Fair Play

A DAINTY BEDROOM.

Showing How Easily, With the Most Inexpensive Materials, a Sleeping Room May be Adorned and Beautified.

A bedroom may be daintily furnished by clever hands at small expense. The dressing-table, which may be only a common pine table or low stand with shelves and a wooden upright nailed to the back to support the looking-glass, is covered with sateen or paper muslin of any desired color, over which a white muslin covering is arranged with cascades of frills or is simply gathered full. Drapery of the same falls from the top of the mirror. The long box for holding the dresses not in use has a thickly cushioned top with a round bolster at one end covered with some of the beautiful cretonne to be found at the dry goods or upholstery stores: two large square cretonne covered pillows with full frills complete the lounge. The "occasional" tables are covered with cretonne. Chairs, the seats of which have not withstood the ravages of time, may be reseated by covering them with double strips of ticking or stout crash plaited and tacked firmly to the edges of the seat. Finish with a cretonne covered cushion with a full flounce reaching half way to the floor: or, if preferred, cover the entire chair with the cretonne. Take care to fasten the cushion securely in place, else it is sure to fall to the ground, revealing the skeleton which it was meant to hide from the gaze of the uninitiated. If you are not the fortunate possessor of a table, take three broom-sticks and cut them of equal length, stain them and cross them at the middle, securing them with a screw. Take the cover of a large butter-firkin, or a square box cover, and screw it to the broom-sticks for the top: cover smoothly with burlaps or any thick material at hand, and then put the cretonne over it. Old pine tables of small size may be utilized, covering the legs as well as the top with the cretonne. -N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.