The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-10
From the New York Sum-
I(X/ on know" said a big. plain man,
who has made his everlasting

From the New York Sun.
((XT on know" said big. plain man.
who has made his everlasting
fortune and can afford to buy
anything on earth. but who still has a
laundering for simple, solid things, when
we built our new house here in the city
l made a stipulation with the women
folks that I should have room in it
fitted up to suit me.
II didn't want any Daghestan rugs, or
Louis XIV. or Adonijah XIV. or any other
numbered furniture l wanted place
where I could scutf my feet on the floor
if | wanted to and sit down without fear
of MASKING the chair or scraping off the
varnish, or breaking something If turned
around sudden. They didn't like that
much, but they are good to me, and I've
got the sort of a room | want. some
thing somewhat near it.
Old fashioned ingram carpet on the
floor, chocolate colored, with big white
figures strolling around on it, looking nat
ural as life And I've got solid old fash
toned rocking char with a deep seat and
a high, bulgGd CT, spndled back, that
can lean my head back in and go to sleep
in as easy as | could in the old rocking
chair in the sitting room at home.
"I miss the old walls and the low cell
ing. This room I've got is a little high
between joints to suit me. but when
shut my eyes and forget it l can go to
sleep in that old rocking chair just the
same.
In foil lie Mt IN mt n "a
bedstead, but l stuck for wooden one
and got it, but l did let EN- put on a
modern spring and a good mattress, and
I'm bound to say they do beat the old
fashioned corded bedstead 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 armchair
that / can lean back in without SO much
as a creak; no give in it anywhere. I'm
not afraid it's going down under me and
sticking me full of chair rungs and splint-
cred legs. 1 can tilt that chair back any
where and put my feet on the rungs IL l
want to without fear that I am going to
scrape off any gliding and without fear of
hurting any Daghestan rugs. II l dig
holes In the ingram carpet l can afford
to buy another one.
~ take a heap of comfort in that old
hickory chair. | can tip back in 1t and
put my feet up on the desk. and not mind
things at all.
THAT big fiat top desk was Kind of n
compromise, like the modern springs and
mattress on the bed The folks fixed up
the bed business. but put in the desk
myself. l suppose I ought to have got
little old fashioned desk. but I've got
so many papers and things now that I
had to have some place to put 'em, and
l got me that desk, but it's mine, and 1
can put my feet up on 1t without worry
ing anybody. and it's convenient and l
rather like II.
And l confess l rather like that big
leather lounge over thvre-that was an
other of the womens ideas. I thought 1t
was a little too luxurious looking to go
with the old rocker and the hickory chair
but the folks insisted and I let 'em have
their way and put it in, and 1t certainly
is solid. anyway and very comfortable:
but everything else here, all the rest of
the chairs and things, goes with the in
grain and the rocker and hickory, and I
can stand the desk and the lounge with
the rest, all right
1.-The folks say that they don't Nov
what the men that come to see methift,S'-
uhan they go through the restof tho,