Show THE LIVING ROOM it should at all times be a I 1 livable room what to do with the living room la Is a problem that confronts every house keeper the living room should be in fact as well as in name a living room a livable room it is the room in which the most ot of our time at home is spent the hours we have for leisure the time we have for play the place where we entertain our friends and it is absolutely essential that the walls and furnishings of the the living room should be harmonious in color suitable in texture and durable in material the rich soft solid colored walla walls are the ideal walls for the living rooms they make a better back ground tor for pictures throw the furni furill ture out in better relief are less dis with rugs and carpeting and indicate a higher degree of taste and culture than do the colored mon which we paste on when we apply wall paper who ever saw rose roses climbing up a plastered wall growing out of a hard wood floor yet that Is what we suggest to the imagination when we paste paper covered with roses on our walls they are neither artistic nor true roses are all very ful but they were never made to climb up interior walls and they do not grow from hardwood flooring 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 col ored wall fortunately it Is the only clean way and more fortunately it Is the only permanent way the only way that does not involve the end less labor in the future I 1 in lighting the walls some thought must be given the color light colors reflect 85 of the light thrown upon them dark colors reflect but 15 lighting bills can be saved by choos ing a color which will reflect the largest degree of light in north rooms use warm colors or colors which reflect light in south and west rooms sometimes the light can be modified by the use of darker colors dark greens absorb the light light yellows reflect it browns mod icv 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 al also so dependent upon the light of the room |