Punch (69.1875)

September 18, 1875.] PUNCH, OK THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

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THE HOUSE AND THE HOME;

OR, HINTS TOWAEDS A GRAMMAR OF DECOEATIVE AET.

By Leonardo Delxa Robbta ie Tudok Westpoxd Ttjmpkyns,
Esq., S. A.S., A.B.F., M.U.F., and Hon. Member of the Bulli-
dillitanty Society.

It may be objected that my designs are impossible except for
millionnaires. Quite the contrary. I am prepared to furnish any-
body and everybody with a hundred varied designs equally adapted
tn the peer or the pauper, the private house or the public-house,
the palace or the pavilion, the homestead, the hut, or the hovel.

N.B.—The present writer has turned his attention largely to
Hovels. Hovels furnished entire on the most reasonable terms, and
taken to any part of the kingdom.

N.B.—All builders of Castles in the Air I am able to furnish with
ideas—at a moderate charge. As the patient says, who is going
through the system of Harrogate or Aix waters, " A considerable
reduction made on taking a quantity."

.A 8.EDUC.TIOB •< TMluC A_P^AMTlTK-

The Hall.—The Hall, where you leave your hats, should be paved
•with tiles. This is what is termed " corresponding affinity " in
decorative art.

A School-Room.—A School-room
should be furnished exclusively
with cane chairs. A boy inclined
to be obstreperous will be re-
minded of the fate in store for him
■when told to seat himself in one of (?
these chairs.

The Drawing-room should be as
attractive as the magnet; for a
drawing-room is a room which,
like a successful piece, draws.
There should be in it several cabi-
nets or chiffoniers (called in Lodg-
ing-house English " sheffyneers "), fj1, „

because these are full of drawers. — J^hi---— -| ^JJ^ .- ~aa v.

These are general notes which
may be of some use to my readers.

It is a great pity that the prin- .....„

r-iple of Pantomime tricks has not v-^i|P^^
been introduced into furniture. S?
Why should we avoid the Panto-
mimic in one art when we have adopted it in another? Why

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reject in furnishing what we jump into in clothing ? At one time
no well-dressed gentleman was without a pair of pantaloons, and

the French tailor still has the " pantalon " on his list. Again, in the
garden, the most jealous and the strictest of housewives would not
object to seeing her husband utilising his leisure hours by training

Columbines. While, in some instances, when the landlord took an
interest in the cottage of his ploughboys and other yokels, he might,
like a fine Old English Gentleman, make them a present of half a
dozen Columbines apiece, and let the clowns themselves train them
up in the way they should go.

This is no digression, but merely a note or two on the road to the
application of the Pantomimic Principle on furnishing.

(To be continued.)

A Nominal Euphemism.

Ax Bow Street, the other day, a prisoner was committed for trial
on a charge of theft. He was named John Shoesmith, but had at
one time gone under the name of Duvax, and many different names.
Of all the aliases Me. Shoesmith could have selected, the most
appropriate one would surely have been Cobbles.