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Show r PICTURES IN THE HOME i By ALMA ZAISS y WNU Service. ALL of us know certain rooms that defy us to find serious decorative faults; yet in some elusive way they fail to charm. How to cure the negative spot Is often a problem. Sometimes a piece of furniture is discarded, with the idea that It Is to blame, and when its successor suc-cessor comes in we find no great improvement. im-provement. Again, it Is the rug, the draperies, or general color scheme that serves as our target. Almost always we pass over one very real trouble with such a room its indifferent pictures. pic-tures. If we experimented here first, further change might be quite unnecessary. unnec-essary. For it Is practically impossible for a room to be dull If there are Interesting Interest-ing pictures In It. One may sit in a chair or rest one's feet on a plain, drab rug and hardly notice either, but eyes will rove to the four walls of a room, and, finding there beauty and greater cost until you have first tried this simple plan to bring life and charm to the luekluster room. Decorating the Bedroom. On the wall beside your bed nature has decreed a beautiful, sunshiny picture pic-ture should be hung sunny in spirit, if not' in fact for nothing noth-ing so subtly helps to start the day right as a first glimpse of something very pleasant Let it be a picture of children at play, or a pastel of blooming fruit trees and winding lanes. .Nothing sorrowful. For we are strange creatures less masters of our own moods than we are apt to think. So small a thing as the face of a laughing child can change the whole tenor of our day. Awaking to the tune of rain, a landscape, land-scape, a garden or a holiday scene as a reminder of earth's wonderful gift of flowers and sunshine renews the 1 -S . W6JT I A Cure for Lackluster Rooms. I I food for thought, be satisfied and : vice versa. Suppose, instead of the badly framed , I anemic scenes the dull room usually ' j holds, we bring in fine print repToduc-i repToduc-i tioiis of masterpieces that throb with i j rich, satisfying color, suggestions of I j adventure, the grandeur of a day that i Is past. In this one smalt way we can I j give the place a magnetic force that ! lifts It out of Its commonplace pigeon-j pigeon-j j hole. i The contagious peace of Inness' golden gold-en "Wood Sunset," the regal splendor of a Van Dyck portrait, Mazzanovltch's "April Twentieth," giving promise of sunshine and flowers; the simple joy of "The Holiday," by Totthast, with its group of frolllcking youngsters wading in the surf with such visions to interest us, no room fails to entertain. enter-tain. If care is taken to have pictures repeat re-peat the color notes of hangings or upholstering the decorative appeal Is greatly enhanced. Those hung above a table or chest are effective if they carry on the color of a fine bit of pot- disappointed spirit as no conscious thought can do. I am thinking of a lovely print a group of merry youngsters wading in the surf sand and buckets and sunshine, sun-shine, laughing lips and laughing waters wa-ters one tot's brief skirts snatched high above her waist. I should choose that picture for my good-morning glance, If I were a melancholy soul it is all so enrefree and refreshing. And if I belonged to the army that spends most daylight hours indoors, bending over desks and counters, I should have a lovely Corot landscape, or an orchard In full bloom. Three hundred and slxtj'-five mornings each year I'd have a glorious glimpse of swaying trees and meadows to remember re-member through the daily round of indoor duties. Today the wise men who test and weigh each Impulse and Its cause lay much stress on "subconscious influence" influ-ence" and "first Impression." Just as music sways the mood from extremes of Joy to sadness, so pictures carry us on the wings of Imagination to scenes I j el ! 1 IITR rf IjvzS l i - rptiS j'.'.!EJT. I Pictures, In the Bedroom. J tery standing below. When the spirit i of a 'scene is In harmony with the de-j de-j sign of the furniture near It, the result Is especially good, and one guarantee ; of cheer always to be relied on Is the mirror. Today, Instead cf hanging mirrors In an aloof fashion, rather high on the wall above the mantel or davenport, I iife them with more Intimate pieces. Our Illustration shows a pleasing ar-! ar-! rangenient of narrow mirrors In panels pan-els toward the end.s of a room. They are hung quite low above small lacquer cabinets on which are Chinese ginger jars whose bright colors are reflected in (lie glass above. In an otherwise somber room this tn-almHit relieves the situation Immensely. This effect t:iny be achieved in very Mni)! rooms with the proper placing of ordinary pieces of furniture. It Is far less expensive to change ' thp pictures of a room than to buy 1 new furniture or change tic entire f-)r-Disliing icheme. Do not entail the happy or otherwise. There Is n world of simple help and J-iy in pictures If we but choose them carefully and they are within the reach of every one of us. Almost any good art store carries car-ries dozens of fine though Inexpensive reproductions of the best we know In art |