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Show Comfortable Couchvg. Comfortable couches which show no woodwork are so inexpensive now that no one need he without one or more. They are for Bale either simply covered with cretonne cre-tonne or left plain, and draped with a Bagdad Bag-dad or other lurga rug. An old fashioned sofa which had been consigned to the garret gar-ret was recently seen by the writer, and it had been so transformed that it looked like an extremely modern couch. The back hod been unscrewed and discarded, and an upholsterer up-holsterer bad added new springs and a cov-eriugof cov-eriugof stout white clot li, for which lie charged S. Some handsome cretonne, fift y inches wide and a trifle over three yards long, Imd been converted Into a pre'nd by simply hemming the raw edges. This was laid over and pushed in at the place where the slope of the head joins the main body of thecouch.no tacking whatever being necessary. Two large pillows of tho same material plaeed against the wall make a really handsome piece of furniture out of one which was decidedly unsightly before. There is a combination chair and table, which as a chair has a round wooden buck, with a scat covered in tapestry. The table is formed by simply turning t he back over to rest upon the arms. This piutw of fnrni-tnre fnrni-tnre is suitable either for the hall or the card room. Art Amateur. |