HOUSE AND GARDEN 
146 
February, 1914 
No. 09695 
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an impression of space, even in a relative¬ 
ly small compass. A logical grouping of 
furniture also makes for space. Both 
these points are well shown in several of 
the accompanying illustrations. The 
English drawing-room, with the oaken set¬ 
tle at one side of the fireplace, is in reality 
only a moderate-sized room, yet the open 
arangement of the furniture and the clear 
center give the impression of great space. 
Again, the little German study, through a 
judicious and logical grouping of the fur¬ 
niture, with the desk and its accompany¬ 
ing chairs in' a sensible position beside a 
window where the light is good, conveys 
an air of comfortable freedom and space, 
though it is really a very small room in¬ 
deed. 
Tn a room where there is a fireplace the 
hearth naturally becomes the center 
around which everything gathers. It is 
almost always not only a safe, but a com¬ 
mendable, arrangement to have a sofa or 
settle so placed that the occupants may sit 
and enjoy the warmth and glow of the 
fire. It may either be facing the fireplace 
or set sidewise nearby, as the settle in the 
English room or the two sofas in the cut 
already referred to. Such an arrangement 
of sofas by the fireside always invites an 
interesting adjacent grouping of other 
pieces. 
When a room is too long and needs 
breaking up, a screen placed midway, pro¬ 
jecting well towards the center and form¬ 
ing the nucleus of a furniture group, it 
may be of chairs or of chairs and tea- 
table, will often have a most pleasing 
effect and be entirely successful in de¬ 
stroying the sense of undue length. For 
just such purposes as this, as well as for 
use in corners and before doors, screens 
are invaluable furnishing adjuncts. 
Last of all. don’t he afraid to change 
your arrangement from time to time, occa¬ 
sionally moving objects from one room to 
another. If we keep things all the time in 
one place — it may be pictures or pieces of 
furniture or bric-a-brac — we become un¬ 
conscious of their presence and blind to 
their merits. If, however, we change their 
places in a room or move them to another 
room, their beauty and characteristics gain 
new force and impress themselves upon 
us so that we really learn to appreciate 
them more thoroughly. 
Laying the Foundation for a Suc¬ 
cessful Garden 
(Continued from page 96) 
sweet bv liming, if necessary; third, by 
being supplied with sufficient plant-food 
(nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash) ; 
fourth, by containing enough soil-moisture 
to enable the feeding-root systems to make 
Lise of the food in the soil. 
The question is how to accomplish these 
results in your own garden, large or small. 
The first question — that of having the 
soil prepared properly mechanically — is a 
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