on the ocean, or a shaded mountainside, and the sun is cut
off by broad porches, you will cheer up your room, and immensely
improve it, by using sun-producing colours in chintzes and silks;
while cut flowers or growing plants, which reproduce the same
colouring, will intensify the illusion of sunshine.

Sash curtains of thin silk, in bright yellows, are always
sun-producing, but if you intend using yellows in a room, be careful
to do so in combination with browns, greens, greys, or carefully
chosen blues, not with reds or magentas.

Try not to mix warm and cold colours when planning your walls. Grey
walls call for dull blue or green curtains; white walls for red or
green curtains; cream walls for yellow, brown buff or apple green
curtains. If your room is too cold, warm it up by making your
accessories, such as lamp shades, and sofa pillows, of rose or yellow
material.

CHAPTER XXXV

SERVANTS' ROOMS

Whether you expect to arrange for one servant or a dozen, keep in mind
the fact that efficiency is dependent upon the conditions under which
your manor maid-servant rests as well as works, and that it is as
important that the bedroom be _attractive_ as that it be comfortable.

For servants' rooms it is advised that the matter of furnishing and
decorating be a scheme which includes comfort, daintiness and
effectiveness on the simplest, least expensive basis, no matter how
elaborate the house. There is a moral principle involved here. In the
case of more than one servant the colour scheme alone needs to be
varied, for similar furniture will prevent jealousy among the
servants, while at the same time the task of inventing is reduced to
the mere multiplying of one room; even the wall paper and chintz being
alike in pattern, if different in colour.

The simplest iron beds, or wooden furniture can be painted white or
any colour which may be considered more durable.

In maids' rooms for summer use, a vase provided for flowers is
sometimes an incentive to personally contribute a touch of beauty.
That sense of beauty once awakened in a maid does far more than any
words on the subject of order and daintiness in her own room or in
those of her employer.

CHAPTER XXXVI

TABLE DECORATION

For the young and inexperienced we state a few rules for table
decoration. If you have furnished your dining-room to accord not only
with your taste, but the scale upon which you intend living, be
careful that the dinin