Show THE LIVING ROOM it should at all times bo be a livable room what to do with the living room la Is a a problem that confronts every housekeeper the living room should be la in fact as well as in name a living room a livable room it la Is tho the room in which the most of 0 our time at homo home to Is spent the hours we havo have for leisure the time we have for play the place where we entertain our friends and it Is absolutely essential that the walls walla and furnishings of the living room should be harmonious in color suitable in texture and durable in material the rich soft solid colored walls walla are the ideal walls walla for the living rooms they make a better back ground for pictures throw the furniture out in bettor better relief are less discordant with rugs and carpeting and indicate a higher degroo degree of and culture than do the colored mon which we paste on when we app apply ay wall paper who ever saw roses climbing up a plastered wall growing out of a hardwood floor yet that ahat Is what wo we suggest to tho the imagination when we paste paper covered with roses on our walls they are neither artistic nor true rosos roses are all very beautiful but they wore were never made to climb up interior walls and they do not grow from hardwood flooring tho the set figures of wall paper are also tiresome and equally disagreeable and repellant the wall Is the only correct form of a tinted or solid colored wall fortunately it ft Is the only clean way and more fortunately it Is the only permanent way the only way that does not involve the endless labor in the future in lighting the walls rome thought must be given the color light colors reflect 85 of tho the light thrown upon them dark colors reflect but 15 lighting bills can be saved by choosing a color which will reflect tho the largest degree of light in north rooms use warm colors or colors which reflect light in s south 0 u th and west rooms sometimes the ll 11 light can bo be modified by the asb use of darker colors dark greens absorb the light light yellows reflect it browns modify it and so on through the scale of colors the color scheme of a room not only Is dependent upon the color of the carpe tings but it is also dependent upon the light ot of the room |