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Show TAKE UP CARPETS Do you still have any tacked down carpets? I lvobablv not, for in the usual heme the tacked down carpet is almost as unusual as is the feather bvd. Occa-jsionally Occa-jsionally In a house turnlshed by a very i up-to-date Interior decorator there are ! tacked down carpets, which supposedly supposed-ly give a more finished appearunce jto tiitf floors, with their soft, all covering cover-ing surface. But this is an extremely new up-to-date idea, quite uifferent from tho' lacked down carpel lefr over from your mother's generation that 1 mean. Now In some houses, to be sure, there are tacked down carpets, that have laid there for years, perhaps for generations. In one house I have iu mind such carpets cover all the rioors of the downstairs rooms. And they give to the house the dingiest, most untidy appearance imaginable, JU3t because be-cause they are old and faded hinT worn. When I asked the house mistress why she didn't take up'the carpets and have bare floors with rugs, she said shv couldn't afford to do it. But she could. If she only knew how. Here Is what she could do. She, could have the carpets taken up, and' tho floors scrubbed a process she goes through with at least once a year, somotlmcs twice, at house cleaning time. Then "when the floors, well cleaned, wore thoroughly dry she could paint them, or stain them. If they were in good condition she could simply put on two or three coats of a good floor stain or paint. The result, If the work Avere carofuJly done, would surely be attractive. attrac-tive. If she wanted further finish she could wax the floors occasionally, al-trought al-trought this is not necessary and is hard work. As for rugs, she didn't have any. No; but she could have rugs made of her old carpets at a relatively small cost. If Khc couldn't afford to do this, she could leave some of the floors quite bare and from time to time, as she could afford il, she could buy a new rug until at last she has a creditable supply of nigs. Tho cheapest rugs are doubtless rag rugs. There are also fiber rugs of Japanese make, that are Inexpensive and very attractive. And there are various woven domestic rugs that fill every (bill for appearance and durability and reasonableness. oo |