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table shown between the chairs 
is an especially delicate type 
with well designed legs. It is 
34" high, is made of solid ma¬ 
hogany, and is 26" in diam¬ 
eter, which makes it particu¬ 
larly useful as a tea table. The 
price is exceptional, $13.50. 
A pretty octagonal shaped 
Sheffield coffee service is 
shown on the table—its four 
pieces,—coffee pot, sugar 
bowl and cream pitcher and 
tray. The latter is 14" long 
and 9" wide, while the coffee 
pot is 7y^" high. The set sells 
complete for $50. 
The oval mirror shown 
above it has a soft toned gilt 
frame. It measures 21"xl7" 
and is most reasonably priced 
at $12.00. 
Another gate leg table of a 
sturdier type and a larger size 
is also shown. It is of a dark 
toned mahogany, 3', and mea¬ 
sures 48" across the top when 
open. A long narrow drawer is an added 
convenience. It comes at $24.50. 
Inexpensive tables of this character are 
especially useful in a small apartment, or an 
unpretentious house, and the gate-leg models 
are usually sufficiently catholic to adjust 
themselves to many different types of fur¬ 
nishings : certain English furniture. William 
and Mary or Jacobean, if the wood or fin¬ 
ish of the table be walnut or oak; early 
American or even wicker, if it be mahogany. 
The spinet desk, at one time a rarity, has 
now established itself alongside the gate-leg 
table as a practical necessity, and the one 
shown is a well-made desk of antique finish 
mahogany that a certain furniture shop is 
offering at a most reasonable ])rice during 
February. It is surprisingly commodious 
when open, and may act as a table when 
closed. It is 32" high and has a 
closed top measuring 20" x 34" 
and may be had at $25. 
For the livmg-roovi comes a mahogany table with coats of arms and 
twisted carving, 5' 6" long and 1%' wide, $39. The lamp is of carved 
mahogany, 29" high. Shade of either old gold or old rose silk, with 
fringe to match, 20" wide, $40 complete 
A Breakfast Room Set 
At the same shop, where one 
can always find unique exam¬ 
ples of the newest in decorative 
furniture of the modern school, 
they are showing the quaintly 
charming breakfast room set, 
which, while it is ideally suited 
to the breakfast room of the 
large household, is equally 
smart for general use in the 
dining-room of a less preten¬ 
tious house or apartment. It is 
of black painted wood, decorat¬ 
ed by a fine line of Pompeian 
red, a tone very well liked by 
decorators, who frequently 
choose it as the high light of a 
color scheme. The quaint Eng¬ 
lish chairs, the simple table with 
another variation of gate legs, 
are supplemented by an unusual 
tall crystal cabinet and a de¬ 
lightful buffet, shallow in front 
and deeper at either side. With 
the proper walls and hangings, 
black furniture of this sort has 
a decided amount of style, and 
gives one a chance for an effec¬ 
tive and unusual color scheme. 
It is properly finished with a 
The spinet desk is an addition to 
the Colonial room. Of antique 
finish mahogany. 32" high. Top 
closes to 20"x34". $25 
Below, a breakfast room set of 
table, buffet, china closet and six 
chairs, in black painted wood. 
$165. Also made in ivory enamel 
waxed surface: it is not even 
necessary to ])rotect it by a 
glass; the same care that one 
gives any other wood is suffi¬ 
cient to keep it from burns or 
scars. This same set may also 
be had in the ivory tone, so 
much used in breakfast rooms, 
particularly those that are 
practically sun parlors. The 
set with chairs costs $165. 
Quite an unusual table is 
shown with its old coat-of- 
arms and its twisted rope carv¬ 
ings. For the room that re- 
quires a table with some 
amount of decoration, and can 
not stand a heavier model of 
the Jacobean type, this is a 
model that has much to recom¬ 
mend it, and is more than or¬ 
dinarily reasonable. The wood 
is mahogany in an antique fin¬ 
ish and the top is 5' 6" long 
and Ijd' wide. It sells for the 
sur])risingly low sum of $39. 
The hand-carved mahogany 
lamp shown with it is 29" high, and has a silk 
shade, which may be had in either rose or 
gold with silk fringe to match. It comes at 
precisely $40, complete. 
A quaint occasional chair that will fit into 
many different sorts of rooms where a note 
of lacquer is not amiss, is also shown. The 
black of the laccpier is brightened by a deco¬ 
ration of gold, red and green and the seat is 
of rush. Its price is $25. The same model 
may be had in mahogany'for $18. 
Footstools, Davenports and Settees 
Footstools, once the abomination of the 
household, are no longer in disrepute, but 
are established firmly in their original place 
as a decided adjunct to comfort, and take 
their place with the fire screen as a “quaint'’ 
accessory. The one shown with the lacquer 
chair is of decorated mahogany, 
covered in damask which may 
be had in a number of colors. 
It is 21" long and costs $7. 
There are davenports and 
sofas—their name is legion— 
but unfortunately they are sel¬ 
dom of sufficiently perfect pro¬ 
portions to be in any way dis¬ 
tinguished. They may look and 
be comfortable, but they are apt 
also to look thick and clumsy. 
It is largely for its distinction 
of line, that the one shown wa.' 
chosen. Its proportions have 
been very carefully thought out, 
and its design studied, and the 
result is far above the ordinary. 
It is 7' long, with mahogany 
legs, and, as it is shown, covered 
in an excellent quality of striped 
velvet, in this instance soft blue 
striped with grey, outlined with 
a fine black stri])e. In this up¬ 
holstery it costs $135. It may 
also be had in denim for $78— 
a very low jirice during the 
month of I'ehruary. 
There are many rooms which 
cannot stand even a shorter 
couch than the one just de¬ 
scribed, and when something in 
the nature of a couch is needed, 
many decorators recommend a 
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