The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-12
nY MARGARET E. sANGsrEn.
Copyright. 1908. by Joseph B. Bowies.

BY MARGARET E. sANGsTER. fcopyrisht, 1908. by Joseph B. Bowies.l Never live in sunless room fl you can help it If you are compelled to | live on the north side of the house or in e narrow street where little sun shine comes, make the best of your bargain and introduce an effect of | light and cheer in your furnishings. The thing can be done. but to do 1t requires little planning.
 A young couple. who had artistic tastes and very slender means found q little house in retired but rather aristocratic quarter of large town cred that they coudld have 1t at rental which they could pay. without too much difficulty.
 when they consulted their friends and stated that the house was gem but that 1t had been Idle for good while and the landlord was willing to | let 1t go for a wonderfully small sum. older people shook their heads. May be 1t was haunted, possibly ghosts l trailed about it in the night A crime might have been committed there, giv- l ing the house bad name, physi- elan suggested that it might prove l to be q place where tuberculosis or other infectious germs had concealed Themselves Notwithstanding these suspicious. the daring young couple determined on taking the house l To my mind it's gravest fault was the fact that 1t had windows only in front. It was sandwiched in between taller buildings and built closely up aaainst the side walls of houses on another street Being on the north side of the way, 1t had no glimmer of sunlight and for ventilation 1t depend ed wholly on the front door and win ~s,14 Aa AnnA xgf atHNn housef How could it be made to look like cheery home? Added to everything else. 1t was only q single room ip width, although there were three rooms -on each floor. The halls were the tiniest passages and the stiarways mere ladders. An under taker happened to call one day on the young husband. His call was about a political matter, both men belong ina to a Good Government club in the neighborhood. The undertaken
 was betrayed into a professional re- mark. How on earth he exclaimed, "could ever get coffin down these stairsY' The remark was gruesome, but 1t did not frighten the occupants of the house They eoped with the
 situation. These young people had but they did not mean to live in a cave
 The first step was to paint the en- | tire house from top to bottom & pure | dazzling white They x put one coa after another on walls and woodwork finishing at last with an enamel that fairly radiated light as an icicle does added glintings of gold or yellow. The picture holdings were of gold. | the frames of their pictures were gold, and wherever any relief was in | troduced against the monot0ny of the | white, it was cream, yellow or deeper gold. The window seats were covered with cushions and draperies
 Of yellow. The furniture was entire Fly in this tint Tahiea and chairs
 were white. The book shelves were white, and wherever vase of low | CTS could be brought Into room 1t was so managed as to carry out that color scheme and intensity It. Daf- | fodils, yellow roses, occasionally a great bunch of white mowers, with a
 l vivid red to set 1t of. and often
 | punches of mignonette or red gerani-
 | to the room. The hangings were of
 | white net and pale yellow silk. Every
 | where the house expressed an exceed
 ] Ing brightness and a perfect harmony.
 In the living room, above a group of
 | palms, a canary in Its cage poured
 | out hood of music The rugs were
 aii of the palest tints. nothing dark
 | being admitted within the doors. These young people remained fin this | house for several years, spending their winters very happily there aud suf- fering from no Illness, It should be added that they were both greatly given to walking and outdoor exercise, ana that they spent many hours of Y every week beyond rather than within I oR Aafr
 | Thousands of people in the larger cities are compelled to live in apart ments that have no sunshine and that
 are almost as gloomy as cayerns.