Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-03-21

CHANGING FURNITURE


1t is a real pleasure tn go into the
home where there is some new piece
or or picture to greet one.
but 1t is no less Il delight to visit at
the house where there is some sign of
life outside of the people who move
bou within the rooms.
In some homes one generation dies
n another is born and still the same
old chairs sit primly against the same
sides of the wall. the same old fash
pictures look down from their
accustomed places and IL not the same
old cat. q late descendant very much
like It's maltese ancestor, sits all day
on the same old faded cushion by the
fireplace. II is enough to give anyone
the blues and to make the lover of
modern up-to-date styles flee In horror.
OF course every family cannot af-a
ford a new piece Of furniture every
week or two. but most of them can
change the ones they have around now
and then just to take away from the
monotony that the nailed down to Il
corner" variety always gives. 1t is a
positive relief to come into the house
now and then and find the piano on
the opposite side of the room from
the one where 1t has stood all Year
or to see the davenport drawn up near
the fireplace instead of in its accuS-
toned place between the windows. and
1t can so easily be done. 1t only takes
Il little time. some previous planning
and the result is almost as good as Il
brand new house with everything fresh
and totally different.
One woman who has a horror of be-
ing classified among the fossils as
she calls it. furnishes her home at
least once in every five years. That
does not mean that she buys entire
new furnishings all at one time. for
she doesn't. but she is careful to see
that there is no piece of furniture in
her home but what is strictly up to
date. She has some sort of an ar
rangement with the furniture dealer,
who allows her so much on her old ar
ticles, exchanging them with a little
extra charge for the very latest STYLES.
This. however. is carrying it to the
other extreme. Her hous never has n
chance to become hoinelike. for Just
about the time n chat or table Is be-
ginning to look as il 1t really belonged
to the room it is whisked off and an
other one put in its place. The walls
tell no story of he passing years. the
Joys and sOrrows that have become Il
part of them. There is no real senti-
ment connected with a certain piece Of
furniture because of tende associa-
tons. Everything lacks the magic and
softening touch OF usage. Everything
glistens with the shining polish of Il
gilded purse.
But there is a happy medium 1t isn't
necessary to dump out all that is In
any way old or shows the marks of ia
miliar home ties. but neither is ii nee
cssary to retain every old crocheted
tidy or case of wax flowers in order to
be reminded OF some sentiment that. IL
anything like its representative. had
far better be forgotten.
Many a young son or daughter have
actually suffered because of some fond
mistaken idea OF a father or mother
who could not bear to relegate To the
background an article that is probably
deserving of something better than the
ridicule il cannot but call forth. More
than one girl has dreaded to ask her
friends to visit her because of the ludi-
crous family portraits that stare down
from the parlor walls. and that have
continued to stare i'm spite of %prayerful
pleadings Just because the subject is no
longer living. In many cases the pic
lures themselves are such frightful
caricatures that they are enough 10
have killed the ones who sat for them.
but still they must hang on through the
years the daubs of aspiring young sign
painters or lightning-speed artists.
If women would only not forget so
entirely the days when they were
Young they would be more willing 10
nut themselves and their tokens of a
byxone day pack where no outsider
would have to suffer the sight of them.
They would give the confng generation
q chance.
TIE CHARM OF SIMPLICITY.
Partisan simplicity" somebody has
said. 'is the most expensive thing one
can have" And never was truer we're