You have now for your parlor the following figures:
Wall-paper and border,.................................... $5.50
Thirty yards matting,..................................... 15.00
Centre-table and cloth,................................... 15.00
Muslin for three windows,.................................. 6.75
Thirty yards green English chintz, at 25 cents,............ 7.50
Six chairs, at $2 each,................................... 12.00
Total,....................................................$61.75
Subtracted from eighty dollars, which we set down as the price of the
cheap, ugly Brussels carpet, we have our whole room papered, carpeted,
curtained, and furnished, and we have nearly twenty dollars remaining
for pictures.
As a little suggestion in regard to the selection, you can got Miss
Oakley's charming little cabinet picture of
"The Little Scrap-Book Maker" for........................ $7 50
Eastman Johnson's "Barefoot Boy,"................. (Prang) 5 00
Newman's "Blue-fringed Gentians,"..................(Prang) 6 00
Bierstadt's "Sunset in the Yo Semite Valley,"......(Prang)12 00
Here are thirty dollars' worth of really admirable pictures of some
of our best American artists, from which you can choose at your leisure.
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