The Washington herald., 1915-01-16
HOUSE.
WIVES
DAILY
ECONOMY
CALENDAR
WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR
YOUR HOUSE?

| What are you doing to make the place
you live in attractive? LSp you love youl
| living room? Answer yourself that ques
tion. Do the men in your family love the
rooms in which they spend their hour.
at home? That is another question that
should receive serious consideration.
The first thing to do in carrying on
this crusade of beautifying your home is
process of elimination. There are prob
ably many things in those rooms that
are eyesores, that give you no happi-
ness, that serve no honest purpose and
that no one ever praises. Take, for in.
stance. the old ''parlor'' table 1t was
appropriate in the old days when people
really did have parlors, but in the mod
ern living room it has no place. It is
discordant note, and yet you cling to
it. 1t seems so extravagant to elimi-
nate a piece of furniture that is still
in good condition, and so you have let
it stay where il is
Then there are several pictures on the
wall that you know are not good The
young people in your family are actually
ashamed of them, the men make fun of
them. They are the sentimental pictures
that are left-overs from an age that was
our grandmother's. You cling to them
because of association, no doubt Well,
just for once, show your independence
and take them down. Once down and
safely stored in the attic or given away
or even thrown away you will never re-
gret them agair
The next thing to do in that living
room of yours is to look it over carefully
and decide on the color scheme. There
must be a prev~iling note in the room
even now. There Is a note of color to-
ward which every thing blends Having
determined what this is You should try
to intensity it. There is no need to make
it a strictly one or two tones room, but
there should be a prevailing note of
color. Try eliminating some of the OBJ
jects that are most out of harmony with
this color scheme and from time to time
add a few articles to intensity the
scheme of color. In a room that in
clines to the blues and browns wonder
full results can be gained by the simple
addition of a piece OF blue English pot
terry, and a picture with a prevailing note
of bl'Ie and brown.
When you once get into the habit of
thinking of your rooms as things that
can be beaUtified and that are CAPABLE
of an infinite variety of expression
when you get to thinking of your rooms,
whenever you see any other rooms, as
capable OF the same treatment as they,
you will find much more pleasure in the
duty Of presiding over your house than
you do now.
Many housewives think the character
OF their rooms is determined arbitrarily
by the sort of presents that people make
when they are married. FURNISHINGS
have no especial relation to each other
in the minds of such housewives. A
lamp or vase that is good looking in
itself is suitable for any living room, ac-
cording to this point of view. It Is In
the homes of these housewives that we
sometimes see Louis XIV gilt chairs
placed beside a mission table, Dresden
vase placed on a Jacobean book case.
or an arts-and-crafts cushion placed on
one of the new French brocade uphol.
stored chaise-lounges.
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