The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-13

- HE typical lake and country
home is no longer a shack with
the bare necessities, but a sub
stantial, co%mmodious and COM
Portable house that in most In
stances is fitted for residence the year
, around. With the improvement in the
type of buildings has come a CORE
spending improvement in furniture and
in the setting of the house.
Summer furnishings afford a delight
full opportunity for the display of in
| dividual taste SO that most owners take
more real satisfaction in the Quitting
Of their summer homes than in their
quarters. The same qualities that give
their attractiveness to summer clothes
belong to summer furnishings-they are
trig and neat in style, quite tailory IN
fact, and they are readily and thoroly
cleansed with water
The tendency to use rugs for floor
coverings is more marked in summer
furnishings than in winter houses and
all the popular floor fabrics are made
up in rugs. The only really approved
carpeting for floors in summer time is
Hof carpet, under which name an old
friend, sanitary carpet, is now known.
This wears much better than Japanese
or straw mattings and comes in an in
finite variety of colors and patterns,
all of which seem to be good. Where a
floor must be completely covered it is
over kind, in soft colors. that make a
good background for rugs.
Artistic Rag Carpets.
Rag carpet is another valuable floor
covering where the floors are too poor
to be used with rugs alone. Among the
fine old patterns to be had are repro
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and Martha Washington, and called by
their names. These have hit and miss
cross stripes alternating with stripes
of plain colors Of different kinds AND
arrangement. The general effect Of
these is neutral, making a good back
ground color. The modern development
of rag weaving is more beautiful ant
furnishings for which the new soft-col
ored rag rugs are chiefly used.
These new rugs have as their FREEDOM
ina! color one Of the colors chief,
fayorc. for bedrooms, rose pink, oil,
rose, red, green, yellow and blue. Al
of these are given a soft, silvery, two
tone effect thru the use of white warp
They are varied and ornamented b,
stripes Of plain colors. The rags use
goods that show just enough of tn
colors Of the figures to feck the Who'll
agreeably. The blue has red and whit
flecks, the yellow, red and green; TIL
pink and the old rose, white and greer
For general use, where hard wea
is given, as in halls and living-room!
the best rugs are kashmir. cotton rug
with avery smooth, hard finish, an
kaba, a combination of wool and fbe.
Both of these resemble ingram carpe
and come in soft colorings and goo
patterns.
The d%eep-piled cotton bathroom rug
in their clear-looking patterns, in whic
r. white is prominent, are nearly as niue
y used for bedrooms as for their origin:
q purpose.
le The porch has a suitable and stu
"a ming floor covering specially designe
"a for it in the Partisan rugs of cocoanr
fiber that come in Indian designs an
% colors that, are bold but harmoniou
a. These are used indoors for halls, dill
A. ing rooms and Offices to a limited e.
70 tent, where a striking effect is wante,
j. Bungalow Furniture Popular.
is The best thing in new styles of flu
niture for the lake is the Punjab bun
galow furniture, which is severely plat
G, strong and well made in good desigl
III and very well finished. 1t is of qua
e. tered oak, rubbed down to a dull fms
ST with caned seats and backs. In add
"a tion to the usual pieces there are bi
IL deep benches, large chairs with mag
ne zine racks, etc. The Vienna bent-wot
and caned furniture has a maximu
. Of strength with a minimum of weigh
The maple furniture, turned to In