Hello, I have two classes: main & room

//main.java
import java.awt.*;
import java.applet.*;
public class main extends Applet
   {
   Image image;
   room current_room;
   public main() {}
   public void init()
       {
        image=getImage(getCodeBase(), "someimage.png");
        current_room=new room(image);
       }
   public void paint(Graphics g)
       {
        current_room.paint(g);
       }
   }

//room.java
import java.awt.*;
import java.applet.*;

public class room extends Applet
    {
    Image image;
    public room(Image _image)
      {
         image=_image;
      }
   public void init()
       {
       }
   public void paint(Graphics g)
       {
        g.drawImage(this.image, 100, 100, null);
       }
    }

This works like a charm. However, I'd like room to load its image(s)
directly, either in room() - gather it ain't possible from tutorials I
saw, in init(), didn't work when I tried, in paint() - neither, or in a
custom method LoadTile(), didn't work also; I tried every combination I
could think of, and though it never worked, I didn't get any exception
so the image must have loaded, yet it didn't show on screen.

I have browsed Applet, Image, Graphics in the API - something I must
have missed, but difficult to know what's missing till you have some
knowledge of the language - which I don't - yet. Any pointers?

Thank you very much.