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Show ALTERNA TIN G BRICA-BRA C N every home where a family has I lived for years, small articles of ilr oi.iiion accumulate until room have a smothered look and comes 111 I ,J a day when the mistress of that house rjjlj i exclaims desperately: HI j I "I'd like to burn everything in this ITU Place up and start over again with n I I I clock, a pair of candlesticks and one r'l'l vase for flowers In the living room " 'Yet when It comes to the point no-Ill no-Ill body wants to dispose of a single orna-'II orna-'II 1 1 hienl c-en if there is no place for it IfT I and it has to be put on a closet shelf to await some opportunity for its I . I 1 1 proper ill -;.!; S- n' mien: and a.-r-Lji I I riatlon endear trifling things to every Knfilll mistress of a home. This came from a dear friend, that was nicked up on Hill a never-to-be-forgotten trip some-j where; the old mirror has come down T from an ancestor; those blue vases If that do not match She library color V I 1 scheme were beloved in one's first will housekeeping days. And so on dlffi- KhI ( cult It Is to throw out or give away the old friends that have become dear through years of association Yet new things continually add themselves ! so the smothered look Inevitable pain 1,1 J a taste ihat loes harmony and order. one woman has solved the problem kljll c-ry nicch PI.,- alternates her brio-Li, brio-Li, a-brac. Every article has Its season J of use and Its rest-tlmc In the dark! 1 closet. Certain candlesticks, vases. I photographs, have their turn In winter, win-ter, quite another assortment decor-, decor-, ates the house In summer Brasses return re-turn the reflection of firelight in January, Jan-uary, the cool gleam of silver and II inewter refreshes the eye In June. The .photographs of one's so-many friends 1 appear in turn to charm memory I, they cannot all bo on view at once or the house would look like a picture '-callery! And every beloved triHc treasured because of sentiment and association as-sociation has ts time of appearance without cluttering the place unduly the whole year round. It seems a I good Idea and worth trying, docs It I Snot? |