New-York tribune., 1908-06-21
RESTFUL CORNER SEATS
Ideal Longing Places ContriUed
sclfh Little Trouble.

S;nca +he aav when the wife of the first cave
dweller rolled a stone into corner of the family
cave and flung the skin of wild animal over 1t
for seat-there record of her doing this. but
undoubtedly she did-corner seats have been popu-
lar with humanity. There is something cosey and
retired about seat which there never is
about a seat at the side or in the middle of a
room. Moreover, a bare corner IN a room Is an
ugly awkward thing, and yet no piece of fur
niture seems to belong there exactly, except per-
hans 2 comfortable chair. And better than chairs
are ouilt-in seats.
A resourceful college girl who wanted COM
Portable lounging place in corner of her room at
college, and did not care TO have permanent seats
built in a room she would leave soon, got
carpenter to make two stout chests. Both were
lust wide enough and high enough to sit upon or
lie upon with ease. One was long enough to con-
tain dress skirts laid at full length, for, of
course the girl did not intend to waste the inside
of her seats. And any woman who has lived in a
house with scant closet roorn-and what woman
does have enough closet room?-knows what a
blessing Il is to have box long enough to hold
skirts unfolded.
The other box was little shorter and was used
for a shirtwaist receptacle When they were in
place though, would have dreamed that
they used trunks. The longer chest was
pushed back into the corner. The shorter one
stood against the other wall, with end against
| the longer one, forming triangle. cushions We're
made for the tops of the boxes, fitting them
soft rugs. Plenty of sofa pillows made this an
ideal loafing place. But the touch of which the
girl proudest was the addition of the book
shelves at either end. These shelves We're plain
little portable sets-just open shelves. the same
width as the boxes. Set the ends of the
seats, they made a very effective finish, and the
girl found it very convenient just to reach out her
hand as she lay resting and take the book
she wanted.
+ If wishes. the shelves can be. made broad
enough TO hold two rows of books the titles of
one facing toward the and those of the other
the opposite way.
Another girl who was getting through college
on scholarships mainly and had pennies to
spend having boxes made, just pushed her two
steamer trunks into corner of her room, making
a triangular seat with one longer and one shorter
arm. Over these she put folded shawls to make
them soft. and a couple of fur rugs she brought
from home TO make them pretty.
If one is of Oriental luxurious temperament
sofa cushions make ideal corner seat all by
themselves. 1t takes a great many of them, of
course, but piled upon another along each wall
for about four feet and into the corner they look
and deliciousy Eastern and comfortable
Men as a rule do not know how to make them
selves comfortable, in spite of theories to the
trary They seldom know how to make their
rooms pretty; some woman has TO come along and
help them. But and then man blossoms
unexpectedly in that line. and bachelor who
did contrived a corner seat that triumph.
The corner happened to contain two sunny win
dows. the old-fashioned sort, broader than they
were long, and with diamond panes. These seats
fine place for a reclining sun bath.
In the sitting room of a certain pleasant old
house a fireplace in the centre of the outside
wall. Seats have been built extending either
side from the fireplace to corners of the room and
little way around. In a large room this treat
ment would hardly do. but this. being small
room, the effect is charming.