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House & Garden 
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The Small Dining-Room and Its Furnishings 
(Continued from page 52) 
dentally, they will show to most ad¬ 
vantage with a little free space. 
Choose furniture of slender and 
light proportions, such as many of 
the pieces of Sheraton design, and 
avoid articles of bulky proportions 
like most of the furniture of the 
American Empire period. Even in 
the item of chairs there can be not 
a little conservation of space. A 
Sheraton chair of perpendicular, up¬ 
right lines occupies less space than an 
Empire chair with cnrcule legs and 
rolled-back toprail; likewise a Sher¬ 
aton flap-top table with straight slen¬ 
der legs takes up appreciably less 
space than a corresponding Empire 
table with pedestal support and four 
outspreading claw feet. In cabinet 
work the same relative characteris¬ 
tics continue. And this brings us to 
another principle. 
Choose furniture whose holding 
capacity is in its height rather than 
furniture that spreads laterally over 
a greater area. Sheraton furniture 
is mentioned, not because it is to be 
recommended at the expense of other 
styles, but because it so thoroughly 
exemplifies the high-shonldered, per¬ 
pendicular tendency of contour as op¬ 
posed to the lateral spread of some 
other types. As floor space is at a 
premium in the small dining-room, 
it stands to reason that wall furni¬ 
ture of vertical expansion is prefer¬ 
able to wall furniture whose bulk pro¬ 
jects into the room. 
Furniture with straight lines will 
take up less space than furniture with 
curving lines and permit of more 
compact arrangement. For practical 
furnishing purposes a rectangular 
table for a given number of persons 
is more economical of area than a 
round table of similar seating ca¬ 
pacity. The ordinary round dining 
table or table with rounded ends is 
prodigal of space. 
Make use, whenever possible, of 
composite pieces that combine two or 
three functions. For example, a 
press cupboard with drawers in the 
lower part will provide accommoda¬ 
tion for a considerable quantity of 
table linen and the flat silver in the 
drawers, while, in the cupboard, may 
be put decanters, biscuit jars and a 
variety of articles that are needed 
from time to time. Then, again, a 
cupboard on a stand is a useful and 
adaptable article. A highboy of 
William and Afary or Queen Anne 
type is especially useful in the small 
dining-room on account of its stor¬ 
age capacity. Numerous other ar¬ 
ticles, not usually regarded as dining¬ 
room pieces, can often be employed 
to excellent purpose. Such an 
adaptation of common occurrence is 
a chest of drawers diverted from its 
ordinary bedroom position. 
When one piece of furniture is too 
large, never hesitate to substitute for 
it some other piece that can be made 
to answer the same purpose. The 
sideboard is usually the piece that 
causes most perplexity, partly on ac¬ 
count of its size, partly owing to the 
difficulty of its proper placement. A 
sideboard is an important piece of 
furniture and demands an appropri¬ 
ately dignified and central position. 
In a small dining-room it is fre¬ 
quently impossible to find such a posi¬ 
tion, and it is quite as bad to have 
a misplaced sideboard as it is to have 
one that is too large and crowds the 
room. In such cases the elimination 
of the sideboard and the substitution 
of one or two console tables is a 
familiar expedient. This has the ad¬ 
vantage of doing away with most of 
the offensive array of small silver 
that generally clutters the top of the 
sideboard, even in houses otherwise 
well furnished. In lieu of sideboard 
it is also possible to use a large chest. 
If the chest is raised on legs, so 
much the better. 
Conserving Space 
Whether we like the small dining¬ 
room or not, it is a fact to be reck¬ 
oned with and the possesor natu¬ 
rally wishes to make the most he 
can of it. No two dining-rooms ever 
offer precisely the same problems, 
and the writers have, therefore, re¬ 
frained from making specific sugges¬ 
tions about placement, except in the 
matter of the sideboard which re¬ 
quires a dignified place in a balanced 
position, lacking which it ought not 
to be used at all. As to the rest, 
the individual must work out his 
own problems, but a careful observ¬ 
ance of the principles and sugges¬ 
tions previously noted will materially 
assist him to a satisfactory result. 
The dining-room, reduced to its 
lowest terms, may contain merely 
table, chairs and serving stand, or it 
may have, besides these, a console 
or consoles, a press cupboard or a 
chest or, perhaps, a hanging cup¬ 
board beneath which chairs can be 
stood—it is well thus to make the 
most of wall space. In any event, 
whatever suggestions are adopted, 
one ideal, towards the achievement 
of which all the foregoing principles 
are directed, must he kept always in 
mind—the small dining-room can he 
fully furnished, but must not be 
crowded, and to ensure this outcome 
some space, especially floor space, 
must be preserved unoccupied. 
The Dog in Winter 
The winter kennel of the outdoor with people, if his vitality is below 
dog should be wind as well as normal he loses the power to resist 
weather-proof, and one of the best the trials of severe weather, 
ways to assure this quality is by Such a condition may result from 
means of a vestibule at the entrance, several causes, among which are in- 
Such a protection need not be elab- sufficient or improper food, and lack 
orate; a simple covered passageway of normal exercise to keep the circu- 
a couple of feet long and some- lation active. 
what higher and wider than the ken- Feed the dog liberally in_ winter, 
nel door will cut off much of the with wholesome, warmth-inducing 
wind and make for greater comfort food. A light meal in the_ morning 
within. and a hearty one at night will be suf- 
Another plan is to hang a heavy ficient. Lean red meat, well cooked 
curtain at the entrance, letting it cereals and rice, boiled green vege- 
swing loose at the bottom and sides, tables at least twice a week—these 
The curtain should reach quite to form a balanced diet that should keep 
the lower edge of the door and be so him in good shape, 
arranged that the dog can push past it For exercise, take him out at least 
when entering or leaving the kennel, once a day, and see that he really 
The dog that is in poor physical exercises. A good five-minute run 
condition is especially susceptible to will benefit him more than half an 
colds and other wintry ailments. As hour of loafing around. 
