The Washington herald., 1911-04-22

remain in the middle OF the room, but
the couch and the two bookcases and
the tea table and the big mission chair
and the three smaller wicker chairs can
all be juggled about to suit your fancy.
So, with the aid of your maids stout
arms. YOU let that fancy run riot. trying
this effect and that. piling the books all
| out of the bookcases. pulling the pic
lures down from the walls dragging the
couch hither and thither, and juggling
| the chairs about like the little pellets in
pigs in clover.
Finally, by dint of many appeals to
your maids judgment, by exhaustive
demands on your own taste, and by aid
of the wise decision handed down by a
neighbor who dropped in to borrow a
dash of cinnamon-her grocer being un-
accountably late with her order-you
make the final decision and proceed to
| restore order cut of the chaos you have
created.
Changes Made a New Room.
Just about here your enthusiasm
flags a bit, and you wish you hadn't
| been quite so prodigal and lavish in your
upsetting of the established order OF
things, but your desire to have every
| thing settled before John and the chill
dren come home to lunch spurs you on,
der in its new guise.
Strange how very different and unfa-
miliar the most familiar piece of furni-
ture can look from a new angle-now
that couch. why 1t looks Just like a
visitor sitting there in that corner, and
yet you've had it-yes. the year before
Lois was born-twelve years.
Strange, too how an arrangement that
You once condemned. by the all renew
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mended again to you. Two years ago,
when you made John help you take all
the books out of those bookcases, so
you could move them away from their
station beside the fireplace, you declared
you'd never have them there again.
And now you've put them back. All,
we'll. that was two years ago. Isn't
that reason enough for your change of
mind? And truly, they do lock different
now. Perhaps it Is because the couch
also Is in a new place. You do hope that
John will have forgotten the trials of
that evening when he wanted so much TO
smoke and read the paper instead of
moving books, but you have your doubts.
Doubts Are Justified.
Luncheon time justifies those doubts
Why on earth" Is Johns first question
when you conduct him in to see the Won
have you put those bookcases where
YOU said you'd never have them again?
remember one evening when you
couldn't wait,"-&c
But beng a good John he subsidies as
soon IS he has blown off steam, and tells
you it looks fine and that you are a dear
little manager The children approve
too. as children always do of anything
new, and altogether you are sure that
you have had very profitable and in
teresttng morning. and feel quite as
elated and excited-and incidentally as
tired-as IL you had been in town shop
ping and spent lot OF money. And Just
think, all that pleasure and excitement
quite, quite, free gratis"
Some terribly artistic person has re-
Gently informed us that in every room
there is Just one right place for each
piece Of furniture, and that when this
arrangement has been discovered It
should never be changed
My, aren't you glad that you aren't
that artistic and can still revel in the
delicious and inexpensive excitement of
changing things round?"