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Show "Omar Khayyam" Room. Literary faddists, before this, have "consecrated" rooms to some favorite authors, making such a place a Longfellow Long-fellow or a Dickons room, or a Scott room, with many editions of tho particular par-ticular author and as majay relics as it is possible to buy. Now there is an Omar Khayyam room in Washington, Washing-ton, It belongs to a woman whoso homo Is near that of the Persian minister. min-ister. The room Is patterned after a living room in a Persian home, Tho walls are covered with rugs and fine draperies and in rustic frames are ecrolls containing favorite quotations from 'The RubaiyaL" There is an Idealized aketch of the poet keeping natch with the Hon and tho lizard. |