September, 1919 
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your table talk will outgrow the size 
of your accommodations. 
As a Living Room 
There is a certain kind of living 
room that makes people feel at home at 
once, not because they have one like it 
themselves, but for its very qualities of 
comfort, beauty and cheer. Softly light 
walls, unobtrusively dark floor, un¬ 
matched furniture of brown in rubbed 
mahogany, American walnut, or that 
newly delightful chromewald birch 
which looks, however, as old as the 
hills, or a happy mixture of the three, 
with the mahogany perhaps holding 
the predominating note. These woods 
are now so beautifully toned that the 
layman often has difficulty in telling 
them apart, so one need not hesitate to 
use them together occasionally. And 
then the joyful color of the room is 
gotten with the hangings and part of the 
upholsteries, which are usually of one 
of the tempting prints or cretonnes; and 
in the accessories, which may be as 
brilliant as one desires. A gateleg or 
refectory table; a secretaire, or low 
Colonial desk; a settee or davenport; 
some overstuffed and upholstered 
chairs, a Windsor, and perhaps a large, 
comfortable wicker; some wall chairs, 
which are drawn into service at meal¬ 
time, and which need not match, like 
the time-honored dining room chairs; 
a low chest of drawers, which may be 
The gateleg table of chromewald birch opens to 44" by 
32", and closes 12" by 32". Especially priced at $25 
decoratively treated and placed like the 
more pretentious console or commode, 
for the linen and silver; and if there is 
plenty of space, and they can be of use, 
a teacart and a muffin stand. Such a 
simple matter is the combining of a 
dining and a living room! 
Mealtime Arrangement 
At mealtime the table is cleared and 
is laid with suitable runners, plain 
crash, or crash ornamented colorfully 
with couchings of brilliant hues: I em¬ 
broider mine with round gobs of pure 
color, outlined with black. Bright 
crafts china or the plain Japanese ware 
is more effective than the delicate 
French patterns; one wants hand-made 
silver, pewter and brass, sunlight in 
the daytime, candlelight at night, and 
flowers and an open fire. 
This special living-room well fills 
all the requirements, with its delightful 
furniture, and its color scheme—oyster 
walls, gray rug, brown furniture, and 
daring cretonne. 
The cretonne, which is quite new, is 
called La France Urn, and is gay with 
riotous roses of yellow and rose color 
in blue urns on a black background; 
there are blue architectural bandings 
and fluted columns and acanthus leaves 
reminiscently classic. The effect of the 
cretonne is not dark, and it has a sur¬ 
prising dignity despite its festive col¬ 
oring. 
In addition to the furniture suggested in the opposite sketch we can use the gateleg table, a rush seat mahogany Windsor chair, $30; a secretaire 
in mahogany, $162; upholstered chromewald birch bench, $24, and upholstered chair, $38. Upholstering extra 
