AMERICAN 
June, 1911 
Fig. 23—-Four-poster Fig. 24—Chiffonier 
training, that it is not at all an impossible feat to decorate 
not only window, but door curtains. The materials are 
sold at the department stores and the patterns at the art 
shops. 
Another way to ornament the curtains is to buy some cre- 
tonne with a design showing flowers in stripes, and cutting 
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Fig. 25—-Twin beds 
in butt and white would suit the color of the partitions of a 
portable house; or, to give a contrasted effect, the blue and 
white or green and white would be pleasing. 
A large rug for the living-room could be chosen in rather 
a bold pattern, but in subdued colors, which would not show 
the dust or sand that would be brought in. Olive-green and 
Fig. 26—Side chair Fig. 27—Rocker 
out the stripes and applying them as bands along the sides 
and across the bottom of the curtain. This would be an 
easy task for any one skillful with the needle. 
If more of an outlay can be made for curtain material— 
thirty-five cents a yard—there is nothing better than the fig- 
ured Japanese cotton crépes. A bamboo and palm design 
Fig. 28—Side chair 
Fig. 29—Rocker Fig. 30—Side chair Fig. 31—Rocker 
gray combine well for such a place, with pleasing effect. 
In the ‘bedrooms the rag carpeting, sold by the yard at 
fifty or seventy-five cents, could be cut into sizes suitable to 
lay on the sides and at'the foot of the bed. Or, one’s own 
rag strips could be woven by a local workman, for so much 
interest is felt in the revival of the art of hand-weaving. 
Fig. 32—-Plain bureau 
Fig. 33—Colonial bureau 
mirror 
Fig. 34——Chest of drawers and 
