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House & Garden 
By the third year the room is complete. The couch which has been re-upholstered in velvet faces the fireplace and the long table is backed 
to it. The wicker chair goes out on the porch. Carpeting is supplanted by a chenille rug, and the carpeting used in one of the bedrooms. 
The curtains are now of rich mulberry damask and the old curtains moved upstars. Expenditures this year, $ 497.52 
The first curtains 
are glazed chintz in 
blue, mulberry and 
buff on black. 31 " 
wide, $ 1.90 a yard 
Part of the first year furnish¬ 
ing consists of a “Polly” chair 
upholstered in black sateen, 
$ 32 . 40 , a revolving top coffee 
table,%\S.S0, and lamp, $ 17.50 
Mulberry damask of 
antique finish is used 
for third year cur¬ 
tains. It costs $ 9.75 
a yard, 50 " wide 
black, with seat and back cushion in the glazed 
chintz. This costs complete $25. It is com¬ 
fortable and while not elegant is adequate and 
later will be useful on the porch or upstairs. 
Between the lamp and chair place a wrought 
iron adjustable standing lamp in black and 
dull gold with a parchment shade. This will 
throw a light for the person who reads in the 
chair or writes at the table desk, and costs 
complete $31.50. 
In the right hand corner between the window 
and the hall door a low coffee or 
tea table in walnut and gold is 
placed beside a low “Polly with a 
Past” chair, upholstered in Parma 
sateen piped in blue sateen, costing 
$30 for the chair and taking 11/3 
yards of the Parma sateen to cover. 
The cost of the revolving drop leaf 
table is $18.50. This makes a 
nice group for sewing and can 
easily be moved up by the couch 
in serving coffee or tea. 
On the mantel are two flat Ital¬ 
ian vases for $16, which, with the 
addition of a bowl of flowers in the 
center, make a sufficient over-man¬ 
tel ornamentation. I have not men¬ 
tioned the fixtures for the fireplace 
as one person likes a coal basket, another a 
hob-grate and another andirons. 
Thus we have the room complete for the first 
year, adding, of course, the personal touches 
of flowers, baskets, pictures, books and maga¬ 
zines. Book-cases should be built-in. 
The Second Year 
The second year we change the position of 
the couch and sofa, as the desk and table do 
not look well near one another, and we add a 
high-backed upholstered chair in mulberry 
striped velvet to repeat the color in the chintz. 
The chair costs $60 and the upholstery $6.75 
and it takes four yards. The little “Polly” 
chair goes up into one of the bedrooms where, 
with recovering, it matches a chaise longue. 
We add at the window a real desk and desk 
chair this second year. These are in walnut 
with interesting hand-carving on the back. 
The desk costs $78 and the chair $32 and 
nothing could be nicer than these as in adding 
to our furnishing we keep in mind 
to purchase only the best things. 
So far there has been nothing cheap 
and second rate. The wrought iron 
lamp is moved over by the desk, 
and we replace it by an Italian 
pottery lamp on the table with a 
.shade of striking design, complete 
$25. On the table we put a linen 
and hand-made lace scarf at $5.50 
as the desk set has been removed. 
And now, for the one extrava¬ 
gance of the year we add an over¬ 
mantel painting of flowers toned in 
mulberry and blue green to har¬ 
monize with the color scheme. It 
is copied from an old museum 
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