Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-01-18
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furnishing an office. you will only

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IN furnishing an office. you will only
need the desks, the chairs, the
- book racks and typewriters, as
necessities and unless one owns an Of
flee and does not have to vacate annual
| ly,there is no need for anything more eX-
cept maybe a crex rug on. the floor, that
can be taken out and busted by the jani-
tor at least once a week. But 1t is al
together different in housekeeping as
connected with house furnishing, and
there is considerable difference in house
furnishing, whether you rent house
to live in--or own il. When you rent
a house, it is economical and vastly pru-
dent to purchase no more furniture than
occasion calls for. 1 have in mind a
! family that has never owned a home, and
yet they have crowded themselves with
heavy furniture-until moving time be-
comes an exhausting period, to every
body young and old Immense bed
steads, marble topped bureaus and wash
stands, massive chairs, big bookcases,
ETC., fill the moving vans and crowd ev-
cry house they occupy. Was 1t not wise
Ben Franklin, who said "three removes
are equal to a fire?" When translated It
means, that your household stuff is near
| ly fit to throw aside, after you have
made that many removals. For those
who rent an apartment or house In =
| city or town-there must be a world OF
vexation and worry in getting furniture
In and out--in going up stairsteps, or
rounding corners, in pulling down shades
and pulling up carpets in the dirt that
goes with stoves and heaters, and the
difficulty of making things look fresh
and attractive once more-in strange
premises.
Therefore I Wilt begin this homely SER
mon by saying-don't buy anything but
necessary furniture If you occupy a
house owned by somebody else. Let
your bedsteads be of metal and there is
nothing nicer than handsome brass onss.
need for daily use. But some one will
say. Pheugh! We want nice things
to look at, it is all the home we have
or maybe will ever have. So, I'll tell
| Grandma FELTON,, we are going to move
furniture and pictures and everything
we need In our rented houses" All
! right! My dear grill But I would
never bank up vexation and worry on
myself that way. I'd get what was
needful and If money was plentiful, 1
get the best in sight. but 1 surely would
not buy things for other people to look
at and that is Just what II amounts to.
If you own your home, expect to
| live In IT, raise a family in IL, and
hand it down to those who will come
after you, I'd like to say buy the orna-
| mental as we'll as the needful, and get
good stun, be 1t much or little.
But the best results that have
seen Gin a long lifetime) come from
gradual beginnings. II ! was young
again and going into homo that be-
longed to me Cor my husband) I'd
furnish my kitchen and dining room
In good style 80 far as I was able. So
much of civilized life is spent In kitch-
ems and dining rooms, that It is always
worth while to be comfortable and sat-
tsfled in them. I'd buy good carpets
or art squares for bed rooms because
cheap ones do not wear well and soon
look shabby. I would have a nice par
los or reception room, but 1t would not
be crowded with bric-a-brac, and I'd
save work and worry thereby l have
In mind a parlor in a nice cottage home
where you do feel crowded because
there is so little space left to sit down
and chat with your hostess. The cor
ners and sides are simply occupied
with belongings that forbid q change.
They are not interesting to an outsid-
er. There is pride In ownershlp-very
hkely-but they are barren of beauty
and veXations to house cleaning. Sleep-
crowded with furniture-with heavy
curtains, or too much carpeting. Let
the money go towards nice bath room
arrangements-and commodious clos
cts and if possible dressing rooms.
They are SO satisfactory.
was raised in we oiden time when the
kitchen was located fifty yards and
more from the dining room in the dwell.
ing. The we'll was three times that far
rRf fro, vrrIaf
down eighty feet below the surface.
The outdoor garden closet was as lar
as the garden space allowed, and the
smoke house was distant, too and my
milk dairy was a small affair, perched
up on long legs. and 1 had to place me
sweet milk and buttermilk in crooks,
and set the crooks in big pans of water
which had to be drawn from that distant
we'll and frequently renewed in hot old
summer time to make the milk cool
enough for dinner or supper. L never
had a cook stove or sewing machine
untn some time after the surrender at
AppomattoX. My, My! What job 1
had on my hands! 1 did without many
things that / should have contended
for because of health and time saving,
and 1 bought lot of things that were
of far less service than those did with
out, in half century of vigorous house,
keeping. L had starch-making time,
soap-making time, lard-preserving
time. fruit-drying time During the war.
salt-making time) while sewing and
cutting and knitting and quilting went
on all the time. When 1 remember that
far-distant well of water, that way-off
kitchen, that distant smoke house, and
that remote garden closet, ETC., won
der have the strength to write these
words OF advice and caution to young
housekeepers. about proper economics in
house furnishing. I never saw any home
made ice until was over forty years
old, and now we can't do without it!