Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1875 — How to Furnish a House. [ARTICLE]

How to Furnish a House.

The New York Times draws a picture of the time when our houses shall be furnished as they should be: “Heavy fugs will partly cover the polished floors. Paper of some neutral tint, free from glaring figures, will stretch from the richly-colored dado at the bottom to the gay border at the top. The picture-rod will not be of the eternal gilt that wearies us now. It will be painted some decided color that will harmonize with the prevailing shade of the whole room. Before the windows and before the doors, which open outward, curtains, heavy in texture and subdued in tone, edged with strong lace, will- hang from wooden rings which move freely on a slender wooden rod fastened to the sheathing. Rings and rod will be of the hue of the picture-rod above. The single curtain before each opening will be looped so one side. Low bookcases, not over three feet high, of dark wood relieved by a few chiseled designs .picked out in color, will line the wall. Nd glass doors will disfigure them. One general pattern, varied in each piece, will stamp the furniture. Last and greatest, an open wood fire, either in a fireplace or in one of the Franklin stoves which still lurk in the garrets of old country-houses, will cast its cheery light over everything. The close stove, the register, the grate and the radiator will be tabooed. The blaze of wood burning across brazen andirons is something so beautiful that no artist has ever succeeded in paintingit. The first of all hints nn household tastes should be: Have, an open wood fire in the room in which you mean to live.” -! Newspapers now prepay postage. Yes, and a Kansas editor says that “ this is the grasshopper that will chaw us up.”