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Show Tables That Fit Varieties of Needs Numerous Styles Offered, Each With Manifest Advantages. Occasional tables are those which are fitted to serve special needs, the word "need" being one of the definitions defini-tions of an "occasion." Today, these adaptable tables are In high favor, especially for living rooms. It may be helpful, therefore, to consider some of the numerous styles having special advantages, so that a home-maker home-maker may procure those best suited to her needs. To do this she must think not alone of beauty of wood, attractiveness of lines, and suitability suitabil-ity of style to other furnishings In the room where the table Is to go. The matter of making the table fill as many needs as possible Is one not to be forgotten. In a home where srtace Is of lively Importance, the occasional table which serves two purposes is useful, whether a coffee table, an arm table or an end table, or one of those stands known as a book table or a book trough. The latter can supply the book shelf which its name Implies, Im-plies, and it can also be a reading table to stand before a chair, or an end or arm table to he placed by the side of the chair. The top, for such use, should be flat instead of slanting. slant-ing. It can be a tea or coffee table when either of these beverages Is served, provided the size of the top Is large enough to hold a tea or coffee tray although the trays may be small. Nests of Tables. A nest of tables supplies a maximum maxi-mum number of tables occupying a minimum space, when nested. Such tables, when separated, can be used as arm or end tables temporarily, as well as for Individual tea tables of delightful convenience when tea or coffee Is served In the living room. When not In nse for some one of these uses, or for any purpose, the tables should always be nested. Sometimes the smaller tables are slightly drawn out from under the top one, each table being but an Inch or two farther out than the one above It. Sometimes the top table completely covers those nested below be-low It. Tables with drawers afford places to hold little needed things which would otherwise clutter a table top. For Instance, a woman often wants cards handy, but objects to having them lying around all the time. A table drawer gives just the needed place for them. Or sewing basket furnishings may be tucked out of sight In the drawer of an occasional table. It is a great convenience, and one which saves many steps, to have needles, thread, sewing silk, thimble, scissors, emery, wax, etc., where they can be used, especially In emergencies, emergen-cies, without trotting upstairs or bringing the work basket from some other room. There are occasional tables whicll-flll whicll-flll all these different requirements, and others also, such as the folding drop-leaf table which can be made so narrow It will fit Into the space against the wall behind an op.'n door without taking up any but the waste space. Such a tuck-away table can became an occasional table at a moment's mo-ment's notice, by opening It and placing where it will fill any need within Its scope. . 19J3. Bell Syndicate. W.NU Service. |