xvi AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
June, 1909 
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Wherever you see this sign, it stands for 
civilization. [tis the sign of one of the 
most powerful influences for broadening 
human intelligence. 
‘The universal service of the Bell companies 
has provided it—has spread an even, highly 
developed civilization through the land. It 
has carried the newest impulses of develop- 
ment from town to town and from community 
to community. 
Bell telephone service has brought the en- 
tire country up to the same instant of progress. 
It has unified the Natton. 
As soon as a new town springs up in the 
woods, on the plains, at the cross-roads, or 
walled in by mountains, the signpost of 
civilization is erected—the sign of the Bell. 
Telephone service puts the people of that town 
into communication with one another and 
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with the outside world. ‘ 
It puts the town on the map. 
You can see this march of progress right 
in your own neighborhood. Every little 
while some neighbor has a Bell telephone 
put in. If you have one, every new subscriber 
enlarges the scope of your personal contact. 
If you have not, every new telephone makes 
you the more isolated—the more cut off from 
the activities about you. 
Just as individuals in your locality use the 
telephone for mutual convenience, so towns 
and cities in different localities are served and 
advanced by the long distance telephone. 
Each contributes to, and benefits by, the 
broad universal service of the Bell. 
The busy man who wants to accomplish more than he is 
now doing can well afford to make use of the Bell Long 
Distance service. It is the most efficient office assistant im- 
aginable. Every Bell Telephone is a Long Distance station. 
The American Telephone and Telegraph Company 
And Associated Companies 
One Policy, 
One System, 
Universal Service 
It does not matter which floor you are 
going to cover, whether bedroom, dining- 
room, library, parlor, or hall, 
CREX is the floor 
covering you need 
You need CREX for the following reasons: 
It is absolutely sanitary. 
It is suitable for any surroundings. 
It maintains cleanliness and promotes health. ; 
It is the most economical because it is pratically 
indestructible. 
It greatly reduces the labor of the housekeeper. 
As a floor covering for summer cottages 
or porches CREX has no equal 
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Problems in Home Furnishing 
(Continued from page xiv) 
This writer is correct in saying that the 
white linen, even in its fine decoration, is 
obtrusively apparent in a living-room of this 
kind. The best thing to use is a strip of Bul- 
garian or Turkish embroidery, selecting one 
with colors that harmonize with the chair 
covering. Some of these strips are very beauti- 
ful, and if not found in the right shape they 
‘may be adapted to the place on which they are 
to rest by careful needlework. 
Some of the hand-woven linen strips in 
grays and browns may also be used for chair 
backs, and when these are made to order both 
design and colors may be planned for the 
place where the strip is to be laid. It is no 
waste of money to provide chair backs that are 
suitable for their surroundings, as it saves 
the expense of reupholstering the entire chair. 
WALL COVERING FOR A LIVING-ROOM 
“T should be very much pleased to have 
some plan for the walls of our new living- 
room. We expected to use a soft green paper, 
as we liked this in our old house, but the 
woodwork is so different that the green looks 
very cold and somber here. The grayish- 
brown, which the chestnut trim, bookcases and 
fireside seats are finished in, has puzzled us 
not a little, as we try to imagine what color 
would combine with it on the walls. We have 
a mahogany piano, a sofa and chairs with ma- 
hogany frames, and a number of water colors 
with gold frames. The rugs are in Bokhara de- 
sign, in deep red tones with some dark, deep 
blue showing.” —Lonec Istanp READER. 
The stain that is used for the trim of this 
living-room is probably one of the new 
weathered grays which repeats the beautiful 
tones one sees on the trunks of the trees. A 
well-printed tapestry paper of greens and 
blues (one of the French patterns) looks ex- 
tremely well with this woodwork, if the cot- 
ton tapestry itself is too expensive to adopt. 
Another suggestion to make the room lighter 
is to use a Japanese grass cloth at $2.50 a 
single roll, choosing a neutral, silvery tone. 
Still another idea is for a burlap that is 
brushed with gold, selecting an old blue that 
tones in with the blues in the rug. If a plain 
wall paper is desired (and this will show the 
water color paintings to the best advantage) 
an English silk fiber at eighty cents a single 
roll is a durable choice, as the color does not 
fade. Still cheaper are the domestic ingrains 
in warm gray tones and texture effects in light 
browns, any of which would be safe with the 
conditions named by this correspondent. 
WHAT TO PUT IN A HALL 
F. W. R., an Arkansas subscriber writes: 
“T am sending you, under separate cover, the 
plans in blue print of my new house. Please 
tell me specifically what furniture to buy for 
the different rooms of this house. The hall 
is the biggest problem, and you will get an 
idea of its spaces from the drawings. We 
simply do not krow what to put in this large 
central hall to make it attractive. Can not 
you help us with this problem in particular?” 
Suggestions for the different rooms having 
been sent by mail, the hall treatment is given 
in print for the benefit of other readers. The 
spaces of the floor show that a rue in stock 
size, nine by twelve feet, can be laid between 
the entrance door and the stairs. “The choice 
of this rug will make or mar the success of 
the hall, and for this reason should be given 
most careful selection. If an Oriental rug 
is out of the question, then a thick, domestic 
one in good colors and closely-set design may 
be the alternative. Whatever is the predomi- 
nating tone in this rug may be repeated in the 
