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House Furnishing and Decorating: Chairs

Chairs. Select chairs as other furniture for simplicity and durability, and avoid complicated affairs such as the patent rockers, carved or stamped furniture, and all elaborate designs and decorations. The lines of the Morris chair suggest ease and comfort, and they are to be strongly recommended. Chairs of willow and wicker work are graceful, comfortable, and satisfactory. Of course, mahogany and **The Lines of the Morris Chair." other hard woods will be selected by those who can afford them. As to design, the Colonial models and the Craftsman and Mission styles of furniture are among the most satisfactory. Taboret.-The low stand or taboret holding a graceful fern or other potted plant in a suitable jardinière adds an agreeable touch of grace and color to the living room.

Music. - The modern invention of the mechanical piano player has unlocked many a dusty piano and opened the whole world of music to thousands of homes. Heretofore the cost of a musical education has restricted the natural love of music in most families to but a few simple hymns and tunes that almost anyone could play. Hence the piano need no longer be regarded as necessarily confined to homes where some member of the family has a pronounced musical talent. Certainly nothing signifies more, with the possible exception of a collection of good books, than a musical instrument in the family living room.