. Lace work in the field of decoration. e [6] whose windows are uncurtained. Laces in whose uncompromising surround-in furnishing have as rightful a place ings the appeal of externals is uncon-as verdure on tree branches, as clouds sidered. An atmosphere of severity,against the sky; they bear a message of if not of brusqueness, pervades hisreticence and refinement discreetly chosen haunts; and while the chairs inhinting of beauty within and without, which he ensconces his person may beCurtains at our windows are as car- soft and yielding, this is the softness pets on our floors,or as hangings
. Lace work in the field of decoration. e [6] whose windows are uncurtained. Laces in whose uncompromising surround-in furnishing have as rightful a place ings the appeal of externals is uncon-as verdure on tree branches, as clouds sidered. An atmosphere of severity,against the sky; they bear a message of if not of brusqueness, pervades hisreticence and refinement discreetly chosen haunts; and while the chairs inhinting of beauty within and without, which he ensconces his person may beCurtains at our windows are as car- soft and yielding, this is the softness pets on our floors,or as hangings onour walls. Theytend to soften thegeometricalsquareness of thewindow openings,and filter the tastefully de-signed, they taketheir just placegracefully in thedecorative schemeof the room ordwelling and con-tribute in no smalldegree to thatsense of satisfac-tory completenesswhich a welldecorated homeinspires. Laces, with cer-tain other decora-tive details, soundthe feminine notein decoration; intheir suave andyielding nature as. LACE PANELS AT A GREAT STAIR WINDOW The tasteful use of laces is well illustrated in this view of a light-flooded lofty hall. The richness of the pattern is subdued, andcomposes into the picture pleasantly but without insistance. At the doors appear two panels similar in character to the largeone shown on the opposite page. of physical com-fort only, andthere are too oftenlacking in his sur-roundings thosemost subtle refine-ments and ele-gances whichbetoken a higherand finer plane ofexistence. Theso-called den istoo often a realmof harsh disorder,though apparentlyadapted to the freeand easy shirt-sleeve habits of themale. This, how-ever, is hardly theatmosphere forthe full and freegrowth and ex-pression of whole-some ideas indecoration, and,if we can imaginethe entire houseconforming to the in their airy delicacy and fine restraint, den standard and traditions, we shall they epitomize much that is charming have conceived a home world aes- in wom
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