The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-11-21
NOT SO MUCH CHANGE
EXPERIENCES OF TWO WOMEN
WHEN THEY MOVED.
Each Found They Had Done Whole
Lot of Unnecessary Worrying as
to How Their Furniture Was
Going to Look.

II moved IN the summer" remark
ed Brooklyn woman. II didn't move
very far, but 1t makes great differ
ence. I moved from the rather
cramped and semi-dark first floor OF
our apartment up to the top floor,
flooded with sunlight and swimming
in fresh air. Now, just before I
moved one of my best friends came
to see me-a woman with whom I'm
SO intimate that she and I never hest
tate to say to one another exactly
what we think. I suppose you're CO.
ing to buy lot of new furniture.
When you get these old things Of
yours up into that sunshine above
there and spread out into so much
more space you will see how shabby
and Inadequate 1t all Is and you'll
have to replace it,
Nov, was rather fond Of my old
furniture and didn't at all relish the
idea Of losing it or of spending money
for new.
II moved Then another intimate
friend called to see me. She looked
around at all my things with their
very souls visible In the bright new
light and all spread out conspicuous
ly as they never had had to be down
below in the smaller apartment. AS
/ waited for more criticism she turn
ed to me beamingly and said: How
fine your furniture looks up here. It
has chance to be shown right.
never realized how we'll 1t looked
down in that little apartment where
you didn't have room to display 1t
and where it was too dim to let any
one appreciate it. 1t makes all the
difference in the world to bring 1t out
into the good sunshine
isn't that delicious?"
''It is" answered one Of her hear
ers. 81 had an experience similar to
it earlier in the year, and I think
women who contemplate moving to
larger quarters and dread the expense
OF lot Of new furniture should know
Of it. We MAYED from tiny, narrow,
ugly house In row to big detacled
house. In the old place the furniture
looked shabby and inartistic and we
were always dissatisfied, though we
knew 1t had cost good deal In the
beginning. It had to be put in stiff
rows. because there would have been
no room for US to walk around, other
wise. The cumbersome pieces we had
brought from the big house we had
originally lived In looked hideous.
The place we were moving to looked
SO much larger that everyone said we
should have to buy quantities Of
things to fill 1t. My husband, even,
wanted to sell most of our old truck
as he called it, and start in brand
new, but I convinced him that we
could not possibly afford that, 80 we
furnished things up as well as posi-
BILE, closed our eyes as they were re-
moved, and then set about fixing the
new house.
"The first thing we discovered was
that we had enough. There were
things for every room. I reveled in
spreading out, for a change, and found
could make the stiff-looking old
fashioned article take on new airs of
attraction and f1t comfortably into
big. irregular rooms, where they had
stuck out resentfully In ugly rows of
straightness before. I am not raving
about my home, for / know 1t has
money should make many improve
ments, but do know that In my new
big sunny rooms everything we for
merly half.despised looks far better
than ever it did before. And positive
ly all we have had to buy has been a
couple of chairs that we had been In
tending to get for a year past, and a
few rugs to replace our heavy old car
pets-which I refused to put down."