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Show ' WITH PROPER USE OF PAINT Vecanda May Be Made Most Comfortable Comfort-able Resting Place If a Little Chintz Is Added. You women who live In the country will find thnt n can or two of paint und a bolt of pretty chintz will do much to transform your porch furniture, furni-ture, says the New York Telegraph. If you havo no comfortable chnlrs foi piazza use, do buy one or two. They need not bo expensive pieces, but be sure lliey aro comfortable and have pretty lines. Tho wicker or reed furniture Is really real-ly tho most attractive for verandas, and It is not at all expensive. You need not worry if you hnvo two or three pieces of ono kind and a couple cou-ple of pieces of nnother variety. Aftei you havo given them all a coat of the same paint and made chlutz-cushlong eats and backs for them, they will look enough alike to fool any casual eye. Besides, no one expects rigid formality for-mality In porch decorations. If your houso Is white or gray you will find that green porch furniture will look best. Give all the chairs, tables ta-bles and settees a coat of green paint and one of green enamel paint. The chintz for green furniture should contrast con-trast with It, and a figure with a good deal of red In it will be found most effective. It may be wisest to have a cheap upholsterer mako the scat cushions and backs if you are nfrald to tackle so tricky a Job. Have them made with some white goods as a cover. Then you can yourself make slip covers of tho chintz for them. Tho reason why It Is better not to have tho chintz pit right on as tho first cover of the cushions, cush-ions, is because it may soil very quietly, quiet-ly, being where the street dust can easily reach it. It the chintz is inado into slip covers they can be removed and washed when soiled. If your house Is any other color except ex-cept white or gray, brown porch furnl-turu furnl-turu Is prettiest So you can paint your furnishings brown and use almost any gayly colored, pretty bright chintz for cushions. ' |