Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1902 — ALL OVER THE HOUSE. [ARTICLE]

ALL OVER THE HOUSE.

Something About Rugs, Which Have Displaced Carpets. Ruga have largely displaced carpets in American homes of recent years. The modern hygienic housewife insists upon having movable floor coverings because they can be kept so much cleaner. For people who rent, too, rugs are found in the long run to be cheaper, because with a change of residence they can be more easily fitted than a carpet to the new floors. There are a few facts which the woman who buys rugs for her house needs to know. Persian rugs lead all the rest in artistic design as well as coloring. Ten dollars is what a square foot of the best Persian rug is worth, and it took a single weaver twenty-th ee days to complete that portion. The Turkish rugs from Siwas are made of wool and are woven in almost every hamlet and home. Every poor family has as a part of their house furnishings rugs which are very valuable, but which they will not part with except in time of the direst need. The Smyrna rugs are comparatively inferior in quality. Their name is derived 1 om the mart to whieh they are brought for sale. They are made in the interior from the Angora goat’s coarse hair. ' Yuruk rugs are made by a band of nomads in the mountains of Anatolia. These are rugs of firm, even texture woven from the wool of the fine flocks of sheep. The tinplate workers have declined to accept a cut in wages in order to enable the mills to make a special vacation run on a foreign contract. Propositions for the reduction of wages at this time are out of order. This is not a tariff-for-revenue administratlon.