Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-07

of his that to make you do as he says. This
is to be boudoir, and that bed room for lady
The best is just good enough for her You shall
decide what you think the best,-choose your own
coors, your own style, everything. Consult whora
you please, and don't be afraid of the expense.
Make the result exquisite. You can do it know
you precisely the to do it. If you will allow
me to say it. you have not yet begun to discover
your Abilities Miss Crotchett You may purchase
any books you find that will help you. As
matter of fact you will find number on this par
tcular subject there in the other room. | insist
expeditions. have quite number Of good quail
tiles; but patience IS not among them.
Il don't want to do the work. l said. Il am
not equal to it. It's beyond me-"
" 1t is precisely in your line he said with
curious kind of smile. You haven't yet my child,
the faintest notion of how completely your destiny
it is.
Weren't they strange words?
7 HARDLY know what said He went down to the
! door with and put in the machine and was
whirled back to my dear old hall bed room. Three
times the way home the Irish chauffeur turned
and looked at me, and each time he made funny
to say something. But he didn't, except, Good
night, miss in a sort of kind way when l thanked
him. You may think it odd to speak of chaufeurs
kindness: but you see, l like kindness wherever |
get it. and when servants are kind to me it makes
me happy I'm only the Grand Detour girl, Del
phine and my heart is foolish thing. I'm scared
hare half the time, for all the front put up.
WE'LL had brought home with half dozen
of the books on decoration that Mr. Rathburn had
urged upon me; and looked them over, of course,
although | still felt could never do the work prop
erly. But do you know, | became perfectly fasc-
mated. | didn't much want to do something
along the lines of the work laid down there as did
get together certain colors and shapes that would
please A queer thing happened to me, Dephine.
As read and read and looked at the illustrations in
those books, | realized | never had been in
that suited me, and | said to myself that | would
make just the kind of | wanted the sort
that the dreariest best part of me wanted. knew
woman coming into those rooms; though
Of course hadn't idea what sort of woman. |
hoped she would be sweet as the little English
bride, who had come on, and simply loved her
house, and had me out to dinner and cemented
a great friendship with me, and said | had done
wonders to help keep the homesickness away AS
went on with those books, my dear, my ideas, which
had been drifting this way and that, began to get
into sort of form and pattern, and felt that
wanted to try my hand at the work.
So l wrote Mr. Rathburn about it. and asked him
how much | was to be permitted to spend, and
what he wished to pay me for my work. m
ashamed to tell you the price he named, it
large But | said to myself that should spend only
what was needed, and that he would be glad to
have the rest back; and l meant to keep in pay
ment only what it seemed to me | had earned. |
decided to leave that till the work was done.
SUCH beautiful rooms as made, Delphine They
- are not fussy and pretty. find don't much
for rooms like that. They to sleep in to
think in Delphine Perhaps they are even rooms