The sun., 1919-06-22
1ISUALIZING NEXT
YEARS APARTMENT
An Advisable Precaution If
Any Changes Are
Planned.

In the multifarious duties attendant
on getting her family or to sea or
mountain the home mother rarely does
more in regard to her apartment during
the summer than to shroud II In chintS
or muslin and leave II to dust and quiet,
postponing the changes that she medi-
tates making until the fall But she Is
not wise to do this unless everything In
her menage is perfectly adjusted and
she means to make no changes either OF
furniture or decoration. In case she
does. by leaving these worries which are
$3.50 delights until September or octo-
Der she greatly increases the work she
will have to do then.
There is no more suitable time to do
away with furnishings that have dis
pleased her for q whole winter, and no
time more fitting for her to at least
mentally assemble new things In chairs,
draperies and ornaments than Just when
the apartment or house Is to be closed
for the hot months. II she wishes 10
bly, she will have the advantage OF
margin Of deduction from fall prices,
and II she only wishes to place them In
Fhsr mind little tour of the shops now
sssill save her much running about In the
crowded shopping times Of the fall.
5othAlso II she mentally assemblies the
distinguishing pieces that are TO trans
the lookout for them In the out OF way
t,faces-the country attics, the village
tcSrpenters-where treasures sometimes
Unexpectedly turn up. Without the
mental picture OF what she wants she
might pass these treasures by or pur-
chase antiques that would not At with
any scheme possible to her.
'"For whether the home maker does
ker mental assembling In July or in
~. x-,1. 1i0
;singuishing features Of her scheme are
s "a be.
The First Confederation.
First, what does she want her rooms
to be like? II she knows even vaguely
sh Q has made a step, for she then in
stantly perceives what she must dis
card. There are certain things in fur
nishings which "go' with nothing else.
These must be excluded from her scheme
or the scheme must be mlde over start
ing with them. And II a sofa or
couple OF chairs are horrors to her now
what would be her discomfort should
others Of the same style 90 added to
them? No. out Of what she has let her
select and retain II not the best then
what she thinks Is the best From that
beginning she will assemble (mentally
or actdally) the things which rightly
60 with them.
Having thought out a scheme the mex.
thing is to decide how closely she wishes
P adhere to It Strangely enough often
the fnest and most livable rooms are
those where there are most departures
from a set scheme. These have to be
made artfully With every period In
furnishing there Is associated, In mind
at least. a period that preceded II. and a
period that followed It. In fact most
period furniture is a transitory thing.
having characteristics of what went be-
fore 1t easily definable. We will sup
pose. however. that the home maker Is
sensibly opposed to a period or any
thing that compels stiffness. She does
not. In other words, want Of suite Of any
thing. but wisely wants many differ
emit things that go together. There
fore she will do well to study the char
acteristics Of styles and quickly she will
learn that these characteristics are car
ried over from one style to another
that at FIRST glance are centuries apart
This is the family likeness that she
10 looking for. and when found makes
. note Of" for It means that her apart
ment is going to be an artistic success
and a home at the same time.
Another Useful study.
Thus she has made a not too ex-
haustive study of historic styles and
little more careful study OF design.
These two studies have made her aware
of family Licensees that subtly blend
schools of furniture made in the eigh-
tenth century with older pieces that
are the product OF the seventeenth.
With century between them two chairs
which possess this subtle likeness, which
may be in line only, will surely har-
ponize
In her mental Assembling" 1t Is we'll
she should be concrete. She reflects
that she has a Tudor cabinet and
Jacobean sofa with a French chair