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formed into a handsome banquet hall by covering the important structural 

 features with the bayberry shrubs that grow abundantly in that vicinity. 



Usually there is a 

 reason for emphasizing 

 the decoration in one 

 l)lace more than in any 

 other, as the puljjit 

 end of the church, the 

 ])latform at a gradu- 

 ation, the place of cere- 

 mony at a wedding. If 

 there is no reason for 

 decorating some spe- 

 cial place, and if the 

 room does not suggest 

 it, a center of interest 

 should be assumed 

 somewhere for the sake 

 of the better effect 

 produced by a domi- 

 nating feature. 



No phase of flower 

 arrangement is more 

 constantly recurring 

 than that of table deco- 

 ration. The restraint 

 and the simplicity now 

 recognized as marks of 

 refinement in the prep- 

 aration and serving 

 of meals, in contrast 

 to the table overloaded 

 \\-ith a great variety of 

 food, which was the 

 exaggerated expres- 

 sion of old Saxon hos- 

 pitality, should also 

 characterize the deco- 

 ration of the table. 

 Beauty resides in 



quality rather than in 

 Fig. i6. — If the walls of the room were thought of as the back- (-|,,q^-t-{f ^ oj-,(^ ig often 

 ground for flowers and pictures, many designs and colorings " " _ -' 

 in wall paper would never be chosen more in evidence when 



