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here and there a picture of the same color 

 or else sharply contrasting with the back- 

 ground. But in the long run you would 

 find such an arrangement wearying. For 

 steady diet better make the background 

 plain, a dull white, gray, yellow, light olive, 

 or even very light blue, and then put on a 

 few contrasting ornaments such as pictures. 

 Even if you cannot ornament at all, your 

 room may be truly tasteful and beautiful 

 with a white ceiling, a clean bare floor, and 

 calcimined walls in straw color or light 

 olive. Ornaments can, with good results, be 

 changed from room to room or from one 

 position to another within a room. Articles 

 of furniture may be shifted in the same 

 way. A few rich and beautiful ornaments 

 are better than a too great number even of 

 the best, and certainly preferable to numer- 

 ous cheap ones. Greatly to be recom- 

 mended for people of moderate means are 

 photographs, however small and low priced, 

 of great works of art, each photograph 

 placed in an elegant frame contrasting in 

 color with the wall on which it hangs. The 



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