The Washington times., 1925-01-16
BY ESTHER HUSE.

i loving woman WHO was sEAbAGAtaC
| " anxious to make her modesl
| little home q gning OF beauty
| and artistic joy. She not only
loved beautiful things herself
Ibut she wanted her husband g
always have the advantage O
coming to d welcoming, cheerIM
vet resttnl atmoaph ere, and she
wanted her two children 70 grow
up In that sort Or environmenS'
SO that they would early Aearn
to appreciate It, and when they
would become older, they would
always remember their home as
such & place. Was It not the
poet Robert Frost who wrote
s'F4ome is the place where, when
Won come back to It, they have
10 take you In" This little
woman wanted her home 10 Os
iust such q place for her famliy.
q nome to which they would
| want to COME back and to which
she would be glad to take
them in.
So she labored hard and late.
spending much time and th0ugnt
al, making her home just the
incest place she knew now %
make 1t. Her hOmemaklng De.
came an exhilarating game.
which never grew boresome
from one week to the next, nor
even from one year to the rex.
Her rooms evolved. one by
ono into units Of lovely, COM
Portable furnishings. but strive
as she would, she could not
seem to be rid OF . certain 1lat.
ness about them. They gtlll
lacked something OF warmth ana
her own personality. although
she had spent much time in Sc
lecting Just what was beautiful
ana suitable for herself and her
family.
She Found the Solution
Upor strOlllng through a large
department store one day, the
drew into conversation with one
OF the stores employees who was
there for the express purpose Of
assisting customers to solve
their home Furnishings, problems.
This employee, a young lady who
had an especially fine knowl.
edge in the fundamentals OF ar.
tistic and correct furnishing
thought to give this housewife
a set Of pictures OF exceedingly
attractive draperies. They were
quite simple, and were in rooms
no more pretentious than those
in her own home. That eve.
ming in looking over these pic
lures she raised her gaze to her
own windows, and the reason
for the flatness and lack of
warmth in the j.. room suddenly
came upon her. Her living
room windows were not draped
in soft colors and flowing mate
rails, but were hung with clean
white Scrim with neat iInita-
ton filet edging, and had s-iven
roller shades which were drawn
severely down to- keep the
curious eyes Of passers-by from
glancing in. She never once
considered that rich, soft dra.
peries had any eSthetic value in
even the most modest of homes
Such things. she thought, were
only for the homes Of the more
well-to-do, and those who af,
fected wealth.
Grapes Rather Than Curtains.
So she did some Scheming and
measuring, and with the advice
IF the young lady down in the
department store she started in
to "drape" her windows. instead
OF having them merely "cur-
tanned" She worked painstak-
ingly, and soon had her windows
hung with draperles which RI
vailed those from a decorators
workshop. Her home was indeed
SO changed that for several DAYS
she looked at 1t in mild Devil.
derment. Sometimes when the
sunlight was pouring in the
rooms would take on sort of a
glorified atmosphere-for >. the
softly colored Grapes diffused the
light much, better than the old
white scrim curtains did, and
| LA1uc TIC Walls, the FURNITURE,
and even the floors appear in
more mellow. blending tones, On
q day that was rai1y and rather
dreary, her lovely new drapes
shut out all the dreariness and
made CHEEKY spots Of color. And
in the evening she thought that
she liked them still more, fol
when the shaded lamps were
lighted, the lower part of the
drapes came under the glow, and
above that, they gradually
dimmed to q rather neutral rest
fulnesS. She knew then thai
her home was at last complete
and her pride in it increased day
by day.
The Connecting Link.
| Had she but known the signifi
canoe that decorators attribute
to draperies, her windows would
have been hung with the color
full materials long before. IN
deed one decorator, who ha,
| written n voasu INF nroo%iun. hnot