The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-01-13
NOT so MUCH CHANGE
EXPERIENCES OF TWO WOMEN
WHEN THEY MOVED.
Each Found They Had Done 4 Whole
Lot Of Unnecessary Worrying as
to How Their Furniture Was
Going to Look.

Il moved in the summer" remark
ed Brooklyn woman. Il didn't move
very far, but il makes great differ
ence. 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 !
moved one of my best friends came
to see me-a woman with whom I'm
so intimate that she and never hest.
tate to say to one another exactly
what We think 1 suppose you're 60
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 II all is ard you'll
have to replace it,
Now. | was rather fond Of my old
furniture and didn't at all relish the
idea Of losing it or of spending money
for new.
Il 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
~ 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. 1t
has chance to be shown right.
never realized how well 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?"
1T is" answered one of her hear.
ers. Il had an experience similar to
1t earlier in the year. and think
women who contemplate moving to
larger quarters and dread the expense
OF lot of new furniture should know
OF 1t. We MAYED from tiny, narrow.
ugly house in row to big detached
house. In the old place the furniture
looked shabby and inartistic and we
were always dissatisfied. though we
knew It had cost a 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
80 much larger that everyone said we
| should have to buy quantities Of
. things to fiji It. My husband. even
wanted to sell most Of our old truck,
as he called 1t. and start in brand
new. but l convinced him that W.
could not possibly afford that. SO VT
furnished things up as we'll as posi-
BILE. closed our eyes as they we're re
IIlONcU, dIIu lIItu bCt dUOuI uXluk tut
new house.
The first thing we discovered was
that we had enough. There were
things for every room. reveled In
spreading out. for change, and found
| could make the stiff-looking old
fashioned article take on new airs OF
attraction and fit comfortably into
big, irregular rooms, where they had
stuck ont reeentfnliy in ugly rows oi
straightness before. | am not raving
about my home, Tor I know It h.
many defects and If I had plenty 81
money | should make many improy"
merits, but do know that in my neN
big sunny rooms everything we for
merly half-despised looks far bette
than ever it did before. And positive
~ ali We have had to buy has been q
couple OF chairs that we had been in
tending to get for year past, and q
few rugs to replace our heavy old car
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