October, 1912 
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some of it is covered with the cretonne, 
and some with velours of the soft deep 
rose-color, which is the foundation tone 
for the house. The. floor is covered with 
a rug of this color. The room is large 
and has many centers of interest made by 
the clever arrangement of the furniture, 
and the view through the French doors 
across the well-furnished piazza to the 
garden beyond is charming. 
The dining-room has a high wainscot 
connected with the cornice at the corners 
of the room, with over-doors and a beau¬ 
tifully designed over-mantel. All this 
woodwork is the same soft gray-white as 
the other rooms. The wall paper is plain 
deep rose-color, and the Oriental rug has 
rose for its chief tone. One end of the 
room is entirely of windows with a broad 
shelf running the whole length, on which 
are kept pink and white flowers in white 
jars or white painted pots. The side- 
curtains are rose-colored damask. The 
furniture is Sheraton. 
The library has built-in bookcases 
around the room. The wall paper is a 
soft warm gray, the side-curtains rose 
silk rep, and the gray-stained willow fur¬ 
niture and window-seat cushions are cov¬ 
ered with rose-figured cretonne, and a big 
comfortable sofa is covered with the plain 
pink. The rug is of deep warm gray. 
There is a large “Washington” library 
table, a small block front desk, and sev¬ 
eral other pieces of mahogany add their 
charm to the room. 
The bedrooms deserve to be described 
in detail, but space forbids. They are 
all carried out with the idea of rose and 
light gray for their base. One has an 
old-fashioned four-poster charmingly 
draped with old-fashioned chintz, and the 
other furniture is in keeping, a highboy, 
wing chairs, etc. Some of the rooms 
have low post beds, and some have enamel 
furniture. There is an upstairs sitting- 
or morning-room done delightfully with 
gray enameled Adam furniture. 
The details of fireplaces, ornaments, 
lighting, pictures, and lamp shades, must 
also be left out, but I end as I began by 
saying that the use of one color, when used 
correctly, gives charm and distinction and 
a sense of peace to a house in which there 
is no danger of monotony. 
Lucy Abbot Throop 
A Nasturtium T SUPPOSE there 
Bedroom -l was never a red- 
haired girl who didn't 
love red and long with all her soul for a 
red dress, or at least a red room. Not 
crimson, nor terra cotta, nor old rose, but 
red, plain unblushing scarlet. Of course 
she can't have it and never could and she 
would be an offense and an eyesore to all 
who entered if she even had the red room, 
but the room pictured here would come 
pretty near to satisfying her taste for the 
forbidden color, though no one would 
think of calling it a red room. 
Everyone knows that the nasturtium 
has more ways of being red than most 
any other flower and that it shamelessly 
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