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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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Surely,
each
of
you
must
know
your
own
color-sense.
You
know
whether
you
get
results,
don't
you?
I
have
never
believed
that
there
is
a
woman
so
blind
that
she
cannot
tell
good
from
bad
effects,
even
though
she
may
not
be
able
to
tell
why
one
room
is
good
and
another
bad.
It
is
as
simple
as
the
problem
of
the
well-gowned
woman
and
the
dowdy
one.
The
dowdy
woman
doesn't
realize
the
degree
of
her
own
dowdiness,
but
she
knows
that
her
neighbor
is
well-gowned,
and
she
envies
her
with
a
vague
and
pathetic
envy.
If,
then,
you
are
not
sure
that
you
appreciate
color,
if
you
feel
that
you,
like
your
children,
like
the
green
rug
with
the
red
roses
because
it
is
"so
cheerful,"
you
may
be
sure
that
you
should
let
color-problems
alone,
and
furnish
your
house
in
neutral
tones,
depending
on
book-bindings
and
flowers
and
open
fires
and
the
necessary
small
furnishings
for
your
color.
Then,
with
an
excellent
background
of
soft
quiet
tones,
you
can
venture
a
little
way
at
a
time,
trying
a
bit
of
color
here
for
a
few
days,
and
asking
yourself
if
you
honestly
like
it,
and
then
trying
another
color--a
jar
or
a
bowl
or
a
length
of
fabric--somewhere
else,
and
trying
that
out.
You
will
soon
find
that
your
joy
in
your
home
is
growing,
and
that
you
have
a
source
of
happiness
within
yourself
that
you
had
not
suspected.
I
believe
that
good
taste
can
be
developed
in
any
woman,
just
as
surely
as
good
manners
are
possible
to
anyone.
And
good
taste
is
as
necessary
as
good
manners.
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