Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1886 — Old but Good. [ARTICLE]

Old but Good.

Do not despise a good article of furniture, says an exchange, because you are told there is something a little newer. Fashion has its vagaries, but it isijnly thtf nouveaux riche who are absolutely controlled by them. In many of the best houses of the country you will find little or no change in the furnishing, although every article speaks of a past generation. In General Logan’s house in Washington there is not a room which does not recall days long since gone by, although the house itself, an old-fashioned one, is a recent purchase. Indeed, Mrs. Logan’s good taste decided that modern styles would not accord with the place, and she spared no pains in finding the antique. You may be sure, however, that every article is good and substantial. They were made in the beginning “for long wear, not to be changed as one changes the style of the dress. And there is no more comfortable, homelike, and refined home in the country than this of the Logans. Even those who have spent thousands of dollars where they have spent one, look with admiration upon the quaint old mansion with its quaint old interior. No house in these days can be considered quite complete without some books and pictures, but these things are not to be bought in haste or indiscriminately. More than anything else they speak of the mind-furnishing of the heads of the household. It is not so much their value, but it is what they say in their silent yet eloquent way of the intelligence, the refinement, and purity of thought which dictated their selection. One fine engraving is worth more than a dozen tawdry daubs. Yet in these days good taste may be gratified in this direction without the expenditure of a great deal, of money.