The Ocala banner., 1921-11-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO The FARMER
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education for these young people. and
that best seems to call for sacrifice
i in the home, let not the parents think
to sacrifice the beauty and comfort OF
Egood furnishings to this end If they
do they are overlooking an essential
part of the very thing they are striy-
ing to attain. Let not John or Mary
return at the end of his or her book
education to home full of conglom.
crate furnishings that have no re.
lation to each other nor to the oc-
Icupants of the home. These young peo-
i pie cannot have failed to learn what's
what and it may be fatal.
Source Of Native Culture
There is no reason why beauty of
line and color is not available to such
home. Yes, and not only to this home
but to those whose sons and daugh-
ters may never go away to school.
This is one source of education that
gives a culture not found in text
books; native culture the refine
ment of living with beautiful things.
Again | say, money is not the great
factor in the making of a beautiful
interior Who has not seen (sone-
times a farmer but more often not),
buying promiscuously and without
consideration highly ornamented and
costly stuff that is copied from the
palaces of Europe but which placed
in his home of good American sim
plicity becomes only screaming dis
closure of his ignorance
Consider the simplicity of our fore
fathers in the colonies. Some of the
types of furniture produced or adopted
by them were peculiarly fitting to
simply constructed homes. These types
are for the most part still good. They
have the elements of beauty and SER
vice which last OF these / want to tell
you, as well as of some types used
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which are quite applicable to our
general styles of farm homes.
Granting there is always one room
wherein the family may gather social
ly and wherein visitors are always
welcomed, let us begin with this
room. This is the room which is go
ing to mean the most to your young
people. 1t is going to be the most
important factor in their decision
about remaining on the farm or
rushing off to the cities when they
grow up And this applies just as
much to those who have not been
away to school as to those who have.
For Low-ceiling Houses
Most farm houses are low-ceilinged.
We need not go into detail on this.
there are doubtless very good reasons
for this being the case. Now, this low
room means that the furniture must
not be massive or clumsy, else some
delightful possibilities will be lost.
For this best room, then, call it living
room, parlor or whatever you wish
I've want chairs that shall be comfort
ably shaped and large enough but
graceful. For an unupholstered chair
the Windsor type in all its varieties
is good, Sometimes the seats are just
the wood shaped for comfort, some
times of rush, making them slightly
easier. In upholstered chairs and
couches there should be nothing
heavy. There has been a wave of
such things in huge elephantine lines
suitable only for mammoth hotel lob
lbies or clubs and of questionable
beauty even in that capacity They
Eare not for the small home They ruin
Fit at the start.
4 Neither is the type called mission
suited to- this house Mission has the
merit of being all American and was
a sincere attempt to create some
thing independently of the old world.
In that it has succeeded but not as
beautifully as we could wish. Too
heasy and square in line, too monot-
Ionously brown in color, we must fore
Ego this type if we would have our
room beautiful
There are simple line sofas, not too
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large: gate-leg tables with great merit
for Just this kind of room; drop-leaf
tables and small stands to use beside
the soft and on which lamp can be
placed to advantage; there are stools
made to the height of chair seat
which, when used with small com
| Portable chair, give the tired member
of the family chance to recline And
lit is small comfortable chair can be
well upholstered and still have
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