Oriental rugs

(1958 April 6)

Well, dear, the Oriental rugs [from the estate of Alfred Kay] have not only arrived but are laid. Mrs. (Angel) Gray happened to be here and helped me. A big one is down in the dining room and covers almost the entire floor. We wonder if we should have it there but argue a colonist might have had a seafaring relative who had brot one back from Syria or Turkey. The one in our bedroom makes the bedspreads look just too folksy. And our slippers are all wrong. We are going to ask for some that turn up at the toe for Xmas. The scatter rugs are scattered here and there.