Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-07
In Buying Furniture

In Buying Furniture
Do not act on the suppos!tion that every
thing old is beautiful Your grandfather
taste NAV have been worse than yours, OBJ
serves an expert Do not buy many things,
do not make a museum of your house
The furnishings should be adapted to the
use to which the family wishes to put them.
The life for which the white and gold chair
was designed is deliberately and distantly
formal ConventonaHty and ceremony
rather than coy comfort are suggested by
the white and gold room The use of the
room and the purpose of the article should
be kept in mind in the selection of furni-
ture.
Furnishings should be simple, durable,
sanitary and artistic. Color is one of the
most important elements in the selection of
furnishings Do we realize that the inde-
Unable difference between the restful room
and the inharmonious room Is largely a
matter of color? A room requires its colors
to be in unison If 1t is to soothe and rest.
Frequently the householder may recall
Morris words: Have nothing in your
homes that you do not know to be useful
or believe to be beautiful" Also those
from Henderson: "One must surround ones
self with wholesomeness and beauty. This
paraleism between conciseness and nature
makes this insistence upon convenience Of
arrangement and respect for form and
color more than a mere matter of taste. 1t
makes 1t q matter of moral obligation. A
mans surroundings not accidental.
They are part of himself and must like
wise be chastened and purified. An ugly
ROOM badly lighted, poorly ventilated mad
equately heated must be regarded as NOR
ally reprehensible whether provided for
ones self for somebody else. 1t is the
projection of an evil thought and entering
into consciousness, lowers the level Of hui
man life
One Washing
VIII make rug look better than repeated
sweepings and shakings The rugs pur-
chased abroad washed repeatedly be-
fore they are brought to this country, MAX
ing the colors rich and mellow. Tack the
rug on a bit Of bare floor, the back piazza
being as good a place as any. Scrub thor
oughly with warm ammonia suds, and rinse
with many clear waters, until all the soap
is removed Let the rug dry on the floor
without removing the tacks. Then take 1t
up, and 1t will not shrink, roll nor pull out
of shape.
A preparation for washing rugs and car
pets is made of four ounces of any good
white soap dissolved in four ounces Of boil
ing water; when cool add five ounces of
ammonia, two and one half ounces of AGO
hol. two and one half ounces of glycern
and two ounces Of ether or chloroform.
Bottle and cork tightly To clean a carpet
add~a teaspoonful of the preparation to
pail of tepd water and wiring the soap
from this. The same preparation is also
usefui for cleaning mems clothes. Two
tablespoons to pint of water will remove
the most obstinate stains.
Mating should be washed with strong
salt and water to strengthen the fbers. If
u,1oi a ha-
come faded and discolored wash with strong
soda water, and, while this will turn it a
deeper shade of creamy yellow, it will be
all one color instead of variegated. Mating
should always be swept the way of the
weave not across it. If some of the figures
In the pattern have become dingy they can
be frightened by rubbing dye into the mat
ting with an old toothbrush, following the
lines of the figure, which can be strength
ened with pencil before applying the dye.
In laundering
Bedclothes and towels there is a recent
development which shows that 1t is possible
to save much labor, while enhancing health.
The wise ones say that sun-dried clothes
are more healthful than ironed Clothes,
since they contain pure air and more air
than the others.
Unhappy the bed which does not lie open
its full length in the sun at least an hour
day. Have the sheets big, and cover
the mattress thoroughly with the lower
sheet, OF with cheesecloth kept for the
purpose and place your bed in fuh sun
lsht its entire length
In west room open the bed in the after
| noon Meantime, fold the sheets with the
| inside inside and not outside, that the
| part which comes next you at night will
not be posed to dust.
There is one custom in connection with
bed rooms that is fast passing away, and