Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1882 — A LOVE OF A ROOM. [ARTICLE]

A LOVE OF A ROOM.

Decorated and Furnished by the Hand o i a Connecticut Working Girl. [From the Hartford Times.] A young working girl, of this city, by the exercise of her own innate good taste and putting every spare penny where it would do the most good, has furnished forth a charming room at comparatively small expense and sufficiently aesthetic to please the most fastidious person. The floor, painted by her own hands, is a dark wahrat shade, partly covered by a large rug made of cheap ingrain carpet in a small pattern of cream and olive, bordered by a broad band of plain olive felt. The inexpensive wall paper is plain olive, flecked with pink, finished by a narrow olive terminating at the comers with a cluster of four tiny pink fans. One window faces a dingy brick wall, and she painted the window, panes in bright water colors, following a pretty traced pattern, which gives a bit of stained glass quite effective in the pretty room. The other window is draped gracefully with lojag/full folds of sprigged muslin, depending from rings on a plain pine roll, to be replaced in the winter with a heavier curtain of olive cotton flannel. The furniture is light wood and a lamp with a rosy transparency stands on a 5-o’clock tea-table, of unvarnished wood and throws a soft light over the room, which also contains books, shelves of pine, a couple of second-hand easy chairs and a small dry-goods box for shoes, covered by her own hands with pink and olive cretonne. A large clothes-horse, on which she pasted the story of Cinderella in Walter Crane’s pictures over olive paper, shuts off the washstand and bedstead from view. The toilet accessories, set off with fresh sprigged muslin over a pink lining, are a pink and white wash-bowl and a large pitcher of shape that comes now in the cheaper grades of china; a second-hand wardrobe, draped with a portiere of olive Canton flannel, contains the unesthetic dust-pan, brooms and other homely articles necessary to neatness and comfort, all trifles of that description bought at the 5-cent counters. A pretty willow rocking-chair, ornamented with olive and pink ribbon, and a knitted hassock to match, the two latter Christmas gifts, stand on the rug. On, the olive-draped mantel are grandma’s Nankin teapot, two tall silver candlesticks and a large ginger jar, not decorated and spoiled with gummed-on pictures, but left in its pristine blue and white beauty, filled with white daisies gathered on Sunday after-noon-walks. Two or three photographs of good subjects, that are better than chromos and cost less, hang on the wall and complete the pretty refuge of this proud and industrious girl, who is selfrespecting enough to earn her own living rather than to be dependent upon her rich relations. „