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MAKING THE HOME BEAUTIFUL-THE USE OF THE DAVENPORT - ■■ - - - . . --I*. ..- . - •■jrn —««wv-*a.-^: ±~T3e*^*^.^fT*^-^iJtt^+ivv4JUHfQ t iTiTigwitjtmnM^mJtß*¥mlfSlllKfMLn t ' ■ ■ - -*..<■... - ' ■. . " . ■ . , : - . «. ;, * ■ . ~ ..■•""■■,■--■-<-.■-. ..-^- • * -j •*»*--,•,-■-. -• --.- . . - . BY MARGARET GREENLEAF. v TN RESPONSE to a number of inquiries as to the most desirable X single piece of furniture to pur chase for use in a/living room, \ ball or library, I unhesitatingly rec \ommend a davenport or large sofa. nMiese articles vary in price sufficient ly to make them possible to all purses. They look comfortable and inviting, md do more toward furnishing than siuy other piece of furniture. Beside? providing a lounging place, a daven port furnishes practical seating space for several persons. A hardy man can construct a make shift davenport from a single bed, furnished with wire springs. Another woven-v ire spring should he fitted in the back between the head and foot boards. Mattresses should be placed on the seat and securely fastened to the bad:. The whole can be covered by a denim slip. For this slip, a plain color that harmonizes with the walls and woodwork of the room should be chosen. If a little more money can be spent, corduroy or cotton velvet makes an attractive and serviceable cover. The pillows should be covered in A Good Story of Myra Kelly Myra Kelly, who within a year's time has won an enviable reputation as a clever portrayer of child life in New York's East Side public schools, is practical. Literary fame and pub lic attention have not diverted her from the paths of sanity into the "higher walks'' of occultism, whither so many literary women have wan dered. A disciple of "Oriental mysti cism" met Miss Kelly recently and, after considerable cross-questioning concerning literary motifs and the purposes of her soul, inquired anxi ously: "My child, what is the color of your soul?" "I am sure I don't know," promptly replied Miss Kelly, "unless, being Irish, it is green." "Green! Green!" exclaimed her questioner. "Mine is royal purple. We can never harmonize. Farewell!" and she floated away into the purple shadows of a darkened room beyond. All Three Necessary. Some one asks whether success is most due to luck, pluck or brains. The answer is easy—all three. S. if X silk. ,- ti^^^^B'^^^^^' ' ■Jw^ . Queen Louise Face Massage Cream Beautifies, Soothes, Invigorates, Refreshes and Cleanses. Will remove wrinkles, freckles, blackheads, tan, sunburn, and other facial blemishes. It pro duces a velvety clear complexion. It is used by all the leading society ladies and prominent actresses. For sale by all prominent Department Stores, Drug Stores and Barber Supply Houses in the United States. If your dealer cannot supply you with the Queen Louise Cream, order direct from us, giving his name, and upon receipt of 50 cents for a 3-oz. Jar or $1.00 for the 6-oz. beautiful crystal jar, we will send you by express prepaid the Queen Louise Cream, together with a beautiful illustrated book giving full directions how to use the Cream for Facial and Body Massage. Address Dept. B. W., N. LOPARD & CO. (Inc.) 705 Broadway, New York. Our Trade Marks taken from the carton are exchangeable for Universal CJoupons. material and shades chosen with a view >to their combination with the other colors in the room. The daven port can be placed against the wall under a window, across a corner, or set at right angles with the fireplace. If the room is objectionably long the davenport may be placed almost in the center, and it- will then go far towards breaking up the unattractive appearance produced by too great length. Another point in favor of daven ports made from single beds is that by removing the slip covers they can readily be returned to their original uses. To the woman whose spare room space is small they will there fore particularly commend themselves. For appearance and comfort this ar rangement is much to be preferred to the ordinary folding bed. A woman of good taste and small means recently gratified a wish for a real davenport for the modest sum of eighteen dollars. She found one at a department store. It was of generous size and plain lines. The frame, however, was of yellow and highly polished golden oak, and the covering of brocatelle showed an im possible combination of p:nk and yel low on an olive green ground. The Two Harmless Oaths. In the United States it is common to say that you "don't give a tinker's dam" for something or other. Our English cousins, in similar circum stances, say "a twopenny dam." Each of these apparent oaths is harm less, and may be used in polite society without a qualm. Rear-Admiral Casey, noticing a look of surprise on the face of a friend -Alien he said "tinker's dam," ob served. "I guess you think I'm swearing, but I'm not. A dam is a contrivance re sorted to by all tinKers in their work." The phrase "twopenny dam" was first used by the great Duke of Well ington. His administration of the British army was attacked, and he as tonished the House of Lords by re plying: "I don't care, and the British army don't care a twopenny dam for any of these criticisms." Then lie explained that "a dam was an Indian coin of the value of twopence." Peacock Jewelry. Jewelry that imitates peacock plu mage is becoming very popular in Paris, especially for coiffure orna ments, despite the old superstition that it is unlucky. SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 25/ 1904. upholstering work was good, and the price on the day of the "green tag sale" was only $12. She purchased it with many mis givings, but a determination to make it "do," as her living room required such a piece of furniture. She found a fifty-inch material which could be purchased for 85 cents a yard and Seemed just what she wanted. In taking her measurements she included the back^ which origin ally was covered with cambric, and would necessitate placing fhe daven port against the wall. The fabric selected was wool satinette. She recognized it as similar to the ma terial she had seen used on pew cushions in churches, and therefore she felt sure it would stand hard wear. The color was rich deep blue, a two-toned effect being given to it by a small diamond shown in the design. The color and shine of the oak was now her great difficulty, and she de cided to restain it a dark brown. First she used a varnish remover upon its highly polished surface. After a sec ond application she was able, with the help cf a palette scraper, to remove all trace of color as well as varnish from the wood. Next she applied the dark brown wood tint, and then the filler, which she had colored with the An Every-day Sermon for Every-day Folk By the Rev. Dr. Cyrus Townsend Brady- DIVERGENT are the views with which we regard New Year's Day. To some it is an oc casion for good resolutions. To others an opportunity for having a good time. They call it "having a good time," I believe. Restraint, or the lack of it, characterize the differ ent considerations of the season. One of the having-a-good-time class came under my observation on the afternoon of the first of January last. In passing, if my pulpit be a newspaper my horrible example is frequently found on a street railway. In default of a worse, the average street railway might serve to point a moral. But 1 wander. Preachers often do; so also do other people. Living in the largest city in Amer ica, and by common report the worst, and being called to all parts of it by duty, it is a pleasure to testify to the fact that I see fewer drunken people in New York than I have often no ticed in a town of thirty or forty thou sand inhabitants. Generally those who are intoxicated are quiet, not to say stupid. This New Year man was an exception. He had been a gentleman, at least his conversation showed that he was col lege-bred and well educated. His words were well chosen and indicated culture. His face, beneath its unmis takable signs of dissipation, had been originally a good one. If I am any judge, he had been a man of weight and standing. Now he was a wreck. He talked loudly with such of the passengers as were willing to engage in a conversation with him. Most of ] Prickly Heat, Chafing and Sunburn I stain. A final coat of dead-lac varnish finished it. The result was a lovely nut-brown color, with a finish that showed the grain of the wood and entirely satisfied her artistic sense. In re-covering the upholstering she found it necessary to stretch and tightly tack lengths of unbleached cotton muslin over the brocatelle. She fastened and carefully stretched the wool satinette on top of this. She tacked the upper edge first and then drew the material firmly into place, pulling with the thread of the goods. This once in place, she finished it with a gimp, which was of a slightly darker shade of blue. The pictures reproduced above show how effectively davenports can be used when an elaborate scheme of furnishing and decorating is carried out. In the great hall with the beau tifully carved white marble mantel and perfect colonial woodwork, the placing of these two pieces at either side of the large fireplace is in per fect accord with the style and dignity of the stately apartment. In the second picture it will be ob served that the davenport is placed in an unusual way. This, however, adds to the characteristically comfortable and "livable" look of the room. The color of the velour used as a covering them were willing to have fun with him—niore's the pity! The popular state of mind toward a public drunk ard is painful to think on. Everybody in the car was intensely interested in him; nearly everybody vastly amused. There was some excuse for the laugh ter with which his sallies were greeted, for there was a certain humor in him, although if he had been sober nobody would have noticed them. By and by he began to sing. It was quite evident that he had had a voice in his younger and sober days, for he carried the tune perfectly. It was apparent that he had been trained to sing as well as educated to speak, perhaps to think, and there were notes of sweetness in his cracked rendition. What do you suppose he sang? That sweet old song, "Then You'll Remember Me." As the notes, gro tesquely rendered, rose and fell, the crowded car burst into uproarious laughter. Yet the spectacle, after all, was a pitiable one. "How ill gray hairs become a fool!" How it hap pened, or why it was, I know not, but the man and his music filled me with pity—that gray, broken, degraded wreck, piping out the words of that song that most of us are familiar with, because we heard our mothers sing it! That song, with so much of sweet re membrance in it! I wondered if .there were some one in his mind while he sang. I wondered if some one had sung it to him, and if it was a vagrant recollection that brought tears to his bleared eyes. I built stories about him as he sang. I have been building them ever since I left the car. There was a sermon as well as a ro mance in it all. Indeed, in every ro mance there is more or less of ser mon. And, says the wit, in every ser mon there is more or less of romance, too. So be it. Sermon would be dead without romance'and romance purposeless without sermon. The greatest artist is he who conceals the sermon in one and the romance in the other, yet makes them both inter esting. Now, I do not know whether one would rather be an object of con temptuous laughter or of pitying con tempt, but this is certain, that from one or the other point of view every body in contact with him regarded that man. • He neither knew nor cared what people thought of him then; but, unless I am much mistaken, he was the kind of man who would^both real ize and care later on; when he sobered up, that is. You may not be the kind of a man who would of yourself realize or care were* you in such a situation. In that case, I here endeavor to supply the lack of preconsideration or after thought in your composition. I beg to inform you that when you put your self in such a position the world re gards you either with pity, the peculiar kind of pity that one feels for con temptible weakness and sin; or else with a mockery, the peculiar kind of biting humor that one has for the same qualities. When you start out to have "a good time," my young friends, on these for this davenport harmonizes well with the rich brown stain and dull fin ish of the woodwork. Tables properly shaped and placed will also give a cozy and inviting look to a room. No living room or library should be without a table on which a reading lamp is placed, and near which there is an inviting chair with a foot stool of exactly the proper height. A bare corner in the drawing room may be made interesting by the plac ing of a small table on which are some curios of interest, or some choice old books, or even a collection of pho tographs. A bit of brocade shoiu 1 cover the center of the table. A small square erf it, edged with gold galloon, will give color and assist in showing to advantage the simplest articles placed upon it. A tall crystal vase may also be made decorative, and even a few sprays of greenery or au tumn foliage will be found to help greatly in the color effect. A chair or two should be placed conveniently near. Answers to Correspondents. "A. S." writes: "I would like to ask your advice as to how to fix a room as a. den at small expense. The room to which I refer measures 12 feet lines, on New Year's or any other day —and it is extraordinary how many people there are to whom the caution is applicable—just remember how the world is going to regard it. I have said nothing as to how your mother, your wife, your children, your sweet heart, or your friends—and surely you must have some who love you—look at the situation. Nor have 1 pointed out what is the opinion of the God of infinite righteousness, or how the God of perfect love must view you. But I have shown you simply the opinion in which you will be held by the cold, impersonal voice of society, that so ciety which surrounds you. It is a singular thing that many a man who is indifferent to the influences of re ligion—and any kind of religion is bet ter than none—and irresponsive to the pleadings of loved ones, quail before the popular verdict. The popular ver dict is laughter or contempt. Knave or fool? In what light will you have humanity regard you? The answer to this question is part of your "good time," which it would be well to consider in advance. (Copyright, 1904, by Cyrus Townsend Brady.) A Sultan's Notions. The first time the present Sultan of Morocco saw a compass he was very inquisitive as to its use. When it was explained that the trembling needle pointed to the north uniformly he seemed interested, but incredulous. Finally he declared flatly that he couldn't believe the story; there must be some kind of clockwork about it. Tn a conversation with him an Eng lish visitor learned that in the Sul tan's mind Belgium is the leading country of Europe, because most of the arms used in Morocco are re ceived from Brussels. An Effective Bit of Furniture. If a young girl's room is finished in white enameled ware, there is offered a new and very effective bit of furni ture that will fill a double mission. It is a severely plain settee in white enameled wood, with a moderately high back and arms, both curved, but unadorned by carving. The seat lifts like a lid, to show a shoe box, with a removable pad in the bottom, which can.be lifted out and swept off like a door mat. This settee, with pale cushions to match the dominant color note in the room, will fit into a small corner and prove both useful and dec orative. New Use for Lettuce. When, how or where some of our wonderful precocious hopefuls get their ideas of the use of things will always be a mystery. One day at din ner a lettuce and tomato salad was being served. Little Thomas, a four year-old, asked first for tomatoes only, but when he saw that the others were taking the salad complete, he broke in with: "Mother, I dcs I will have some lettuce to keep my tomatoes clean." 754 inches by 8 feet 10^ inches, and only has one window, measuring 8 feet by 6y 2 feetj although the room is very light. , I would like to fix it up in Oriental style, but am afraid it would cost too much." Treat the woodwork with' red-lac. This closely resembles old Chinese red lacquer and is extremely effective when used in dens. One or two small tables or tabourettes could also be treated with it. Cover your walls with cartridge paper in a soft shade of cafe au lait. The upper third of the wall should be covered with a single width of East India cotton, showing an ivory ground, with figures in a mingling of colors. A small moulding can finTsh and hold it at the ceiling line, as the picture rail will do at the lower edge. Straight lengths of this material should hang at either side of the win dow. Hang plain yellow silk curtains next to the glass. Have your window seat or couch covered in plain scarlet denim and cover the pillow? used upon it with East India cotton. A blue and white durrie rug would look well upon tlie floor, and Hong Kong willow chairs and tall stools could also be used. A square ebonized table in the center of the room could hold the lamp and She Made the Story Convincing. Harriet Prescott Spofford } , one of the earlier among the women writers of short stories dealing with New ISngland life, is far more conscientious than most literary workwomen. Once she had to describe in a short story the experiences of a green hand who was trying to run a locomotive, which became uncontrolled and left the rails with the would-be engineer. In order that the story should be convincing she spent days in the study of the levers and valves, the flues and gear of the iron horse. She inter viewed engineers and firemen, master mechanics and engine makers, and when the story was published more than one railroad man who read it was fain to believe that it could have been written by no one not a practical engine driver. The Great Army of Spiritualists. The number of Spiritualists in the United States and Canada is surpris ing, when the figures of the National Spiritualists' Association are studied. The various societies tributary to that central body have a membership of over 250,000, ?nd it is estimated that more than :i million and a half people in the two countries are keenly interested in Spiritualism. There are over 1,500 professional mediums—or "psychics," as they are called in Spiritualistic circles—and over 10,000 persons are in the habit of engaging their services. r 1 :\ ■ r**^ .JE..JT * _ ""^(OW. ■'■ ■■■'-- ■ p«£j ; ■.:..-.v.^ \ —-" ~g - !_ • • • ** * - '^ 'u ~ *-s**-. —•• • — &—. .$L*. ».A_l3[J_L__ ' E^oPI E9I imfWfwtttUlwill 'm«mmj*•*, WE FIRST PRODUCED a ; house finish, in a dead ivory white.that could be laid on with a brush, and when dry,)it would resemble - a rubbed ; finish—we ; called it ' Egrgshel- White , (Trade: Mark). It has ever since been the criterion of good taste in Colonial interior finish., . . :■'■"' " ■ : ■„; .WE HAVE NOW PRODUCED -::"' ■'S7;.[[ \ V'l ; another to be : known as .Enamelacq (Trade Mark). rlt has a soft lustre, and Mn, twenty shades runs from soft white to brilliancy in high colors. Even wicker work takes Enamelacq. We invite correspondence. You may have our booklet free. " ■■, I 1 CHICAGO VARNISH COMPANY •. - ■:- ■ ■ -V-Vj-: 'iv js'i»<. ""!.■>■ -■•;!■'• i .•;■/'<■:•.'■-,iv.' :ii vf-j-:.- ■■.. .r:>i-^-'^,fz' z ■ •-<.-. ■'■ '-..-••■-■••.i' - ,;•"-.-• ':-,. '" ■',-■.'• 35 DEARBORN AVENUE, ; ; :V\ 22 VESEY BTREET, 66 HIGH STREET " , CHICAGO- >V>L. • "•'-': NEW YORK. '- •. J ; ■:■■ ■■ WBO8TON!|nl books, while a black fur rug in front of the fireplace will serve to bring out the values of the various colors in the rooms. "A New Home" says: "Would it be in order for me to ask you to recom mend a shop where I could purchase all of the things needed for furnishing a five-room cottage in the country. I can spend a few hundred dollars. As I am living far from any large city, I thought I could purchase everything together and have the lot shipped complete. If this can be done, I will send the floor plan to the 'Home Beautiful' department and ask for a color scheme for the walls and sug gestions for the style of furniture, and then I could order it." There are many-large department stores which give estimates on fur nishing everything needed in outfit ting one room or a whole house. If you will send a self-addressed postal card I shall be glad to send you the addresses of several shops. I will also give your house plan careful consider ation and answer you personally. In writing to a shop you should send the floor plan of your cottage and state the amount of money you are willing to spend and the uses to which each of the rooms is to be put. A Startled Governor A good many stories have been cir culated 'concerning an interview be tween Lincoln Steffens, the "graft ex poser," and Governor Herrick of Ohio, in which the latter is alleged to have shown Mr. Steffens the door. The facts as related by Mr. Steffens are il lustrative of the directness with which he seeks his information. When he was shown into the Governor's office, Mr. Steffens says, the Executive was signing letters. Mr. Steffens sug gested that he would wait until this task was finished. "No," replied Governor Herrick, "go ahead. I can do both." * "Well," came the sudden question, "who is the Governor of Ohio?" The startled Governor sat up and noticed things. "What do you mean?" he demanded. "I mean who is the real Governor? What is the actual government of this State?" Mr. Steffens answered, Yan kee-like. Whereat Governor Herrick stopped signing letters, and a long and inter esting conversation between the two men followed. One for Him. "The trouble with women," said the red-faced man, "is that they ain't got any sense of humor." "I suppose," said the timid little woman, "that that's the reason why we never laugh at our husbands." 3