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“ LIFE IS SHORT.”
BY J. A. PARKER.
Sang the blue-bird from the tree-top,
As I sauntered idly by:
“ Time is like the glist’hing dew-drop
Pearl-bedecking blooming rye;
Life is short! Life is short!”
Sang the brooklet, as it gaily
Rippled, gamboled, in its glee:
“ Time is dying—dying daily
One by one the moments flee :
Life is short! Life is short!”
Sang all life on earth around me:
And the chorus 'rose clear and strong,
Caused the mountain to resound the
Echoes of the solemn song:
“ Life is short! Life is short!”
Weary turned I to the morrow,
Yet the chorus there was sung,
And sad evening breathed my sorrow
As around the echoes rung"!
“ Life is short! Life is short!”
CLOVER LODGE, AND HOW WE
FURNISHED IT.
KIT CLOVER.
“ Anything to make the dining-room
lighter,” Birdie said, so we painted all the
wood work in two shades of cream-color.
This was a wonderful transformation, pro
vided one kept their chin well up, so that
they could not see the floor. Then with a
brush—and, by-the-way, this is one of the
nicest helps that ever found its way into
our kitchen, and is liable to be followed by
a whole troupe—l mean the little ten-cent
brush made of broom-corn. It would scrub
a stove snow-white, I do believe ; with this
I scrubbed the floor until it was clean, if
not white; then we filled and evened off
all the cracks and holes, using a paper putty
made by soaking newspaper in a paste
composed of wheat flour, water and ground
alum, as follows: Toone pound of flour
add three quarts of water and a tablespoon
ful of ground alum, and mix this thor
oughly. The flour is then coated with this
paste, and a thickness of manilia or hard
ware paper is next put on. If it is desira
ble to have extra thickness, another layer
can be put on. This must dry thoroughly.
The manilia paper is then covered with paste,
and alayerol We searched
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floorish, and no^selected a
paper in rich cream cloor—l called it yel
low for short —marked off in medium
sized squares, with some darker shade, a
sort of a brown. Over this paper when
thoroughly dry we brushed three coats of
sizing. Two will do, or one can put on as
many as four if they choose to. This is made
by dissolving one-half pound of white glue
in two quarts of hot water. After this
was thoroughly dry, we gave it a coat of
“ hard oil finish varnish,” and when this
was entirely dry, the flour was ready for
use. Perhaps I may as well add that the
process is not expensive, makes the floor
air-tight, and can be cleaned by washing,
or scrubbing, if one longed to do that sort
of work. If the varnish is renewed as
as it begins to wear, the floor will last—
forever, I believe. We decided to take
the good breadths left in a worn ingrain
carpet and make a—a —a “ Kensington art
square” for the center, to be put down as
cold weather comes. But for a table where
high chairs abound, and crumbs are “sure”
to drop on the floor, why, we pre
fer our “ Papier Mache ” rugless for
the summer. Now, down can come the
chins, for our floor is not only presentable,
but really very nice looking, and shines
like a polished mirror. We learned a few
things regarding paper also. One was that
paper with red colors in it, could not be
used in this way with perfect success, as
the red will “run.” While the cream tints
are “fast” and so can be sized without
trouble of this kind.
We did not want a sideboard as Birdie
remarked. ‘ There’s enough to dust, already,
don’t lets get any more, beside the little
fellows would break all the pretty things
with their balls,” and IJadded, “We have
not got the money to pay for one, if we
wanted it.”
But I did want a lounge. Now there is
one in my upstairs sitting room that Birdie
suggested I bring down ; and there is one
in her room that I suggested she sacrifice,
but when we climbed up to take a look at
them we found they were both wrong side
out for that particular place, so I took
measurements—as the lounge must fit a
certain space between the chimney and
wall, gathered up my pennies, and started
out. At a second-hand store I found a
strong little rocker—cane back, and “queen
bee excluding board ” pattern for wooden
seat, for seventy-five cents; and a small
table, in oak, also with drawer, for seventy
five more. I found my pocket-book could
stand the strain, so ordered them. And, to
digress from the dining-room, let me add I
also found a quaint old mahogony bureau,
so old, indeed, that I have never seen one
like it. even among my grandmother’s fur
nishings. This I bought for three dollars,
and as the dealer said he had two more,
adding, “ I never expected to sell the old
traps, and threw ’em way back in th* cel
lar.’ I ordered them trotted out, and said
I would take one of .hem when he got
them up to the light. Sequel: When I
went next day for one, they had both been
sold. “Why, I wish I had fifty more,’’
said the dealer. “ I never saw anything
go off so lively.” And I simply “wished”
I had taken one, cobwebs and all, before
he had time to sell it to some one else.
But of the previous day. At “the store” I
found just the box I wanted to fit the nich
in the dining room, had it sent up along
with baled hay and bran for the cow;
sawed, hammered, stuffed, padded and cov
ered it. Oh, yes, hinged and partitioned
it, and with a big pillow, made just the
most comfortable kind of a place to drop
down on and rest for five minutes when
tired.
Across the chimney, which is very wide,
we fastened a shelf on iron brackets, and
draped it with some maroon canton-flan-,
nel, slashed about one-third the way across
—in its length, I mean, and one end caught
up with a bow of satin ribbon. At the door
leading to the kitchen we indulged in a
little extravagance, portieres and rod. Imi
tation cherry at 45 cents, for the rod;
single-faced at 15 per yard as to flannel;
looped back by some heavy old cords and
tassels that we had come by in a trade, cf
which I will tell you later.
The lounge was covered with a half
woolen goods—originally ten cents a yard
—and was just the color of the curtains.
Above it we fastened the paper holder—
for what tired house-wife does not want her
copy of Woman’s Work at hand when
she stops for a moment’s rest; and inside of
the box we had places for all the rubbers
and overshoes belonging to the family.
Along the sides were tacked little pockets
for holding strings, slippers, balls, mar
bles, or in short, any of the traps that
small boys love to leave lying about.
Once when I had been prowling about a
furniture dealer, searching for odd bits of
furniture, I found a camp chair that had
been singed in a recent fire. “If you can
use it I’ll send it along with the rest,” the
dealer had said, and sent it. It had been
covered and worn off once, so I re-seated
it with old Brussells carpet, and coveredit
with maroon colored rep. The frame had
been painted black when first it came into
my cabinet-making hands, so that it looked
even “better than new.”
With a canton-flannel cover for the
table—to be used on state occasions only—
for the little folks, will meet with mis
haps. The “ mik upset ese’f, mamma,” as
“Little Love” explained to me this morn
ing, and so I can’t afford to spread the
table every day—and a hanging lamp not
lor state occasions, and our room was
finished, and had cost—well, very little. It
would not help another to give the exact
figures, for paper varies in price and rooms
in size. The paper we selected cost fifteen
cents a roll, which is as cheap as one would
care to get.
lhe room is not grand, of course, but
sweet and clean and restful, and, above all,
home-like.
[to be continued.]
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