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In Praise of the Little House 
( Continued, from page 36) 
vogue today. An English lawn is love¬ 
lier than any other because the seeds 
were planted hundreds of years ago, and 
then the planters sat down and waited 
for the fulfilment of their dream. 
We must have background if we are 
to have any enduring beauty; and the 
moment I see a man cut down an 
ancient tree, I know that he has no love 
of tradition and dreams, no feeling for 
the old sanctities. He would pluck a 
star out of the heavens, if he could; 
but thank God he can’t! 
I have never understood that desire 
in most people to turn something al¬ 
ready simple and lovely into something 
huge and unwieldy. “We must add a 
wing to the east side of the house,” the 
master proclaims some morning at 
breakfast. “What! and tear down those 
beautiful crimson ramblers!” the Lady 
Behind the Coffee-Urn cries. “And 
then there’s that maple—it can't grow 
up in the middle of the new room!” she 
adds. But the master looks stern. He 
has made up his mind. “We can chop 
it down then,” he says with a great and 
terrible definiteness. And his word is 
law. “If we are to entertain more this 
summer, we shall need the extra space,” 
he goes on, loving the sound of his own 
voice, and rather glorying in the con¬ 
fusion he has created at the other end 
of the table. 
Well, I would rather “entertain” less, 
do away with noisy and needless week¬ 
ends, feeling comfortable with the few 
old and choice friends who used to love 
to visit us, than to go in for a bungling 
Spring of carpenters, architects and 
builders. But the master thinks that, 
as his income increases he must “show 
the world’ that he is a powerful mag¬ 
nate. If he could wear a gold crown, 
he would; but the only way he can ex¬ 
ploit his wealth is to express himself in 
a larger house; and so it is good-bye to 
the peace of the little place, a long fare¬ 
well, a cold adieu to the grace and love¬ 
liness of old. The servants must be im¬ 
pressed—it is his only altruistic attitude 
toward them. Has not Jenkins, down 
the road, hired an English butler, and 
two second men ? He must do the 
same; and there must be extra rooms 
for these gorgeous men to walk about 
in, a plethora of guests for them to 
serve. 
Myself, I have my watchful eye upon 
a little—oh, a very little!—house down 
on Long Island. It sets just far enough 
back from the roadside, and it is all 
but covered with the greenest and rich¬ 
est of vines. It has no porch; it does 
not boast more than two doors; but it 
has smiled at me for years as longingly 
I have passed it. It is so old that 
sometimes I even think it may have 
nodded to me, as it dozed away its 
dreamful days in the sun. Some day I 
may own it—who knows?—with its 
worn shingles and crumbling chimneys 
and its thin, ricketty steps. I may put 
Georgian panes in the front windows— 
or in all of them, since there are so 
few—and I shall certainly repair the 
old-fashioned plumbing; but beyond 
that I prefer not to touch it at all. 
Certainly I shall not build a dreadful 
“addition,” for the sake of “looks”; but 
some fresh paint will do no harm, and 
my Old Lady House will probably grow 
young again for a little while, with the 
brilliant youngness of a girl; but al¬ 
ways she will seem, I hope, a bit tired, 
a bit settled; and I shall be so grateful 
for her enfolding arms—arms just big 
enough to gather me in. 
Elegance in the Small House 
(Continued from page 33) 
In the bedrooms a much more ele¬ 
gant, softer appearance is gained by 
carpeting to the baseboard, but be sure 
and see that the building contract 
doesn’t call for fine hardwood floors 
underneath. Orientals are good for the 
library and, in a subdued tone, are 
suitable for the dining room as well, 
but they should not be used in bed¬ 
rooms except as a small piece before 
the fireplace, and they should be in 
soft tones to harmonize with the color 
scheme. 
The essential furniture in an elegantly 
decorated small house is a problem that 
more than repays close study. 
More elegance is given the living 
room by using two small, semi-uphol¬ 
stered sofas than one great large one, 
because generally the large sofa is often 
out of scale with the rest of the furni¬ 
ture. Preferably choose kidney-shaped 
sofas, as they cannot go at strictly 
right angles to the square mantel; if 
oblong sofas are used they give the 
fireplace grouping a box-like appear¬ 
ance. 
Except in the case of a large room, 
select several medium size tables rather 
than one very large one. Using these, 
magazines, books and lamps can be dis¬ 
tributed over the room, forming the 
nuclei of comfortable groups. On the 
other hand, the vogue for extremely 
small occasional tables has been over¬ 
done; an abundance of them gives the 
room too busy an appearance. 
A semi-upholstered chaise longue of 
rather formal lines lends an air of ele¬ 
gance and an air of intimacy that are 
so often lacking in our living rooms. 
Living rooms are becoming more and 
more masculine in their character, los¬ 
ing a little of their grace. Every tired 
business man demands an over-uphol¬ 
stered lounge 1 
Certain things in the living room 
should be chosen—beautiful to be sure 
—because they are essential; others as 
objets d’art. Thus, the main comfort¬ 
able chairs and sofas and tables are es¬ 
sential. They should be chosen for 
their beauty as well as their utility. 
Other pieces are chosen because they 
are lovely in themselves and add ele¬ 
gance and richness to the room; such 
as a pair of small, fine Sheraton book¬ 
cases, with little brass wire grill doors, 
or a lovely Italian credenza or a fine 
old red lacquer secretaire, and, of course, 
lovely mirrors, pictures and other ac¬ 
cessories. 
The dining room table which can be 
enlarged by adding console ends seems 
to give good service. It is an excellent 
way of making the room more hand¬ 
some. On ordinary occasions these 
ends serve as consoles. 
Thus a dining room might have deep 
ivory paneled walls, tete de negre car¬ 
pet, champagne gauze under-curtains 
and hangings of a heavy rough antique 
self-toned damask in gold. A broad 
oblong table could have walnut legs with 
some dull gold rubbed in and a marble- 
ized top. The two semi-circular ends 
finished in the same way could stand 
either side the fireplace. These two 
console tables are in addition to the 
serving table and the buffet, which by 
the way, might have a slender wrought 
iron base of delicate tracery and black 
walnut top. 
(Continued on page 78) 
