The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-07
How to Furnish the
Small Summer Cottage

IT TALF the pleasure IN tho small
III summer cottage comes from tho
careful planning of its furnish
ings. These should always be simple 30
that they may be stored on tho premises
instead of being dragged back to the
city 20 burden the cliff dweller In an
already overcrowded existence. Rustic
chairs with canvas seats can be nailed
together on the spot, tables may be
made OF left over boards stained har-
monizing brown and 50 arranged as to
hook up against the wall when not
wanted.
Comfortable beds may be made Of
saplings with mattresses Of cedar tips.
Army cots will supplement them when
necessary.
! Curtains and cushions should be care
fully planned to give a homelike touch.
Very attractive curtains may be made
at n slight cost from ordinary jute or
burlap. They harmonic with tho usual
wood finished interior and arc suffici-
emily opaque to serve as sash curtains
where the sitting room must serve as
q bedroom by night
Tie burlap should hang below the
window sill, Just escaping the floor. One
curtain Is enough for each window, as
IL Is not intended to he draped back.
Beginning about a foot from the top.
crosswise threads should be drawn Just
as they would be for hemstitching. The
threads should be drawn for a foot, and
then after an interval OF about elk
inches for appetizer foot, down to within
two feet OF the end Of the curtain. The
threads that are left will be very fuzzy
and must be brushed free with a whisk-
broom.
After the last six inches OF whole
cloth q space twelve or fourteen inches
should be drawn to serve rs fringe.
After this has been thoroughly brushed
IL may be knotted like the fringe on an
old fashioned towel. To get this effect
small punches of threads are tied to-
gether with some Of the drawnout raw
ellings in n row across the curtain.
These punches are then divided in half
and opposite halves tied together for
another row, and SO on at regular inter-
walls up to about four inches from the
end Of the curtain.
Several curtains may be finished In
the course of an afternoon. and the ef-
: feet Is ut once simple and interesting.
} Where half a dozen curtains are to be
made It pays to buy the material at
wholesale
! pur,on "a much the hest material for
, cottage cushions and couch covers, but
. n dved variety should be chosen as tho
lint of the raw lutte IS apt TO come off
unon clothing. cushions may he easily
stencilIed with woodsy patterns OF pine
cones or leaves, as may the couch and
table covers. Cardboard stencil pat
terms may he obtained cut ready to use
AZ any fancy goods store, and the oil
paint has merely to be applied over
, them.
The cover. should always be taken to
rho Gotta 90 ernntv as thew can be filled
With fragrant cedar fins or nine needles
there Many people prefer to sleep on
such pillows. hut when some member
az the family "a welded TO the feathery
variety. II should be covered at home
with lowered denim. so that the white
slim may he taken of, in the daytime 70
,, Leave n In harmony with its surround
lngs
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TO-, o.. ,ha tIrtaJ and noIn.ed aoora
,,h,o,, NOV Ia lfent in good condition
", s,,r,n,or With a little oiI annIied with
r,nn This door NJ, can be obtained
at yurn,ture stores The rugs are now
.. IN sale eyerywhere. but the woman
who goes To the trouble of cutting up
old sheets and cotton dresses into hall
inch strips and sewing them together a,
rho ends nv color, NAV save money and
l have them woven at an institution for
tho hind.
Uncle Sam has considerably simplfled
! the laundry problem. The wash ma,
nov be sent to the laundry by parce
most. White underwear should az IA,
, as possible be left behind. Cotton
bloouers OF the color OF their dresse,
| will take the place of petticoats 10,