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Is Your Bathroom 
^ AsYouWouldLikelt? 
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Unique and useful things of brass, copper and 
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From Early Spring till Frost 
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The Bedroom of Individuality 
{Continued from page 9) 
and a bold design ii 
a touch of burnt orai _ 
teresting contrast to the furniture to be 
used at the window and on the over¬ 
staffed chair. Simple white muslin 
ruffled curtains and a bed cover of the 
same material give the room a fresh¬ 
ness and crispness of air, which is very 
pleasing. A two-toned gray wall paper 
with the faintest of designs, the wood¬ 
work painted a deep ivory and a deep 
mouse colored carpet with a bright col¬ 
ored little woven rug at the dressing 
table complete the furnishings. 
small dressing table with a mirror at¬ 
tached and a settle to go with it, also 
a tall chest of drawers with a separate 
mirror. Instead of these pieces one 
may have a short chest of drawers and 
a dressing table with triple mirror. The 
writing table which is a very good size 
is the sort of adjunct which will com¬ 
plete the room, although in its place 
one may have a small table for lamp 
and books to be placed near the bed. 
vely bedroom which I saw 
e in the Louis XVI manner 
simple gray paneled walls, which 
were a pleasant background for the bril¬ 
liant shot rose taffeta, which was used 
at the windows with tie backs of many 
delicate colored flowers. True to the 
period the bed was draped in the taffeta 
caught back with garlands of roses and 
blue festoons. Most of the furniture 
was painted a peacock blue and covered 
with a rose taffeta and there were 
of old boiserie in commodes, night i 
and small chairs. 
Still another very lovely room h 
black and white toile de Jouy on 
of the furniture with blue taffeta 
tains and* a dressing table hung 
cream colored net on which s 
charming little blue lamps with y( 
chiffon shades. The old French s 
mirror on it, the little painted S( 
with a chinoiserie design, the chintz 
ered chaise longue with cushions in 
mon colored taffeta all gave the i 
a delightful French atmosphere. 
A room which shows an enon 
amount of originality in its feeling and 
requires a rather strong personality to 
enjoy it had brilliant green painted 
paneled walls with self-striped apricot 
taffeta at the windows, and as a ’ ’ 
cover for the old Italian painted 
The dressing table was hung with a 
mellow toned French linen and on it 
stood a triple mirror in a dull 
frame. The chief point of interest, : 
ever, was a fan-shaped full-length 
ror which was set in at one side of the 
room, fastened to the walls with dull 
gold rosettes. Great brilliancy was 
added by a central many-branched 
crystal chandelier, caught at the top by 
apricot colored feathers. The use of 
the crystal was repeated in the side¬ 
lights which were of very delicate work-^ 
manship and by the use of a crystal' 
fringe edging the draperies. 
The Winter Pruning of Fruit Trees 
{Continued from page 37) 
to the young wood or the bark. A 
light brushing of large wounds each 
year will maintain the wood in aseptic 
condition and thuS prevent decay. 
The principles already enumerated as 
to wound making and the removal of 
interfering branches apply to the prun¬ 
ing of old and neglected trees. But 
here we perhaps have dead and diseased 
branches and quantities of water sprouts 
and suckers, those usually burly and 
erect shoots that appear upon the trunk 
and main branches and at the base of 
the tree. Such growths indicate good 
root power but the novice will almost 
surely decide to cut out all this “use¬ 
less stuff.” 
So far as the dead and diseased wood 
is concerned this decision is correct. It 
should be cut out first. As to the inter-] 
fering limbs and the water sprouts, it is 
well to make haste slowly. The trash 
around the base of the tree may be 
taken out without hesitation and the 
interfering branches may be thinned out 
somewhat. 
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The English Home from Charles I 
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