New Britain herald., 1916-06-28
REVELATIONS0F A WIFEI
By ADELE GARRNON

so you are not around I want to surprise you this afternoon. I'll bet that room will make your eyes stick out when you see it."
 Margaret may do as she likes" his mother interposed casually, but I'm not going to bother myself with any such nonsense. I have letters to write, and many other things to do, and l shall be in my room most of the day. Go right along with your foolery. I wouldn't turn my head to look at any of the traps you have piled Up out there"
 The Room Transformed.
 'Gee!" commented Dicky, ruefully, drawing a long breath There's a sideswiper for you. I hope you don't feel the same way, Madge."
 I've wanted 8 long ramble ever since I've been out here," said quietly. "I'll take little lunch with me, and get back about o'clock Will that do?'
 'Splendid,' returned Dicky. 'You'1l have a royal welcome when you do get back, I'll promise you that
 lldu d WO1u6IIul through the woods, enjoying 1t so much that it was after when I finally re- turned home. Dicky greeted me ex- uberantly.
 Come along now,". he commanded rushing me upstairs. Come, mother!'
 The elder Mrs. Graham appeared at the door of her room, curiosity and
 
 other in her face. But curiosity tri- Umphed. With a protesting snort she followed us to the door of the locked room. Dicky unlocked the door with a flourish and stood aside for us to enter.
 gasped as I caught my first sight of the transformed room. Dicky had not exaggerated, it was wonderful.
 The paper had been taken from the alls and they and the ceiling had been painted a soft gray with just a touch of blue in its tint. The wood work was ivory-tinted throughout, while the floor was painted a deeper shade of gray than covered the walls.
 Almost covering the floor was a gorgeous Chinese rug with wonderful splashes of blue through it. I knew it must be an imitation of one costing a fortune, but I realized that Dicky must have paid a pretty penny even for the counterfeit, for the coloring and design were c1everly done.
 "I Wish Madge-"
 The blue of the rug was reproduced in every detail of the room The window draperies, of thin Oriental fabric, had bands of Chinese em- hro oiI them. These bands carried out in the azure groundwork and the golden threads the motif of the rug. The cushions, which were everywhere in evidence, were made of the same em- tToidered silk which banded the win dow draperies, while blue strips of lessly over a lockwood table and chest of drawers.
 A chaise logue of bamboo piled with cushions stood underneath the windows which commanded @ view of the rolling woodland and meadows I had found so beautiful. Three chairs of the same material completed the furnishings of the room, save for a wonderful Chinese screen reaching almost from the ceiling to the floor, which hid a single iron bed, painted white, of the type used in hospitals, a small bureau, also painted white, and d shaving mirror.
 Don't want any junk about my sleeping quarters" Dicky explained, as l looked behind the screen.
 Well, what do you think of t?" he demanded at last in hurt tone as l finished my inspection of the walls, which were almost covered with the originals of Dicky's best magazine illustrations, framed in narrow black strips of wood.
 Tt is truly wonderful, Dicky," I returned, trying to make my voice enthusiastic.
 I could have raved over the room, for I did think it exquisitely beauti- ful, had not my woman's intuition de- tected that another hand than Dicky's had helped in it's preparation.
 Only a woman's cunning fingers could have fashioned the curtains and