The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-07-23
7HE MRE's 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 hankering
( for simple, solid things, when we
7 built our now house here In the city
made stipulation with the women
folks that should have room in It
fitted up 10 suit mo
Il didn't want any DaghcGtan rugs,
or Louis XIV, or Adonliah XIV. or
any other numbered furniture | want
ed a place whore I could scuif my feet
ON the floor II | wanted to and sit
| down without fear of MASKING the
chair or scrapint off the yarnish, or
breaking something If turned around
sudden, They didn't Ike that much
but they are good to me, and I've got
the sort Of a room | want, or some
thing somewhere near it.
"Old-fashioned ingram carpet on the
floor, chocolate colorod, with big white
figures strolling around on t., looking
natural as life, And I've got a solid
old-fashioned rocking chair with
deep seat and a high, bulged out,
spinded back that can lean my
head back in and go to sleep in as easy
as could in The old rocking chair in
the sltting-room at home
Il miss the old walls and the low
ceiling. This room I've got Is d lltta
high between joints 10 suit me, but
when | shut my eyes ami forget 1t |
can go to sleep in that old rocking
chair just the same
The folks did want to put in a
brass bedstead but stuck for wood
en- one and got It. but | did let EN- pu.
on modern 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 VIXEN
the he'd is made up,
And I've got a solid hickory arm
chair that | can lean back in without
so much as a creak; no give in it any
whore. I'm not afraid It's going down
under me and sticking me full Of chair
rungs ana splintered legs. | can tilg
that char back anywhere and put my
feet on the runps if | want to with
out fear that | ann going to scraPe of
any gliding and without fear OF hurt
Ing any Daghestau rugs II dig holes
in the ingram ! caE Afford to buy an
other ore.
Il talo heap of comfort in that old
hickory chair. can tip back in 1t AMI
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
put in the desk myself. suppose
ought to have got little old fashioned
lesk, but I've got so many papers and
things now that | had to have soma
place to put EN-, and ! got me that
iesk, but it's mine. and I can put my
'eet up on il without worrying any
body, and it's convenient and | rather
ike IT,
And confess rather like that big
Gather lounge over there-that was
mother Of the women's ideas.
bought il was little too luxurious
ooking to 60 with the old rocker and
he hickory chair. but the folks in
listed and | let EN- have their way
nd put it in. and it certainly is solid.
nyway, and very comfortable; but
else here. all the rest OF
he chairs and things, goes with the
ngrain and the rocker and hickory,
nd ! can stand the desk and the
OUNCE with the rest, all right
The folks say that they don't know
That the men that come to see me
link when they so through the rest
T the house and then get into my
1om; bur don't find they worry over
much. In fact | find that these old
haps. who could swing an TX to-day
they wanted to, rather like It.
up here they aren't in danger Of
tipping down on waxeI floors. ami
leyre not afraid of kicking over Some
ric-a-brac in the corner. nor Of
pashing a spider leg gold chair II
icy sit down in it, nor OF musrinc
p the satin damask Of a $1,000 sofa
they sit down on that.
ant themaelves good and solid any
here, and there amt anything go
g to break; and when | pull open
e lower right hand corner drawer
thu solid bid desk-you sec I'm be
mining 10 call that old, now-an1 get
Il a box Of cigars why, | don't ses
at any Of them have any more use
r Daghestan and Louis than I do.
ough they could cry one of 'em buy
n II they wanted D
"The folks say that III come 10 1t
right. some time. but | don't think
Not that I've get ANYTHING against
.Cgy and the rest as such. not a bit.
ike 20 see the stuff around. II does
Ike sort Of variety; and if the
Ks want laces and satins and gliding
d that sort Of thing. why want EN-
have Il and enjoy it; but ! don't
lbt that for the rest Of my life. IN
own quarters. anyhow. ] shall
ok to simple things / like a place
ere | can lean back."-N Y. Sun.