Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1895 — A WHITE AND GOLD NEST. [ARTICLE]

A WHITE AND GOLD NEST.

How an Ugly Room Was Transformed By an Artistic Girl. Philadelphia Times. She lives most of the year in a small halt bedroom, not an ordinary square room where one has room to swing a cat around in if such a eruel fancy should seize upon one, but a small, oblong bit of a room which seems specially designed for no better purposes than to cut off the light from the hall, but which in most boarding-houses are used to tuck away .young men or young women who are probably used to big farm house rooms at home. She was artistic; that made people say she would never be able to stand it, but with the. aid of the landlady's carpenter, a pot of white enamel and her last winter’s yellow evening gown, she made a very cozy noolc for herself. Her bed was an extension lounge. The bedclothes were folded up in a bureau drawet .in the daytime, and the pillows in cased in yellow and white slips tc j serve as cushions. Over this bed i sofa was a shelf, draped with a piec* i of white crepe embroidered with gold ! figures; on this she placed her favor- , ite photographs in frames o! i imitation gold metal and frames made of rough linen I paper, brushed with a gilded paint brush. Her pitcher and basin wen placed under a window shelf, from which was hung a curtain of yellow satin. On this seat was placed tb« teacups and brass kettle, which made life cheery for herself and friends at 5 o’clock every afternoon. Near the window was placed the bureau, a cheap old oak one, painted white by her skillful brush; opposite to it was a tiny desk. Over this and opposite the sofa were shelves enameled white for books, and a white rocking chair finished this really lovely little nest. M. Puvis de Chavannes, the distinguished French artist is to receive $50,000 for decorating one room in the Boston public library. Bishop Samuel Fallows, of Chicago, in speaking before the Sunset lub on his home saloon, said he was glad to report that he had a steady run of custom and that it was a profitable business. He was for blending the best features of the saloon with the restaurant. The ancestor* of the American people could drink any other people blind. It #a3 useless to try to force them to do without some kind of drink. = *2E!=iL —: H