While dress fashions are not oocupying feminine attention so much as in days before the war, the home is rapidly coming to the fore. It takes first place now, and is the subject of much change in its furnishing eohemes. According to the "London and China Express," all sorts of new ideas are being introduced in the various rooms, among the newest being the Chinese influence, which is spreading tremendously. The correct thing is to have a bedroom—the best in the house, of course-furnished entirely with Chinese furniture, and to keep up the illusion Chinese carpets are introduced, and if money permits all sorts of rich Chinese brocade are utilized for the hangings. One of the most notable presents given to the Prime Minister's daughter on ber marriage recently was a very costly and entire suite of Chinese laoquer bedroom furniture. To the privileged few it was shown when the presents were displayed at 10, Downing-street, in the famous room where the Cabinet holds ita councils. One West-Ead firm is making " specialty of this furniture with hangings to match. It took the buyer and several assistant years in Ohina, it has been stated, to collect all the beautify) cabinets, chairs, and the like, and the collection now forms one of the most interesting display; the West End.
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