Art in the shape of pictures is fortunately exempt from this rule, and may dignify and beautify every room in the house without being imperilled by contact in the exigencies of use.
Following out this idea, a house where circumstances demand that there shall be no drawing-room, and where the family sitting-room must also answer for the reception of guests, a perfect beauty and dignity may be achieved by harmony of colour, beauty of form, and appropriateness to purpose, and this may be carried to almost any degree of perfection by the introduction and accompaniment of pictures.

In this case art is a part of the room, as well as an adornment of it.

It is kneaded into every article of furniture.

It is the daily bread of art to which we are all entitled, and which can make a small country home, or a smaller city apartment, as enjoyable and elevating as if it were filled with the luxuries of art.
[Illustration: RUSTIC SOFA AND TABLES IN "PENNYROYAL" (IN MRS.

BOUDINOT KEITH'S COTTAGE, ONTEORA)] But one may say, "It requires knowledge to do this; much knowledge in the selection of the comparatively few things which are to make up such an interior," and that is true--and the knowledge is to be proved every time we come to the test of buying.