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Elegance in the J3ining Room 
(Continued from page 70) 
than a china closet for the simple reason 
that they are beautiful and interesting. 
A third mark of elegance is that it is 
conducive to quiet. 
Elegance, as we have tried to show, 
is a subtle attribute of the mind, a way 
of looking at life and the objects that 
enrich life. For the fullest enjoyment 
of these things one must have a calm 
atmosphere.. Certainly quiet and calm 
are requisites in the enjoyment of a 
meal. 
Consequently elegance will not choose 
a piece of furniture that has an objec¬ 
tionable contour. 
A great deal of Rococo furniture is 
inelegant, because it is too exuberant, 
and cottage furniture, on the other 
hand, may also be inelegant in certain 
rooms because it is too severe. There, 
is a nicety that guides the choice. 
In the matter of colors, elegance will 
not tolerate those that disturb the eye 
or such as are grouped in a fashion 
that makes them difficult to live with. 
For elegance above all things is a liv¬ 
able atmosphere. 
It avoids the novelty. It lasts 
through generations. The elegancies of 
our forebears are just as elegant today 
as they were a century ago. 
Finally, elegance presupposes restraint. 
And restraint is the fundamental rule 
in furnishing any room. Especially is 
this true of the dining room—where 
we must create an atmosphere that is 
conducive to eating as a fine and gen¬ 
teel art. 
The Hospitality of Luncheon 
(Continued from page 65) 
In the small photograph is shown a 
more formal type of table decoration. 
The place is set for the sherbet course. 
The vase is one of a set of four grouped 
around a large center bowl. Service 
plates are of silver in a delightful Louis 
XVI design. The runner set includes 
oblong place doilies of filet and hand 
embroidery. 
The third table is set for a country 
house luncheon. Here is used an es¬ 
pecially designed runner set in linen 
with crocheted edges and medallion in¬ 
sertions. The center bowl is of deli¬ 
cately tinted mauve Venetian glass on a 
wrought-iron base. Novel candle bases, 
are also wrought iron and hold large 
marbleized candles, hand-dipped. The 
plates are Wedgwood and the goblets 
are of exquisite Venetian glass unusual 
in shape. The silver is hand-wrought 
and of a very simple but graceful de¬ 
sign. The whole is entirely in keeping 
with a country house atmosphere. 
The Disappearing Servant Problem 
(Continued from page 66) 
working along constructive lines toward 
home betterment. The Y. W. C. A. has 
a comprehensive' program already de¬ 
veloped on an industrial eight-hour-a- 
day domestic service plan and is ready 
to train and supply such helpers to those 
who demand them. It is workable, for 
it has been demonstrated that it can be 
done. But it cannot enlist workers, for 
their thoughts are still entangled with 
the idea of “servant” instead of em¬ 
ployee. The combined women’s clubs 
of New Jersey have established an ex¬ 
perimental station for studying domestic 
economic problems, and have already 
collected valuable data. 
These attempts are few and individ¬ 
ual, yet their objective is of the greatest 
and most general usefulness to us in 
America. 
Domestic service must be re-made 
into a profession or a trade exactly as 
industrial service has developed. It 
must become a business, and recognized 
as such. Only by the American women 
thinking about and aiding and unifying 
the serious and organized attempts that 
aim at placing domestic service on such 
a plane can we hope to make the home 
safe and economic in its operation. 
Meanwhile we can also perfect ourselves, 
we American women who are also 
American citizens, in the knowledge and 
mastery of making a home. 
The Garden of Levels 
(Continued from page 56) 
flower-visions. I used to wonder what 
I missed, at first, in looking over gar¬ 
dens on the flat where every sentiment, 
every effort, every success and failure 
lies naked to the observer’s eye; there 
was something delicious and vital which 
was lacking in those gardens. In time 
I learned that what I missed was the 
element of suspense, of wonder and of 
sudden surprises which gives such per¬ 
sonality to a garden of different levels. 
As far as my own was concerned, 
there was never any doubt from the 
first that it would have to be terraced 
if anything was to grow; only by level¬ 
ing in sections could I hope to secure 
any moisture at all on that hungry, 
sandy hillside, and only by inducing 
water to lie long enough to soak in 
could I hope to get most things to 
grow! So I turned to my terrace-mak¬ 
ing as undismayed by prophetic fears as 
a young bride to the toils of matrimony, 
and learned, like her, the drab realities 
of backache, to earn, also like her, the 
deep sweetness of a love that will last 
me all my days. 
Grass proved to be a luxury needing 
so much attention that I leveled and 
laid out a couple of lawns, and for the 
rest relied on stone and brick to get 
effects. Once laid these paths and spaces 
required no mowing, trimming or 
watering and proved in the end a wise 
economy, besides securing a quaint old- 
world beauty in the setting they gave 
to the flowers. 
Low walls of brick surmounted with 
clipped hedges served to contain the 
lawns, but the wall of the paved sunk 
garden we built of reinforced concrete. 
We dug a 3' foundation, and with 
washed sand, scrap iron and cement 
built a very solid and good-looking wall 
—any old thing did for the reinforcing,, 
tin cans, twisted wire, barrel-hoops— 
and somewhere in its suave expanse lie 
buried a cracked sheep bell and an old 
bicycle wheel! Nails cannot be driven 
into concrete after it is set, so we were 
careful to make provision for the train¬ 
ing of plants that in due course would 
clothe the cold gray surface with green¬ 
ery and bloom. Iron rods, pierced to 
carry wire, were set up at intervals as 
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