Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1904-10-05
MAKING HOME COY.
RY AAnY AsxAnLE FANroN.


The really accomplished home maker
varies the effects of her home to meet dit
ferent seasons. Her rooms must look
| fresh and ne sly. cleaned ard fi5wer.lske
! IN the spring; cool, bit empty and
shadowy In summer, and with the begin
n ng OF cool weather, there Is a striving
for cheeriuiness, bright colors, warm
looking drsperies and general farming OF
chairs toward the fireplace.
Curtains and rugs are brought ont from
their summer store house, an old chair Is
recovered with some warm autumn tint,
carpets are secured, wood work cleaned
and oiled. tenders are frightened and the
little ornaments, curios and books are
wiped and put in fresh places as though
new gifts were being shosn.
And a woman VINO wants az air OF greet
cozines4 with but little effort has palms
and ferns about Der living rooms. Flower
ing plants are usually great deal OF
trouble. They fret about Temperature and
are rude about steam heat, and whimsical
about cold drsughts. But yard ferns and
the simple "fan psims" are hardy, or
nearly SO, IS ir trees, and reqaire no
especial allowance o: SUI, just good
drink every morning-~and @hst an air OF
charm and luxury hey add.
great deal OF winter indoor comfort
depends upon the arrangement OF rooms.
With chairs facing landscapes, with
eouehes back in shadowy cofsers, AZ one
loves them in the summer, and with the
center table srranged formally vita card
dlsh and isw illustrated bsoks and vase,
there i much chance Tor honey" after
Moons ana evenings.
Wherever the heat is there will tue heart
be, so It 10 as well from the tart to have
the whole room face the fireplace or stosc,
or, cruel thought, h rad st1r.
Have a large table directly under
snowy light, and have books and maga.
zines and q work basket, and Newspapers
on the table, and have chairs around all
ready for use. and a couch near the DIE
with piano lamp At the head, draw hesvy
curtains scross the windows, aud you Will
more likely than not end all the family
together In thst room sbout every evening.
But the arrangement Of room IL just
the iinsl artistic touch in C, zine.s. No
room can be attractive that IS not exquis-
itely, hygienicsiiy clean, and housekeepers
are realizing more and more that brushing
and busting are not sufficient to rid
room OF the germ neighbors thsi intrudc
these days in the most exclusive homes
Real c eenness must be Rntisep,ie elean-
ness and Just a broom or soap and water
won't do 1t. A housek eeper OF much taste
and much experience has cleaned her
living room THE fall entirely with borax
water, 10 d fetent degrees of strength and
temperature.
First Of all, after the rugs had been
hung out Of doors to frcshen, they were
iabhed over with hot boFax water, tao
tcaspooniuls to q basin OF water. The
result was as though they. had been In the
hands of professional cleaner. Next the
wood work and hard wood floor were
wiped with the same solution, and the
floor oiled, and the windows washed, too,
and rubbed dry with tissue paper.
The value OF this sort OF cleaning was
not only in the new brightness obtained,
bot In the fact that borsx Is a destroyer o.
germs. According to the beat medical
authority II Is a most successful disinfee-
tsnt, and yet the use OF II does not iniure
he most delicate skin.
The question OF curtains was an impor-
tsnt one in this pretty home room. The
honse keeper quoted, preferred rufiled
muslin TO all others, set gave them up
nnhesisatingly when doing over her sitting
room.
The beauty OF frilled white muslin Is
naturally ia It's snowy freshness, aud the
price OF snowy freshness is perpstusl laun-
dry work, so she selected soft Madras
gauze, a maize ground with a wide scat
tered figure 10 Indian red and dull yellow,
gaining an effect at once cheerful and
artistic, for little money aud no trouble.
No woman can enjoy her sitting room
who is fretted with much care of II. II
there are heavy velvet carpets and uphol-
stored furniture aud elaborate wash cur
tains, the thought of the work they In
volye cannot be obliterated by books, or
bright Ares, or cheerful companionshlp.
The most permanently durable furni-
ture, artistic and simple, is the mission de-
sign, often entirely of wood, II finished
with leather, that Of the plainest descrip-
ton. And men folks viii approve OF 1t
because 1t Is butt for comfort.