Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1883 — Sit Down, Please. [ARTICLE]

Sit Down, Please.

The beet chain and oouohes are those which you like best, and which best human figure in repose. A couch should allow of the feet being put up, if necessary, and should be of suon a shape that you can lie upon it, either full length or half length, with perfect comfort. To be really serviceable, it should not be covered with pale-blue satin or maize-colored taboret, but with a good tapestry covering in a neutral hue, say sage-green or dark, rusty red, to wear well. The tapestry should not be too fine to lie down upon, or even, in the privacy of family life, to lay one’s feet upon. * And the whole couch should, if possible, turn toward the fire, so that its oocupant may have his faoe toward the cheerful glow. At the same time a little wickerwork table —black and gold, if you will—may hold a lamp for reading. As to ohairs, a oonple of good, well-stuffed easy chairs, also covered in the same tapestry, and arranged so as to look toward the fire, ought to be sufficient for luxury, while sii or eight little ebonized and cane-bottomed gossip chairs are the simplest and prettiest “occasional" furniture you can have. The gossip chair has a curved back which exactly fits the natural curve of the body, and the neat slopes gently downward and backward, so as to give one the best possible support with the least angularity or awkwardness. With these pretty little clean cane seats, a black wickerwork chair, two easy chairs and $ couch, yon should have enough places for family and guests in a quiet household. The New Orleans Picayune savagely remarks that the trouble with civilization is, that hangings do not keep up with murderers in number.