The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-07-23
THE RICH
MANS ROOM

, you know" said big, plain man,
who has made his everlasting fortune
and can afford to buy anything ON
earth, but who still has a laundering
for simple, solid things, when we
built our nav house here in the city
made a stipulation with the women
folks that | should have room in It
fitted up to suit me.
Il didn't want any Daghestan rugs
or Louis XIV, or Adonijah XIV, or
any other numbered furniture want
ed place where I could scuff my feet
on the floor IL wanted to and sit
down without fear Of MASKING the
chair or scrapinG off the yarnish, or
breaking something II turned around
sudden They didn't like that much,
but they are good to me. and I've got
the sort of room | want, or some
thing somewhere near ii.
old fashioned ingram carpet on the
floor, chocolate eolored with big white
figures strolling around on II. looking
| natural as life And I've got solid
old-fashioned rocking chair with a
deep seat and a high. bulged out,
spndled back that can lean my
head back in and 80 to sleep in as easy
| as could in The old rocking chair In
the sitting-room at horne.
Il miss the old walls and the low
| ceiling. This room I've got is a littla
high between joints to suit me, but
when | shut my eyes and forget it |
can go to sleep in that old rocking
chair just the same
The folks did want TO put In q
brass bedstead, but stuck for a wood
en- one and got it. but did let EN- put
on a modem spring and a good mat
tress, and I'm bound to say that they
do beat the old-fashioned corded bed
stead and straw and feather beds: and
can't see those modern things when
the he'd is made up.
and lye got a solid hickory arm
chair that | can lean back in withou:
SO much as a creak; no give in it any
where. I'm not afraid its going down
under me and sticking me full Of chair
rungs ana splntered legs can til.
that char back anywhere aud put my
feet en- the runps If want to with
out fear that | am going to acrape of
any gliding and without fear Of hurt
ing any Dashestan rugs. If dig holes
in the ingram can Afford 10 buy an
other ore.
Il take a heap of comfort in that old
hickory chair I can tip back in it and
put my feet up on the desk, and not
mind things at all
THAT big fiat top desk was a kind
of compromise, like the modern
springs and mattress on the bed The
folks fixed up the bed business, but
nut in the desk myself ! suppose
ought to have got little old-fashionad
desk, but I've got so many papers and
things now that | had to have some
desk, but it's mine, and / can put my
feet up on il without worrying any
body, and it's convenient and rather
like II.
And | confess | rather like that big
leather lounge over there-that was
snothar of the womens ideas. /
thought it was little too luxurious
looking to 30 with the old rocker and
the hickory chair, but the folks In
sisted and | let EN- have their way
and put it in, and It certainly is solid,
anyway, and very comfortable; but
everything else here. all the rest of
The chairs and things, goes with tho
ingram and the rocker and hickory.
and can stand the desk and the
lounge with the rest, all right,
The folks say that they don't know
what the men that come to see me
hink when they go through the rest
# the house and then set into my
Dom; but I don't find they worry over
| murh. In fact find that these oil
haps who could swing an AK to-day
( they wanted to, rather like It.
Cup here they aren't in danger of
Tipping down on waNed floors ana
hey're not afraid Of kicking over sore
lric-a -brac in the corner. nor Of
n spider leg gold chair II
hey sit down in it, nor of museinc
~ the satin damask Of a 81 600 sofa
they sit down on that
No sir Up here they can inst
liant Themselves good and solid any
here, and there amt anything 60
lg TO break and when ! pull open
he lower right hand corner drawer
{ thu solid Did desk-you sec I'm be-
inning to call that old, now-and get
Mt box Of cigars, why. | don't see
lat any Of them have any more use
n Daghestan ana Louis than I do.
Tough they coul" ,ery one of EN- buv
m ii they wanted =.
'The folks say that III come 10 it
I right, some time. but don't think
Not that I've got anything against
aCgy and the rest rs such: net a bit.
like TO see the stun around, # does
axe a sort Of variety; and if the
lks want laces and satins and gliding
Id that sort of thing why want EN-
have II and enjoy It; but | don't
,ubt that for the rest Of my life. in
Y own quarters, anyhow, shall
lex to simple things like a place
here | can lean back."-N. Y. Sun.