The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-06
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 By Margery Rex New York, Nov. 5.-Many schemes have been suggested to make home happy and thereby cause husbands to stay by the hearth, but the latest advice IS that coming from Andre Groult, famous Parisian decorator. who says the right kind of furni- | ture is half the battle. lnnumerable homes are broken up because people don't know how to choose the right kind of furni- ture,' says Monsieur Grou1t. "Women are to be blamed more than men. because the women, as rule, have most to say about the | home.
 ''If a woman would bear in mind that walls should be covered with colors which suit her complexion, that carpets should be selected to hide 1 should be stiff or restfu1 according to her temperament, whether active or languid, she would always look | best in the home and therefore al- ways be attractive to her husband" Harken, unhappy wife, and hasten to that shop where you saw the very chair you thought expressed your personality before it is too late!
 Opinion of N. Y. Woman
 Further commendation for M. Groults plan comes from a New
 York authority on household arts. who is also pretty young wife, Mrs. Christine w. Nelson. instructor of the department of household arts at Teachers College, Columbia Univer-
 q don't wish to speak officially
 now, but from a personal standpoint D
 says Mrs Nelson. "I have always
 had very decided views about home
 furnishings. Furniture is the back
 ground of home life and should not
 be ornamental alone. It should meet
 the needs of the family, be useful Furniture should be chosen so as I to minimize labor in caring for it.
 Simple lines, less stuffing of sat
 a housewife from a burden and
 transform her home into ap lace of
 pleasure.
 Consider the tired husband who
 comes home at night to the .par1or.' Oh, yes,'' smiles Mrs. Nelson, ''there
 are really a few parsors left in the
 world, hard as it may seem to believe.
 A man wants one good comfortable
 chair. He can't find it. He wants
 to lean back and relax, to read in a
 good light.
 Lighting is very important in
 point of comfort, too. Easy Chairs; Good Light
 '@The husband should have a rest
 full chair, not far from a lamp which sends it's rays, not only down, but , out far enough to be useful. Moth : ing is more irritating or macs a man crosser than a lamp that lights a spot on the table or floor and re- l a Or newspaper.
 , Many men are actYa1ly afraid to relax in the homes they have bought
 and paid for; the tables are so per feet it would create a small revolu- ton if cigarette ashes ever fell upon their surfaces.
 , 'Then there is the subject of. color in the home.
 ing of color is influenced uncon- 7 sciouslly by bad color, glaring, crude color. It has a fatiguing effect. Walls are the background of the : home. In a small city apartment 5 they should be a restful gray or ten
 of a light tint.
 7 Dark wall covering makes for a
 morbid atmosphere in a room. Then there is the old red rose seldom, hap oily seldom. It is annoying, irritat- . ing and distracting.
 l Plenty of "Living Rooms" While the home should primarily express the personality of the own
 er it should be in keepning with its occupants station in life, and. should : be livable.
 "Every room should be living I I room in the sense of being sane and | comfortable. > "A woman should choose her fur niture so that if necessary she can care for it alone. It should not be . | too heavy. Massiveness and stuffed | things are awful in a small room, but
 one large, comfortable chair is not
 out of place.
 Now, I have always been devoted 2 to the use of a bit of wicker. It is 1 often a gay, bright note in a room f adds little touch of personality, and is not easily injured when, for in l stance, children lean upon it.
 ."Above all things I want homes to | be free from the institutional look" > Views of Psychologist.
 From a professor of psychology al
 Columbia University, who, in matters S of the home may be called but a mere f nan, comes a somewhat different 0 opinion about home furnishings ana - heir effect on marital happiness y Professor H. L. Hollingsworth is alsc
 married, but refuses to believe toe V much in Monsieur Groult's theories. c Psychology points out" says thi: T uthority, that our feelings are no
 ocalized, that is. we don't know C that causes them. For instance, yol Il ave a toothache, you are cross, un ! easonable, think every one is you < aemy and a liar.
 ,. Of course. the cause is the tooth C It you blame every one who gets il fyour way