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Y OU can increase the coziness 
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casement adjuster — a sasli 
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1 So. Clinton Street Chicago, III. 
A Young Girl’s Room 
(Continued from page 68) 
$6.75. They are washable rugs, and 
are so heavy in weight that they lie 
flat without curling at the edges. 
Then we looked for chintz, and 
found a delightful piece of English 
chintz in heavy quality, with a white 
ground, turquoise blue and green 
leaves, and queer, conventional yel¬ 
low and white flowers tipped with 
scarlet, vermillion, and some of them 
edged with navy blue, or with navy 
blue star-shaped centers. Running 
lengthwise through the goods was a 
wide serpentine band printed on a 
ground finely dotted with turquoise 
blue, and this suggested a decorative 
contour for the lower edges of the 
lambrequins. We used, altogether, 
five yards of the chintz for lambre¬ 
quins, mantel-cover, dresser-cover and 
lampshade. The trimming is made of 
navy blue and yellow cotton fringe at 
10 cents a yard. The lampshade is a 
striking feature of the room. The 
chintz of which it is made is gathered 
to a large wire lampshade which has 
been inverted and made to cover an 
ugly old combination lighting fixture. 
The lambrequins were made on lit¬ 
tle wooden frames. These are strips 
of wood with a small piece in L-shape 
at either end, so that they fit to the 
outsides of the window-frames. At 
the inner sides of these homemade 
frames are two screw-eyes hooked to 
right-angle-shaped screw hooks that 
are driven into the window frame. 
The rods for the thin curtains are 
also fastened to this adjustable frame 
under the lambrequins. The whole 
thing is easily taken down and 
brushed or shaken out. 
The little oaken bed, now blue, has 
been promoted. It is distinguished by 
the very fashionable title of "day 
bed.” The mattress has been covered 
with a neatly boxed loose cover of 
navy blue denim, trimmed with fringe 
like that on the lambrequins. The 
pillows, also, are denim, covered and 
trimmed with a bright scrap left over 
from the length of chintz. When big 
sister has a friend to spend the night, 
little sister goes to the day bed. 
Tracings made of flowers in the 
chintz pattern were traced off onto 
the blue furniture, and one of the 
children painted them. This gave a 
surprisingly piquante touch. 
As to Colonial Furnishings 
The “quaint” type of girl coidd do 
no better than to decide upon Colonial 
furnishings for her room. A few 
good Colonial pieces often prove a 
nucleus for an after-home beautifully 
furnished in what might be called 
early American style. A four-poster 
bed will be the dominant piece, and 
there will be a little dressing glass 
on an improvised dressing table, a 
chest to keep treasures in, chintz 
draperies and braided rugs. 
In selecting draperies, it is a tip 
to the wise not to overlook the wash 
dress - goods section. Seersuckers 
make lovely curtains and bedspreads 
in rooms with figured paper. Cotton 
voiles are often to be had in beautiful 
colors for very little. Dimities and 
lawns sprigged with flowers are nice 
in solid-colored rooms. Even figured 
calicos have a decorative value. I 
have seen some roller curtains made 
of calico that were strikingly pretty. 
Casement curtains that are used for 
privacy where roller shades are dis¬ 
pensed with give double service if 
they are two-faced, i. e., they may be 
flowered chintz on one side and light 
colored sunfast on the other. This al¬ 
lows of a change in the color scheme. 
Concrete Color Schemes 
The following are several fascinat¬ 
ing color schemes employed by our 
very best artists—combinations which 
usage has not yet made common : 
(1) Greyed lilac walls; beryl green 
carpet or painted floor; white 
enameled woodwork, white curtains; 
upholstery of chintz in light russet, 
bright orange, burnt orange and leaf 
green printed on grey, with light wal¬ 
nut frames. 
(2) A rose-colored carpet (a shade 
between deep rose and coral) ; the 
same deep pink with tan striped in 
sunfast for draperies ; flowered chintz 
cushions, and white wallpaper having 
ribbon stripes of pale blue alternating 
with floral stripes of pink roses; pink 
lampshades. 
(3) Peacock green rug and pea¬ 
cock blue curtains; pearl walls: 
bronze-brown furniture; black-and- 
white speckled cushions, and one tiny 
Austrian red vase. 
(4) Cream wall; pale mauve furni¬ 
ture ; grey floor; wallpaper with blue¬ 
birds among mauve flowers; deep 
purple linen cushions. 
(5) Scarlet furniture with black 
tops ; scarlet picture-moulding ; light 
taupe wall; Japanese prints, in black 
frames, hung on it; large brown rug, 
and tan linen draperies. 
(6) Furniture a delicate turquoise 
green into which a little rose madder 
has been mixed, making it an inde¬ 
terminate shade between light grey- 
green and pale mauve—a tint that you 
may have seen in the tips of lilac buds 
before they are quite awake to the 
touch of the sun; sage green hang¬ 
ings ; deep heliotrope carpet, and one 
coral cushion. 
(7) A room in grey, orange, and 
black; pearl-and-white glazed striped 
wallpaper ; dull orange curtains, cush¬ 
ions and lampshades; bronze-taupe 
carpet, and slip-covers made of 
blocked linen, all black-and-white ex¬ 
cepting the figure of a peacock run¬ 
ning through it: this is printed in 
brilliant colors. 
A Tiny Fascinating House Built For Two 
(Continued from page 21) 
the hooks, the settle, and the evening 
lamp, while around the dining-room 
end, where the sideboard is built in 
under windows, we would put the 
tea wagon, the Windsor chairs, and 
the gate-leg table from which we ate 
our meals. Thus, in the most infor¬ 
mal little house in the world, we 
would still cling to a certain form 
and order, and prevent the necessities 
of the one from spilling over into the 
activities of the other. 
There remained only the kitchen. 
Now I have always had a penchant 
for kitchens. The kitchens of dining- 
cars, for example; see how small 
they are, yet how much they hold, 
how many they feed and serve, and 
under what hurrying, swaying, pre¬ 
carious condition! The kitchen, 
then, must be small. We put blue 
and white linoleum on the floor and 
enameled the woodwork. It shows 
the dirt, yes, but if the dirt is there, 
isn't it better to see it ? We covered 
the tables with zinc, the sink also. It 
is more satisfactory than wood, and 
cheaper than porcelain. We had a 
hood built for the stove, and ran the 
kitchen cupboards to the ceiling; don’t 
let them end 2' below. We built in 
a breakfast nook, hung blue and white 
curtains at the windows, added white- 
painted Windsor chairs. A wonder¬ 
ful kitchen! And, though tiny, an 
efficient one withal. 
Range in price from $1.50 up and absolutely 
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Don’t delay if you want 
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