November, 1910 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



421 



it is in contributing a soft green 

 note to the floor, is harsh in texture 

 for bedroom use and often emits 

 an unpleasant odor when the room 

 is not carefully and frequendy aired. 

 With the question of a bare 

 floor or one covered with matting 

 comes its attendant query: What 

 shall we have for rugs? In a 

 young girl's room, color is almost 

 a first consideration, and in almost 

 every variety of rug this may be 

 the primary motive for a choice. 

 Sometimes the size of the rug is 

 best when it nearly covers the floor, 

 and nine feet wide by twelve feet 



A clock shelf and mirror combined 



light tones with lattice designs and 

 flower borders, in perfect keeping 

 with the ideals of a young girl's 

 room. Some of the gray centers 

 with pink and green tones in the 

 borders at once suggest the dainti- 

 est color schemes for the curtains 

 and other furnishings. Or, if a 

 more decisive idea must be carried 

 out, there are old blues, deep 

 greens and fine shades of brown, 

 with which the design is woven in 

 contrasting colors. 



In the Wilton rugs there has 

 never been until this present season 

 such well-balanced patterns and re- 



long is a standard size for nearly 

 every make. A favorite with many 

 young girls for their own room is 

 the cotton rug woven from strips 

 of denim and cretonne, as it com- 

 bines prettily with the pink or blue 

 chambray wall papers with cut-out 

 flower borders. (This will be 

 taken up later.) 



The Scotch rugs often men- 

 tioned in this department for their 

 durability are now being made in 



finement of coloring, and one 

 might almost forsake the Oriental 

 for our own productions. The 

 plain-colored, all-wool rug appeals 

 to the girl who leans to the Arts 

 and Crafts in her own furnishings, 

 and builds up from a solid tone the 

 minor details. 



The usual way to plan the sizes 

 of the rugs is to place the furni- 

 ture as it is to be kept for some 

 time and then lay a rug before the 



A portable sewing-screen 



