South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-08-11

ting. She visited in a dear little town
where there were many modest but
nightly attractive little homes And
visiting ladies' are always treated right
royalty in dear little towns So the
woman had many chances Of seeing in
side OF tastlly furnished living rooms
pretty dining rooms and dainty bed
rooms. Particularly was she impress
ed By the bedrooms And she Thought
Of her ugly spare room at home After
a while she began TO wonder If she
could spare the money TO make a
dainty bedroom oft it. too. Then she
began 20 hunt for ideas. Whenever she
saw something particularly dainty in
one of these dainty bedrooms she
made note OF II, determining TO have
something just like H. She made many
determinations. one was that even If
she couldn't get everything at once for
that spare room Of hers. she would
begin at once anyway, and work away
on il If il took her a year. Another
was that she would try not to use a
single red-Oak-Cashmere-th thing in that
old spare room.
She could hardly wait TO get home
so that she might begin operations.
Her mightiest resolution had been
that she would repaper the room her
self Everybody did i'm her modest little
town. and she had received copious
directions. And so. armed with these
and many rolls of 10-cent paper. she
proudly set TO work.
The paper was very pretty-she had
INDUCED in her fancy for dainty rose
buds, and she had read in the news
paper once that spare rooms could be
as fiowery as one wished-just because
they were spare rooms and no one
could get tired of them
She carefully SCraped off all the old
paper-she gave her woodwork a new
coat of white paint and the walls
were charming with their fresh ROSY
paper. The ceiling and drop were tint
ed pure white - her husband was
pressed into service here Though
she could really have done it herself
She then bought a -and-white
rag rug for $1.75. And as this rug was
really rather small. she carefully
stained the floor all over. She chose
dark oak stain.
And it was such fun to do the rest
of it-even though il did take her sew
eral months.
She bOught-by Degrees bed
spring, which she mounted on feet.
This is more comfortable than a cot
bed. She bought, TO begin with a pad
mattress for 50. This she tied on to
the springs by tapes fastened in the
middle. These mattresses are surpris-
ingly comfortable. From the wooden
frame of the bedspring she suspended
ruffie of white muslin which reach
ed the floor. This was run on a tape
and fastened up with tapes so that it
could be easily removed for Tubing
Then she bought pink linen for a
couch cover; this was made wide and
long enough to drop over one foot,
still showing goodly amount of white
rutfie. She finally covered two sleeping
pillows with white and laid them on
the linen cover.
At the window she hung sheer plain
white muslin curtains and a white
shade.
She bought a chiffonier secondhand
for $3.50 and stained it medium geen.
She bought a new straight-legged
table and stained il green. too This
was TO be for dressing table. She
found slightly antique mirror at the
secondhand store for 80 cents. and
paid another so cents TO have il re-
sllVered. The frame of this she stained
green, too.
She bought a new Windsor armchair
for $3.50 and enameled it white. and a
little Old-fashiOned kitchen chair for
the dressing table for $3.50. And she
had all the furniture she actually
needed
With the pink linen she made
cover for the dressing table, one for
the chiffonier, and tie-on cushion
pad for each chair. Such a complete
little room you never did see. But
perhaps if you're good, you'll be in
vited some time, as / was
For | was the very first guest in
this rosy guest room, and il was so
very rosy and I was so very happy
! asked my hostess to grant me the
privilege of telling you this story of
her room
And as this is the time for bargains.