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Show TIMELY TOPICS H When ou have laid your rug, pla your chairs, and your wall paper is JUS ,H right, look out that you 'lor, t spoil r our i room by hanging the pictures badly. So many beautiful rooms arc absolutely spoiled by bad hanging of good pictures. ! H Try to keep either the lower line of the I frames or the upper lino of the pictures j approximately on a level al. around the I room. A much better effect is obtained In this way than by considering each wall separately. sepa-rately. Above all. in Ihe dining room, living liv-ing room, or any other place where people H usually are seated, do not have your pic- I turej so that they are too high to look at comfortably across the room from a chair. In a reception hall or passageway, if J you must have picture: they should be l ssna at the height of the average person eyes while standing But if ou have so ' H inrm. that In order to use them all some II would have to be "skied." put some away ,lH You can bring them out later and change. J M Thrre is no commoner mistake thar H feci thai nil vri ?p-i.-rs, even over do-.rs j 1 H and grand piano", rn ri t,.- filled W.-i: I I decoration Is not like fining a postcard ! I album. Use your blark spaces to rest tho VI -nrl Alrr-r It In lh rAnllv ImlArnallntf Picture BPOtS. H . After you have your pictures hung eo yH and sit In every chair In the room and H see how every wall looks from ever fM angle. You are being inhospitable if 'he room is charming from the table at which ou yourself habitually serve your tea jf and less Interesting from the places where your guests will sit jfl People nowadays do not mix the differ- H ent kinds of pictures as they did a fe iH years ago. You will And that by group- Jiog ing your foreign photographs in one hall- 'rH way, your etchings and Japanese prints iH in another room your single oil painting H or tw-o all bj themselves, your picture I I will every one of them gain cnormouslv . j H This Is not separating things, as you H file your correspondence for the sake of IH mere tidiness It Is done because a rich. rLLLw deeply colored oil painting, for examp'e. will kill the loveliest pencil sketch or etching In the world In other words. iSH keen your mediums more or less together. I heavy effects in one room, lighter touches H in another H |