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tree or similar object, artificial as well as nat- 

 ural, may be employed to gain the end desired 

 and will not fail to prove effective as well as 

 logical. 



Each year finds Americans giving more and 

 more attention to all such details. The house 

 no longer receives attention to the entire exclu- 

 sion of its surroundings ; it has come to be con- 

 sidered a part of the home, not all of it. And 

 this is equally true when the house is already 

 erected, as it is in a majority of instances, and 

 we must make the most of conditions as we find 

 them. This, of course, is more difficult, but it 

 is never impossible. It means only that all the 

 more planning is necessary and it presents no 

 cause for discouragement, but, on the contrary, 

 an incentive to greater effort. 



