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Remember the draughts, and also that the 
best and most natural lighting comes from 
above the level of the eyes. 
6. Don’t have too dark a house. Re¬ 
member that color has mysterious but posi¬ 
tive influence over moods of the mind. 
7. Don’t have dark ceilings if the rooms 
be low stud. Remember that even im- 
aginery bumps are not agreeable. 
8. Don’t put warm-colored curtains in a 
south room and cold-colored curtains in a 
north room. Remember that colors have 
power to assuage or to emphasize climatic 
conditions. 
9. Don’t choose plain carpets and rugs. 
Remember they will show dirt and dust, 
and wear and tear ninety per cent, sooner 
than carpets with ground well covered.. 
10. Don’t choose carpets or rugs with 
realistic patterns. Remember that you will 
have to walk over them. 
11. Don’t have floors, hardwood or 
otherwise, too light colored. Remember 
how unpleasant it would be were these 
floors literally to jump up and hit you in 
the face. Whence it is better for them not 
to do so, even figuratively. 
12. Don’t have a houseful of lugubrious 
pictures, howsoever rare or valuable thev 
may be. Remember you will have to look 
at them 365 days in the year. 
13. Don’t have a bookless library. Re¬ 
member that library derives its name from 
liber, which is Latin for a book. 
14. Don’t forget to have plenty of low 
movable lights in library and sitting-room. 
Remember that several different people 
may wish to read or sew, or otherwise oc¬ 
cupy themselves at several different parts 
of the rooms at once. 
15. Don’t have too few open fireplaces. 
Remember there is nothing else in your 
house so sociable. 
16. Don’t have too solemn a dining¬ 
room. Remember that good spirits aid 
digestion. 
17. Don’t endure dark closets or cup¬ 
boards. Remember Bluebeard and the 
difficulty of keeping things in order, even 
under the best of circumstances. 
18. Don’t have too many electric light 
bulbs. Remember the modern complexion ; 
also the unbecomingness of unadulterated 
electricity even for your furniture. 
19. Don’t have any furniture too good 
to use or too bad. Remember that furni¬ 
ture was invented to mitigate the harshness 
of outrageous architecture, not to accentu¬ 
ate it. 
20. Don’t have a house of too many sto¬ 
ries. Remember the stairs and the times 
you will have to climb up and down them. 
21. Don’t have too small a house. Re¬ 
member that each man, woman and child 
in the family wants one little corner for 
his very own. 
22. Don’t have too grand and magnifi¬ 
cent a house. Remember the cost of up¬ 
keep. 
23. Don’t have too perfect a house. Re¬ 
member the people who are to live in it. 
24. By way of summary: don’t clutter; 
don’t clutter. And again, don’t clutter. 
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