Show O t PICTURES IN IN THE HOME IaME 1 e 0 By ALMA 1 0 ff OO O 4 r e Service at cheer and good tood felC fel- fel C VJ within should be beho betM ho tM client n of the hall Hut But Isn't It strange that BO so 1 many of our American hallways ore lire such cheerless cheerless- spots I Jive Ive ve often wondered l why with nil the gracious hospitality tint hat Is showered upon us once we are safely Inside the living rooms of the house louse so 80 few makers home realize he time value of that first glimpse the guest ru st has as he le enters eaters the big front door Today the architect does all he can cano canto canto to o give us friendly doors an on oust retched hand of welcome bid bidus us its is lon come cotte j In hut But once onre the threshold threshold thresh thresh- old Is passed passed we we too frequently enter enter enter en en- ter upon the cold formality of a hall whose blank walls bear down upon un us In n a most uncompromising way way and and I a G. G r. r Pictures In the Hall we are fairly shooed Into more human parts of the home to escape escale the chill chili of their vacant stare This can can an be ly avoided by a fortunate choice of mirror or or pictures Suppose as the illustration suggests sug sug- you have havea a quite narrow hall with a huge gaping doorway tiring Into the library or living room room That Thatis li is not so good as decorative possibilities ties go but go-but but still It Is far from hope hope- less There on the wall space apace opposite your doorway is II room for a shallow I console Insole which shall hold a a bit of ot vivid pottery and tw two graceful candle candle- sticks Above the the stand may many be hun hung hunga a longish mirror 01 of dignified design Lights and a 8 splash of color colo from the jar are reflected In n It as 81 well as a I a War Pictures Picture for the Elders' Elders Room I vista of of the room beyond Add a cheery print at either side and you have achieved ed a II friendly welcoming hall hall- that warl warms S th the heart of all who enter and leaves with the parting guest that lIst last Impression of comfort comfort com com- fort and well well being being that Is your our dearest dearest dear dear- est asset as a h hostess stess' stess In the hallway sketched much atmosphere atmosphere at at- Is furnished by the little hooked rug placed d before the console and the mellow tones of velet velvet velvet vel vel- vel- vel vet et hangings at the door In the average American borne come oDle pictures pictures pic plc- tures for the hall should not be too formal but rather gracious and color color colorful ful tul A m most st satisfying effect Is II ha had l where a dominant color not In th the picture Is picked up an and repeated by bythe bythe bythe the pottery or candles as 88 the tile case cose may be Two really good prints and a 1 chubby ginger jar In vivid blue would nicety carry curry out the Idea suggested by the sketch The mirror might be bo given an antique frame of black lacquer and gold Jold Now Nov and mind then then one one sees lees a delicate half oon table used l lIn 1 In to halls and then lien the decoration Is a 1 smaller mirror more elaborately trained framed perhaps with candelabra at ati atthe i be the f sides tildes There are molly many ninny many charming things wo we can cnn do da to make miki the hull hall attractive at ut so 10 n do no nut let Itt Its Ha walls lu your bouse house titan stare blindly at lit the tilt eager enger guest t Its It's Its It's most disconcerting and aud wholly unnecessary c No mutter how ho swell the hall may 1110 be the right picture or mirror will give 0 It that warmth and ancS hospitality It needs to 10 sound the tho keynote key keynote note bole pf of home If you tou were a silver haired l grandmother grand mother or a gran ln l no maU matter r how up coming you were bobbed were bobbed hair notwithstanding notwithstanding you'd oud want avant some little corner where you could hang certain 01 old l pictures mid and a 11 cherished cherished cher cher- photograph or two without damaging damaging dam dam- aging the ultra modern decorative scheme mo of the tho third generation now generation now wouldn't you To Today lay the lie rules regarding pictures are so 10 flexible this can bo ho accomplished accomplished with satisfaction to nil all In the In-the the room dedicated to the tho elders a most artistic effect can be given gln by tile the thoughtful arrangement of old old- fashioned pictures that are dear to them And In many cases cues refraining would solve lIol the problem which so many old pictures present present for for eVNa even evena a lovely picture looks disreputable In Ina ina a frame that that-Is is cracked or out of harmony har liar mony moray with the subject Above a chest of drawers mo modern lern furnishers are placing groups of tine fine old prints or color engravings or or a mirror with two Gody prints Im smartly framed In black glass mats In narrow panels beneath sidelights side aide lights quaint portraits or silhouettes preside Again one finds fads a pair of ot parchment candle shields with English English Eng Eng- lish coach scenes or old Colonial prints cemented on in panel effect Often above an antique walnut table a flower plaque or sampler Is hung hung- and the homelike t touch uch Imaginable ble is given by a pair of photographs In antique frumes frames at either side of ol the secretary that Is la laso Isso so 80 much the vogue All these thelle favorites of a 8 bygone bygone bygone by by- gone day have lIa returned to charm you by their artistic correctness correctness-as as well as to give much secret satisfaction to the folks folkl from whose whose whose early e early life Ufe they ha have ve come |