A BRIGHT ROOM

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 76, 26 September 1908, Page 11

A BRIGHT ROOM

No one wants a gloomy room- (remarks a writer in Transvaal Weekly), but what to do with one facing south is often a difficult problem Somo people do without curtains to allow all tho light possible to come into the room ; but it is not so much light that one Tieed3 as sunshine, and when this cannot bo had, one must make it, or rather, get the effect of it. Try having it papered with a soft yellow paper. A good plan is to have a light yellow on tho walls as far as tho picture-moulding, and a lighter shade, almost a cream, above this and on the ceiling. Then yellow silk sash curtains, pulled back, tend to make a room appear sunny. Brass can make a wonderful difference to a dreary room. A largo jardiniere, with a plant in it, placed in a dark corner, will lighten up bhe corner marvellously. Brass fireiTons, too, will give a cheery re« flection, oven candlesticks help, and little trays and bowls, bo they ever 60 small. The importances of brass in a sunlese room cannot be too strongly emphasised. Mirrors brighten up, and so do some pictures, with woll-polishod glasses and gilded frames. When Leap-year's lady comes a-courling, Does Bhe whisper sweet and low That her hero's precioug digits Never any toil shall know? Doe& sho give a golden promise That 'twould wound her tender soul Just to see him weed the garden Or to carry up tho coal? — Lippincotfc'B. A suffragette lecturer recently brought down the house with the following argument: — "I havo no vote, but my groom has. I havo a great respect for that man in the stables, but I am sure that if I were to go to him and say, 'John, will you exerciso tho franchise?' he would reply, 'Please, mum, which horse be that?' "—" — Pick-Mo-Up When tho King and Queen received a deputation from tho Peace Congress in London there ware three ladies in the deputation all of whom have done yeoman service to the cause of Peace — Lady Courtney, wife of tho chairman of the congress • Baroness yon Suttner, the authoress whoso writings have sl.irred the world ; and Miss Ellen Robinson, a Quaker lady, who fov twenty years has given _ herself up to the spade work of lecturing throughout the country. _ Miss Robinson had somo exciting: experience* during the years of the khaki fever, and was described in one of the London papers as "an amiable lady who thinks she can put down war." She is a publicist in other directions. She unsuccessfully contested a seat on the Liverpool City Council, but occupies a position on the Board of Guardianß in one of the Liverpool districts.