Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-10
THE SOCIAL CORNER.
Economy for Young Housekeeper.


Editor Social Corner: Dear sisters of
the Social Corner, just a few points
for our young house1ze epers-in fur
nishing their homes for the fall The
cost of living is SO expensive we have
to make our home beautiful and
cosy. and still live economically. Liv-
ing in a fiat of four rooms, large pan
try and sink room: First we will fur
nish our kitchen with just a stove
small kite table covered with white
oilcloth, two white chairs green cur
tians with white dotted sash curtains
We will get a quart of ready mixed
paint, and paint our kitchen floor a
light gray, add one or two braided
mats which every houTekeeper can
make. This is much cheaper than six
or seven dollars for oilcloth Give your
floor two coats of paint. 1t means a
little more work, but saving on the
poor laborer who delights to see his
home cosy when he enters at night
Next we must make our sink room
bathroom for every purpose Finish
the floor just like your kitchen. Cover
your sink with white oilcloth Buy
bathroom set of nickle at the five and
ten cent store. Four pieces will do
towel rack, soap dish, toothbrush
holder, and glass holder White VIM
dow shades and also white dotted mus
lin curtains, like your kitchen curtains
DdJ q SLI ~ VI JdIJctiAS5e tildLhllIS anu
make a rug to lay across your floor;
fringe the ends, then tie it in fancy
knots Buy a galvanized wash tub,
paint it white, and have your husband
build a stand for your tub and your
bathroom is complete, and yet a place
for every days work
Next your dining room: Floor dark
red; japanese mating; if YOU have an
old kitchen table of mothers, sand
paper it good and paint and polish it
to represent cherry. Buy your chairs
one at a time, to match your table.
Your curtains are white, with long cur
tains Of unbleached sheeting only ten
cents a yard stitched with q border the
color and design of your floor covering
Make the room complete and cosy with
few cOlored pictures, bought at
the five and ten cent store. Therefore
our color scheme is red and white.
Now we enter the parlor, which has
door hangings of green burlap bought
for Is cents a yard. They can be Just
plain or stenciled in pine-cone design,
in a lighter green. Make your couch
cover the same design and material.
Now our furniture can be old fash
toned, polished up to look like new, and
We must have rugs our curtains must
be white with long curtains of Brus-
sells net, only rs cents a yard. stencil
ed in dark green. the same pattern as
your table runner. If you can afford
to beautify them, make a valance of
ten to thirteen inches, and have your
curtains just come to the bottom of
the window sill. The rest of your fur
niture can be green, including your
lamp, with the fringe so popular But,
dear sisters, get your furniture good,
and get it by degrees. 1t seems much
nicer, as furniture is changing every
day. Take advice from one who has
been housekeeping just two months.
Now our bedroom, the most cheer
full place in the house. Have your col
or yellow and white white paint, white
bed and bureau. white window shades,
with white China mating. Buy so
yards of serpentine crepe in yellow de-
sign; make bedspread. a valance Is
inches deep for your bed; a bureau
cover. and long curtains for three
windows This material is only II
cents a yard; very handsome materials
for bed draperies Make your pin
cushion yellow and white, your brush
and comb set must be white. If you
have not a bureau, make one ont of a
packing box draped with the same ma
terial. You can get yellow and white
rag rugs made from your old dresses
dyed and pressed. Have brass candle
stick with white candles. and yellow
shades This now completes our home
decoration.
This same home, color scheme. is
furnished by young housekeeper. OF
two months
Next week 1 will tell the young house
keeper how to economize in the kitch-
en-. and make both ends meet Also
will send some relia BILE recipes | have
tried. Hoping every sister is we'll and
happy, | viii say good by until next
week EXPERIENCE.
Wiliimantic