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Show J FARM and HOME Tab stats agricultural colleoi m emu on euvricu By Mary Lois Reichert Home Demonstration Agent MAKE HOME MORE ATTRACTIVE Many women believe the easiest way to make the home more attractive at-tractive is by adding accessories. People begin spending more time indoors at this time of year as evenings become cooler and days shorter. "A home without accessories is like a house without people empty of - life and devoid of charm," points out Mrs. Rhea H. Gardner, home management specialist spec-ialist at Utah State Agricultural College. She adds that large furntuire may be impersonal, but that the smaller objects you place in your home are generally and unmistakably unmistak-ably stamped with your own character. "They' show your personal taste. Somehow these qualities become a part of your home, inducing a warm, pleasant, lived-in appearance." appear-ance." Many' home decorators crowd rooms with accessories. A Jot of attractive odds and ends may help a place look lived in, but not livable. liv-able. The tidy appearance which good decoration should have, is destroyed. Mrs. Gardner says one of the nicest aspects of accessories is that they don't have to be costly to accomplish much decoratively. It is their intrinsic value that counts, not the money involved. Their arrangement, not the price mark, she adds. |