New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-03

A woman who achieves effects in Interior
: decoration that are regarded by her irlenu'
| as the result Of genius says tha' hei
house would look no better tnan any ohe
elses II she bought things by her eye
"a great many women" she told an au-
| mirror the other day, simply buy what
n,eases them. have it send home and use
| e. II the result is a trifie bizarre, they cali
| If French or say they have seen the same
| combination in some smart house. VI
| course they are not really satisfied, and be-
fore long they are buying something else
IN the old way and getting the same re-
| suits Thus they spend a lot Oh good
money and time without getting anything
| in return. Now, l always get samples ana
| try effects. Thus / get exactly the right
thing with only a fraction OF the wear ana
| tear involved by the hit-or-miss method.
| n the young man who last summer sold
| packages of seeds to certain New Jersey
| farmers upon the specious representation
that with the plants raised from 'hese
| seeds placed In doors and WINDOWS 10 hS
would ever enter the houseNf ths& young
man is contemplating a second visit 70 the
same territory he had ketter recorsider
Those farmers are laying for hirH' ana
woe be TO him if they catclI him. 4
81 didn't know a NewJ Iss=ey farmer
| could be fooled so easily said Ne"
| work. woman. who has a summer home near
| tho farm of one OF the victims or that
slick Young man. II didn't hear about the
occurrence until the other day, when my
neighbor's little girl came to ask for some
flowers from my garden for some schooI
iexhibition or other. We went out TO gather
them. and while we were doing 1t she spied
a bushy weed with pendant balloonlike
seed pods Instantly she bounced upon II
and pulled II up with a vlndictive, There,
YOU old shoehy weed. you"
".Why do you call IT that| ! asked her.
| And then the grievance came out. The
| Young man had called at their house with
pamphlets painting in vivid colors the dam
gers of the house fly, and when he got
| them well worked up had extracted nice
| little sum for some seeds of, he said, a
| plant noted in South America for its
quality of keeping away fly pests. But
when the plants came up they proved 10 be
| a common weed which is great nuisance
| in New Jersey gardens.
1.-THE child vibrated with Indignation while
she told her story. 'Papa's just waitin'
| for him TO come around again. she said,
and mebbe papa won't do anything TO
| him"
At recent bridge party one OF the guests
was bemoaning the fact that a sister-in-
law was coming to visit her. with three
small children, and that from the time of
their arrival until their departure none of
her small belongings would be safe from
their acquisitive fingers
"Ill tell you what to do" said the girl
with a lot OF small brothers and sisters;
lust tie everything that they could make
away with with ribbons. | ind II works
like charm. It's queer. but almost any
child will refrain from cutting a string or
a ribbon 10 get what they covet. 1 fasten
the ribbons with thumb tacks. which leave
no mark. and l have pencil tied to a
window IN each room, where everybody
grown-ups as we'll children. knows
where to find It. and from which no one
can carry 1t away"
The about-to-be-visited woman sighed as
she gave thanks for the idea, and said
she certainly would try IT, although she
didn't like to think how queer the ribbons
would look in her rooms. AS for the pencil
part OF the plan. she would adopt it per-
manently. as she mislaid her pencils con-
stantly. and It would be comfort 70 know
that some were safe.
The hostess OF the day drew near. and
when the conversation was over she asked:
Haven't you noticed a string on your
scoring pencil? Why, for ages, ever since
I've played bridge. I've had pencil tied
to each table, and woe betide the maid that