Reassembling the Whole for the Umpicenth Tinto By Juut, O'LAwteax A
Autumn fan the flame of mew vigour within moat of us. And the feminine manifestation of thie a generally doing over. the Wi gener, of cence Fred through. disepprovet Even the most conservative wo-same beneficial results, oan at this season enters a room with an eye to seeing what can be done about it. Summer always has a-devastating effect and the fact is Tecognized by all good house-wive Everyone who hag ever grown attached to a room, or to rooms in sequence, knows what an appearance surrounding the summer. Carpets up, curtains down, and an air of cool and whose. some cleanliness is to be preferred hygienically and otherwise to. the figments which seem to lay dingy fingers over a room where winter are maintained, but lummer becomes to every giement may be only) give way to of last year's upholstery and ¢reate 'a warm stir within us at the same time, and points to a sound principle, not only of interior decoration but of life The familiar, in taking on a lite tle of the unfamiliar, adds to its The other day @ little productive eavesdropping in a hotel lounge at tea-time netted this comment which rings true, "Won't it be nice to have tea at home in front of the fire again?" Just as if. this hadn't been done hundreds of times before. But fortunately for all of us, change does not: mean entirely new. experiences; it, equally can be found in "old seenes-ravis ed with the eye made somewhat more aware through interven ing experiences, A sense of dignity and restfulness, of novelt even, can be added to the old through laying it. down for awhile and then picking it up anew. All this is well known, and doesn't follow in the least, just because a poet said so, that "old always sweetest", how
shoes, even old friends are best un-Nor that old books, old less we can bring constantly our own [enlightened point of view to make them so.
In a room a different grouping of lustre. Those who find their chief 4 few old loves together—a bit of allure in change are the to-be-envi- embroidery on the table over which ed after all. For to hate changes the best loved. lamp when lighted $2. Much-especaiy' inthe howea: "polo © sheers the CRippendale shats thold—that the mere thought of it beside it and the Venetian mirror grapples with the spirit, makes an behind the table to catch the picture feste of taking down a picture, con-land to reflect a bunch of burnt Gaews tavougs dale of yin new lerengs_ flowers for" autunmn—Sorh Saeets Ha ce ko dosed ithe [make dence. Perhaps, professionally or lall. Life being so hopelessly coseater decormtirale pecking" the exietort with the sal Sines change may not be for the better, sometimes wiser to find the bigger heat ud, oat De Se Oe ce wile taal cee bee oes eae tie than re-arrangement. But it is' And a juggling furniture each surely something to acquire the men-, Season, or oftener if an undiagnos. fal rejuvenation appegtinent in 'able ennui attacks, is strongly re-
'Now is the season when the next, mended for those who stayed in arrangement of furniture is all done' Shanghai throughout the summer. in the mind's eye; the final transi il come, petbaps w tie its See val tibet the meting Suatities of Supleiee vee
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