Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1888 — Bedroom Furniture. [ARTICLE]

Bedroom Furniture.

Good Housekeeping. ■ ' Natural cherry, mahogany and oak arc the prevailing woods in bedroom furniture. A fancy of the .hour is to use a brass bedstead, which may be draped with canopy and curtains in the old Englishs style, and accompanied by a Duchess table draped with similar materials, while the remainder of the furniture is of natural wood, or selected in French style of pink and gold. Brass bedsteads are cleanly and very expensive but not remarkably durable. They are finished with a sort of shellac and require redressing after a few years wear. .Single brass bedsteads are §25 and upward, and double ones SSO and upward, and it should *be calculated thifp- $5 must be spent every five years, for refurnishing them. Sheer Swiss muslins and India silks in artistic colors are used for draping brass bedsteads ami Duchess tables. The The curtains at tin* windows are then* made of corresponding materials. Large bureaus are square, standing high from the ground with mirrors in landscape style, or in circular Queen Elizabeth style. Chfeval glass dressing tables, ladies writing desks for the tliu furnishing of the modern bedroom. A lounge and one easy chair, upholstered with soft cushions are often added to the Horace Greeley wrote: “Hunger, cold, rags, hard work, suspicion, unjust reproach are disagreeable, but debts are

infinitely worse than them all. And, if it had pleased God to spare either of my sons to be the support and solace of my declining years, the lesson which I should most earnestly sought to impress upon them is, never run in dent.”