HOME ADORNMENTS. 223 



HOME ADORNMENTS. 



BY MISS EMILY JONES. 



What a wide field does this topic open out before us, and one too 

 that we can enter upon without being as daintily shod as the extrava- 

 gant minded may suppose. 



The housewife whose cosy surroundings testify that they owe their 

 main attractiveness in great part to her own taste wins more appre- 

 ciation than she does who has the golden passport into the realms of 

 professional decoration. 



One can tell at a glance the house that has been furnished "to-order." 

 It is strictly correct, but it lacks the dainty finishing touches that are 

 not purchasable. 



It is not the rich alone nowadays who can have their tables sparkle 

 with glass, their mantel and brackets filled with ornaments. 



Take, for example, the pressed glassware. Especially in table glass, 

 are the pressed wares to be recommended ; the fruit bowls, olive dishes 

 tumblers and goblets are beautiful, to say nothing of the slender, daintv 

 pitchers that temper the blue-whiteness of the city milk until one 

 almost thinks it is rich Jersey cream. 



There is a growing fancy for light toned walls and ceilings, and it 

 is a fact to be noted that many of the less expensive wall papers are 

 more chaste and prettier in pattern than those of higher price. The pre- 

 vailing tints are robin egg blue, soft terra cotta, cream and pale olive. 

 In papering a room the size and location should be taken into consid- 

 eration, a north room will require the rich warmer tint than an east- 

 ern or sunny south could do without, and all heavy shades should be 

 near the floor so as to blend and grow soft and light near the ceiling. 



Then our lamps should not be a second consideration. If we have 

 a hanging lamp over the center table we should have on mantel or 

 bracket a table lamp. Let the rooms be well lighted in the evening. 



In the dining room we should not have any table ornaments so high 

 as to interfere with the view across the table. 



The linen closet is always near the good housewife's heart and her 



