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Show THE DIARY OF A SIREN CLARA'S WITCIliNG WAY l By RING W. LAEDISTEK. SEPTEMBER 2li. DTL'K and I have just about fin-ishcii fin-ishcii our funiitnve buying am the apartment is f.roino; to look lovely when tyc get it all settled. We round a ple on the west siflo. where they have Just as good furniture as downtown, only at abouL half the price. We fou n r I a place on tho west sirto whero they have just as good furniture fur-niture as downtown, only at about halt' tho prices, on account of their rent not. being so high. Dick has arranged to pay fur it" by the month at $8 per month and in that way we can have everything settled up in about two yeais. We have decided de-cided to uot buy a player piano until we sec a good one advertised in the papers second-hand at a bargain. bar-gain. But I already have a perfectly per-fectly wonderful piano lamp with an immense red shade and I am crazy to get the piano as soon as possible. Our furniture consists of a living room suit of mission. There are two big chairs with upholstery of green leather and of course the leather is not real leather, but you would swear it was to look at it. Then there is a living room table with a green leather skin top and a settee to match the other pieces and a book stand for the table that will hold ten books. FOR the dining room we have a table and six chairs and a china cabinet, also in mission style, and wc can use the dining room chairs in the living room if some of our friends drop in for a game of cards or something. For the bedroom we picked out circassion walnut, another imitation imita-tion that is absolutely perfect, and the pieces are a bed, a dresser and a dressing table. I am wild over how our dining room is going to look as there is a perfectly beautiful dome, yellow, with red tulips, over where the table is going to set. I have also boughten most of my I ha vp r perfpc'Iv wonderful piano lamp with an immense red shade. linen and window drapes. The latter lat-ter are red of course to match my piano lamp. Ill AVE boughten two perfectly dear tablecloths, one in a rose and cbrysanthenum pattern and the other in daisies. I am going to bo busy evenings from now on embroidering em-broidering t hem with my initials, or rather Ihe initials that will be mine when t become Mrs. Sargent. Jlow strange that will seem. 1 have also three sheets and four pillow rases which will look twice as nice when J have had time to embroider them with my monoeram and put. nice wide lace on them. On my towels I am goinir to sew lace, also and cross stitch monogram. mono-gram. At the lunch hour tomorrow I am going to look ar dishes, I saw some pen'ertlv sweet ones in a rose pattern pat-tern yestorda v. but did not ha ve time to a-'k their price. What with my work at f r . V e e h m a n ' s o fl c e eve ry day a n d the buying T stiil have left to' do of I nihe and odds and ends and etc. I and gett ing my clothes made I won't have time hardly to breathe in the next six weeks, but I am so happy that, 1 don't mind the rushing rush-ing around at all. Idck is perferf-lv perferf-lv dear to me and I thank providence provi-dence cverv l'.ifjht for gi vii.g him to me. J |