The daily Alaskan., 1916-05-16

mar the appearance of your room. Every large picture requies a large piece of furniture beneath it to ob- serve the law of balance. Pictures should be hung so that the horizon line IS rot more than or 5h ft. from tho floor, which would bring it aGout on a level with the eye when one is standing. Pictures are usually hung too high.
 If possible have no wire visible, but # this cannot be helped have the wire the same color of the background. It is better to hang pictures flat against the wall than to tilt them.
 Form and color are of great im- portance in table decoration, and should karmonize with the general plan. To oYercroWd the table with the service, decoration or food is today considered a matter of very bad taste. Here again, simplicity should be the key note. Flowers are no longer used in great profu- sion. A few blossoms tastefully ar ranged is all that is necessary. Here, where it is impossible during great portion of the year to get flowers, we can make use of the materials at hand. A small branch of avergreens or a few sprigs of pussy willow can be arrganed to look charming.
 If we want beauty manifested in in the home it is not only necessary to have it's furnishing and arrangement beautiful, but every member of the family must be willing to contribute his share by bringiuq into the home, love and kindness and helrfulness. The love of the beautiful is really at the bottom of all true progress. It is sOmc'hing outside our selves and lures us on to the improvement of character-so the moro we have of it in our homes the better for us. It Is a very common fault 10 re- gard beauty as 2 form of pleasure ouly--forgetting the influence it has on character and disposition. There can be no true beauty in the home unless there is peace and unity and q willingness to give the best that is in ourselves. What is the use of spendiGe money and en- ergy on beautifying ones home if we are not all willing to bring to it a beautiful, generous, hosRitable character?
 The finest tribute that can be paid one is to have a home to which your family loves to return at even ing---a place where your friends love to drop in for a visit and quiet hour-and to carry away the remerprance that in your home at least, no unkind criticisms have been made, and the shortcomings of ueighbors have not been discuss ed. The finest impression of all to carrv away is that of the home maker, whose voice is soft, gentle and iow-an excellent thing in Wo- man. A gracious presence, and cheerful, well modulated voice nave more power to create beauty i1 a home than all the luxuries that money can buy. will conclude as | 1 began, with a quotation from the Craftsman: ... ,
 La FdrPe, the artist says that in every great artist there is a humble workman who knows his trade and loves t.. This cannot be gainsaid, fer how would it be possible for a man to produce great things with out the love that brings wis dom and a technical skill that is gained cnly by years of devotion to that which he loves? It takes the whole nature of a man to create Gnything above mediocrlty. Love of the work laps swiftly for ward into freesh fields of imagina- tioG while the mind and hand labor steadily after to make permanent that which love has discovered. In every real home maker is the ar IS power to visualize a perfect ly appointed home and the humble work out the details that would be workman's willingness patiently t troublesome enough without love ot the work. To select the proper fur niture, draperies. rugs, and all the manifold little things that go to make up liYable loVable home includes knowledge of materials gained only by study and experience and a sense of fitness and an in- ner feeling of beauty.
 If women approached home mak- ;r-r ,s an artist does his work we