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The Washington times., 1931-09-30
Occasional Pieces Radiate Beauty
and Charm in the Home
By LILLIAN KENDALL (Lansburgh'U)

group with a larger chair
next to the fireplace, then
a small table or coffee table,
then the straight chair; the
curved part of a grand
piano often creates the right
setting for an arm or straight
chair with a colorful seat
upholstering.
Under the list of odd
pieces, comes many kinds of
furniture, such as various
types of desks, highboys,
cabinets, commodes and ia
bles. There appears to be
a trend toward a feeling Of
completeness among many
furniture purchasers, when
they acquire a suite of COM
fortably upholstered furni-
ture, an end table, a lamp
table and a Governor Win
throp desk or secretary.
Usually the large couch and
one or two large chairs
are an overdose of heavy
upholstery; the desk or Sec
retary is the only important
piece of wood in the room,
and, therefore, stands out
like a sore thumb, for it has
nothing opposite it of suf-
ficient depth of wood color
to balance the room setting;
the lamp table will likely
be too large to use by the
couch or one of the chairs in
a given wall space, there
fore, it, usually goes under
the front window and does
not function as a practical
piece Of furniture. Instead
of the usual secretary, a
higboy or cabinet can be
substituted, and to get a
balanced effect in the room
a fiat top table desk or a
commode of harmonizing
woods can be used, over
which can be hung a picture
The Washington times., 1931-09-30

The charm and rightness
of a room depend upon a
number of qualities, each
being equally important.
For instance, the right use
and distribution Of color;
the architecture Of the room
and the furniture should be
so closely related in period
design as to dispel any feel
ing of intense fragility or
heaviness of either the walls
or furniture; the furnish.
ings, including lamps, orna-
ments and pictures, should
be in scale with the size of
the room; the fabrics of
the window hangings and
furniture upholstery should
be correct in texture, Pc
riod design, and scale Of
The Washington times., 1931-09-30

pattern for the size Of the
room; the grouping and ar
rangement Of furnishings
should be balanced, harmo-
NOUS in color, and prac-
tical, so the room will be
comfortable and livable.
However, with due consid-
Grafton and execution of
each of these fundamental
principles, a room can look
monotonous and rather fixed,
because of the use of "sets
of furniture, - rugs exactly
matched in pattern and
color, and too many pieces
of furniture upholstered in
the same fabric. The best
prescription for this kind
of room malady is to adopt
a few "odd pieces" of fur
niture and ornaments.
The Washington times., 1931-09-30
Table Pairs Add Charm

Pairs of small tables or
small commodes often en-
hance the atmosphere of an
interior, as well as pairs Of
candlesticks, lamps, vases,
ivy holders, mirrors, match
ing pictures or wall hang
ings. One cannot pass the
coffee or tea table in a dis
cussion of odd pieces with
out leaving out of the pic
ture a very interesting,
charming and useable ar
ticle of furniture. This piece
should be chosen with care
regarding period, wood,
height and shape. 1t should
not be too large or high for
The Washington times., 1931-09-30
Odd Pieces a Problem

type which would be suit
able to most of our interiors
would be reproductions of
Eighteenth century cabinet
makers Queen Anne, Chip
'pendale, Adams, Hepple-
white, sheraton), or our
American peer in cabinet
design, Duncan Phyfe. These
chairs are usable as pairs in
halls and living rooms to
flank either side of a table,
cabinet or ,commode placed
against long wall space; or
placed at either end of a
couch with a small table
between couch and chair),
when a heavier chair would
make the room appear
crowded. They can be used
singly in groupings of chairs,
and tables, or in a freside
The Washington times., 1931-09-30

Perhaps the most popular
"odd piece" item in a room
is the so-called occasional
chair. Many purchasers will
acquire this piece Of furni.
ture without due regard for
form and line, or period,
which is a great mistake.
This chair can often make
or mar a room, and there
are great possibilities for
it to add not only comfort
but also an abundance of
charm to the atmosphere
Of an interior. Frequently
a Queen Anne or Chip
pendale wing chair can
be added, or substituted for
a low heavy overstuffed
chair, giving a right height
and balanced feeling as a
fireside or corner piece;
this type chair can well be
used with the usual suite of
overstuffed furniture, with
Eighteenth century English
interiors, with Colonial fur
nishings, and also with Vic
torian pieces. Care should
be exercised when selecting
the small occasional chair,
that the other pieces Of fur
niture do not .overpower it.
It probably would be ad.
visable to use two of the
smaller chairs rather than
one large chair, and they
can be a pair exactly alike
or each a type of two differ
ent cabinet makers of the
same period-for instance,
one can be a Hepplewhite or
Adams reproduction, while
the other can be a Louis XIV
or Louis XVI Model.
Sufficient attention among
t h popular-price furniture
buyers has not been diverted
from the heavier occasional
chairs to the individuality
and usefulness of the straight
and armchairs, similar to
dining room chairs, which
can be used as living room
pieces. Even one of these
smaller chairs can be very
ornamental and useful as an
odd piece, when it is chosen
with discrimination and with
a determination that it shall
be a good reproduction of
a suitable period, and they
are procurable from tn e
Gothic period down through
the ages of changing styles.
Probably the chairs of this
The Washington times., 1931-09-30
Stores in D. G.
Welcome Visitor
And Give Advice
Lnterior decorntors san:

Interior decorators say
"Study your room HntttG-
tionS, knotD the possibilities
OF your home. then OtStt
furniture stores before buy
ing anything In the home
furnishings line"
The so-cGIled blind buying
of furniture is not conductve
to happiness.
Stores are displaying the
latest trends In home fur
ntShingS. Most stores haze
model rooms to1 the buying
public to UtStt. so that they
may get a better idea Of hotO
the same pieces of furniture
Uould look IN their homes,
and lDhere there are no dis
play rooms groupings are
made to give the vtSitor a
UietO OF the pieces as they
are intended to appear.
Expert GdUice Is available
in all stores, and it is tDeH to
consult them before purch1S-
ing furniture for ones home.
The Washington times., 1931-09-30
2 or 8 Magazines
Enough on Table

Keeping the magazine con-
Uentent and, at the same
time, in place is a problem
that most of US haze.
TtDo or three magazines on
the HUtng-room table are
decor1ttUe-n0re are likely
to be diSorderly.
A magazine basket is the
GnSlper to this problem.
The most popular type of
magazine baskets are to be
had in either metal or dur.
able fiber, Dith a grip
through the center Uhich
SerUeS the double purpose of
keeping the basket standing
erect and as a handle for
carrying 1t about easily and
conveniently.
The Washington times., 1931-09-30

the space where it must be
placed. 1t must be round or
square, Or oblong if the
space distinctly calls for
either of those shapes. 1t
should add a note of infor-
mality and hospitality to a
room, and often meets both
of these requirements when
placed a few feet in front
of the couch, either in the
center or near one end,
where the hostess can serve
tea conveniently to a group
of friends, orr where several
people can easily reach a
cigarette ash tray placed on
it. When it is not in use
as a serving table, a low
bowl or vase of just the
right color, holding a few
flowers, gives a flavor of
graciousness.
In planning any room (in-
cluding the dining room) in
an apartment or house, do
not take the line of least re-
sistance by purchasing en-
tirely suites of furnishings,
but plan it to have differ
ent (or odd) pieces of good
design and with right pro-
portions, as though they
were collected from the
"four corners of the earth"
and the home will radiate
an atmosphere of beauty,
individuality and hospital
ity. What more can one
ask9
The Washington times., 1931-09-30
Living Rooms Should Always BE COlOrf
By AMOS PARRISH

are about the same as they
have been for quite while.
But the shades of these
colors are different. Rust,
fashionable for several sea-
sons, is a roster rust this
fall. The popular green has
turned bluer. And the gold
that makes such a smart ac-
cent is a browner, softer,
less metallic gold shade.
Brown Is Fashionable
A newer color, which is
fast growing popular espe-
cially for background in
tapestries, rugs and chintzes,
is brown. It's often used
alone, too, this year, espe-
cially in plain carpeting.
It's a color many people
like and that looks well in
many kinds of living rooms,
because it's rich, warm and
friendly to other colors.
Rose red-the shade you
find in so many oriental
rugs-is getting more fash
ionable.
So are mulberry and
plum. People like them par
ticularly as backgrounds for
chintzes or for plain rugs.
White for Accent
But newest Of all is white
used as an accent color.
Decorators are using it for
walls, curtains, draperies
and even furniture covers.
But it's most practical, of
course, in smaller objects
like lamps or bric-a-brac.
Here are two good color
schemes for the fall living
room. We've applied them,
one to an Early English
room and the other to an
Eighteenth Century room.
But they may offer some
suggestions for color COM
blnations that you can use
in rooms of other types.
Early English Scheme
For the Early English
room: (1) carpet-an ORR
entail or American Oriental
in pattern of blue and rose
red with a little golden tan;
~ wall-plain golden tan;
(3) draperies-Jacobean lin
en- with rose red and blue
desi gn on tan background.
~ Glass curtains-tan
filet net; (5) sofa-lounge
type covered in rose red
brocatelle; (6) lounge chair
matching the sofa; (7)
wing chair-Same linen as
the draperies with a pleated
skirt.
(8) Pull-up chair-blue =,
antique velvet; 10y desk
chair-blue and tan small
figured tapestry; (1O) floor
lamp - English bronze can
die lamp with shade of plain
antique parchment or pleat-
ed golden tan silk; (11)
table lamp - heavy yellow
pottery with parchment
shade.
For an 18th Century Room
For the late Eighteenth
Century room (and part Of
one of these is illustrated):
(1) walls-pale green Of the
shade called Georgian green;
(2) carpet-plain brown;
(3) draperies-green glazed
chintz with large white flow
ers in the design; a. glass
curtains-pure white bobin-
cite.
(5) Sofa-soft blue-green;
(6) lounge chair - chintz
like the draperies will h
pleateG skirt; (7) wing chair
antique rust damask; (9)
pull-up chair-small pattern
ed green tapestry with rust
and yellow flowers in the
pattern; (9) wood back pull
up chair of Chinese Chippen-
dale type-gold brocade with
green and rust figure.
(1O) Lamps-white pot
terry urns with shades of
white parchment or silk.
These repeat the white in
the draperies and curtains;
(111 Bric-a -brac-white and
a little yellow.
This Eighteenth Century f.
scheme could also be worked
The Washington times., 1931-09-30
Kitchen Tables
Facilitate Meals

A Seruing table and a
table to prepare rGD Uege-
tables should be proOided In
the Kitchen.
Each has its place In the
preparation and SerUin0 OF q
meal. and the ttOo proUtde
separate tDorkin0 spaces, add.
ing to the convenience Of
the yorker.
The Washington times., 1931-09-30
This Luxurious 2>Piece
Living Room Suite
$3.50

Made by manufacturer who has compromised quality
for price! And when you it's im new nes its ele-
giant upholstery, little will you wonder why it was
claimed the "mOst outstanding living suite" at the
great Grand Rapids Furniture Show 1t is of the popular
loose pillow back sye-and upholstered in the seasons
favOrite materials and cOors-rust frezee rust and
green figured tapestry beauty-at truly low price!
May Be Purchased on the Budget Pl4n!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-13
FARMER ENDS LIFE
OVER W|FE'S GRAVE
Mystery of Her Disappear
anCe Cleared by Return and
Death of Husband.

ELSBERRY, Mo, February Is R.-
Joseph Jones, farmer, who formerly
lived near here, reappeared yesterday,
after a two-year absence, and by his
dramatic suicide pointed out the burial
place of his wife. whose disappearance
had been an unsolved mystery OF this
small town.
Jones fired a bullet from a pistol into
his brain and fell dead in the cellar OF
the house in which he formerly had
lived The spot proved to be the grave
of his wife.
Jones and his wife came here about
three years ago from Detroit and ne
purchased a farm, telling neignDors;
he had brought his wife to Missouri
for her health. After a short time his
wife disappeared. He informed neigh
bors she had Joined relatives in Indiana.
Six weeks later he disappeared.
Later it was proved Mrs. Jones had
not gone to Indiana Her mother, Mrs.
Ella Cain. and q brother Roy Cain,
lived at Winamac, Ind. Early this week
Jones appeared at his mother -lr1-laW'S
home and asked her and his brotner-
Sn-iaw to accompany him to Missouri,
saying he would direct them TO Mrs.
Jones grave.
They drove from Indiana yesterday.
When they reached a point near the
farm house where Jones had lived he
got out of the car, went to the cellar
and fired the shot that ended his life.
To a neighbor he talked with shortly
before he handed q note, which read:
MY dead body will be found imme-
diately over Clara's grave at the house
In the old storm cellar"
Sheriff Jesse Groshong and Coroner
z. A. Hicks were summoned and found
Mrs. Jones' body buried 4 feet in the
sand of the cellar
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-13
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

TODAY.
Dance, Chi Sigma Fraternity, Gamma
Chapter, Hamilton Hotel 10 pm.
Meeting, American War Mothers,
Hamilton Hotel, pm.
Dance, Trinity College, Maynower
Hotel, 9 pm.
Dance, Dramatic Guild, Maynover
Hotel, Q pm.
Dance, Senior High. School Reserve
Council, Barker Hall, Seventeenth and
K streets, . pm.
Meeting, American Association Of
Engineers, Washington Chapter, 2400
Sixteenth street, 8 pm.
Meeting, Brightwood Citizens Asso-
citation, Paul Junior High School, pm.
Dinner, University Of Iowa Alumni
Tilden Gardens, Connecticut avenue and
Tilden street, 2 pm.
Dance, Alpha Kappa Phi Fraternity,
Gamma Chapter, National Press Club,
10 pm.
Gard and radio party, st. Johns
Auditorium, l22S Vermont avenue, 9
pm.
Meeting, Daughters of Union Veterans
of Civil War, $40 street, pm.
Dance, Kappa Phi Delta Sorority,
Carlton Hotel, 10 pm.
Card party. Loyalty Chapter, No. 80,
o. E. s., 2146 Georgia avenue, 8 pm.
Nesting. Catholic Literary Club of
Sodality Union, Is street, $50 pm.
Entertainment, Washington Readers
Club, Westminster Presbyterian Church.
8 pm.
Meeting, Big Sisters of the District of
Columbia, rectory St. Patrick's Church,
8 pm.
FUTURE.
Book review, Mrs. William Wolfe
Smith, Mount Pleasant Library, Six
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-13
NEW STORE IN BERLIN
IS ALMOST A TOWN
Restaurants, Baths, Roof Gardens,
Electric Plant and Subway
Station Features.

BERLIN (N.A.N.A).-New visitors
find delights and wonders in the Kar-
stadt store, with its very modern archi-
lecture and its two great glass towers,
which are lit I'D at night lest they
should endanger passing aircraft. The
store has an underground station and
its own electrical plant It is almost q
town, with many restaurants, luxurious
baths and beautiful roof gardens.
Berlin stores have excellent schools
for apprentices, up-to-date staff can
teens and wonderful rest rooms for the
assistants, who have a two-hour lunch
time break. And they provide day
nurseries for the children of shopping
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-13

mothers, with special little kitchens 70
cook meals for them.
There Ia q great vogue for showing
fats and apartments fitted up in smart
ness and comfort to suit all kinds Of
incomes.
(CopyriRht, 1881, by North American News
spapeF Alliance
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-13
MADEIRA NOW POPULAR
Lady Ullswater Occupies Villa
Pilsudski Recovering Health.

MADEIRA (N.AN.A.) Lady OILS
water loves Madeira for the Winter.
and is living at the fine villa Quinta
Boa Vista. which lies on that side Of
Funchal town not generally favored by
those who take houses for the season.
The villa has fine gardens and wonder
full views, all the same, and Lady Alice
Egerton is a happy guest there. Lady
UllSwater entertains a great deal, and
his lordship spends most days in walk
ing or sketching.
The Polish prime minister. NJ. Pill
sudski, has sought Madeira's sun to re-
cover his health, and Lord and Lady
Stradbroke are visitors.
(Copyright, 1881. by North American News
paper Alliance)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-13

A former sign painter Of Pittsburgh,
John Kane, who turned artist, has had
his pictures exhibited at the Inter.
national Art Exhibition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-13

teenth and Lamont streets, tomorrow,
pm.
Chapter, o. Z. s., Hillcrest Inn, $500
Thirteenth street, tomorrow, 7:30 pm.
Forum luncheon, Women's City Club,
73s jackson place, tomorrow, pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-13

Book review, Mrs. william Wolfe
Smith, Mount Pleasant Library, Six
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-01-29
CONTEMPORARY OPINION

Muzzling the Press-A free and
unmuzzled press is essential to the
social and economic well-being of the
people. A muzzled press is the first
sign of a decadent people. Take the
states in which evidence in divorce
cases is not available to the newspap-
ers, and divorces are far more numer-
Gus than in those states where the
ones seeking divorce know that the
evidence will be printed. 1t is the
same way with crime. Many man
has kept the straight and narrow
path for no other reason than he
feared publicity more than he feared
the law.-Murray County Herald.
Paraphrasing "Old Padre"-Wish
the dear old Padre was chaplain of
the legislature to exercise his pecul-
lar gift of prayer. In the service he
used to implore divine blessing on
everything connected with the mill
tary, beginning with the president
and ending up with horses and mules.
Then he'd unctuously add: "And, 0
Lord, bless the non-commissioned Of
ficers and give them the understand
ing they so sadly lack" Now if
Legislators" were substituted for
"non-commissioned officers" in the
above there'd be some sense to heav-
emily petitioning in our legislative
halls.-Fairmont Sentinel.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-01-29

have not mist menny Saturday mites
doing the past yr. But when the tub
was full l found out the water was
to cold and wet so l TUX vace and
splashed it in the water and will wait
Until mex Saturday mite for my week
ley bath.
Sunday was down to Pugs house
no more. His dad is so stingey that
the onley entertainment fella gets
is when his dad takes out his falls
teeth and waggles his face.
Munday-ma was saying at the
table that she wood like to have the
new banker and his wife up here for
ewing VISIT but that the new
banker is a vulgarian. Ant Emmy
wanted her to go on ahead and envite
them anyways becuz she had all
ways wanted to hear a yuman con-
verse in that langwidge.
Teusday-I wood of got pritty
fare Grade in the test today onley
I was under the empreshun that a
Quorum was place where they KEEP
live Fish. Elsy mist the / about
Cromwell she sed that it was where
the Egipshens carryed there drunken
water frum.
Wensday-Joe Blunt nocked down
the Ostopath DR.. today and cracked
2 ribs and spraned his ankel and
punched him in the back and stomp
ed on his Chest and choaked him and
then TUX S away frum him. pa says
this is News and he shud ought to
no becuz he wirks on a moose paper
or otherwise my dry woodent get
Printed l Xpeck.
Thirsday-Ant Emmy says she all
ways looked at marryage as sorta
ad venture. but personly give me
nice war or nest of Bundle bees.
ketching a pole cat issent so bad
heather. In comparison, she sed.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-01-29
Tools of the Thinker

IT think for yourself is the purpose of education.
/ knowledge is truths and facts relative to life
which is the tool of the thinking man with which
he fashions other truths and facts.
theoretically, it is possible memorize the entire
dictionary the encyclopedia, but it would be of
much parrots vocabulary and impractic-
al. There are those with vast storehouses of know
ledge which meaningless to the possessor. They
are human parrots.
An educated may said to be adapted to
his environment, who place his hands whatever
he wants whenever he needs it. He does not endless
y read reference books from to cover but when
the occasion calls for specific knowledge. In this
manner he acquires facts without examining because
the substance is associated with experience. It is
therefore impressionable upon the memory.
pamphlet pertaining to opportunities of the pub
lie library goes on to say: am opportunity; the
tnuaton school for ALL the storehouse of knowledge
in this city; supported by the people for the people,
offer you the opportunity to know all there is to
know about your work. open my doors great
public mental recreation ground for leisure hours.
am the Public Library.
Shifting the Gears
North Carolina paper records that sailor twas
killed by coming into contact with live wife," Pos
siby lnotypers error yet such things have happen
ed.
conversation, winch IS SAID to nave nOWn out OF
the window when prohibition came in at the door,
perienced great big revival last week. You guessed
it. It's the Wickersham report. And what sham.
@ .
"A thing of beauty is joy forever it shall never
pass into nothingness-sang the poet Keats But that
was before Daisies" told.
Noah was one famous parsonage who got rid of
the 81 knew him when" boys.
Those ads describing the horrors of halitosis al
most make one hold his breath.
q
An optmist is who depends on the town clock
when he has train to catch.
The most effective advertisement of 1880 was writ
ten by reformer for what he declared to be "the
most immoral show of decade
Anyway the Farm Board has discovered that if
farmers raised less it would bring more.
Alabama is the most fortunate state. It's legisla-
tme holds session only once in four years.