Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-04-06
Possibilities Of
the Attic

The attic has an atmosphere that not
only rouses in the housekeeper de-
sire for clearing up, but also an am
bilious wish to make habitable room
out of it's mustiness. The one thing
that helps most in encouraging the de-
sire for change is the view from its
windows, which is always interesting
whether of roofs, orchard or park.
Then, too, there are often quaint
angles and odd corners that no woman
with an eye for the picturesque can re-.
sist, says a New York Press writer.
II the family junk with which the place
Us Uttered is too unwieldly to be tucked
into hooks and corners in other parts
Of the house it can be banished to a
cellar bin and safely ignored. With
attractive windows and uncluttered
space, room shapes itself.
An attic room never goes begging.
It is usually the college boy who grabs
It for den or it may be some daugh-
ter.
An attic den that is the pride and
Joy of the boy looks out on to the roofs
Of opposite houses. On the window sill
and the window hasn't the shred Of
q shade or curtain-are some potted
plants, for, of course, boy likes
plants; he likes all growing things.
Over the window from a ring hangs a
punching bag. On the wall are couple
Of tennis rackets and beside the win
dow is carpenters bench fitted COM
pletely and neatly with the necessary
y tools. An ideal place to potter and
drill.
A girls room is charming with dark
stained floor, white woodwork and mis-.
sion furniture. The windows are cur
tanned in muslin with side drops OF
linen embroidered with raffia in a
simple but effective design. A single
book shelf fills the corner between the
windows and underneath is the couch.
its cover embroidered like the cur
tains and with plenty of pretty cush-
ions. At its head stands small round
table holding most comfortable look.
ing reading lamp. In the corner op-
posite the couch is an old model table
settee and next it is writing desk
with Remsen burner attached to the
wall. Beyond the desk is the dressing
table with jolly big paper basket be-
side 1t.
Two rooms splendidly interesting in
u ,ir expression of individual taste are
week worth describing. One is sim
crafty itself, with a fine dignity in the
an uag Of the few pictures and in the
lines of the we'll filled bookcase
~ Th stretches between two windows.
Chris Ems just the room to drop into,
socia after fussing bit among the
Modts, to settle down in for serenely
read with no sound but the flutter
turning page.
The other room is stimulating con.
p list. Over the fireplace are books
- b Interestingly effective photographs
- people. A window couch has plenty
vi light. The designs of the wall paper
Old the rug before the fireplace are
i'll Of character.
.tThese are but few pictures to show
ito what the attic can be made. In a
iew house the problem of planning a
Soon is simple, but where the house is
on old one, with genuine family gar
Net, it takes on the attributes of cam
oaign. Things must be first sorted and
either stored or passed to cousin OF
aunt, who often becomes inspired to
do likewise and sends things back in
exchange. Great movings of clumsy
objects go up stairs and down before
the desired result is reached But the
result is worth all the fuss and worry
A certain feeling Of having conquered
new problem comes to the worker
and in the pride taken in having evolv'
ed a room from chaos all efforts are
forgotten.