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cold climate in the winter time. \Miere 
this small room opens off of the porch with 
French doors, it is really a part of the 
piazza, a sheltered spot on a rainy day, and 
a retreat from the sun oai a very warm 
<lay. The decorations for this room may 
carry out the idea of the vine-clad piazza 
in either wall paper or hangings. A great 
many wall papers are made that may be 
very successfully used in this capacity. 
One paper has a white background, 
against which are poles hung with ivy in 
green, a tracery of ivy leaves in gray 
shadow showing faintly against the back¬ 
ground. This paper is a soft, rich green, 
and costs 90 cents a roll. A'here this 
paper which has a very decided ])attern is 
used the hangings should he of plain 
goods. One of the fabrics that does not 
fade will carry out the color scheme nicely 
and will he practicable, for as the name 
implies, the colors of these fabrics are as 
nearl\- sunproof as continued experiment 
and effort can make them. A ver}^ effec¬ 
tive material in an excellent green comes 
at $2 a yard. The goods is fifty inches 
wide, and cuts to excellent advantage, one 
a trailing design of ivy leaves in a beauti¬ 
ful shade of green with brown shadows, 
ami the stems and berries are brown, har¬ 
monizing with the tan walls. The back¬ 
ground of the goods is white. Simple 
white curtains of net, scrim, or muslin 
may be used at the windows. The furni¬ 
ture may be of willow stained green, some 
of the cushions being upholstered in the 
cretonne which is used for the hangings 
(it is 32 inches wide, and costs $1.25 a 
yard), with the cushion of a settle or easy 
chair upholstered in green cotton velvet 
of a harmonizing shade, to give a note of 
special accent to the room. Instead of 
willow furniture. Canton rattan furniture 
may he used very appropriately in the 
porch room. The rattan is a soft gray-tan 
shade, which will harmonize admi'^ahly 
with the Hofi'cloth walls, and the cushions 
may be made of the cretonne and cotton 
velvet the same as suggested for the wil¬ 
low furniture. The willow furniture 
stained a soft shade of green will bring a 
little more green into the room, while the 
Canton furniture will make the scheme 
more tan and green. 
When not in use the folding table occupies 
little space 
This combination, where green and brown tones predominate m the cretonne, Hoft cloth anc 
velvet, is desirable for the porch room 
width cut in half being sufficient for the 
side curtains of a window unless unusually 
wide hangings are desired. This unfade- 
able goods launders well, a very great 
advantage in the summer time, when the 
windows are open and curtains and dra¬ 
peries catching a more than ordinary 
amount of dust and dirt. 
The illustration shows another color 
scheme for the porch room. Hofi cloth, 
which costs 45 cents a yard and is a yard 
wide, is used on the walls. This forms a 
most satisfactory wall covering. It makes 
an excellent background for anv pictures 
one may care to introduce into this pleas¬ 
ant room, is in itself very decorative, a 
little like a light matting in effect, and be¬ 
ing somewhat like a fabric, it has the ad¬ 
vantage of not showing holes made by 
tacks or nails. Hofi cloth comes in a num¬ 
ber of different weaves and colors, the 
color used in this scheme being a gray 
tan. and the weave a striped effect. The 
cretonne used for the overhangings and 
some of the chair cushions is imjDorted 
goods of a very excellent quality. It has 
Jute rugs, which are remarkably low 
in price ($2.25 for a 3 x 6 rug), may be 
used in this room. A rug in very ex¬ 
cellent colorings comes in tans and greens. 
A Handy Folding Table 
OR some reason or other the small 
folding table like the one shown in 
the illustrations is not an article of fur¬ 
niture that can be bought in the average 
shop, but is generally the product of the 
cabinet maker, or of some enterprising car¬ 
penter who turns it out in a rather crude 
form. 
A more serviceable thing would be hard 
to find, as it can be put to so many differ¬ 
ent uses. The one in the illustration, 
which is made of cherry, is twenty-two 
inches high with a circular top twenty 
inches in diameter, and is polished and 
finished so thoroughly that it would fit in 
quite well with the furnishings of the aver¬ 
age living-room or library. It is so light 
in weight, and when folded occupies so 
little space that it really does not have to 
be considered as an extra piece of furni¬ 
ture, and yet it is used for afternoon tea, 
for the after dinner coffee tray, for play¬ 
ing solitaire, for holding books or pa])ers, 
or a work-basket, or any of the number¬ 
less things for which a small stand of some 
sort is required temporarily. 
It is very simple in construction and 
when carefully made there is nothing to 
get out of order, so that it is quite worth 
while to get one of the best kind of wood, 
and so have it ornamental and lasting as 
well as practical. 
The same style table, made of white 
pine and stained in suitable color is equally 
useful as ]:)art of the furnishing of the 
piazza or outdoor living-room. 
The circular top of this style is twenty inches 
across 
