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Show MAKING IDEAL HOME MAIN THING TO AVOID IS OVER-FURNISHING.. OVER-FURNISHING.. Simple and Appropriate Furniture, Decoratloni jnd Brlc-a-Drac Better Than Costly Litter So Many Think Necessary. Aim at elegant simplicity. Do not mako the mlstnko of thinking simplicity simplic-ity means cheapness; it Is usually a costly luxury, but ono that pays. Avoid llttor, glmcrncks and overcrowding. over-crowding. Loam to appreciate spaco as a part of tho furnishing. Many women only regard it as something to bo filled, no mattor with what. To hide the enrpot with furniture, the walls with pictures, sofas and chain with plllowo and mantels and tables with ornaments, regardless of tnsto or suitability, is not furnishing n homo; it is stocking a Junk heap. Apart from tho lnartlstlcncss ot tho overloaded houso, tho discomforts of kcoplng It cloan makes It anything but liveable Why should a woman wlBh to pass her days dusting useless ornaments orna-ments that dotract rather than add to tho beauty nnd whotcsomeness ot your home? Certain houses aro furnlshod with a simplicity that Is studied almost to tho point of ostontntlousncss and artl- flclnllty; but hotter that than vulgar H crowdlngi o 'H What tho dvorago householder needs " H to learn Is that n beautiful homo con- H slats of not how much you can put Into? " H n hoiiBO, nor yet in how lttlo, but In H having nn eyo for proportion, unerring t J tnsto ns to what Is In kcoplng nnd the, J ncrvo to throw away your most pre- clous possession If It disturbs tho bar- mony of your houso beautiful. H |