Putting on the Winter Garb Indoors 
THE WHOLE PROPOSITION OF REFURNISHING FOR THE FALL AND WINTER—WHAT THE SEASON OFFERS 
IN ARTISTIC STYLES OF FURNITURE, CARPETS AND DRAPERIES FOR ALL CLASSES OF HOME 
by He t tie Rhoda Mead 
Photographs by Floyd Baker, F. W. Martin and others 
W ITH the fall months 
come many duties in 
house and garden. It is the 
time when one’s home inside 
the house, and without, must be 
prepared for the winter. The 
fall clean-up of the grounds 
and gardens must be succeeded 
by a thorough renovation of 
the house. During the spring 
and summer months our work 
and our activities have kept us 
much outdoors; now, for an¬ 
other six months, our activities 
will be mostly confined to our 
homes. So the needs of the 
winter call for an entirely dif¬ 
ferent setting. It is now time 
to take down the delicate mus¬ 
lin and cretonne hangings, to 
put away light willow and cane 
furniture, and to roll up the 
cool rugs of woven grass and 
straw and light ingrains. 
The birds are flying south¬ 
ward and the butterflies have 
long since disappeared from 
our garden that was so lately 
bloom-laden. So our cretonnes, 
chintzs and muslins, which 
represented the life of the early 
spring and summer, are no 
longer appropriate. Where we 
had draperies, rugs and furni¬ 
ture designed to give the home 
all the appearance of coolness 
and lightness that was possible, we must now change our fur¬ 
nishings to colors and forms that will suggest warmth and cozi¬ 
ness and protection from the cold and inclemency of the weather 
without. 
Nature will give us all the suggestions we need as to color. 
We remember the delicate shades and colors of the wood anem- 
onies; they have given place in our garden to the stately dahlia 
with its deep tones of wine red and maroon, the rich golds and 
maroons of the marigold. Zinnias, with their wealth of color, 
now bloom in the garden, and the green foliage has now deepened 
into the various hues of au¬ 
tumn. We may well choose the 
colorings for our winter sur¬ 
roundings from the palette Na¬ 
ture now lays before us. The 
transition without makes nec¬ 
essary a transition within. 
The fall clean-up of the 
house to some of us suggests 
pandemonium, but, if we go 
about it methodically and with 
a definite idea of what we wish 
the result to be, the process, in¬ 
stead of being work and drudg¬ 
ery, will result in play and 
pleasure. 
Most modern houses and 
well-preserved houses of an 
older period have splendid attic 
and store room and dry cellars. 
In the clean, dry cellars much 
of the strictly summer furni¬ 
ture may be stored after brush¬ 
ing it carefully and covering it 
with sheets of unbleached mus¬ 
lin. The summer rugs may be 
rolled on long poles which may 
be purchased for that purpose. 
An outer wrapping of news¬ 
paper must be tightly tied 
around them and they may be 
disposed of in the attic. Cur¬ 
tains and bedspreads must not 
be put away dust-laden or 
soiled. All the draperies which 
permit of laundering must be 
carefully washed without starch and put away rough-dry. Cur¬ 
tains for each room may be folded and tied into packages. One 
may have sheets of black silesia, sateen, paper muslin, or any in¬ 
expensive material to wrap the curtains in; or one may make the 
material into bags. The sheets will be just as convenient to use 
and much less trouble to make. Each package should be labeled 
“Library,” “Dining-room,” “East Guest Room,” “South Guest 
Room,” etc. This will save much confusion in the spring when 
we are again taking out the summer hangings. 
Cretonnes and light silks, which have been used for overdra- 
The comfortable and inviting wing chairs are becoming more appre¬ 
ciated. The day of the chair that is built for appearances only is 
past 
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