The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 10, 1904, Page 10

10 THE SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL. you, Mme. Housewife, \ ave a home that pleases you t threshold? that rests ery time you have an opportun- and look about? Be- if that is the case you urn, add a little here a little thers, until you ecognife your own house, no one else would ng is absolutely necessary k this nsformation and it is gift of originality, and if this is your home will be merely a t is entirely innocent of any r that boasts of the least nality = house is precisely like el is what you want to as though it were a deadly pest. Instead of having the generous supply d work about change to the simple, straight lines and low open- ngs, for they always impart a quiet that is a positive relief. In the first place the clymsy oak ban- isters with the great newel post that always seems on the alert to catch the hurrying folk is a thing @f the past. If it is possible the stairs are moved and the narrow hall made quite twice or even three tumes its original size and the rallings and post are of plain mabogany. That makes more differ- ence than anything eise, for the first impression on entering a home is the most lasting one and a two by four bhall with & brass umbrella stand and & tow hooks on the wall does not give the flavor of stability that is one of the principal factors in true homeliness. ‘While the outside may look like a twin brother to your neighbor’s house there is mo walid or good reason for its being as monstrous in the interior. Maturally the wallpaper should be your first consideration, for the key- note of your home is scunded by it and above all it should look inviting and ¥ ¥ CUPID'S CAPTAIN (Cupyright, 3998, by Oolin C. Qolins.) of gix e had been caught putting pen- nies ints the comtribution box, when his mother had always made it a point to give him & nickg. This being brought to the attention of the youthful James did not abash him. He merely quoted his father to the effect that all the heathen were not located in Africa. His mother afterward remembered that on the same occasion James bimself was the heathen referred to by his father. The inference was obvious, but & six-year-old logician is pot to be ar- gued with. A compromise was ef- fected by turning over to the super- intendent & sum double the amount of e year's contribution. . When Jimmy was eight he started in at a regular school. He acquired " knowledge promptly; also the nick- name of “Swaps,” as a delicate trib- ute to his accomplishment. The first day he was in school he started with & 10-cent jackknife, and went home mith & new one worth balt & dollar. harmonious. “But beautiful things cost money," you say. That's very true, but they do not cost any more or as much, many times, as the ugly ones, and In this day and generation there is an 'Immense line of conventional hall papers that are offered the home decorator. If your hall is small and narrow put a smooth, soft gray paper on it that mever fails to be cool and pleasing to look upon and let the few pictures that dot it here and there be landscapes that will give depth. But if the hall is of any size the swellest paper that can be purchased is an imi- tation of leather, and when it is found in a Pompelian red with great sprawly scrolls of silver and copper in it it is the best kind of decoration in itself. Golden ogk is a good, serviceable woodwork and gives the rrom a cheer- ful aspect at the same time, and there is scarcely a color that fails to blend with it in a charming manner. And then the all-burning question of car- pets arises and confronts you with a cold, stony stare.® “Oh, don’t put car- pets down” is heard from all sides, but if you can afford a red Axminster car- pet, in rather a mottled design, and then throw as many Turkish rugs sbout as you please, it adds an air of coziness and warmth that hardwood floors and a wealth of rugs never does, or can for that matter. If the house does not, belong to you it is far better to invest in rugs, as they are a decided economy in the long run and can be carried from house to house with the same good results. These days portieres are a great ad- Junct to a well appointed house, and the most beautiful ones are made to match the tone of the room to a T. Tapestry in any dull, rich tone is al- o s e 40 46 o e o BREUVER J2 carpet must be a soft ping velvet and is prettier when absolut:ly plair and under no circumstances place any rugs over it unless they are sof: white bear, for the carpet should be quite sufficlent In itself. And then comes the delicate spindle- legged gold furmiture. Don’t make the migtake of crowding the room, far rather let it appear bare, for It is only for your very best Sunday-go-to-meet- ing guests @nd 1is really more for show than for usg. \ Three or four straight-bRekel bro- caded chairs, a small settle, aa inlaid table and a handsome cabinet filled with {vory tpinkets and litt!2 odds and ends are ample, with, of course, the exception of a few water calors, end rather small ones at that, and lo and behold if his Majesty Louis the Fif- teenth should happen in he couldn’t find a single thing to criticize or make unkind remarks about. But if you can afford such a reception room for the convenience of your ac- quaintance you certainly can afford a living rpom for the pleasure of your friends and family and its main re- quisite is that it be pleasantly spacious. No style better lends itself to this purpose than the colonial, for its very simplicity inevitably results in com- fort and ease. SMect a color that you will not tire of too quickly and one that will not fight with everything, for if you possess the spirit of a collector you will be forever picking up bar- gains and this is the room of rooms to put them in. Green and mahogany are always de- lightful. For instance, cover the wails with a two-toned green jute tapestry and the floor with a plain green, filling with two or three Oriental rugs here and there where the greatest wear and tear is certain to be. Place a great table in the very center of the room and then hunt until you find a lamp that is both useful and ornamental. Don’t try to keep it spick and span, for the more magazines and books care- lessly strewed about the better. In one corner there should be a spacious bookcase, rather low and long, and near it a leather Davenport that sug- gests cozy hours in good book com- 7"’ Every chair should be well tried, ways nice and very serviceable as well, but when it is dressed up with a de- sign appliqued in {llumihated leather it 1s quite the finest in the land. The furnishings should be severely plain and but the really necessary ar- ticles, for to be roomy and comfortable it should be free from all projecting ar- ticles of furniture. And when you have such an entrance to your home you need not feel that the light of day should be excluded in or- der to prevent your callers from com- menting uron its hideousness, and you will find, to your surprise, that you will be a much more gracious hostess for this one simple reason. Yet. it is most comforting to have a dainty drawing-room, that is never out of order, and to feel that the deli- cate vortieres can be pulled aside with- out fear and trembling. If you have an old home begin by tearing down a section of the partition and forming an arch or putting in a great sliding door, and then turn your thoughts to centuries long gone past. If you would have it very dainty and fetching choose Louis XV style, but be sure to remember that any period as pronounced as this one dges not permit of ‘any old furniture, for then you would have neither one thing nor the other, but a most unpleasant jumble. 1f you can afford it select one of those beautiful moire damasks that make the halls look almost good enough to eat. It costs something like $5 a yard, and it takes many of them, you know, to go around, but it is well worth the money expended when once up. To carry out the same delicate tone the woodwork should be ivory white snamwel, and it 1s richest if plain and not incrusted with gold or pink. The tor unless it is comfortable it has no valld reason for being in this room, for nothing under the shining heavens is quite as depressing as a chair that catches one in the wrong place. Never let your most “comfy"” room be without a writing desk, for it is decidedly unpleasant as well as un- comfortable to leave the snug fire and sociable candle flicker to accept a din- ner Invitation or say “hello” to your absent friends. Make everything as homelike as you possibly can, so that the room may be warthy of its name. And remember one little thing: Noth- ing adds cuite so much to the finish- ing touch as the “picked up” treasures. The queer little vases on gheir teak- wood pedestals, the odd old jugs that lock as thouzh they had been a part of the furnishings of the ark, the Chi- nese odds and ends that are in the clearest of blues and white, and, last but_not least, the ivory coiored plasters. These things may not be of the most expensive. but they have glorious dec- opative qualities and fit into their niches cuite as well as though they were of the finest marbles and the rar- est crystal. One ¢f the most pleasing rooms that you could possibly add to your list is the den: that one secluded spot where only the privileged mortals are admit- ted and then on state occasions. Furnish it in the craftsman fashion and spare no expense if you can pos- sibly help it. The walls should be of oak, but stained a rich brown, and much is added to the attractiveness of the room if the woodwork extends full four or five feet from the floor, and the celling, by the way, should be heavily paneled to carry out the same eflect.‘ The portieres and window hangings are e a4 et best when made of a %urm brown wool- en rep—with bands of green ooze leath- er appliqued on and held in place by large copper nails, which add a charm- ing bit of color in themselves. To be apropos, the carpet should be brown, and as this room probably is one of the most popular a good scheme is to use fijiing and then throw down one brown and green carpet rug, which has the advantage of being easily taken up and thoroughly cldaned. Perhaps the prettiest furniture is after the mission style, and it goes so nicely with the room that it is almost a shame not to select it. Put a high, old- fashioned clock in one corner to warn people not to sit and toast their toes quite all night, and decorate the walls and the tiny shelf that encircles the room with hunting scemes, or, in fact, anything that especially catches your fancy, provided they are in the pretty browns. And, above all, don't forget the mantel, for a den wouldn’t be a den without an open fireplace, for con- tentment always rises with the fire fiickers, and the most delightful air castles bulld themselves almost unbid- den. Every one can't afford such a luxury, but they cannot get along very well without a dining-room. If you are wise select a hunting scene in tapestry with which to cover your walls, for that in itself is one of the handsomest adjuncts to a dining-room. Of course, tapestry comes in an almost endless variety, but if you are overly particular hunt until you find a plece that repeats itself every eighteen feet, for the same scene is not presented so many times. The dark English oak that is heavily carved 1s about ideal, and even If you looked the world over you probably could not "OF INDUSTRY~B Colin C. C ‘When he went into the second reader he set aside the dollar which had been given him for the purchase of a book, and by a succession of swaps had ac- Quired a second-hand volume at an outlay of 10 cents. The 10 cents had first been invested in bullseyes, a confection recom- mending {tself to the youth of the land becsuse it was hard enough to last through the whole of the morn- ing session. The final trade had been three bullseyes, a knife with one blade and the stump of another, & stub of indelible pencil, a red, white and blue pen holder and three pens which had not been used past a point where they would write with a little coaxing. This was the seventeenth of the eeries, from which it may be argued that James was somewhat en- ergetic, since the book was required for the afternoon sesslon. And yet Jimmy was not miserly in his habits. He. was quite willing to sell a dllapidated watch case, for which he had glven a penny lead pencil, to another for 10 cents, and then treat to a soda at the corner stand, where soda might be had for 2 cents the small glass. Had he been penurious Mrs. Carle- ton might have intervened. He was even generous, and so his trading was speak his mind. Lutie was out driv- ing with Sandon even ther® and did not hear of the terms of the agree- ment. The others promptly forgot it —all save Jimmy. This was a rather larger order than he had yet filled, but he was not to be set aside by a minor consideration like this. Promptly the next after- noon he turned up at the grocery store which bore Sandon’s name over the door. Sandon was all alone, for both clerks were out with the wagons. He was putting up sugar in packages ready for the Satdrday ‘trade, but looked up pleasantly when Jimmy came in. s “Got a trade, ‘Swipes,’ ” he called, as the youngster perched himself on a stool. The last trade had been one of Lutie’s hair ribbons for a half- pound of figs, and the ‘ribbon even now was resting over his heart. James nodded gravely. “Got a big trade,” he declared. “I've got to have two' boxes of good cigars, anyhow, and what else I can get.”” Sandon started. This was rather more important than a half-pound of figs. ““9want to swap Lutie for two boxes of good cigars, a whole big box of raisins, some candy (like chocolate cigars best), a box of sardines, some crackers, a pound of cheese, a pair of looked upon as the diversion of an in- genuous- youth. This until Mrs. Carleton had caught him trading her button-hole scissors for a gold-plated pencil holder, three white mice, an old whitewash brush, half a tin of blacking, a mangy daub to be used with the same, and two B-cent tales of adventure on thé West- ern plains, participated in by a most strenuous person named Diamond Bill. Then she set her foot down and would not be pacified even when Jimmy de- clared that all he wanted was the books and mice, and that after de-’ ducting these as commission he was golng to give her the rest of the goods. The story came out at the supper table and was hugely enjoyed by Mr. Carleton, whose Yankee blood had evi- dently transmitted to Jimmy the pas- Eion for trading. % “Leave the work basket alone, Jimmy,” he admonished, ‘“When you! want to make a swap on commission take something big. Take your sister Lutie, for instance. You take what ¥you want from Sandon, and I'll take a couple of boxes of cigars for my share.” Then everybody laughed, for it was & standing joke that Lutie was apt to become an old maid simply because she insisted on waiting for Harry San- don, and Sandon was too bashful to find anything that {s more beautiful or more appropriate. It has but one draw back other than its price, and £900d housewives should be quite ready to overlook {t. The massive sideboard the cut glass cabinet and the great round table are just the very finest kind of dust catchers, but while the chairs are on the same order they are not nearly as bad In this respect, as they are covered with Spanish leather To even look at such a dining-room s almost enough to make one’s mouth water, and when a well-cooked, well- served dinner is added life has little more to offer. No matter what else you dispense with, there is no getting away from a bedroom, for nothing short of a good, comfortable bed should be tolerated for & single Instant. There is such an immense variety of pretty wall papers that your only trou- ble probably will be in &iscovering which you like the best. Instead of the regulation paper get a French taffeta cretonne in a dainty blue and white striped effect, and then use the same pattern for the curtain drapes and the portieres, for you know you can pur- chase wall paper these days with the draperfes to match, and right swell they are, too. Never dream of putting a dark carpet in a bedroom. It ism’t cheerful enough. Instead select a light blue and white, that perhaps introduces a slight shade of rose, and then, of course, but one kind of wood remains that could be suitably used, and that 1s birdseye maple. But be warned before you leap. A house furnished in such a delightful fashion is not for those of us that suf- fer from damask tastes and calico in- comes; yet, on the other hand, be con- soled, for it does not cost a fortume. And, after all, remember—and remem- ber it well—that taste more than money regulates the beauty of a home, and g0 and act accordingly. olins \@¥ @ | skates and—and”’—his gaze wandered —*“that watch,” indicating one of the dollar variety that lay in the notlon case. ’ For a moment Sandon wWwas non- plused. He loved Lutle Carleton, and some day hoped to make her his wife, He had more than enough for two, and he felt that he was in every way eligible, but he couldn’t propose. The set'forms he found in guldes to court- ship were too flowery, and the set speeches ‘he formulated himself were too blunt. By skillful questioning he arrived at the truth of the matter, and saw that “Swaps” had accepted the proposition seriously. Why should he not turn the joke the other way and be as serjous as Swaps”? He reached out his hand. “It's a trade, ‘Swaps,’” he assured him; “and here, give her this ring.”” It was an engagement ring he had purchased when he had visited New York the summer before. He had dfways carried it with him, but had never had the courage to offer it. “Swaps’’ was not without a poetical vein, and the ring gave him an idea. He sought out his siater. “Want to make a trade, Lu?” he prefaced. She shook her head laugh- ingly. “I don’t think. I do, Jimmy. The last pair of scissors you traded with . me won't cut.” “They had beautiful handles,” ob- served “Swaps,” “besides you should have tried them first. It's this,” and he pulled from his pocket the sparkling diamond, but little the worse for the fact he had been carrying & tar ball in his pocket the day before. Lutie gave a cry. "Where did you get this?” “It's mine,” he protested stoutly. “Mr. Bandon gave it to me to swap with you. You see, pop said I cou'd swap you with Harry Sandon for two boxes of cigars and what else I could get. You get the ring if you promise to marry him. Is it a trade?” Lutle grew very red. She was angry with her father for the jest; angry with “Swaps” for what he had done; but most of all she was angry at Sandon. It was unmanly, she declared to her- self, to make her the subject of a jest. For a moment it looked to “Swaps” as though the elegant trade was off. Before he could spoll things by argu- ing, a note came from Sandon. “Don’t think,” he wrote, “that I was Joking when I let JImmy have the ring. It wasn't that, dear heart, but I have been trying for so long to tell you what is in my heart, and I could not find the words. Now an idle remark of your father’s has given me a chance to speak. I no longer fear to ask you to -+ be my wife. I have loved you, dear, longer than you have known. Won't you forgive what is an Impertinence, because I saw In it my only chance to tell you that I love you? Now that I have found my veice I shall say it to my dying day.” Lutie cried a lttle, but she put on the ring and “Swaps” knew that he had made the trade of his life. Mr. Carleton was taken aback when he saw the turn affairs had taken and added his apolo- gy to Sandon. They had Sandon over to supper, and & merry party It was after the ice had been broken by “Swaps” naively re- marking, “Say, Harry’d make a bully swapper. He gives Lutie a ring to be his. What's hers is his, so he's got his ring back.™ —— The Infant Terrible, Tommy Tucker had been hurt while performing the act he called flipping a freight train. “Will he get well, doctor? edly asked Mrs. Tucker. danger?” “He will get well, madam,” repliea the surgeon, “but I can’t say he is out of danger. He will probably do the same thing again the first chance ne has.”—Chicago Tribune. $istract- “Is he out of