The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-08-11
THE RICH
MANS ROOM

and 'an afford 90 buy anything on
earth, but who sill has a haukerinf
for slmple. solid things. when we
built our new house here In the city
made stipulation with the women
folks that ] should have a room IN il
fitted up TO suit me-
~ didn't want any Dagbestan rugs.
or iouis XIV, or Adoniiah XIV. or
any othor numbered furniture 7 want
ed a place where ! could scuf my feet
on She floor IL I wanted TO and sit
dowa without fear Of mashing the
cha'r or scraping on the varnish, or
breaking something II I turned around
sudsen. They didn't like that much.
but they are gorA TO me, and Eve got
tho sort Of .oom want. or some
th'ng somewhere rear H.
'cld-fashioned hgrain carpet on the
floor. chocolate colosed. with big white
figuyes strolling around on Il, lookins
natural as life. And I've got solid
old fashioned rocking chair with a
deey seat and a high. bulged 0ut.
s9iqdled back. that I can lean roy
heal back in and so to sleep in as eesy
as could in the old rocking chair 81
the sitting-room al home.
Il miss the old walls and the low
ceiling. This room I've got IS a little
high between joints to suit me, but
when ] shut my eyes and forget II J
can go to sleep in that old rocking
chair just the same
The folks did want to put In
brass bedstead, but stuck for a wood
Ell one and got it. but did let 'em put
on a modern spring and 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 when
the bed 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 Il any
where I'm not afraid its going down
under me and sticking me full Of chair
rungs and splintered legs. Il can tilt
that chair back anywhere and put my
feet on the rungs If want TO with
out fear that am going to scyape on
any gliding and without fear OF hurt
ing any Daghestan rugs. II ] dig holes
IN the ingram can afford to buy am
other one
= take heap Of comfort IN that old
hickory chair ! can tip back IN It end
put my feet up on tho desk, and not
mind things at all
"That big nat top desk was kind
Of compromise, like the modern
springs aad mattress on the bed. The
folks f&ed up the bed business. bat
put in the desk myself suppose !
ought to hsye got little old-fashionsd
tlesk but I've got SO many papers and
things now that | had to have some
place 10 put EN-, and got NE that
desk, but It's mine, and I can nuS my
feet up on Il without worrying any
body, and it's convenient and ! rather
like It.
"And ! confess rather like that big
leather lounge over there-that was
another OF the women's ideas.
thought II was a little too luxurious
looking to 60 with the old rocker and
the hickory chair. but the folks in
sisted and I let 'em have their way
and put II In. and II certainly IS solid,
anyway. and very comfortable: but
everything else here, all the rest OF
the chairs and things. goes with the
ingram and the rocker and hickory.
and can stand the desk and the
lounge with the rest. all right
"The folks say that they don't know
what the men that come to see Toe
think when they go through the rest
Of the house and then get into my
room, but don't find they worry over
II much In fact find that these old
chaps, who could swing an ak to-day
II they wanted 10, rather like II.
CUP here they aren't in danger OF
, slipping down on waxed floors. and
they're not afraid Of kicking over some
bric-a~0rac in the corner, nor Of
smashing spider leg gold chair II
they SIT down in It, nor OF mussinf
up the satin damask OF a $1,000 sofs
n they sit down on that.
"No, sir. Up here they can jusi
plant themselves good and solid any
where. and there amt anything 20
ing TO break; and when I pull opeI
the lower right hand corner drawe
of the solid old desk-yOu see I'm be
ginning 20 call that old, now--and &c
out a box OF cigars, why. / don't SCI
that any Of them have any more Us
for Daghestan and Louis than ] do
though they could every one of EN- bu.
'em II they wanted to.
"The folks say that I'll come 70 /
an right. some time. but dom, thin
SO. Not that i've got anything agains
DagRy and the rest as such not bl'
like to see the stun around. II doe
make a sort OF variety; and II th
folks want laces and satias and gildln
and that sort Of thing, why I want er
TO have it and enjoy it. bat don
doubt that for the rest Of my life, q
my own quarters. anyhow, shal
stick to simple things I like a plac
where can lean back. IN Y Sun.