South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-01

ender and amethyst" said the girl
in the soft duvetyn coat. Nothing
will induce me to pass unnoticed a
shop window where there are pur-
pie things displayed. I simply have
10 stop and glOat over the delicious
colorings and glimmerings and
shadings. But, of all the tints, 1
prefer the real amethyst-like this
coat, for instance. I've wanted an
amethyst coat for a long time
Every time I've proposed buying it,
some one has come in and said
oh, no, not purple for your Each
person declared il too somber or
too old or a color which would not
wear well But the last time 1 need
ed a coat. L made my decision in ad-
vance; l was going TO have it in
amethyst, no matter what anyone
said ] was the one who was going
10 wear it, and 1 knew that l would
not tire of it. Fortunately, nobody
could say that it was not becoming,
because il is. I'm one of those non
descript persons who can wear prac-
tically any color. So, as you see,
bought my amethyst coat; I've worn
il a great deal, consider that it is
wearing well, and every moment
that I've had it on it has been a JOY
TO me. 1 like TO look down at its
lovely soft amethyst folds and the
long strips of the material which
wind sometimes around my neck
seem softer and warmer and pleas
anter to me just because of their
friendly color. Why should we not
surround ourselves, in our belong
ings and our clothes, with the colors
which most appeal to US? Why mind
what people say?
Then, recently, I've done another
thing with purple which my friends
insisted would be a failure" con-
tinued this enthusiastic young per
son. I've made myself a purple
room. Everywhere you go you will
hear it said that purple in rooms is
firing, that it will not do / entire
~ disregarded all this gable about
purple, and, when il lately came
time to redecorate my room, bold
ly announced that it was going to
be done in purple. And in spite of
all the predictions of failure. all the
vehement opposition or polite lift
ings of disappearing eyebrows
among my friends. 1 consider it
great success. After all, l am the
one who should be pleased too.
This is how my room looks. It's
fairly goOd-sized room in an
apartment, having two broad win
Gows in a kind of little bay at one
end. The woodwork and the ceiling
are done in cream, and the wallpa-
per which l selected is just between
the cream and the tan, with a tiny,
indistinct self-toned pattern. My
carpet rug is Of amethyst, quite
plain, but of the tint that makes il
look like a little field of heather
when the sun shines upon il. At
the windows and covering my big
armchair, / have a lovely printed
linen, its background of exactly the
same tint as the wallpaper, the fig
ures upon it-trees, impossible look
ing conventional flowers and even
more improbable birds-done in
soft green and amethyst with a
touch of brown here and there. The
curtains hang straight down at the
L -
having the valance made il possible
to use only one-half width of the
material at either side of the win
dow The line was very wide. you
see. The under-curtains are simply
1 of a plain cream net-quite orni-
nary. In my armchair, which is
! covered with the same printed linen,
! 1 have a little square pillow of plain
amethyst silk.
Being fond Of the fashioned
I in furniture. I've been collecting a
/ few old pieces which I am using in
my room. I have an old secretary,
picked up from the truck strewn
about a second hand furniture shop,
which is now repolished so that it
has become an excellent old piece.
1 have a rather good old bureau,
and a little dressing table between
the windows; there are two old
straight backed rush bottom chairs
and over by the four-poster bed
stands a little square table which
holds my reading lamp. For the
bed I bought one of the old tufted
bedspreads, in precisely the right
cream-colored linen for my room;
the table cover is a miniature square
of cream Russian linen embroidered
a bit in amethyst. My pictures are
few. three or four old English Nash
prints, in delicate colors, framed in
rather a wide black frame with
touches of gold. There isn't much
in the room, as you can see; like TO
have only the necessary pieces Of
furniture i'm my room. I dislike
things 10 be cluttered, and I never
leave articles about just because
they've been given 10 me and
ought 70 use them somehow. These
offer or sale at the suffrage fair,
or give away or burn-anything so
that / may be rid of them. I'm
obliged 70 admit that the cupboard