dolly,
with charming blush.
''He certainly isn't the sort of fellow
you would have married-once"
''How do you know that? You said
you had merely heard of him."
"Your requirements were pretty iron
Clad
II told you, did l not, that 1 had
modified them?"
Sanford stared at her quizzically for
a moment you also told me that you
never would; that there was no one
1--WE changed my mind,' snapped
Dolly. That's the prerogative of wise
men-and women"
Sanford rose slowly from his chair
and stood for a second at the back of
hers, looking Gown at the silk rumple
of sun blond hair.
you haven't exactly set the day yet,
dear" he ventured mildly.
"And, pray, how do you know that,
Mir. Sanford"'
"At least have received no letter."
He bent his head to the mutinous rose
face then lifted it suddenly.
what is your ideal, Dolly?" he asked
curiously.
"a man who is real man." said she
softly, zone who would do anything,
all things, in the great round world to
win the girl he loves-who would even
go so far as to get some other person
to write his letters, forgetting to dis
guise his little tricks of expression
who
cat least" he broke in, II didn't use
typewriter, an old one with the p
and q ali out of alignment, just such a
one as we used to practice upon ten
years ago. Remember when we stud
led shorthand together that
Il don't remember thing about it"
interrupted Dolly, two pink roses slip
ping softly into her cheeks. II never
even think about those Do stop, Billy.
I'm sure l hear the last call for sup
per!''
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They Knew Him.

A we'll known literary man who has
been spending several weeks at his old
home in Vermont tells of a conversa-
ton which he overheard between two
visitors on the porch of the village
store. An acquaintance of theirs had
just passed in the street, and the fol-
lowing comment was heard by the Wis
itor:
THAR goes 81 Perkins" Then med
itative pause-"Si amt the man he
used to be-
''Naw-an' he never was" -Harper's
Weekly.
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A Puzzle W orth HaYIna

DR.. G. G. Green, of Woodbury.,
New Jersey, whose advertisement
appears in our paper regularly, will
mail to any one sending two cent
stamp to pay postage, one of his
new German Syrup and August
Flower Puzzles, made Of wood and
glass. It amuses and perplexes
young and old. Although very diff
cult, it can be mastered. Mention
this paper.
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steamer IL Gle C; e >htrt,le &c fol eN e ing rs
an be made with aptain Prov or ard he
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There is no cough medicine so
popular as Foley's Honey and Tar.
1t contains no opiates or poisons and
never fails to cure. Sold by Frost &
Spies.
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Weak Hearts

e caused by Indigestion. If you
little to much, if you are subject
attacks of indigestion, the stom-
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ainst the heart. This crowds the
art and shortens the breath. Ra-
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e final result. Kodol Dyspepsia
ire digests what YOU eat. takes
e strain off 4he heart, cures indi-
stlon. dyspepsia, sour stomach
o. contributes nouriShment,
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the body. Sold by Fox Bros.
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Orders IOl tickets can be procured Of L
W Frost, D) UggiSt ashburn, Wis.
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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-07-08
DUCAL MAHOGANY SOLD.
Twenty-0ne Lots Of Old French Fur
niture from Blenheim Castle
Fetch Over $35, 900.

Some old French furniture, the prop
erty of the duke of Marlborough, which
had been removed from Blenheim palace,
in London, was the feature of an auction
sale there recently. There was a large
gathering, who waited until the end Of
the sale for the chief item. This was
Louis XVI commode, stamped with the
name J. H. Reisner, and chiefly COM
posed of mahogany; This magnificent
piece is provided with tambour panels
in front and drawers at the top.
In the central panel. inlaid in colored
marQuetry, is bouquet of flowers, while
on either side and at the ends are panels
OF tulip wood. The whole is mounted
with classic friezes, surmounted with a
slab of veined marble. The bidding
opened at $4,000 and run up rapidly amid,
great excitement until Webster obtained.
the trophy for SIS 900. Twenty-one lots
realized only q little more than $35. COO. I
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The Dog Under
the Table
Copyright, 1901, by Daily Story Pub. Col
BY F. II. LANCASTER

WHAT is it you think that you
w can never forgiven" From her
position on the hearth-rug the business
woman spoke patiently to the girl in
the deep chair. She was strong,
slight woman, and wore strong glasses
with heavy gold rims to them. The
cork grip for constant use betrayed the
fact that the business woman looked
on life with near-sighted eyes. The
girl before her looked Oh life with
lovely eyes-though, just at present.
they were rather marred by weeping.
The girl sobbed, and the woman re-
peated her patient quarry:
What Is it you can never forgiven"
"Oh, Molly, Molly! He was positively
brutal"
1T is not like Jack to be brutal. He
must be"-she stopped and looked at
her watch. II shouldn't decide hastily
about it, Madge, If were you. Jack
is pretty good sort. 1t is not safe to
expect perpetual top-notch from any
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and bedfast for over nine months, and
the doctor who attended me said unless
1submitted to an operation for gravel
I would never. be well. i. would not
consent to that and so continued to
suffer. Ny back was 50 weak I could
not stand or walk, and it ached con-
stantly. The first day after began
using Doan's Kidney Pills I felt relief,
and in short time I was up and around
the same as ever, free from baclache."
A FREE TRIALof this. great kidney
medicine which cured Mrs. Bowles will
be mailed to any part of the United
States. Address Foster ilburn Co.,
Buffalo, N. Y. Sold by all dealers;
price so cents per box. ..s~ ~ -.