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realize that men’s rooms are not necessarily 
lacking in dignity and masculine quality if 
they are made interesting by an intelligent 
use of color. 
In the early days of the world, it was man 
who provided the color interest, by the 
feathers in his hair and the brilliant skins 
about his waist. He it was who drew crude 
pictures on the cave walls and hung up 
brilliant trophies of the hunt to satisfy his 
own craving for color. So it may be still 
this inherited longing for brightness that 
his own rooms are usually never lacking in 
color. 
If he is a man whose greatest interest lies 
in outdoor life, in sports, hunting and the 
like, he will have a fine collection of old 
English hunting prints, showing the vivid 
hues of the chase. Oak-grained walls, if real 
oak paneling cannot be managed, Jacobean 
printed linen curtains bound in red over 
soft green casement curtains, a fine old 
English oak or walnut desk, simple carved 
high-back chairs, one or two big comfort¬ 
able over-stuffed chairs covered in the same 
linen as the curtains, a couple of small green 
and gold lacquer smoking tables and a heavy 
plain tete-de-negre carpet, would make 
a splendid background for the prints, and a 
most restful comfortable room full of color. 
If the room is large enough there should be 
a sofa done in red velvet, flanked by a pair 
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Multi - colored 
glazed chintz 
hangings contrast 
charmingly with 
the old pink 
walls, prune satin 
spread and deep 
taupe carpet. 
Chandler W. Ire¬ 
land was the 
decorator of 
both rooms 
Here the coot 
tone of the pale 
gray walls is 
more than bal¬ 
anced by the red 
damask bed¬ 
spread green lac¬ 
quer e d screen 
and chair seats 
done in plain red 
sateen. The lamp 
stand is turquoise 
