Show WHAT A WOMAN DID converting Convert lne a dreary hall cfall bedroom into 4 pretty editorial sanctum la in the house of a literary lUor iry mill man not far front from now york the iho need of 0 a sanctum lor for tho the head of tho the fatuity Iii was imperative but space and means wore were alike limited ahn only room which could bo be spared pared was a hall boll bedroom on the upper flour floor the poets wile afo was equal to tho the situation with her own hands she gave the tha somewhat defaced dif acel whito woodwork a coat of ivory tinted paint she bho painted the iho floor door a rather dark bluish color ahe he bought six rolls of bluish gray ingrain paper at 05 S 5 cents a roll and had bad it uld laid at an eap exp expense s 0 of 20 ic coats ceala a roll in place of a coo n 0 she bought eairly feet of aloo mould ing at al a cent a toot foot and painted it ivor walte hit e this as balled to the wall just beneath beneat h the ceiling at one on side of the room she built with a little from a carpenter an elaborate ola borato set of book bookshelves roach reaching I 1 13 9 irom from the floor door to within throe three fe eel et ot of th the ceiling celli nR shelves were divided into four compartments by the uprights and no two compartments were alike somo some had bad high and sorna somo low shelves and thero wore two spaces two feet fact square in which to slow blow way away magazines and newspapers A at t one end was a hinged shelf for a dictionary and above it a set ot of old pigeonholes pigeon holes were slipped into a space left for them for a she gota gut a deal kitchen table with a drawer site she gave thi this a and the bookas book cao e two coats ol of common b blak a k pant and a third coat of carriage varnish A high b backed ac led wooden c hair chair which sho she boug bought lit for received a like treatment as did an old piazza chair with a splint bottom the latter two first washed with strong potash lye to remove MI traces of varnish tho the upholstery ot 0 the room was very simple at the window wore a gray holland shade and a white muslin sash curtain lu in the summer bun imort as the window wai a sunny one the blinds were fastened back and their place supplied by a blue and gray awning parts of tho the bookcase wore were curtained with blue lining sateen lightly embroidered in white washed and ironed and lined with cheesecloth cheese cloth and a similar curtain was hung across the doorway I 1 the he floor was partly covered by a rug of 0 gral grai bauo filling heavily fringed at either end the same material cu cushioned bs boned the splint chair and covered a hassock A generous waste basket of 0 b birch 1 rc h bark with a largo large blue bow stood by the tha writing table able which besides the tha u sea I 1 paraphernalia had a large blotter and a student lamp the few ew pictures pic luros w were ere woo woodcuts wood dents cuts or photographs fram framed ell in ono one or two plaster casts and some bits of japanese pottery completed an interior at once tasteful and utilitarian Hur harpers pers bazar |