Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1903 — FURNISHINGS OF A HOME. [ARTICLE]

FURNISHINGS OF A HOME.

Essence of Elegance Lies in Elm* plicity and Good Taste. There is no idea more erroneous than that it requires a liberal expenditure of money to have a comfortable and artistic home. The very essence of elegance lies in simplicity. It Is not art to make a parlor the duplicate of an exhibition room In a furniture store. That simply calls for an outlay of money without any exercise of taste. There is no tone to such a room—no air of repose, no comfort, no individuality. It speaks for what it is—an exhibition. A room of that sort annoys >just in the same way as does an illbred woman who cannot forget the gown she is wearing. Furniture has a voice just as well as True art in furnishing is found jin allowing a home to slowly develop (under the tastes of those who live in it I the adoption of an idea here, another [there. The development requires time and cultivation. No house worth living in can be complete at one time. A home" of comfort unfolds Itself, eo to speak, and unfolds slowly. True Improvement comes in this way, and in no other way. Everything about a home depends upon the way its possessors start. A .beginning made without due thought given to what we are buying means waste; it means buying things which before long we are certain to find are not what we wanted, and of which we are sure to become tired. Buying in haste means repenting at leisure. Where the income is limited, there particularly must be exercised deliberation of choice. We must let our home speak our own likes and dislikes. The home should speak its owners’ tastes, their ideas, and not the tastes and ideas of their neighbors or friends. What suits one house rarely is in place in anotherf Let the start be made on the basis of one’s own originality, and not a dependence upon the ideas of either furniture people or neighbors. Let time be a factor in the development of a home. Do not get the mad desire to complete every room at once. A home furnished for the mere idea of getting It finished always shows the earmarks •f the effort.—The Household.

Surgery of the Heart. The wonderful progress which surgery has made during the last quarter* of a century was recently demonstrated in the accident ward of the London Hospital by an additional case of surgery of the heart. A tailor who had been stabbed in the chest with a knife was hastily conveyed to the hospital in a state of complete collapse. As his condition was obviously desperate, the house surgeon on duty determined to examine the wound to the very bottom as the only means of warding off septic if he could succeed in saving the wounded man's life from’' the immediate consequences of the injury. Accordingly, as the wound was found to be situated over the region of the heart, the portion of the chest wall lying in front of the heart was reflected, when the pericardium was found to have been laid open. On enlarging the wound in this membrane It was found that the heart muscle Itself had been penetrated. The opening in the latter position was rapidly cleansed with antiseptic fluids, the bleeding vessels were secured and the wound sutured. The cavity of the pericardium was then cleansed of the clotted blood, the opening in its menbranous wall similarly treated and secured, and lastly the opening In the chest wall was closed with corresponding precautions. Artificial respiration was kept up till normal breathing was fairly well established, and latest reports give a fair hope of recovery. Even laymen must recognize that such an occurrence represents a splendid triumph of professional skilL—American Medicine.