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Show . The dining room.-which Mrs. McCor-nick McCor-nick says is her favorite room in the house, is the one for which the writer has a strong partiality, It is in mahog-ony, mahog-ony, and is furnished in peacock blue. The ceiling is pannelled in mahog-ony. mahog-ony. with , raised fresco work on a gold background between. From the dining room the conservatory opens on the south where it catches every gleam of sunlight from daylight till dark. Mrs. McCornick has perhaps the finest dinner set in the city. It is of Meissen in Boucher figures intermixed with delicate flowers. Over the mantle is a picture which is quite eight feet in hight by six in length. It is taken from a fresco in an old castle in Meissen. It represents the discovery of the process for making porcelain. The results are being shown to the king, Augustus the strong, by the workmen. One .of them is represented repre-sented as taking a cup from the crucible cru-cible while the others look eagerly on. A cozy breakfast room opens off from the dining room. It is in cherry and is likewise furnished in peacock blue. A pastel of a prairie chicken shot by himself is the work, of her son Henry. Several of this young gentleman's paintings throughout the house show superior talent. On the next floor perhaps the handsomest hand-somest room is , Mrs. McCornick's. It is in birdseye maple. The whole suit having been made to order in the same wood. The walls are in pale . yellow, frescoed in snow balls and morning glories. The hangings are in yellow satin and antique lace. A very good copy of Raphael's "Sistine Madonna" hangs on the .wall, with many other dainty little paintings and sketches. The bathroom adjoining is in cherry, with an antique fresco in pond lillies and swans. i. The next room you enter is the guest chamber. The wood work is manilla, the walls finishipg in French gray with a delicate freze and a cobweb of gold across the ceiling. . The prevailing shade of the hangings and furnishings is pink. .. ' The boudoir belonging to this ..room is white maple. The walls are in deep preani. A colje6tign of miniature portraits por-traits of the family done in porcelain grace this room. One of the most beautiful is. that of Mrs. McCornick's mother, a handsome woman of the Martha Mar-tha Washington type. Miss McCornick's room is suggestive of her own fair self, with its delicate hangings in pale blue satin and white lace. It is finished in sycamore with pale tinted walls. Over the mantle is a copy of the "Adoration," "Adora-tion," and another beautiful thing is "St. Cecilia at the Organ" in the old-fashioned old-fashioned miniature work. The boy's room is in pink. Miss Keogh's chamber cham-ber is in warmer, darker shades and the nursery, when completed, will be in pink and blue. The fine dancing hall is on the third floor and is beautifully decorated. A MODERN MANSION" ' v A Visit to the Elegant New Home of Mrs. , MoOornick on Capitol 'V Hui. INTEBIOE OP. EXQUISITE BEAUTY. Eich Paintings That Grace the Walls-Brief Walls-Brief Kesumeof the Host Important Sooiety Happenings of the Week. . The writer had been dreaming ever since she , had roamed through the empty . corridors and partly finished rooms of Mr. McCernick' new house, that some day, when all the elegant furnishings which Mrs. McCornick knows so well how to select and harmonize, har-monize, had taken their respective places and grown used to their new positions, she. was going to ask its owner to let her write a description of the interior. So a day qr two ago she climbed Capitol Hill and entered with some trepidation the . beautifully kept grounds. Her heart accompanied the door-bell's ting-a-ling with a palpitating agitato,. ' and the temptation now seized her to think up a speech (it was rather a large request she was about to make), but she'd tried those things before be-fore and some way the words always got wrong side foremost, so she turned from the great carved doors and looked across and adown the valley, with its green and yellow fields, and its towering tower-ing snow-clad mountains the fairest spot in fall the world the lovely Deseret. There was only time for a glimpse of its tree-embowered houses, and a sweeping glance at the purple hills twenty miles away, "but somehow when the door swung open all the stage fright was gone, and before it had time to come back again a gracious lady the mistress mis-tress of the house was answering the half-formed request with a kindly, permission. per-mission. "Certainly," she was saying, "If you think it will be of interest to your readers you may tell them about it. I think myself it is of interest to people who are building and furnishing to hear what some else has done and how it has turned out." And the writer being of the same opinion as her hostess, host-ess, here is a description of the McCornick McCor-nick mansion on Capitol Hill: The hall with its winding staircase and which stands between the drawing-room drawing-room on the right and the dining-room on the left, is in old English oak. The wainscotting is vfully seven feet in height, its top moulding wrought in hand carving of a rich though simple design. The wall above this is tinted in dark ecru. The frieze is a shell effect in terra potta and brouze with an olive background. This, as well as the frescoing throughout the whole house, is done by the Chicago artists, Schutz & Ungar, most of it in water colors, tho effect being softor and more subdued sub-dued than that in oils. The ceiling Is heavily . panelled in dark oak and the floor is in light oak. It is made warm and luxurious with soft, thick Turkish rugs. ; The great, shining, polished stairway has four windings and is magnificently carved. In front of a largo window, which extends from the floor almost to the ceiling, is a bronzo statue of Augustus Augus-tus Cii'sar. The drawing rooms are fi nlshed in white mahogany, which harmonizes perfectly with its delicate furnishings, the prevailing tints being salmon pink and pale blue. The first thing that catches one's eye on entering the doorway is the superb painting which was displayed for a while in Savage's window which set all the artists art-ists and art lovers agog when Mr. McCornick Mc-Cornick first made it visible. In the foreground, and strikingly delineated against the shadowy green trees, is a magnificent white horse. The slender neck is stretched forward, and across it and down the flank is a shaft of sun light that seems to cpme from the very edge of the horizon. He is saddled, and the bridle ' falls - loosely loose-ly on his neck. You' look for the explanation and almost feel like starting back and asking pardon for the intrusion as your eye falls suddenly on two lovers far back under the shadow shad-ow of the trees. Their backs are toward to-ward you but the attitude tells the whole story how she has stolen away to meet him, walking timidly along how he has ridden on eagerly, peering through the tr.es, aad, (laving caught sight of her, how he has sprang from the saddle and let the reins drop. - This Is not the first time the white charger has stood waiting "in the crimson crim-son eventide" the lovers has told the story oft to tell it so well. , On the wall opposite this a painting by Boehm. It portrays the interior of an old inn. Lounging over the table are two travellers of the buccaneer type. Their eyes are intent oh a young girl in Marguerite costume who is counting over the leaves of a daisy with the old time love test "He loves me he loves me not.!' A little water-oolor-ing near by, Mrs. McCornick points out as one of her especial favorites. It is a French Pension out for an airing The quaint procession of ten young damsels trip daintily along in their gowns of pink and blue and white, with their scoop bonnets and broad hats. It is painted as only. Matilda Mair can paint such airy, pretty trifles. . There are two fine etchings in tho room, "January and June" by Stephen Ferris, and which would pass for a picture of King Lear and Cordelia. . , The other, a boating scene' on the bosom of a quiet lake.is Hamilton Hamilton's Ham-ilton's best. A Louis Quatorze cabinet on one side of the room is filled with a choice collection of brio-a-brao, one of the handsomest pieces being a wine pitcher in miniature painting and Vienna Vi-enna declaration. It is as perfect in detail de-tail as a piece of enamel jewelry and is the work of Miss Keogh. ' v V On either side of the door are Sheik's heads in bronze with marble drapery. In one corner is a Chinese vase. It is fully five feet high, and is in the bright shades and graceful figures that characterize char-acterize all Chinese ware, while at two opposite corners are an Indian chief and maid in the richest copper bronze and in attitudes of majesties dignity. The curtains and hangins in the main are gold and pink, but the portieres at the doorway are in wine plush, embroidered em-broidered in pink tiger lillies and purple. pur-ple. shadod anemones. One of the prettiest pret-tiest things in the room is a fire screen painted on glass in watteau figures, by Miss Keogh. ' - j The carpet is a light tinted moqnette, in the prevailing shade, and the fresco, is a scroll work in pink and blue on a gold background. In the southeast corner of the room is a circular alcove, from which cosy nook one may have a wide, sweeping view of the east side of the valley. The decoratioiff.suggests a quiet spot for love-making. Surely 110 one but a stoic could resist the laughing : cupids that peer out among ' feso ' chains. Over tho mantle on the east side of. the room is a staiued glass window with a floating, soaring figure against a back ground of roseate tints. It is the Goddess God-dess Aurora, and every morning's sunlight sun-light changes it to molten crimson and gold. The next room into which you are led is tho library. It is rich in tho sombre shades we always assooiate with morocco bindings. A bright coal fire burns in the grate, and the mantle in this room is one of the handsomest in the house. The tile are paiuted . in discs, one half of which is bright orange and the other hall indigo blue with a spray of white flowers across the face. A clock and candleabrum of Italian marblo and orange trimmings , are among the handsomest ornaments. A picture to haunt you to make you fairly hold yourtbreath, is an etching by Conustin. It tolls the story of a time "When Baron's held thoir sway." The artist has called it "In Ambush, ' so dear is the deliniation that if fifty people were to stand bofore it they would all give the same description. The ma-festio ma-festio feudal lord in black velvet and plumed hat is walking stealthily in the shadow of an old castle wall. Back of him the pale moon throws glimmering shadows across his path. Suddenly, wildly, nd with a tiger's fury, a cloaked cloak-ed figure spriugs at him, sabre in hand. Then the white plumed hat is thrown to tho ground, and the knight, in his velvets vel-vets and laces, unsheaths ; his weapon, but the strength seems gone . from the right arm, and you feel it will drop supinely before tthe mighty thrust of his assailant's hand. The haugings and rugs in this room are of dark winey brown, with a dash of yellow througn it. The decoration is particularly appropriate and beautiful. beauti-ful. It is in palms and desert flowers. On the ceiling are the instruments for the study of astronomy; the serpent and rod and various other symbolic emblems. Miss Keogh has worked out a pretty conceit from Phil Morris' picture of the children and the foums substituting for that artist's timid babies, Mrs. McCornick's Mc-Cornick's own little ones, Louie and Annie. A Sibyl by Romano is one of the best pictures in the room and a choice thing is a copy of "The Hermit" by Rem-braudt. Rem-braudt. Mrs. McCornick has in addition addi-tion to her other fine books, all the classics in French and German. The living room which opens off the library is in birch. The walls are tinted in a neutral shade with a Rococo frieze in low tones. It is filled with all sorts of pretty things and is as snug and cozy as an ideal living room should be, . ., - ., . . : - - - - -. k i |