| Show y yI r I Making the Home Attractive I a womans woman's home can you 1 0 Judge judg B By her At least llast so it Jt Is said and It seems clear that t. t a great reat many characteristics of oC tho the owner may bo lIo read In the arrangements of his or 01 her home House Rousa decoration Is a subject which appeals to almost every one Every E o woman has at ot some Iome time or other satisfied sat sat- her longing to fix Ix up some borne room oom according according- to her leer own desire TASTE SIl IN IX HOME Every 11 little t tic thing thins about abou t a lL ahome home re reveals re- re cals tho the inclinations of or tho dweller The Tho draperies the arrangement of tho the furniture and tho the pictures themselves all speak of tho the individuality of ot the I posse possessor s s or I Perhaps the pictures in a room aro are a amore amore more perfect Indication of ot character than an any other one thing Pictures arc rather difficult things to choose and require not on only I f. f ome some knowledge of at tho the beautiful In art but hut also algo a 0 careful study o of tho the room loom In which they are to han hang A great greal deal doal of common sense seris Is a great help In the choice of pictures A prE a prevailing ling habit and one which Is g gIn in rath rather r poor ioor taste Is tho the substitution of family for Cor artistic studIOS studies s. s In a 0 room through which visitors vie vis item pa pass s constantly such as 81 the tho parlor or reception room family photographs raph nicely framed Clamed should hould be relegated to a place on ole the table piano or mantel mantel- piece ploce The Tho same sarno applies to photographs of oC intimate friends Of cour course such pictures are very er often ottell dear to the heart ot of tho the owner and there is 14 no why they the should ho banished from tho the room so so 0 long t as 03 they stand In some inconspicuous place Such uCb as the table or orI I TO RIlIE I There ar are always s 's exceptions to this I rule When u n photograph Ja is tb that t of or avery a n aI I very b woman and nd it ban an I It t C T delight not as a photograph but as a picture It ma Inn may be beautifully framed d dand and hung with the works of oC other ar ar- ar- ar In choosing pictures for a drawing or reception room keep an eye 0 on the style of ot the whole room There Thera is 15 no reason wh why the humblest flat fiat dweller should not be able ablo to furnish her parlor in Just as good taste as her wealthier sister slater for very en good prints of ot the well wen known paintings may b be had for Cor the smallest sum no nowadays As mission parlors seem to be tho the most popular with tho modern married couple In rather stinted circumstances a tew few words on the kind of pictures tor for such a a room ma may be hp apropos Most of Rosa Bonheur's paintings of ot Corots Corot's an and Millets Millet's and roan man n ml many many I I others ma may be be- found reproduced In ex excellent ex- ex I prints framed In either the tho I plain mission wood or in a dark brown brownwood I wood reflecting the s pla tints of or the prints Both these settings are arc in p perfect per per- r- r feet harmonY with the mission work I and the tile prints are arc In excellent nt uste aste For the chintz parlors reproductions of ot all sorts of delightful heads b by Rom Rom- ne ney Sir Joshua Reynolds Gainsborough and other masters may mal be purchased d framed in old gold These will vIII be found toune in an any an department store stora at it very ery moderate prices For Kor the which has hns no particular lar style of Its own the seeker after aftergood aftergood good pictures has of ot course a wider field but no flO one should have hae such AliCh us taste as aR that illustrated in ina a small apartment seen Been rec recently On one ona wall vall was l hung un a n. print of If mot mother er Next to Whistlers Whistler's it on n one side sido stood a Howard Chandler Christy girl in vivid colors while on he other ether sub side was WIlS hung a still life stUd study done In charcoal b by some ome aspiring mem member er of or orthe the family The whole room repeated repealed this dreadful combination many times and one had only had only Ito to step tep Inside to tell toil J how not not to tob buy p clureL 1 1 |
