The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-18

| Of equal height was a set of rush book
shelves, and bounding the other end was a
five foot high set Of rush book shelves facing
inward. Either bookcase may be detached
from the couch. A book lover who likes
to read at his ease with his books handy
would find this couch ideal.
Near the couch was a rush. cellarette,
about three and one-half feet high, fitted
with shelves and two doors. which is de-
signed for use either in a dining room or
a library for holding liquid refreshments.
A library table designed TO serve two
purposes will prove a boon to persons
living in cramped quarters. 1t is three
and one-half feet by two feet, I'M built
In two sections or layers, the lower of which,
drawn out, forms a writing desk equipped
with a stationary inkstand sunk into the
wood, a pen rack and shallow drawer.
Another SPACE saving novelty Is a round
table four feet in diameter, which when
not in use may be swung over IN hinges to
form a back for the armchair on which 1t
rests when upright.
Art LAMPS are one Of the most satisfactory
products Of this seasons house furnishin 6
novelties. Most Of them are made OF wood
dark oak u~sually-and they stand, ontheir
supports, anywhere from twelve inches to
Ave feet high. One example of the latter
style utilities the space near the base for
q small closet.
In this, as in the less imposing varieties
designed TO stand on a table or a ped estal
the bowl OF the lamp ia sunk out of sight
in the wooden column, and III whole is
topped with a shade seldom less than twenty
inches in diameterAa pagoda shaped root
the lamps chimney. In one OF these shades
q deep fringe Of red beads added to its
Oriental appearance.
Silver gray maple OF the tint and finish
so conspicuous in the foreign exhibit at
the st. Louis fair has caught the fancy Of
NAuu XnrlQra whn nan afford TN Qnan6 a
fairly large. sum on bedroom furniture.
just now It is more in demand than birds
eye maple, and all the up to date furniture
dealers are showing dressers, ohiff oniers.
dressing tables, bedsteads, OF silver. gray
maple-a color, by the way, which has a
slight tinge Of. green in it-polished to
shine like satin.
aThis wood, for the time being said a
furniture man, has put bird's-eye maple
in the shade, although it commands a
reason for its popularity is the vogue Of
green draperies, wall papers and upholster-
ing fabrics.
TNot since / nave been in the business,
which is a good many years, has green had
such popularity. Twenty years ago for
with some other color. Now for every
room we furnish with red, pink, blue,
brown or yellow we do twenty In green.
The gray maple harmonizes with green
better than the yellow maple"
AS q complete contrast, though, to maple
bedsteads OF either kind is the four poster
of weathered oak or other dark wood which,
in defiance OF the new fashioned idea that
four posters with curtains are not hygienic,
are quite the fashion among smart people
who live out Of town. There is this differ
ence, though, between the old and the new
four poster: The latter has nothing moro
substantial in the way Of a canopy THAI a
network of fine rope, the meshes four
inches apart, and the curtains at the head
and foot of the bed instead Of dropping
from the canopy drop only from a gilt bar
fastened half way between the canopy and
the mattress level. Only the side curtains
hang from the top. Said a salesman:
sfhese bedsteads show the fckleness Of
fashion. At one time the majority Of our
customers asked for nothing, but brass
bedsteads, for which we could scarcely
supply the demand. Now some of the same
people who ara going in for dull toned, high
art effects, say that brass or gilt bedsteads
are too glaTfng, too modern, and Danish
them TO the attic
'Ragstyle cushion powers are most pop