Year: 1869

uuiidtni " c aAC ut1G ntoppSd ~ AhS FtNJ
udice that mating is not good economy,
because il wears out so soon. We humbly
submit that it is precisely che thing for
parloT, which is reserved for the receptions
room of friends, and for our own dressed
leisure hours Mating is not good economy
10 dining-room, or q hard worn sitting
room, but such parlor as we are describing
is precisely the place where it answers to
the very best advantage.


We have in mind now one very attractive
paror which has been, both for summer
and winter, the daily sitting room for the
leisure houra Of husband and wife, and
family of children, where plain white
straw mating has done service for seven
years That parlor is in city, aud our
| friends arc in the habit Of receiving visits
from people who live upon velvet and
Brussels; but they prefer TO spend the
money which such carpets would cost on
other modes Of establishment; and this par
| lor has often been cited to US as very at
! tract ve room.


AID now our friends having got thus far,
are requested 10 select some one tint or color
which shall be the prevailing one in the fur
niture of the room. Shall it be green?
Shall itbe blue Shall it be crimson? To
carry on our Illustration, we viii chose
green, and we now proceed with it to create
| furniture for our room. Let us imagine
that on one side of the fireplace there be, as
! there is often a recess about six feet long
and three feet deep. Fill this recess with
rough frame one foot high, and upon the
| top Of the frame have an elastic rack Of
Stats, make a mattress for this, or if you
wish TO avoid this trouble, you can get
nice mattress for the sum of two dollars,
made of cane shavings or husks. Cover
this with green English print The glazed
| English comes at about twenty-five cents a
yard the glazed French at seventy. five
cents yard, and nice article of yard wide
French twill VERY strong) is from seventy
FIVE to eighty cents yard.


With any of these cover your lounge.
Make two large, square pillows of the same
3
back. If you happen TO have one or two
feather pillows that you can spare for the
purpose, shake them down into a square
shape and cover them with the same print,
and you will then have four pillows for your
| lounge at each end and two at the
back, and you will find it answers all. the
purposes of a sofa.


It will be very pretty thug, now, to cut
out what are called lambrikins of the same
material as your lounge, to put over the
windows which are to be embellished with
white muslin curtains. The cornices to your
windows can be simply strips Of wood
covered with paper to match the bordering
of your room, and the lambrikins, made Of
chiniz like lounge, can be trimmed with
fringe or gimp Of the same color.


The curtains can be made Of plain white
muslin, or some of the many styles that
come for this purpose. If plain muslin is
used, you can ornament them with hens an
inch in width in which insert a strip Of
gingham or chambray of the same color as
your chintz. This viii wash with the cur
taius without losing its color, or should it
fade it can easily be drawn out and replaced


The influence Of white muslin curtains 10
| giving an air Of grace and elegance to room
is astonishing White curtains really create
a room out Of nothing. No matter how
coarse the muslin, so it be white and hangs
in graceful folds there is charm in it that
supplies the want of multitudes of other
things


Very pretty curtsin-muslin can be bought
for thirty-seven cents yard Il requires
six yards for a window


Now get your men folk to knock up for
you, out of rough, unplaned boards, some
square ottoman frames-stuf the tops with
lust the same material as the lounge, aud
coyvr luem With the seIEsame chintz


Now you have, supposing your selected
color to be green, a green lounge in the cor
ner and two green ottamans you have white
muslin curtains, with green lambrikins and
borders, and your room already looks furn


ished Iyou have in the house any broken
down arm chair, reposing in the oblivion Of
the garrett, draw it out-drive a nail here
and there to hold it frm-stufF and pad, and
stitch the padding through with a long up
holstercr's needle, aud cover it with the
chintz ike your other furniture Presto
you create an easy chair.


Thus can broken and disgraced furniture
re-appear, and being put into uniform with
the general suit of your room, take new
lease oflife


If you want a centre table, consider this


that any kind Of table, well concealed be-


meath the folds of handsome drapeyy, Of d


color corresponding to the general hue Of n.
ROOM will look we'll Instead of going tt
the cabinet maker and paying from thirty L
! forty dollars upon little narrow, marble


topped stand, that gives just room enough
to hold lamp and book or two just re


feet within yourself what centre-table il
made for. If you have in your house
) good broad, generous topped table, take it


cover it with an ample cloth of green broad
cloth. Such a cover, two and a half yard
square, OF fine green broadcIoth, figured


with black and with a pattern border o


grape leaves, has been bought for ten dol
lars. In a room We want, if it covers cheaJ
, pine table, such as you may buy for four o
, five dollars any day; but you will be aston


ished to see how genteel an object this tabI,
q makes under its green drapery. We Sc
down our centre table therefore as consist
Ing mainly ofniee broad Goth cover, match
: ing our muslin curtains aad lounge.
] We are sure that one with heart that i
humble may command such a centre tabl
, and cloth for fifteen dollars, AMI family o
, five or six may all sit and work, or read, o


write around it, and it is capable of enter