The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 31, 1903, Page 12

are abundance lc-a-t rowd rooms. A big by portieres, e roomis green s out In warm wood of most ene ms are exceptions to the A pinr wheel standing in the nnering's treas. her by a friend in and it has a biography as Jong a& the history of New England. it #pun the i which was woven into a w hole fit of brids nen for a fair f a past esent Hack- ts hang on the wall. Miss Mannering's favorite is a big portrait of her husbana out hunting—his dearest. sport. This hall opens by a wide, curtained doorway into the dining-room, which to the average visitor's way of thinking is the most comfortable and comforting om in the house. It is paneled in dark oak blending with the soft, reddish-brown walls, which In turn merge into the tints of the ceiling and shade away into the palest cream. A huge bay window at the back is paned with exquisite stained g'ass in amber shades—the tint that is Miss Mannering’s favorite the guests the family The famous electric-lighfed table of glass top is covered by a cloth of the sheerest grass linen imported from China and made to order, hemstitched and em- brofdered in splendid dragons of heavy The linen was brought to her Chinatown Ethel Hornick Miss Mannering is the proud possessor Sheffield silver mother's home There is an old fluted cake basket and some spoons, worn thin. She never serves a dinner in one color. She likes a different tint of china for each course. Some dainty plates with cool gleen border are her favorites for salad, some terra-cotta and gold adorned ones for meat and flowered Dresden for des- sert Above the fireplace where rollicking gas Jets play at burning artificial logs hangs the old painting of Mr. Hackett's father. Oppusite the richly carved sideboard. At the rear end of the room the amber windows look out \ that rare and priceiess treasure in New York—a garden. “And a rea: garden is, too,” Miss Mannering says; “big enough to sit in under ithe trees and among the flawers. \We bave one ping pong table there. The smoking-room below ope: o it. Next fummer what do you think we are go- £ t0 do? We are actualiy going to &t home together: isn't that beautiful? And we are planning a house party at which all the meals il be served in our dear little ga:den. In the evening It will be lighted with Japanese lanterns and it will be real country life in the heart of New York Don’t you wish you were invited? The list of guests, by the way. Includes few people of the stage. The He hap- pen to have as their closes the “'unprofessional,” with few excep “l love the stage people dearly £ays, “but one ought not to be na and that is the tendency of our life The second floor is devoted to the salon library and sitting-room and above a the private arastm-n's of the fam’ly. The accompanying illustrations serve to show the scheme of decorati but they can- not indicate the symmetry of or and combination of tanes that soothe the eve in every room. The explanation of the charm of this home may perhaps be found In what Hes between tb Imes of this reply of the hostess to compliment passed upon a quaint service in the din- ing-room: “We have auite a weakness for prowl- ing around in cur leisure hours and pick- iIng up pretty things for the entire house, as well as for the dining-room. Our fads go well together, my husband's being di- rected toward antique, carved or origi- nal furniture, and mine toward porcelain and art metal work. The combination is A very happy one because by the time he has discovered and secured a colonial carved cabinet or an Inlald Flemish af- fair I have accumulated just about enou bric-a-brac and ceramics to fill it. There is the additional charm of looking for finding each purchase separately feel as if you e a special interest { every one apart from all the rest. If [ have any preference it is for the products of the English kilns, etis native land to me Her bedroom is o charming a spot that it seems as if any one ought to be con- tented there; yet Miss Mammering says that she can hardly wait to reach New York and turn its blue to yellow. Yellow is her favorite color and she finds the blue too cold. An exquisite Tojetti painting adorns the ceiling and copies of Tojettis are on the headboards of the dainty white enameled beds. Mirrars are on all sides. The dress- er is littered with gold and turquoise pieces. Little shaded lights are grouped on each side. ckett's den the heart of ma hat he should have a place a place where he can smoke and scatter ashes and paper te his heart's the kind that His wife be- can't be burned “1 gave him as they mean my cigar sent that up in one puff of smoke. leather sofa pillows ought 1 really think there invented to furnish But as there stand wear and tear. shouid be some way a man's rcom in asbestos. is not—oh. I'd ra in the house in peace and hap How's that for a wife? Bad Cookery Pathetic Device and of Slovenly European Housekeeping Husbands Cause to Solve a Lively Divorces UDexed Problem AD cookery and slove house- O 3 Keeping were the ¢ 400 divorces In th Charities, furnishes every he land with a subject for ser for husbands' temp rs an re t equally frail in Maine, Illin fornia, and divérces know not geog i the vah cal lim b ng 1502, it ay a * eerted wives who apr of C tained divorces. admitted :hat the 1 it s t stra or assistance “‘neither cook n covrse the could not expect to kee s bands. For these unhappy ma men themselves were to blam measu and they need not pose as ob- ~ "° » jects of popular sympathy. Why a m:.ry women ignorant of the ites of a happy domestic life? If this unfc is paralleled elsew have to wrestle with the kr of how a tunate condition of aff ere socic ung man bef. an alarmir sis matrimony may gauge ac e = e wvioman’s knowledge of e. - they sho : Shall he seek the auth; 1 as A.H. S F authority like Mrs. Hiller, and receive Out all day a ng thorough coaching in the subject in order judge of his be- nall to become a compet loved's qualifications “Can you cook?”’ precede “WiHl you wew m fulfillm, we need a G he America While the adoption of such unromanti sypedients would grate upon a nature, something must be done if aff aré as bad as Chicago's Superintendent of Charities would have us believe. Perhaps it would be as well for American mas linity to take a few lessons in t art of frying eggs and boi preliminary training for matrimo who can tell when this knowledge migl come into play?) or test personally the possibilities of the chafing dish, that ng coffee as a o THE DERAWIN.G [CI0M. culinaty companion of the lonely bache- tion as a Stav-at-Home Society to tegch lor. Evidently logic can trace an intimate her her place. But o connection between dyspepsia and di- ing those poor Eu vorees, and wii to take the hint. their S. A. H. 8 = can't help pity ean husbands. while wives will not be slow at the same time wishing them luek with