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House & Garden 
The chaise longue wears a care¬ 
fully fitted narrow striped rose 
and’ blue cover, with a tiny blue 
frill. Its accompanying footstool 
is similarly attired 
THE HOUSE PREPARES for the SUMMER MONTHS 
By Using Well Tailored Slip Covers that Keep Out Dust and Give 
the Room a Cool, Smart Appearance 
For the living room arm chair comes 
a plain green linen slip cover with 
box pleated valance, piped in the 
palest of yellow 
NANCY ASHTON 
'-pHERE used to be a time, not so very long 
X ago, when the arrival of spring was the 
excuse for the conscientious housekeeper to 
proceed systematically making the household 
as uncomfortable as possible. 
For this pleasant task, a limitless amount of 
cheesecloth and brown Holland covers was re¬ 
quired which, applied indiscriminately to the 
furniture and pictures alike, produced a ghastly 
and depressing effect. 
This, as you may remember, crushed the 
spirit of not only the offending moth, at whom 
the entire proceeding was supposed to be aimed, 
but the most courageous of us all. 
Fortunately, that particular form of torture is 
no more. It has gone the way of the dodo. 
Those of us who are at all affected by our 
surroundings, and I suppose we claim that dis¬ 
tinction, as much as we cling to our cherished 
sense of humor, breathe a sigh of relief. And 
we watch the rejuvenating of the household at 
this season, without a tremor. 
This living room shows an interesting 
combination of flowered ecru chintz slip 
covers and crimson damask at the win¬ 
dows. The unusually happy grouping of 
the furniture makes a room of great dis¬ 
tinction. Mrs. Emott Buel 
The walnut dining room chair has 
its summer casing made of a flow¬ 
ered chintz on ecru ground bound 
in blue. Miss M. A. Lewis 
Hewitt 
