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Pictures should be few but well selected. Good prints of yreat 

 pictures may be had at such low cost that there is no reason why any wall 

 should be disfigured with cheap crude pictures. In hanging a picture the 

 first thought should be for a good light where the picture will show to best 

 advantage, and second, a suitable place into which it seems to fit — that 

 is, a space of the same general proportions. Small pictures may be 

 grouped to fill a space. The frame should not be more conspicuous than 

 the picture but rather help to bring out what is best in the picture, and 

 the wire by which it hangs should be invisible if possible. Family 

 portraits have no place in reception and living rooms unless they are 

 the rare ones which have real artistic merit. If we must have them let 

 them be confined to our private apartments. 



Of bric-a-brac as of pictures may be said — few pieces and well chosen 

 — a good vase or two, a fine candlestick, a good cast of some fine piece of 

 sculpture placed where their good lines can be seen to advantage. Tlie 

 thing most to be avoided is the cluttering of every available space with 

 small cheap stuff — china vases with much gilt and strong color, colored 

 glass bottles and cups, shell boxes and wax flowers, china shoes and silver 

 hats and the whole range of things that look like something they are not. 

 These things slip in from somewhere and it requires determination on 

 the part of the Homemaker to keep down the accumulation and leave a 

 clear field for the few really good things, but the result is worth the 

 effort it costs. 



This series of talks on House Decoration will scarcely be complete 

 without some word regarding the most important feature of all — the 

 homemaker herself. No matter how successful she may be in furnishing 

 and caring for her home the capstone will be missing unless she herself 

 is both in appearance and manner the most charming part of it all. 



HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT. 



(Mrs. P. B. Mumford, Columbia, Mo.) 



The subject "Household Management" was assigned me by the 

 program committee. The more I have thought about the subject, the 

 more I have been convinced that it will not be possible in the time set 

 aside for this discussion to consider all of its various activities in detail. 

 While it is true, Household Management contains such a wide variety 

 of subjects, there are certain general principles that may properly be 

 discussed at this time. 



