Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10

T IFE in the moderate sized apart
ment has it's disadvantages, and
- yet the woman who is not rich
who begins her housekeeping in a
rather small apartment, is in some re-
spects better off than she whose house
keeping career begins i'm n large or
even an ordinary sized house. For in
house IA certain amount of furniture
is necessary at once in order that the
home shall not look at once uncom-
fortably bare. The. necessity of pur-
chasing such a quantity of household
furniture frequently discourages fas-
tidiousness as to it's quality and the
new home is almost of necessity equip
ped with a quantity of material
with which the family is not really
satisfied, and which in later years will
prove a burden to all artistic aspira-
tions.
Fortunately for the young and in
experienced housekeeper, as we'll as
for her who would never, even with
experience, be gifted with accurate
taste in interior arrangement and deco
ration, modern society has supplied
expert advice to offset the growing de-
mand for beautiful homes. A few
years ago the place or the professional
furnisher of houses was scarcely
known. 1t Is now a recognized art,
and women are more and more taking
it up as a serious aim But even to-
day many women who are greatly in
need of expert advice on this topic
believe that such of it as is to be had
is confined to the decoration of great
mansions. the treasures of which are
either brought from abroad or manu-
featured especially to order in this
country. Women turn with a sigh
from reading of the great decorators,
into whose hands care free million
aires are permitted to give over the
beautifying of their mansions. But the
desired help seems not to be for the
moderately well to do, who in New
York inhabit the great city of apart
ments that lies west and north, and,
in fact, all around u.s. Let those of
this great number who would wish
to be beautifully housed take heart.
There has arisen expert assistance
to save them from their dependency.
There are now engaged in interior deco
ration a most successful class of Wo-
men whose aim it is particularly to
impart some of the secrets of correct
taste in interior decoration to the
great majority of housekeepers and to
advance the ideals Of beauty in the
decoration of the home not only In the
arrangement of valuable antiques and
the equipment of magnificent man
sions but along simpler lines such as
fall within the possibilities of the Or
binary home-maker. Miss Alice Kel-
logg is one of this order of decorators.
Miss Kellogg has had a hand in the
making of many beautiful homes on an
elaborate scale of equipment, but she
has also directed her attention particu-
larly toward solving the problems
which occur to the housewife of as
pring ideals as to the effects in inte-
rlor decoration which must be car
ried out with limited resources.
Simplicity Most important
simplicity should be the keynote Of
the decoration of a moderate sized
apartment. 1t is a beautiful simplicity
which is so we'll shown in the illustra-
tions on this page, To attain 1t one
must avoid any effect of oVercrowding
in any part of the fiat There must be
only what furniture is absolutely ne
cessary This furniture should be
plain, simple and beautiful I'm outline.
There is no need for ornamentation Of
any kind, and unless the carving and
ornamentation be really exquisite and