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Librfiries-The Simple, fyfe Luxurious,

f/ie Comfortable,

NO. 1—A TOUCH OP THE ORIBNTT GIVEN TO A LIBRARY BY THE UfcEJ OF WELL-SELECTED EASTERN RUGS,

NO. 2-A OOZY AND INEXPENSIVE LIBRARY FURNISHED CHIEFLY BY SHELVES FULL OF WELL-CHOSEN BOOKS.

NO. S—LIBRARY OPENING INTO THE DINING-ROOM ANlD FURNISHED IN SIMPLE AND RESTFUL STYLE. *

S B I K : You say that you wish in | 7 A ^ B furnishing your library to give it • 1 1 "a touch of the orient." By W^L M that I understand tha t you would LWLJ1 like, without apparently stretch­ing a point or going directly out of your way, to impart an air of oriental richness end Turkish ar t to your room. I like your way of putting it. I feel sure from the expressions in your letter tha t you will understand What I mean by the adap­tation of a style. My idea of artist ic­ally adapting a certain style to one's own needs and .tastes is to work up from some particular piece or pieces of fur-inlture or bric-a-brac of which one is the fortunate possessor to a general scheme which produces the atmosphere of the time or place to which the piece belongs. Be Bure, in the first place, however, that the incentive is of sufficient worth to fur­nish, an exouse. In other words, that your piece of "bric-a-brac or furniture la o£ really intrinsic value, so that you can point with pride to it as the keynote to wour whole scheme. If, for Instance, you have a piece of rare old armour, a Sara-cenio helmet or battleax, one which car­ries history and suggestion in its every look and line, upon which to found your den, you are artistically secure; but if this implement of war is made of papier mache you are lost.

The field of oriental ar t is so broad that It is hard to go astray in this kind of fur­nishing, so many beautiful things that have come in common use are of oriental origin. As all roads once led to Rome, so most of the arts in textiles, metals, em-brtS^aries, carvings and Jewel work can be traced back to the Saracens. Unless great discretion and a real feeling for ar t enters into the composition of such a room e frightful "mlxiness" is often the result, •whereas the end aimed a t should be rest-fulness. A dignified repose, combined

with more or less luxury, should be the atmosphere of a library. To avoid "mix-iness" do not use too much figured ma­terial. When fabrics of many different figures are employed in the same room it is hard to keep it quiet; i t becomes what artists call "rest less" at once.

Fabrlcona is the only stuff I know of which could be used wuh. good effect on your walls. I t presents ahard , glazed surface. Better still, I like the walls afiove your wooden paneling (which, should be as rich as you can afford to have it) simply calcimined. In either the burlaps or calcimining you can use a soft, warm Poppeiian red, the shade which has a glow of yellow in it. I think in fabricona it is called "poppy red." I t produces an indescribably rich glow, and you feel at once when you have gone only so far in your decorations that with this color and dark wood paneling and Turkish stuiTs for cushions ana curtains, your room will be as handsome as you care to make it. With, this wall I would use a good deal of dull blue. Find a Turkish material with figures of this color in it and make cushions of it, interspersed with, some of brilliant yellow silk embroidered with gold, bright emerald (green and plain blue. Hang any sort of Turkish or Per­sian rug in your doorway which is soft enough to draw back easily and contains your blues.

If you want a substantial table in place of the carved Turkish affairs throw e good rug over a plain, square table. Soft old Kisklllims. can often be bought for from $8 to $10, and make beautiful table covers. Upholster your seat running round the room with, dull blue velours and place somte comfortable chairs uphol­stered with Turkish stuffs near the table.

A L i b r a r r 1» B e a u t i f u l T o n e s .

D. J.: Your library presents some

charming possibilities, to my mind, if you will handle it with exquisite care. You seem to consider it hopeless, because the floor is painted a dark drab, with a bluish tone, and you have a bay -with three very large, high windows and inside shutters. I know that I have inveighed against drab paint, but having received several let ters from people who have to suffer from it I have set myself to make a study of it, and I find just one' way to t reat such a floor to make it present­able. Your woodwork is fortunately in the oiled yellow pine. I say fortunately because such woodwork is capable of golden lights, and these tones will be necessary to your floor. Buy for the cen­ter of your room a rug (either an oriental one or an American imitation) having tones of shaded brown, orange and old gold, mingled with blue. Sometimes*"very good home-made Smyrnas come in these shades, and you otten find them In the, ori­ental Anatolians. When you lay these rich, soft colors on your "blue-drab" floor you will find it suddenly beautiful; your paint is just the background for the warm browns and yellows, and the dull blues must be reproduced in other places about the room. Above your bookcases your walls should be a tawny saffron color. You can obtain a very rich and finished effect also if you will use a frieze of dark blue tapestry paper, and then have made for your central electric light a border in leather work. This should encircle the chandelier, coming against the tan col­ored veiling and should be done in blue, silver and gold. I t can be designed and made to order to correspond with the general effect of frieee. Any paperhang-er can apply it for you. Now for your bay window. You complain that the window runs up so high that you cannot take away the inside sbuters without giving a

look of extreme bareness and letting in .too much light. As this window is al-coved, J can tell you of an arrangement which will add much to the beauty of your room. Remove the shutters entirely and upper sash in all three .of the win­dows and replace it with rough glass in a clear green color. In front of this and over the three upper sashes place a lat­tice work of interwoven bamboo. This should be stained quite dark, and the light streaming through the green glass, broken bv the delicate lattice will have a fascinating effect. A shelf at the bot­tom of this top sash, that is, just midway of the window, holding pots of fern and small palm, will add to the effect, and the lower sashes should be curtained with green silk. Let the green of the glass and the curtain be much the color of your ferns and palms^when the light shines through them. If you will place a hand­some palm in the alcove near an easy chair you will find the little green re­treat a great addition .to your room.

An I n e x p e n s i v e H o r a r y . K. V. W.: As your house is a simple

little country house and plainly furnished you would not wish, of course, to furnish your library with any degree of luxury, and yet I think you can make a most ac­ceptable and cozy reading-room of your 14x12 With its two French windows. Paint your floor dark, and put a blue and white jute on it ; have this jute large enough to leave a foot or so of margin all around, showing the dark, polished floor. At your two" long windows hang curtains to the floor of the simple white worked muslin, with1 scalloped edges, which can be bought so cheaply and yet which looks so fresh and pretty when well laundered; Hang these from a slender

brass rod with brackets. This is much prett ier than a heavy pole.

Between the curtains a t one of your windows swing a basket of trailing ferns and vines. Under your hanging lamp in the center of the room place your library table." You can make this table for a song in this way: buy a pine table, called a "kitchen table"; this should be 'a little over 3 feet long and 28 inches wide; paint it carefully a good, soft glaze black; then on the top tack dark blue denim, leaving a margin of 2 inches of wood. Fit this very tightly and smoothly and fasten it with brass tacks, placed very closely and evenly together. You will find that your common pine affair is thus metamor­phosed into a most presentable library table. On this you will have room for the last magazines, your Writing materials, your favorite books, etc.

A quaint looking brass candlestick holding a red wax "candle is useful lor sealing letters, and adds to the effect of your table. On the* floor underneath, a large Indian basket for holding news­papers is both usefal and ornamental. Any comfortable wooden chair you may have can be easily converted into a pretty dark chair by painting it black to cor­respond with your table and putting a blue denim seat in it fastened with brass tacks.

• Hang your red Navajo from a rod in the doorway, and put a red shade on your hanging lamp.

You say that you wish very much for alarge.easy chair in here.but that you can­not afford it. If I were you I would search the second-hand shops until I found a large, stuffed chair of the style I wanted. I would upholster this myself in dark blue denim, and making a square footstool of the same material, I would put It just in front of my easy chair. With these

few pieces of blue and black furniture you can put any other chairs of dark or light wood you may wish to use.

And now for your book shelves. Have your carpenter make you two upright pieces of simple pine or' redwood a little more than an inch thick. At the intervals where the selves are to go let him make openings large enough to shove the ends of the shelves through, so that they project at least three inches; these are then secured with wooden clamps and you have a substantial and handsome set of book shelves. I t is well to introduce an irregularity in them, as it makes them a little more artistic. The bookcase I have in mind rests on fthe floor and has four shelves four feet long. The fifth shelf is only two feet long; and is placed at one end; on this, instead of books, is placed an Indian basket. A case of this size will hold more than a hundred books, so that if you have two such pieces made your library •walls ana furnished.

I would have the walls papered with cartridge or ingrain paper of a French gray color, and you can use your dis­cretion about the. woodwork, as almost any finish looks well with the colors I have suggested. Hang Copley prints of details from Abbey's and Blasfield's works, in black frames, on your walls and you will also find that a small painting in a gold frame will look well hung there. A good piece of plaster in relief, against the wall, over one of your book shelves, would give an added distinction to this refined and pretty little room. If you have your shelves made of redwood do not varnish them, but rub them down with- oil. If they are of pine paint them black and they will make a rich and beautiful setting for your books. ,

i There is in many places a mistaken

idea prevalent tha t the Turkish rug is a luxury which' is beyond the means of the ordinary purchaser. Also, that to set the pace with a Turkish rug means that one is to be led into all sorts of extrava­gances, and that it looks well only with the richest assessories. Both of these ideas are mistaken ones, and it would be greatly to the advantage of many peo­ple to discard them. First, as to price: A Brussels or Moquet rug or an Ameri­can "Smyrna" will often exceed in price a rare, soft-toned, everlasting and always beautiful oriental one. Of course, there are rugs and rugs, even when genuinely oriental. Sometimes, but rarely, they are really ugly; but if one will, in selecting, choose one in which her favorite colors predominate, if she will assure herself that these colors a re softened so that they tone readily into one another, (and this toning is only' accomplished by; age), that, in other words, there are no colors which.are crude and staring, she will/be sure to buy a good one, and will never regret the purchase. Whether the weave be that of an . Anatolian, with its silky sheen; a Kazak, velvety and deep in tone, or a Cashmere, with its heavy fringe and its Indian designs, she will extract a thrill of pleasure from it every time her eye encounters its soft beauty. A word as to the purchase of a Cashmere: I would advise the avoidance of those which have a strong yellow in them. Many very hand­some pieces present a strong yellow against, a dark background and running, as a border, into the fringe. If this light thread is white instead of yellow, and the fringe is strong, pure white, you have a much more valuable rug and one which will look well wherever you place it.

IN/IE IVIINIMie:AI=»OI-IS Photo* by Edmund A. Brush, 11 South Fifth Street, Minneapolis.

UBRARI

CLEVER CORNER ARRANGEMENT IN lA MINNEAPOLIS LIBRARY. THE LIBRARY IN J. H. MARTINI'S HOUSE. A CORNER IN J» F . WlliCOX'S UBKARY. i

_ __ _ _ - - - - T ^ / ww * > T T \ V F i i r i r r i t r r i r i ^ ^-»T *-vmr«r*C . . WELL-KNOWN YOUNG MEN STUDYING THE MANLY ART - i B E C O M I N G H A N D Y W I T H T H E . G L O V E S > OF SELF-DEFENSE WITH NATURE-S WEAPONS. •'

HILE the manly ar t of self-de­fense as exemplified by John L. Sullivan Or the new school of long-distance fighters is under

, the ban, the more noble exer­cise of sparring is again in vogue.

It has made a successful bid for pop­ularity in Minneapolis, and many young men who are ambitious to become scien­tifically "handy with their dukes" have taken it up, not only as a pastime, but

Adversary leading straight with left; Car-cloflnl ducking and sending left to stomach.

as a form of exercise best suited to all-round development in hurry-up fashion. As a result there are several young men in the town to-day with no visible signs of being muscular or up in fisticuffs, who would prove a genuine surprise to any one of an inquiring mind in that regard.

A large class is receiving daily instruc­tion in boxing at the Cooke institute, and in these slow days, when only privileged pharacters are invited to occasional sub­urban bouts in barn lofts, it is good to see a clean bit of sparring, livened up occasionally as professor and pupil warm to their work and "wallop" each ther.

John Donaldson of the Glass Block is among those who make Professor Car-} cioflni side-step lively fox a half hour as a daily proposition. Mr. Donaldson never had the gloves on in his life until last October. He has acquired a lot of sci­ence in the meantime and when he squares oft with the sparring master he puts up a formidable front. To the un­initiated, i t would appear that half the battle with the glpves must be to keep your eye "on ̂ our opponent's optics, when you can't land your fist thereabouts and to put on an "I ain ' t afraid" look intended to make the other man keep his distance. Mr. Donaldson's facial expression was nicely suited to the occasion when he Went into action. He looked as though he were going to wipe the professor off the map when he led with his left, with the former in a crouching position, ready to

block or duck the left and counter with a right jolt to stomach or a hook to the jaw. Honors were easy after this open­ing exchange, when Carcioflni led for the face and Donaldson ducked nimbly to the left and cross-countered with right to jaw. Donaldson then led with his left for the face only to connect with a right upper-cut on the jaw—a blow which might have done considerable damage had there been enough steam back of it.

Round 2—Carcioflni led straight for head with left and Donaldson countered with his right for the solar plexus—the blow that put Corbett out of the running when FitzsimmonB put on the championship belt at Carson City.

Opponent striking straight with right; Car­cioflni ducks under right and steps out, then then delivers right-hand jolt for jaw.'

The professor came up smiling in time to connect with a left to the stomach. He coun­tered with left for jaw, but Donaldson side­stepped and escaped the blow. Carcioflni led for the face, but his pupil .ducked in time to escape the blow.

Round 3—Donaldson put in a short right hand blow to the solar plexus and skilfully blocked a counter with left for chfn. Car­cioflni then countered wi,£h his right for the heart, landing lightly in the vicinity of that organ, and running up against Donaldson's smart left lead for bead. Donaldson followed up his slight advantage and rushed the pro­fessor to the ropes, with -right and left jabs for head, the professor, ducking and coun­tering ineffectually with left for stomach. The round and the match ended with Donaldson leading with left for jaw, a blow which the instructor avoided by sidestepping out of dan­ger and countering with right for jaw»

A half-hour of this vigorous exercise, at the end of which both men. were blow­ing and perspiring freely, found Mr. Don? aldson ready for the shower bath; There was no question about his appetite being equal to a hearty lunch after the bout, and there was no question about the lunch being satisfactorily digested.

Although Donaldson has the reputation of being the fastest man with the gloves in the bunch, the sparring master -has his hands full with the score of young men whom he takes on at different hours of the day. r

W. W. "Pudge" Heffelfinger was coming on famously as a pupil when cupid winged him and interfered seriously with his course in athletics.

M. W. Savage of the International Stock Food company was developing rapidly with the "mi t t s" when he decided to start a stock farm near Minneapolis. He gave up training, went east and purchased Directum. He was about to put on the gloves again when he learned that Online, the champion 4-year-old trotting stallion, was for "Sale. This .tfcrew him out of training once more, and he has been so busy exhibiting the famous horse since its arrival that he has had little time to

Adversary leading for stomach with left; Carciofinl blocking It and uppercutting with left for chin.

think of self-defense. He still expects Co take a full course in boxing.

Fred James found it necessary to re­sort to force occasionally in convincing stubborn real estate dealers that they were in the wrong. The necessity of be­ing able to "frame up" with his fists be­came of paramount importance when his coadjutors thrust him into the thickest of the fray by electing him a member of the press committee of the real estate board. Now when Mr. James gives a re­porter a "pipe" story he has a convincing way about him which seldom proves inef­fective.

The "hard knocks" of the real estate business also forced L. P. Chute to fortify his physical resources after this fashion.

After the Flour City cyclists' had" held one session with City Clerk L. A, Lydlard and that official had been forced to sum­mon the janitors' brigade by way of re­inforcements, he decided that .the ar t of self defense was one of the necessities of lie. He is in daily training.

W. D. Washburn, Jr., is preparing for the special meeting of the legislature in anticipation of a lively session.

GeoTge F. Porter, of the American Ad­justment company, is prepared to enforce payment on all outstanding accounts.

A. W. Bronson, of the West Hotel, has "cut out" his daily constitutional to Hen­nepin avenue and Lake street. He gets all the exercise he can comfortably assim­ilate with his upper works.

C. J. Minor, former county auditor, has no difficulty now in "cornering" flour and feed.

C. H. Birkhofer has developed such a muscle that his friends are afraid he may "raise" the price of a certain commodity.

Other pupils in boxing who frequent the Institute are: N. K. Walker, A. Walker, fe. Wiltgen, J. F. Kelley, A. Cooke, M. W, Dwyer. H. Coolidge and C. Lindman.

Carcioflni leading for face with lett, ad­versary sid9 stepping.

• MISS ROOSEVELT'S SOCIAL SUCCESS Miss Alice Roosevelt, the eldest of the

president's six children, will not be 18 years of age until Feb. 11. In disposition she is generous and cordial, which goes Jar toward smoothing her difficult social path, says the New York World.

Miss Roosevelt is slight of figure, very girlish, but without childish mannerisms. Her face is oval and Tier features are rounded by good health and a lively en­joyment of life. Her complexion is fresh

and blond, not highly colored, but her beaming eyes give a touch of vivacity to her countenance which is extremely pleas­ant. She would not be reckoned a beauty. Her height is not mdre than five feet four inches, but her carriage is supple and erect, giving her an individual grace and poise immediately noticeable.

Miss Roosevelt is an exception to the Roosevelt family disposition. She is averse to study or literary effort. As she

says herself, she has always practiced, on the piano with the tears running down her face. Nevertheless, she is an ac­complished musician and can pick a lively air on the mandolin. Unlike her lather, who is an omnivorous reader, Miss Roose­velt devotes little time to the perusal-of either classic or current literature. She is, however, more inclined to poetry than to the novel, and is particularly devoted to Longfellow. '

Miss Roosevelt, while not remarkably robust is never ill. She enjoyri outdoor life and is fond of tennis. Horseback-riding is her dearest diversion. In the

saddle she is* graceful and commands her steed with .a steady hand. She has that peculiar disposition which a horse recog­nizes and loves. Her mount is a fine hay .mare of pony _ size, full of lite and blood. '

Miss Roosevelt was educated a t hone by a governess who had alsp: taught her mother. This lady died several years ago, deeply mourned by her young pupil. Since then she has been taught by special mas­ters, and-has acquired a thorough mastery of French and German.

Miss Roosevelt passed the greater part

of- her girlhood in Washington. While here her' friends were young girls of her own class—not extremely rich. Of course when her father succeeded to ttoe presi­dency a clique of girls, whose pin money runs in the- thousands, was thrown around her. The girlish daughter of the presi-dent.^however, did not forget her comr panlons. Many of them have made their debuts this year and all her girlhood companions have been invited to the blue room fox the executive receptions. They were all at her debut ball, and ever* one of them is sure to be among the guests

a t the grand ball to be given on Shrove Tuesday in honor of her eighteenth birth­day. Some of the belles of the multimil­lionaires se t may be doubtful of the re­ceipt of one of these coveted invitations, but her companions of old times are sure of her remembrance. These little char­acteristics, her loyalty and her common sense, are the most remarkable and salient of her personal disposition.

Miss Roosevelt is the most sprightly person in the blue room. The passing throng are elements for her enjoyment. Grave ambassadors and butterfly attaches

bend ever her hand and murmur their most graceful compliments. Miss Roose­velt replies with a sincere and simple dignity which at once places both parties on a fair footing.

Miss Roosevelt's relations to her step­mother are of the "most cordial character. Mrs. Roosevelt, with characteristic good sense, has since the first day of her mar- , riage refrained- absolutely from interfering ^ in the affairs of her step-daughter. The president was always consulted, and any request which Miss Alice as a child or as a young lady would make was always sub­mitted to her father. \ ~" ,

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