. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. tempera-ture now as a rule pervades all rooms and the mother takespride in all her dining-room possessions; the china closet holdssafely all her valuable breakables and the plate racks about thewalls display the ware and family plate. The children havehelped purchase suitable articles for the sideboard, so whereelse could the home feeling be more strengthened than about thetable of such a congenial room? Pretense, expense and extravagance may readily be evidencedin the sideboard, for this is a matter to be individually dealt
. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. tempera-ture now as a rule pervades all rooms and the mother takespride in all her dining-room possessions; the china closet holdssafely all her valuable breakables and the plate racks about thewalls display the ware and family plate. The children havehelped purchase suitable articles for the sideboard, so whereelse could the home feeling be more strengthened than about thetable of such a congenial room? Pretense, expense and extravagance may readily be evidencedin the sideboard, for this is a matter to be individually dealt withas befits circumstances. Without doubt many dining roomswould look better with a sideboard less lavishly designed and theform and detail more in keeping with other articles about theroom. Many a woman you know will keep saving her stampsor go without an extra occasion dress to buy a certain showysideboard which afterward does not keep company with the oldchairs and table; in fact it stands out too much in relief that isbold. 195 196 FURNITURE FOR THE CRAFTSMAN. « THE DINING ROOM 197 It may be with some people the plain is little sought after, butin furniture the plain has the stamp of quality and is growing infavor, looking just right wherever it is placed. All the attentionit is given in dusting and after-polish tends to improve its ap-pearance. Fig. 205 the reader may see is severely plain—on 24*56
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