Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1902 — Furniture Plans. [ARTICLE]

Furniture Plans.

For all Important houses nowadays a careful plan is drawn up for the proposed position of evefry Important piece of furniture, with color drawings where necessary to show the effect, and by this means Edward and Alexandra were able to judge of the result beforehand. It was Mrs. Astor who first Introduced the Interior plan Idea among Americans with splendid household furnishings, her own Newport and New York mansions always being thus arranged to a dot Having once deter-, mined on the most advantageous composition of a drawing room, for Instance, woe betide the servants who misplace an article or “discompose” the harmony of the tableau.—Boston Herald. Two-thirds of the letters written, even when they are not dangerous, do, not amount to anythin*.