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What Taste may do

The dining-room is an excellent place to display taste, and this is especially the case if it be also used as the living-room. Let some of the pictures be suggestive of good living, game-birds, fish, fruit pieces, etc. An aquarium, plants, etc., as described in the section relating to the parlor, will also be appropriate for the dining-room. In the South, fruits not quite hardy enough for growing out of doors may be used. Among a collection we once saw was a growing pineapple as a dining-room decoration, removed from the greenhouse. If one has a greenhouse many beautiful things may be grown for temporary removal to the dining-room; if not, some of the fruit-bearing house-plants may be used; such, for example, as Solanum or Jerusalem cherries. Among table decorations bouquets of flowers, or at the least some green thing, always suggest refinement. The fern case shown is appropriate for this purpose. The dining-room should be