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Show THE HOME OF HOMES H Simple Decorations and Appoint- ments Are More Attractive I to the Neighbors. I BY MRS. KIXGSLEY. PPM HEN you've spent your life In a li i J large and handsome city honae, nJ j with shades Inside Bhutters, rich and heavy draperies, drap-eries, shaded lights, soft carpets, high ceilings, huge rooms, massive furniture, furni-ture, and all your friends have, loo; when you've lived In a house like this, and you marry, and move into a quaint little house in the suburbs, a house full of white woodwork, little windows and sunlight, you are apt to gaze at all these things with a certain degree of perplexity. A girl just answering this description, descrip-tion, had with perplexity, furnished her quaint little sunlit house with quaint mahogany and was pausing in rapt admiration at the effect, wondering wonder-ing that anything so quaint could bo so good looking, when her gaze, still rapt., fell upon her many little windows, win-dows, and two perplexing wrinkles began be-gan to slowly mcko their appearance between her eyebrows. They wero very small wrinkles, but they gradually gradu-ally deepened as she gazed For she had put off. as long as she could, the perplexing thought of these windows. They might almost attend to themselves, she had thought, after 'ho furniture had got In. But here ev fe- ery bit of furultur that would bo In. jf- was In. and tbe windows were frankly H and ensatrlngly waiting for attention. I And the plrl. w-fth the two wrinkles doonpnlrc af a rpld rate, started to H look throuch all hr books, ber new-paner new-paner and bor maeazln'1: to If. H -.nvwhero oh, conld find snnn windows tw lni-od at Wee her? Tor sb "-p bntn. if ( thnt thev would H hancrlnp before them. Presently o found o which pare H h"r a el'mmer of an 'do, nnd he tnmpr.fi n aT,d pn7Cfl at nfr Hftlq 1 wJndoTTfi wll frrpv, ntor"' wh'le the I v-rtm.-lro frWl 0f a,, sn looked, '-d thonsbt. "11 bor donVo. f-flod. too: ev, Vne-.v bow she wanted those win- Tt-iv r. Turn floifhle TT"'r,doTT-o. nnd 1ti- ",n T.-tpTT-- nnd rn onn-int Tr-triloT-, if no-n -t,,1 'lioTA and beautiful llttl H With littlo nlrtnrs In nifrd. r-br drf orr'nod o nrrnns all tieq tt-It-. nr-o r horn en WlSl ror? riT. of onn rni'M lood tVrnirh nit daV. H TTrrnli". tb' p'ctnv n-itnn and pn"- t" frvnrllv nf fr- lOtlrt lirncr ep0 felt' H tViof oV.- yrfl.p fTTH of d"r,T,oep ihnded H Hcp? enlrndor PTd V.of for olfl' m dcr iir gne would r-)riv revui in h BlmnllCtty In tbp PT-eTTie It ws, but H if wes o nretT vo' n -'n of an 1 i,-,,i cVn nn i "'""in dnrk nbd: ssld tt if ho H eonld etnrd Ihe HeW of white pbadea. H pVp fnTPeopd bv frion n oould. And at H PVPrv Wtdow bp bnner oror tbS rrh'to .inTr shndea. simple lengths H wbltp ho dtd not ".ianr tbem nTI quite sllkei at the casement windows. hO H istened tbe curtains to the window H hes, onfnT them top and hottom on H rr"l At ni1 the usual windows she made bor ruHnina atmplv with two- H Inch opinT0. a tbe top. two-Inch hemfl H at tbe Inner sides, and six-inch hems jH at tbe bottoms, supplying all but the mot narrow windows with two widths. H The double windows were set doon Into the wall, with wide window sills. H USt like those in the nlcture sho had H found, tho ploture whleh had given her her InsplratloD for simplicity. So she H hot copied the picture for these win- H dows. and. after she cot them finished. H she always thought them the most at- tractive In the bouse H At each single window making up tbe double window series she hung a scant class curtain of the voile, made H Just like the others as to lenpth and so forth. Over these she bung full 'M side drapes of the same material, with nice wide hems two sld drapes H to each series; and she connected tho B side drapes at the top with the effec- H r i . . Dutch valande, 12 inches deep. and wide hemmed. At tl e stair win- full width of voile was hung. Tin rtno- 1 1 ,- Hark winter evenintrs the 1 |