Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-02-24
She Made Her Room Look Like Home.

Tho room looked hopeless. and the girl
surveyed it with sinking spirits 1t was
long and narrow, with a window ut one
end. n door at the other, and the brond
eXpaDSe of intervening wall was broken
| only Ey a door Which opened into the
next room The walls We're pale
blush white, and notwithstanding the
assurances of the portly landlady Fhat
they were newly papered in pastel
blue. the latest shade" the girl felt as
| if she were about to take up her abode
in Il whited sepulcher that had some
how got too much bIuing into the whiten-
ing process.
Fortunately for her own comfort she
was one of the persons who can give
! homelike atmosphere to any quarters in
which she may happen to be, even those
of the whited sepu1cher variety, and
when her own modest belongings were in
place the room looked more habitable.
| The house was Od-faShiOned and the
windows deep. and in her one window
she made comfortable window seat
| with an old chest, which she upholstered
with burlap and some well used cushions
covered with the same material She
utilized tie door between her room and
the one adjoining by covering it and lin
| ing the frame with dark burap. In the
! frame she put Il number of small shelves
and on these she placed her teacups and
% tA''AHs itAiIt tfitttS III bElt~u ~DEdC. ana
underneath the lowest shelf she fastened
some big brass hooks on which she hung
her brass teakettle.
Eomelike as the room looked with her
| lamp and her books and her comfortable
dlvan, the problem of those staring white
walls remained. Even her few good pic
| lures did not seem to help the situation.
for instead of tOning things down each
one seemed to stand out boldly and to
direct all the attention 10 itself Re
papering at her own expense was out of
the question, and she puzzled her brain
to find out cheap way of covering them
Buclap, of course, would have been just
the thing, but there again she faced the
question OF expense, and she was about
to give up in despair to the whited
sepulcher existence when she stumbled
across solution of her difficulty.
She literally stumbled over it, for in
going through a busy street one day she
passed the rear entrance of big grocery
establishment and almost tripped on a
pile Of queer looking sacks. They were
! hig and loosely woven and of n monde
script color that was neither tan nor
/ brown and from the way they We're
tossed about on the sidewalk it was evi-
dent that they were not considered vain
able. Why not cover her walls with
it+
The sacks, which were used to import
/
fiber. and resembed coarse mating in
Their texture. Each one she found madh
exactly one length for the wall and by
means of a little stretching and pulling
! they We're easily tackled on The result
was even better than she had hopen for
! The satisfactory coloring of the materia
served as a delightful background for
/ her pictures.
The walls tone in beautifully with the
/ colors Of her pillows and divan cover
and the green Of her painted bookshelves,
/ woven ia big figures that look like ca
/ thedral glass fiat against the window
I paues and some soft inexpensive stuff
/ III lighter green for hanging curtains that
reach just to the window seat the room
/ s a striking example Of the transforma-
! ton brought about by some ingenuity
and very little uouey.-Exchange