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Show For the Home Beautiful By I.OI lK JAlM B AR4. t-'.IT. Of the American Mease Bsreia. There are a host of wsys of introducing intro-ducing the llhavle spirit into the home. A feeling for the essentials Is on of the moat Important. Like the old dtflnition of charm; If a woman has It, she does not need an v thing else; and if she lacks It, nothing else matters, mat-ters, i Ho It Is In this question of the fundamental fun-damental the elemental fitness of thin are In the home. Take your den, for Instsnce. It has doubtless had a hard winter's wear. You sre going to have it done over ami freshen It up with some sew pieces here snd there. Its walls may be paneled or wainscoted wains-coted or simply papered, or painted some particular shade that you lov. Its rugs may be Oriental or domestic. Its curtains velours or denim, the furniture fur-niture velvet covered period piecea or mlfslofi, mahogany, willow or atalned. These things do not matter really, after a U. In the last ana lysis they are the non-essentials. Thev neither make nor mar the room. It is the ap'rit back of It. not the cost. ! !t rrn'st have that solrlt. a hotrtl-exs. hotrtl-exs. s hospttal'y. sn sir of poise like I Ita nuatrrss. Now, as you look st it, ! do ou know Juat what you want to tnf in It ? Haphaxard buying has rained countless homes and detracted front the beauty of many sn otherwise harming room. Fven a sofa pillow 1 should sot be bought without first you are aura It la right aad Just what you wish. A new smoking table perhaps to stsnd bv the flreplsce now thst the cool spring evenings sre coming. Not snv smoking table, but ons thst will harmonlss with the other fittings of the room. Or a game table, per ha pa to bs brought out when used, and fresh pIIIowb for the coxy window sest. The sMe lights softened a trifle by a change of shsde for no top lirht hss ever quite the necessary enticement en-ticement for a den. And the rugs renovated and their touch of color which harmonise with th hangings at the wlndowa brought out a new for I spring. I Now that we don't have to buy aets sny more, excepting In our formal drawing rooms snd. dining rooms, we have such a wide range of attractive Individual pieces to- choose from. And w don't hsve to reoeat either. We can combine snd assoclste different classes even, a mahogany table sad a chlntx covered couch and a Chinese reed chair. And In ao room Is this freedom of choice more to be gloried In than the den. or harmonv of color snd Has snd design. which every womsa today ran achieve. For the war to It Is crevemee. aad not coot: originality, aad BOt say uwe outlay. ' |