hen dreamy and
vaporous in tint. Light, delicate colors in upholstery, creamy madras
for curtains. The carpet may be a little darker, verging on some of
the delicate, woody browns. Any bric-a-brac should be in pale shades
of yellow or rose.

The tender lights of this room seem to clear and soften the complexion
of the occupants.

Another is a dining-room of copper, bronze and terra cotta shades. A
pale tint of copper to the background overlaid with dashes of bronze
and strong copper color. The frieze is a succession of pine boughs,
lightly fringed with their needles. Above the sideboard is a panel
representing magnolia blossoms, and their heavy polished leaves, with
brown in stem and shadows. The effect of this color scheme is to give
a suggestion of warmth and cheer. The gold and copper used in flecking
the wall are merely the two shades of the common bronze powder.

[Illustration: RICH PIECES OF FURNITURE.]

Still another nest of a sleeping-room comes to mind, a creation of
Moscheles. Floor covered with white bearskin rugs, furnished with a
delicate tint of robin's-egg blue. Toilet table strewn with every
imaginable luxury in old ivory and silver. Panels in the wardrobe and
doors filled with paintings by Burne-Jones, classic figures given the
preference.

These rooms are given as examples of harmony of coloring. Great
expense is not always necessary to secure this artistic harmony. Money
goes a long way, but good taste and ingenuity will go just as far,
with a minimum of expenditure.

There is a little room, a symphony in green and gold, created by one
girl's taste, a pale seafoam green that is delightful to the eye. The
woodwork, banded with a narrow strip of gilt, is of this color, and
the enterprising young woman painted it all with her own hands. The
curtains at the three windows are of the freshest and purest white
muslin, prettily ruffled. They are the kind that always look as if
they had just been laundered and they are tied back with pale green
ribbons that make them look the more exquisitely neat. The floor is
covered with plain matting, which particularly recommended itself, by
the way, because it was inexpensive.

As to Furniture.

Every article of furniture in the room is of the prevailing green and
there are no off shades, for they were all painted from the same can
of paint. The bedstead was nothing but common pine, made to order at
the factory, and it is of a quaint design that originated i