Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-08
FURNITURE HAS FASHIONS
Things to Make Home Comfortable Come in
Many Varieties,
OMAHA DEALERS CARRY IMMENSE LINES
Taste and Purse Decide the style,
but the wants of Any May
BE Satisfied Right
Here.

There are so many beautiful things from
which to make a selection when woman
goes into a furniture store with the idea
Of furnishing a home that she is delighted
beyond the power Of expression. Her hus-
band. II he accompanies her, is absolutely
bewildered and Is well content to allow
her to make the purchases without any re-
strictions on his part except as to financial
limit and a suggestion or two regarding
some comfortable chair OF couch for his
own benefit. The Omaha furniture firms
offer such a variety of beautiful furniture
pretentious, medium-priced and even in
expensive, that even the woman who
thinks she knows what she wants must
spend at least a day or two in making up
her mind what she will buy for her home.
II she has plenty Of money and wants her
parlor furnished with the finest mahogany
and her bedrooms with teakwood, she may
find such furniture in a great variety Of
patterns. II her purse is not so fat, she
has everything to select from in the way OF
oak, with which she can furnish her home
in a tasty manner and make 1t more com
Portable in appearance than II she gets the
stately mahogany. II her tastes be simple,
the dealers offer her furniture of the plain
est pattern; II her taste be somewhat
rocco, the daintiest, together with the
most forid things Of the eighteenth cen
fury Europe are set before her. In short,
everything in the line of furniture, domes-
tic and imported, which are familiar to
the eastern markets. can be bought In
Omaha, The home maker. no matter what
his taste may be, does not need to go out
side his own city in buying.
ParIOr Suites ami Prosperity.
The parlor is the womans pride. This
is the one room which is always and
eternally spick and span and ready for
the most critical inspection. However
strange 1t may seem that a woman should
consider the most ornamental before the
most useful II is yet true that Dhe will
always ask the dealer to show his parlor
things before she thinks Of her bedroom
suites and her dining room table. And
the dealer says 1t is a sign of better
spirit of the times prevailing that she
buys rather heavy. substantial furniture
for her parlor instead of the fratl. dainty
uncomfortable appearing things of few
years ago 1t is not that she does not
like them-no, not that-for her eye fingers
long on them. But styles have changed
and she must obey the orders OF the die
tator-fashion Perhaps the majority Of
women like the new styles better; per-
haps the old ones better wno knowsl
The dealer does not He only knows that
both appeal to her and that she is ever
tempted to let go her purse strings
Makeup of the Set.
OF course the style of the parlor furnl-
ture must be in accord with the general
decorative effect adopted for the house
1t may be any one of a number of APP
proved styles, though the most popular
at present Is In reproduction of colonial and
antique patterns. Mahogany is generally
selected by those who are not limited in
expenditure but other woods serve as
well and look quite as neat and stylish.
Tho set is made up of large, comfortable
pieces. including the chairs and rockers,
and a davenport and table are the proper
thing. Heavy chairs and davenport and
a tilt-top table Of mahogany in colonial
style make one Of the prettiest rooms
lima ENABLE. This tilt-top table, by the way,
can be put to useful purposes. or 1t can
be placed at the side Of the room for orna-
mental purposes, half Of II turned up to lie
FIAT against the wall, showing to the best
effect it's dark, smooth-polished surface.
A vase or other ornament is often placed
in the center of II TO relieve the bare
ness
The recherche dining room Is fitted up
with colonial or antique reproductions in
mahogany. The less prerentious room s
furnished with dark oak OF early English
finish. The popular pieces are Of such plain
design that they closely APPROACH the mis-
sion pattern. In selecting a sideboard for
this scheme great liberty is allowed as to
height and width. but OF course the piece
is plain.
where sIeep In Wooed.