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Show MOTTOES FOR YOUR HOUSE. Inscriptions That May Be Placed on Furniture or on Walls. (New York Evening Sun.) A motto or a legend for furniture is ' now i mite allowable. Here are a fe'v which may serve a good turn for furniture, bric-a-brac, wall or ceiling: '"Enter my gates, sit thee down and welcome."' may he inscribed over a hall door, or tl.e equally appropriate lines. "Jjoar welcome in your eye. your hand, your tongut." or "Good company, good welcome." The arch above a fireplace is a favorite place for a motto decoiation. In a certain cer-tain well known home the legend over the fireplace in the drawing room is one breathing a hosnitable spirit "The ornaments orna-ments ol a House are Uie friends wno I I frequent it." - j I "O ye fire and heat. I. less ye the Eord." I was the legend above the fireplace at a I famous country h tse. I A wholesome affectation for legends of all kinds and descriptions is one of the lads of an .eminent philanthropist. lut j they figure mainly in his library upon j the walls, ceilings, sofa pillows and backs : of chajrs. I'pon the back of a queer leather tip-bolstered tip-bolstered chair is painted in gold, "fit thee down and rest." In his little daughter's daugh-ter's narserv upon a tiny chair is inscribed in-scribed the lines, "Eove me little, love me long." Over a cabinet for stationery is the legend. "At your fingers' ends. '" and "A smattering of odds and ends" appears upon the cabinet for briu-a-brac. "Here's Kosemary, that s for remembrance," marks a case for souvi nirs. 'There's luck in leisure" is over a rack . filled with a dozen or more long stemmed pipes Dutchmen's pipes. I'pon the wall. I near some curious Japanese musical tubes -which the, master of the bouse piays with --some dash and spirit, is in-S'-ribed the rollicking legend. "There's a good time coming, boys." j Several quotations I'mm Shakespeare appear here and there upon the ceiling and wall and are set off with floral decorations dec-orations of the thistle. One quotation is I the familiar one of "To thine ownself be ! true, and it must follow as the night the day thou canst not then be false to any man." i A forest-green bookcase lias, in golden i lettering the lines. "Old books to read, old friends to trust." j Other legends which are equally appro- priate for a library are "My library were I dukedom large enough." "My pictures, ' r ' -v - medals, books complete," "1 hate a man of one book." If the owner of the libniy Is something of a cynic these lines from .Moure may bu used : "My only books Were woman's looks. And folly's all they taught me." The following lines may appeal to another's an-other's taste: "If one short volume could comprise All that was witty, learned and wise. Mow would it be esteemed and read." The lines "Sequestorl nooks and all the sweet serenity of boohs," is still another j apt quotation! I'pon the frame of a mirror nothing ta:t I be more suitable Ihan "He to my virtu- s ! very kind and to my faults a little blind. I Over a clock may be paiuted the legend: ! "We live in deeds, not years: in thoughts. I not breaths; j In feelings, not ill ficures oif a dial." For a rack for beer steins and Cm 1.-; 1.-; Tobys are the lines. "Bring hither of . mighty ale a big tiart;" while a nu k r stand for pipes and tobacco can be .V'C- rated with the lines from "Othello." "-) i thou weed, who art so lovely fair an i smell'st so sweet." There is also the li:", "Whose smoke like incense doth p r-fnme." r-fnme." or "The sum of earthly bliss" may find an echo in many a mind. "A right welcome sound" is inscribed upon a gong. For a band-painted china tea tray. In addition to the decoration of flowers, are the lines. "Be mistress of thyself, thougn China fall." Nor must the cornor where golf sticks and archery implements are kept be forgotten. for-gotten. j A golf bag may be emblazoned with: I "Time-honored golf, I heard it whispered once. That he who could not play was held a dunce." "Well won it well shot." may do for the corner where the archery outfit is kept. |
