Arizona republican., 1909-02-23
JEANETTE VAN REYPEN
 HOUSEHOLD LETTER
Up-toDate Fittings and Furnishings. Ideas Adapted to All Sorts of
 Rooms in Every Kind of Home.

A visit to the various places that make a speciality of household fur nishings Is a delight to any woman with housewifely instincts, and that means the great majority I fancy. To the woman who wants to refur- nish her long used furniture, and to add little touches here and there to lend an added charm of novelty, there are many suggestions to be gleaned from these exhibitions.
 The Young Housekeeper.
 The young housekeeper who is fur nishing her first home has every op- portunity to select articles that are both practical and artistic, and if she has an idea of ensemble can create a lovely and individual interior at a very modest expenditure, if that Is desirable, or she can furnish in prices that represent the finest pro auctions of artists in interior decor ations, yet lend the whole furnishing a note of personality without which no house seems homelike.
 Praetieality and Beauty.
 Wonderful studies have been made in the past decade. in combining beauty of line. finish, and texture with practical adaptation to the de- mands of comfortable, sanitary living. Sensible people require that chairs shall conform to the, need for easy support without being ugly, cumber- some, or so upholstered that they become fertile breeding places for microbes and moths. Very few peo- pie now indulge in the old-fashioned heavy textured, tackled down carpets. Hardwood floors are in most of the newer houses and where floors are not fit to be left without covering, fine Japanese mattings or the more substantial American grass carpets, | known as "Crex," are used. These l are easily kept clean with dry mop, | and occasional wiping up with a so- lution of common salt and water. They make a most artistic back ! ground for the warmer colors of | oriental rugs, and those made of do- | mestic carpetings while their cost is | moderate and their wear is long.
 Colorings Important.
 Coloring is of the utmost import | ance in successful furnishing, and floor and wall coverings should be chosen with the idea of their use as | a background, not only for the pie lures and furniture of the rooms, but also as a becoming setting for the people who are to live in the house. Too often this latter idea is com pletely ignored, and the pale, dull colored person furnishes her reception room in aesthetic greens and yellows that make her positively ghastly, where a delicate rose colored back ground, or one that permitted rosy lightings or drapings would lend her a glow that would give her delicacy of feature all the beauty and charm possible.
 lightings and Drapings.
 I know a woman, otherwise clever, who has an expensive and artistic green shade over her dining table that makes almost everyone at her dinners appear hideously sallow. She selected the shade because the walls of her dining room are green and she wanted it to match" whereas a similar dome in pale amber or opalescent glass would have corres- bonded equally well with her room, and been complimentary to her com plexion and that of her guests.
 Quiet Tones and Lasting Fabrics.
 The woman who wants a home that is "liveable," restful and grate- ful to the eye, will stick to quiet tones for the most part, and select furniture and fabrics that are sub stantial and lasting enough to stand the ordinary, every day wear, without growing frayed or shabby. Such al scheme throws all ones really artis- lie and valuable belongings into high -elief. and makes them count greatly. IS they ought to do, in the general effect. A fine bronze. a bit of lovely china, a picture that delights the eye, l stately tall clock, or bit of really glass. are given their full 'alue if the surroundings are kept , 'ather neutral in coloring.
 A Bit of Copper.
 A bit of furnished copper or brass. ,r a drapery of yellow or red, in he right shades. will warm up the fleet if the general coloring is too lead, while for combinations of the tints that swear at one mother, there is no help save the ye pot, or a fire. For the young Iousekeeper doing her first buying n this field, who wants her home ( retty and easy to clean. comforta- lie to live in, and not needing the t onstant renewal that eats up so l many dollars which could be saved S r spent to better advantage. It is 7ise to remember that simple effects re most artistici and satisfactory.
 Straight Muslin Curtains. Straight curtains of muslin either n white, cream or delicately colored r printed are used by the best dec rators, even when expense is not a ic and a rather uniform F one in floor covering and wall hang I lgs makes a small house appear n irger, and more elegant, while blue. a reen, yellow and red rooms chop it a D into disjointed sections that are D