Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 166, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1914 — WICKER’S MANY USES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WICKER’S MANY USES

ARTICLES OF FURNITURE GIVE DISTINCTION TO ROOM. By No Means Costly, and Any One With Taste Will Be Able to Select Just What Is Required for the Apartment. 1 While rooms are delightfully attractive furnished throughout in wicker, it still remains true that one or two pieces of wicker furniture add distinction to almost any room. Sometimes this piece or two has been added for effect; sometimes for comfort. Perhaps some of the older

wooden furniture lias given out, and some wicker has added at a lower cost than ft would have been possible to duplicate the older pieces for; or, again, perhaps ft has been

Impossible to ,color or kind . the wojn-out furniture. . So ft can be seen that wicker will solve many problems, writes Ethel 'Seal Davis in the Philadelphia North American. Among' the different Colors -offered for choice, we find the natural willow —unstained. And, instead of thisseeming raw and crude, in some rooms ft gives a very unusual note, especially an hour-glass armchair at six or eight dollars. Another good color is mocha brown, and there are two particularly attractive greens—forest and sea green. A wicker sofa costs about thirtyfive dollars, the covering of the upholstered seat cushion being extra. But a five-foot box davenport in willow has been seen for $23. The wicker flower stand Is about four dollars and a half, and the footrest, three dollars.

Imagine a living room in a little summer cottage furnished in this wise: Cream walls and white woodwork, a sage-green summer woolen rug, sea-green wicker furniture, including table; desk and desk chair, davenport, window bench, bookshelves, two .straight wall chairs and two armchairs —one a wing and the other with a side pockfet for magazines. For the notes of color In this room we will depend on the window hangings, which are dull-rose upholsterer’s silk; the pictures, which should all be framed in black, and the flowers, which should be used in profushion. One of the prettiest sets is a window bench —a most attractive piece of furniture, and a nifty little book trough. What will we not adapt! Time was when troughs were used only for holding water or feed for animals; and here we have them in our best Sunday-go-to-meeting rooms, with books in ’em! In almost any ehop the seat might be priced at sls and the book trough at eight dollars in a lx3-foot size.

in Dainty Wicker.