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Photograph by Johnston-Hewitt Studios 
^r.uits and flowers are the best summer decorations. Use them to your heart’s content 
—but choose them first with a vietv to their decorative possibilities. There is tho 
pineapple, for example. In England they never used to dream of eating the pineapple 
—it was too valuable as a table centerpiece. Here it is wreathed with laurel—an 
unusual decoration for a cottage table. Frederick J. Sterner, architect 
In the dining-room to the left the lighting fix¬ 
tures are silver. It created a pleasing harmony, 
then, when the betwecn-meals decoration was a 
silver bowl, of beaiitiful lines. It was but a 
passing affinity, yet upon such small points 
depends the success of a room 
Another method of treating the refectory table 
is the design belovn The long line of the table 
is broken with an old vestment or strip of bro¬ 
cade. On it is set a boiol of black pottery filled 
with flowers of the season 
Photograph by Wurts Brothers 
