The Sunday Oregonian., April 19, 1908, Magazine Section, Page 10, Image 56

THE SCHVDAr OREGOMAN, FURTLANU, APKIL.
1008.
Copyright, 19HS, by Margaret Greenleaf.
i HE location of the various rooms of
the house is a factor of much im
portance to the comfort of the occu
pants. In planning a home the dining-room
shouid always be so placed as to receive the
morning sun. It is, however, tho fortu
nate few to whom the pleasure of ar
ranging and planning their own house Is
vouchsafed, and the best must often be
made of existing conditions. If the dining-room
Is small and ill lighted, the
walla should bd covered with a good,
clean yellow paper, cither in two-tone
or plain effect. This greatly lightens
the aspect of the room and apparently
Increases its size. Frequently white en
ameled woodwoik is feasible .-iid Is an
added improvement if the furniture to be
used In the loom can be In accord; for
Instance, the white woodwork makes an
excellent seating for mahogany, mahogan
ized birch or cherry, and, of course, looks
well with white enamel furniture which
Is beginning: to be favored for cottage
and country house dining-rooms.
It has been said that it is more diffi
cult to depart from the conventional and
ordinary in the fitting and furnishing of
a dining-ioom than in any of the other
rooms. Tables, chairs, buffets and china
closets more or less elaborated must ap
pear In the dining-room of the artistic
but simple cottage, as well as in the pri
vate dining-rooms of a great hotel.
Where there Is a wainscot in the room
It establishes the necessity for a digni
fied and conventional treatment In the
furnishing. Above the wainscot to the
ceiling line the wall may be covered with
a figured tapestry paper, a paper of two.
tone stripe or large figure, or may be
tinted in a plain color which harmonizes
with the woodwork. In more elaborate
looms a tapestry fabric is often used;
the embossed Spanish leathers, also are
much favored and are very beautiful in
effect, the subdued though glowing colors
and glint of gold and silver are richly
decorative. Such treatment, however, Is
only to be considered when one is the
fortunate possessor of a long purse. But
for the woman who must manage to
make one dollar do the work of two there
are ways and means by which she can
provide for her family a dining-room
which is essentially suitable and comfort
able and also entirely harmonious and
attractive.
The mantel of simple Colonial design
shown in the drawing No. 1 has estab
lished the keynote for the dining-room
In a remodeled farmhouse. This room
in Its earlier day was the living-room
of the family. The woodwork has been
treated with white enamel of eggshell
gloss; the walls covered with two-tone
medium green striped paper are restful
and attractive. As the room Is extremely
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S'FOSE you're kinder glad Lent's
over," said the house detective
of the Hotel St. Reckless. "As I
recollect you started out by denyin' your
se'f quite a lot of things."
"Something of the sort did occur, I be
lieve," said the Hotel Clerk, with the air
of one trying to remember the forgotten
events of a musty past. "But you may
have noticed that as time passed on, I
sort of relaxed, and so now on my return
to the world, the flesh and the devil,
you'll hardly be able to notice the differ
ence as I once more merge my interests
into that old and reliable firm. Sometimes,
Larry, I'm afraid I'm too soft-fibred. I
tan deny myself anything, but I can't
deny others. In Lentas at other seasons.
It's easy enough for me not to take any
drinks that I have to pay for, but fright
fully hard for me to refuse any drinks
that somebody else is willing to pay for.
"Swearing off is a fine discipline for the
human mind If you don't let it make a
bigot of you. Personally, I do not prefer
tho H 2 O chariot, sometimes known as
the water wagon, for steady purposes
during Lent. As a regular vehicle I
'would cordially recommend the hippo. I
speak as one who has used this amiable
creature. The hippopotamus, Larry, is
broader minded than the wator wagon.
Part of the time the hippo is dry, but
the rest of the time he's just pleasantly
moist. The amphibious style of abstin
ence appeals to me greatly. I have
strong Ideas of forming the Hippo Riding
and Driving Pastime Temperance Club
and putting the puritanical and narrow-minded
water wagon back into the
same class with the high-wheel bicycle
and the Deadwood coach.
"Forty days ago I said to myself: "Wine
Is a mocker, . especially the kind of wine
you get at a 60-cent table d'hote, and
strong drink, if rectified. Is generally
raging. Moreover, In the end it biteth
liko a serpent and stingeth like an adder
like a patpnt adder stings you when the
bookkeeper is using it to figure up your
account for incidentals at a Summer hotel.
I shall cut It out during Lent. Maybe
I'll cut it. out forever."
"That's what I said to myself, Larry,'
and when you came In that evening I
was, as I recall, humming that jolly old
drinking song as revised by the W. C. T.
IT., entitled 'Fifteen ' Men on a Dead
Man's Chest, Yo-Ho and a Bottle of Cit
rate of Magnesia.' You made me a prop
osition touching on a mild libation at the
shrine of Bacchus, Gambrlnus, O. F. C.
Taylor & Company. Do you remember
how sternly I rebuked you, as I coldly
stated that there 'was positively nothing
doing?"
"Yes, and the very next time I seen you,
you was stewed," said the House Detective-.
"Not stewed, Jerry," corrected the Hotel
Clerk. "I may have been gently sim
mering, but I submit that I was not
stewed. The drouth lasted two of the
longest and most arid days I ever recall.
I had a feeling inside of me like a new
fountain pen. So I decided to Indulge In
a little of the harmless fluid known as
creme de menthe. It gave me a pleasing
lreath, like a camphor ball, and it had a'
soothing taste going down, but somehow
the green tint didn't seem to match the
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well lighted and of southern exposure,
this paper is a wise selection.
The rows of blue and white plates
which decorate the high mantel shelf are
complemented by the orderly row of shin
ing brass candlesticks placed in front of
them. The plate racks, it will be ob
served, are both useful and ornamental.
As closet space in this room was almost
nil these were found necessary. They
were purchased by the .woman who fitted
this room at a department store for the
ridiculously small sum of 48 cents apiece.
The extreme gloss varnish with, which
they were finished was removed and they
were treated with mahogany stain, fol
lowed by an application of shellac and
a finishing varnish which produced an
eggshell gloss. This same stain and fin
Ish. by the way, were used on the table.
prevalent color scheme of my thirst. I
had a dawning conviction that the stage
setting demanded a red interior and I got
it. But that's the only way to deny your
self, Larry. Do it, but do it without be
ing fanatical.
"It's the same way with the exhilarat
ing indoor sport known as draw-poker.
About once In so long, I find myself mak
ing a high resolve to quit poker, follow
ing on a session where the utmost skill
and finesse on my part have still been
fraught with dire disaster as opposed to
the well-nigh incomprehensible luck of
some mere novice; or else it's after-I've
shattered my brave three-masted bark
against one of those human Icebergs with
a cold glittering eye who always says he
only plays for the fun of the thing, but
invariably puts on a style of parlor magic
which enables him to -vanish . with the
only materials that'll buy the said fun.
I've been that way since I was a boy.
"We were a bright set In our home
town, bright and spontaneous; but always
brighter and more spontaneous just after
the Primrpse and West minstrels had
been at the Opera House. And we Tiad
rich sporting fluid coursing through our
the mahogany stain selected to match
the color of the chairs, which were valued
as family heirlooms. An hour's work
from the carpenter set these plate racks
In place, beneath them was set the serv
ing table. The floor of soft wood was
painted an unobtrusive brown; by a Ju
dicious mixture of floor finish with tho
last two coats of paint an effect of a
waxed floor was gained at very little cost
and much less labor than any other fin
ish would demand.
'The central rug or drugget was made
from wool terry or filling, dark green In
color, and the room was ready for the
Individual touches. Madras curtains of
leaded glass pattern, with blocks of green
and blue, occasionally introduced on the
white ground, harmonized perfectly with
the green wall covering, Ivory woodwork
veins. There was but one among our
merry number that had what you might
call a calculating nature. As soon as he
sat In and took out a large stack, for a
dollar small stacks were 50 cents there
was something about his manner that
seemed to tell you he was going to need
a pair of felt Insoles before the evening
ended. Even at that, early stage he
played 'em in such close proximity to
himself that he had to unbutton his vest
to read ' the spots. He subsequently be
came a trust company president, and as
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he cannot bear confinement, he is now
traveling for his health. In countries where
the extradition processes are defective.
But even at that time, when little more
than a boy, he would manifest a conser
vatism regarding the uplifting powers of
a full house that was perfectly Incompre
hensible to me because I've always been
able to detect a great deal of leverage in
a simple two pair. And along toward the
shank of the evening he would be over
taken by a chronic suspension of circula
tion below the ankles, and he'd fade
away, leaving me 'and the others contem
plating a large mutual deficit and a de-
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FARMHOUSE
and blue and white china. Between the
windows, opposite the mantelpiece, a
plaster bas-relief was set. The few
pictures in the room were black and
white, set in mahogany frames. This
room has proved a great success, and,
while it is sufficiently conventional to
live up to its character of dining-room.
It Is also homelike and inviting.
The china closet shown in the drawing
was made by the village carpenter to
supplement an incomplete dining-room set
of oak. This has proved so great a suc
cess and so satisfactory to the woman
for whom it was constructed that the
working drawing Is here given. Any car
penter can work from these. From such
drawings the different boards were sawed
out and dovetailed and fitted, but not set
up. After the doors were finished they
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bilitated kitty of the Maltese variety. I
say Maltese, Larry, because the word
suggests a double cross. Clever conceit,
is It not? .
"It is not? Oh, very well, envious one
I can tell when a grouch Is sore because
I've beat him to a palpitating one. But
as to poker playing, the habit of swearing
off and the habit of getting on again have
ever walked hand In hand with me
through life. I notice that when I have
annexed a tidy little winning I am able to
look with more tolerance upon the vice
than when I emerge from a temporary
smokehouse at 3:30 A. M., with a taste in
my mouth like a brass key ring and a
deep dimple, bordering on a crease. In
my salary pocket, after having made an
Ineffectual effort to compete against one
of those human repertoire troupes who
can simultaneously present The Man In
the Iron Mask Upstairs, while his princi
pal vital organ Is offering a spirited ren
dition of The Marble Heart and his feet
are starring In The Sea of Ice."
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were delivered to a glazier. The ten
pieces, besides the two doors, and six
wooden keys or wedges, were packed flat
and delivered, ready to be set up. The
back was made of upright tongued and
grooved boards, held together with cross
strips. The four shelves were made to
fit into grooves in the interior surface of
the side pieces, The top, middle and bot
tom shelves are 214 Inch projections passed
through openings in the sides. When the
keys were placed through these tails It
required only a firm rap from a hammer
to insure the closet holding together com
pactly. The carpenter fitted the hinges
and also set. in the lock. Completed, the
closet stands 62 inches high, 38 inches
wide and 14 inches deep. This construc
tion allows, of course, of Its being taken
apart as readily as it can ba put to
gether. The design is adaptable to any
wood.
The dining-room shown in picture No.
2 has a wainscot which has been built and
fitted into the room. This is removable.
While this mode of treatment is not usual
in America, in Kngland and on the Conti
nent these adjustable wainscots, called
fitments, are frequently used. The wood
employed here is cypress, and it has been
treated with a dark oak stain, which
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"It's been a purty quiet Lent, seems to
me," said the House Detective.
"And yet yiere have been matters of
national moment to the fore almost con
stantly,"' said the hotel clerk. "For a
while I could hardly wait for morning to
come so's I could get a paper. Would
Tyrus Cobb sign with the Detroits for
$jO0O a year and food thrown in it often
is thrown in by a ballplayer, Larry or
would he stand aloof and further com
plicate a situation that had acutely dis
tressed some of the greatest minds that
ever figured up a batting average? Would
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Madame Anna Gould marry the Prince
Helie that's short, Larry, for Heliotrope
Helle de Sagan In time for him to get
his Spring wardrobe and the family Jew
els out? Would the Duke of the Abruzzl
win the hand of Miss Elkins, and thus re
lieve the feeling of tension prevailing not
only among the folks back home In
Abruzziville, but in several of the ad
joining countries? Would the Emperor of
Germany allow our new ambassadpr to
pick out a good two family house In a
quiet Berlin neighborhood and move In,
notwithstanding the deplorable fact that
the new ambassador's wife had only one
shows almost black. The wall above It
is covered with an inexpensive paper
showing a design of Japanese pine trees
against white ground.
Coarse white linen has been used for the
.window draperies, and down the sides and
across the lower edge of the curtains a
stencil showing the pine tree of the wall
paper is effectively employed. A blue and
white rag rug covers the floor, with the
exception of a two-foot margin, which is
stained the color of the woodwork and
finished with a dull gloss.
A country resident writes: "Kindly tell
me if I can use a Chinese cotton print as
a frieze, like the one you described In
last week's paper, and what the price of
this material is."
The Chinese cotton or Japanese cotton
crepes can be used as advised with ex
tremely good effect. The price of the lat
ter is 35 cents for 30-inch material. The
Chinese cotton print is only 18 inches in
width, and comes in 10-yard pieces. This
usually shows a good, strong blue on a
clear white ground. If you will send me
a self-addressed envelope I will be glad to
send you samples.
A college girl writes: "I would like very
much to have your advice on the selection
hired girl when they first kept house at
Rochester, this state? Could the Kaiser
consistently admit to his court a man who
was known to be guilty of tho crime of
detached cuffs and suspected of the still
more hideous outrage of shirts that open
In the back and have little tabs with but
ton holes in 'em, at the south end of the
all-linen bosoms? Or would he force our
President to search all the retail cloth
ing stores of the country for a diplomat
of the Charlemagne Tower school, with
box alder sidewhlskers, knee breeches.
and an Impressive air when in company,
like a club butler?
"But on the whole I think I was
more interested in Abruzzl than I was
In de Sagan. Abruzzl is a good comedy
name, something like Pazazas. I like
It. It makes you think of the night
wind mourning through a set of whis
kers. Besides, Abruzzl Is a regular
Duke, with steady work at his trade,
while the de Sagan bunch were laid
off some time ago on account of slack
ness in the Prince market In France.
I've always contended that any Duke
who behaved himself and was a sood
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of chairs for the sittirnif-room of my suit
at college. My walls are covered with a
two-tone stripe brown paper. My window
draperies are plain yellow linen. I do not
know what kind Of inexpensive chairs to.
use or of what to make the cushions."
I would suggest willow furniture as be
ing the' most attractive to use in such a
room as you describe. Treat the willow
with a light brown stain and have cush
ions fastened in the backs and seats of
each chair,- these to be covered with a
figured linen taffeta showing shades of
golden brown, dull blue, Ivory and soft
old red. This material can be bought for
$1.75 a yard and Is 50 inches wide. One
or two pieces of dark oak furniture, such
as a table and armchair, could be worked
In advantageously in the furnishing of
your room. If you will send me a self
addressed envelope I will be glad to send
you samples of the material to which I
refer.
An Invitation to correspond with The
Sunday Oregonlan on all matters pertain
ing to the decoration of the home is ex
tended. All inquiries should bo written on
one side of tho paper only, and. when an
early response is desired, should be ac
companied by a stamped self-addressed
envelope.
provider around the house was almost
scood enough for a sweet American girl.
So Abruzzl looked like a lucky man to
me, if ho won out. It couldn't be a
matter, of money that stood In the way,
because Grandpa Davis, who ran for
Vice-President four years ago In an al
most noiseless manner, said if it was a
detail of cash that made the Prince so
backward that he didn't call at the El
kins home much oftener than the postman
did, he'd be right there with a large
bundle of the green trading stamps. To
be sure this may have looked as if the
old gentleman was making a cold bid for
the solid Duke vote in case the Demo
cratic party should ever again feel like
running a Parker and Davis ticket for
the exercise maybe, or something lika
that. But you oughtn't to question mo
tives when there's a romance on foot.
But how about that young lady's father?
There .was a good deal of talk to the
effect that it might be necessary for the
King of Italy to crown him or knight
him or something, so's to take the cunse
oft the fact that he belonged to the United
States Senate, and It has made my heart
bleed at the thought of some dy reading
in the cable notes that at the imperial
reception in the Coliseum at Rome, or
wherever It Is that the royal family re
sides, the Dowager Father-in-Law, nee
Elkins, entered the drawing-room wearing
white point de spree over lavender, and
carrying his new coronet under his left
am1..
"Maybe Easter is bringing us the solu
tion of some of these vexing problems,
Larry. It's already brought us several
other things. I saw a few limited edi
tions of the advance Easter modes out
sunning on the avenue this afternoon.
They were lovely in the extreme. There
was one fair creature, weighing upwards
of 300 pounds who wafted past me with
her hair, and her tailor suit and her spats
and her shoes all done In tan tones. She
looked like a golden oak dining-room set.
And I saw one of the new 8pring hats
that you can't get In a car door without
turning It up on edge. It had more'n two
million feathers on it, all aiming in dif
ferent directions. It was worn by a slen
der little thing, and the combination
makes me think of the Sacred Cassowary
of Abbysinia standing on Its head In a
high wind.
"I saw something else, Larry a bunch
of yellow jonquils blooming in a window.
So let's hope for the best. Lent may
sometimes be a threat, but Easter's a
promise."
At One Fell Swoop.
Success Magazine.
"Have you got any of those prepara
tions for removing superfluous hair?" aski
the man who enters the drugstore with a
firm tread and a set countenance
"Yes, sir," answers the druggist.
"Give me a Dint. I want to use it on
my head."
"But, man, you haven't got any super
fluous hair on your bead. You're nearly
bald now."
"I know it. And I've got so aggravated
and tired watching the confounded halt
leaking off day by day that I want to
remove the rest of it at one sweep and
have the agony over-"
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