XIV AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS August, 1911 
Simple in @LEAVENS FURNITURE appeals to all per- For the homes 
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. “buyer” is exercised first, and you see only such 
effect. pieces as were selected by him. With us, you have moderate cost. 
not only the whole output of a factory to select 
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customers. We also furnish unfinished. 
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The Scientific American 
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By A. RUSSELL BOND, 
12 mo., 338 pages, 314 illustrations. Price, $2.00. 
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tains. If plain velour is preferred, it or 
upholsterers’ velvet could be used with 
equally good effect. Haircloth the same 
shade could be used on the chairs if the 
velour or velvet is used for curtains. A 
green Brussels carpet made into a rug would 
carry out the color scheme in green and 
grays better than an Oriental rug. An en- 
tirely different scheme for the dining-room 
could be carried out in yellow and blue. 
There are some reproductions of Colonial 
papers sold to-day in self-tones; the pat- 
terns are small and inconspicuous. One I 
have in mind is yellow; this paper would 
look well with your old mahogany furni- 
ture. The chair-rail is needed, but it would 
not be necessary to go to the expense of 
paneling below the rail. The wall could 
be painted yellow to match the upper wall- 
paper, or the two-toned paper could be run 
below the chair-rail. This was often done 
in Colonial days, and is permissible. An 
Oriental rug with some clear blue would 
be my choice, and a large rug would suit 
the size and shape of the room best. If 
the price of such a rug would be prohibitive 
there are Wilton rugs in the finer qualities 
in golden tones that blend with the yellow 
paper I have in mind. The curtains and 
chair-seats should be Colonial blue in cor- 
duroy, damask or mercerized armure; the 
last material has a small Colonial figure 
and comes in very useful for Colonial fur- 
nishing. It is only one dollar a yard fifty 
inches wide. A heavier material would be 
more serviceable for the chair-seats; hair- 
cloth if the blues were the same tone. The 
patterns are very similar in the mercerized 
armures to the haircloths. If this simple 
treatment is carried out in the dining-room . 
I should be tempted to use a light-tone 
foliage paper in the halls. There are sey- 
eral small patterns that are Colonial and 
furnish a hall better than a plain paper. 
If a scenic paper is used in the dining- 
room the two-toned yellow paper suggested 
for the dining-room would be admirable 
for the hall. It has a quaint appearance 
well suited to a Colonial house. 
A reader from Ohio writes that she 
wishes for something new in the sofa-pil- 
low line. She wants new pillows for li- 
brary and parlor. The library is brown, 
furnished in Mission style. The parlor is 
lived in and simply furnished in green, 
with walls of tan-color felt paper—Mrs. 
Sai: 
Badly chosen pillow-covers frequently 
spoil a room that is otherwise well and 
tastefully furnished. It is therefore an im- 
portant subject, deserving much more at- 
tention than is usually given to it. Per- 
haps the most important part of selecting 
pillows is the choice of the right coloring. 
They must be in harmony with the room. 
The pillows that are seen in the shops are 
usually trivial, and are too evidently made 
up of remnants. A pillow must never be 
purchased because it is cheap; it must be 
part of a complete whole, and show indi- 
vidual taste. The small amount of material 
required in the making of a pillow-cover 
allows for richness of effect and for indi- 
vidual treatment. It is impossible in a 
limited space to do justice to a topic of 
such vital interest; it can only be a mere 
hint as to what to avoid and what will be 
appropriate in the majority of homes. The 
library will call for strong substantial- 
looking pillows; some may be hair-filled 
and covered with leather, provided some of 
the chairs have leather seats. A_ large 
roomy Mission sofa would need leather 
cushions or Arras cloth covering, and it 
would be best to have the pillows to match 
in material and color. They should, how- 
