Year: 1869

the same print, and you will then have
four pillows for your lOunge-one at each
end and two at the back, and you will
find it answers all the purposes of sofa.


1t will be very pretty thing, DOW, to
cut out what are called lambrikins of the
same material as your lounge, to put over
your windows, which are to be embel-
lished 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 chintZ like the
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 strip
of gingham or chambray Of the same color
as your chintz. This will wash with the
curtains without losing its color, or
should it fade it can easily be drawn out
and replaced.


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


Very pretty curtain-muslin can be
bought for thirty seven cents a yard. 1t
requires six yards for window.
! Now, get your men-folk to knock up
for you, out Of rough, unplaned boards,
SONS square, ottoman frames-stuH the
! tops with just the same material as the
| lounge, and cover them with the self-same
chinE


Now you have, supposing your selected
color to be green, green lounge in the
corner and two green Ottomans; you have
white muslin curtains, with green lambri-
kins and borders, and your room already
looks furnished. If you have in the house
any broken-down arm chair, reposing in
the oblivion of the garret, draw it out
drive nail here and there to hold it firm
stuff and pad, and stitch the padding
through with a long upholster's needle,
and cover it with the chintz like your
other fnrniture. Presto-you create an
easy chair.


Thus can broken and disgraced furni-
ture re-appear, and being put into uniform
with the general suit of your room, take
a new lease Of life.


| If you want a center table, consider this
that any kind of table, well concealed
beneath the folds of handsome drapery, of
a color corresponding to the general hue
of the room, will look well. Instead of
going to the cabinet-maker and paying
from thirty to forty dollars upon a little
narrow, cold, handicapped stand that
gives just room enough to hold a lamp
and a book or two, just reflect within
yourself what center-table is made for.
If you have in your house good broad,
generous-topped table, take it, cover it with
an ample cloth Of green broadcloth.
Such a cover, two and half yards square,
of fine green broadcloth, figured with
black aud with psttern-bord of grape
leaves hGs been bought for ten dollars In
a room we wot of it covers cheap pine
table, such as you may buy for four or five
dollars any day; but you will be aston
ished to see how genteel an object this
table makes under its green drapcry. We
set down our center table, therefore, as
consisting mainly of a nice broadcloth
cover, matching our curtains and lounge.


We are sure that any one with " a
heart that is humble" may command such
a centertable ard cloth for fifteen dollars,
and family of five or six may all sit and
! work, o. read, or write around it, and it is
capable of entertaining generous allow
arce of books and Northumberland
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