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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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A
drawing-room
has
no
place
in
the
house
where
there
is
no
other
living-room.
Indeed,
if
there
are
many
children,
and
the
house
is
of
moderate
size,
I
think
a
number
of
small
day
rooms
are
vastly
better
than
the
two
usual
rooms,
living-room
and
drawing-room,
because
only
in
this
way
can
the
various
members
of
the
family
have
a
chance
at
any
privacy.
The
one
large
room
so
necessary
for
the
gala
occasions
of
a
large
family
may
be
the
dining-room,
for
here
it
will
be
easy
to
push
back
tables
and
chairs
for
the
occasion.
If
the
children
have
a
nursery,
and
mother
has
a
small
sitting-room,
and
father
has
a
little
room
for
books
and
writing,
a
living-room
may
be
eliminated
in
favor
of
a
small
formal
room
for
visitors
and
talk.
No
matter
how
large
your
drawing-room
may
be,
keep
it
intimate
in
spirit.
There
should
be
a
dozen
conversation
centers
in
a
large
room.
There
should
be
one
or
more
sofas,
with
comfortable
chairs
pulled
up
beside
them.
No
one
chair
should
be
isolated,
for
some
bashful
person
who
doesn't
talk
well
anyway
is
sure
to
take
the
most
remote
chair
and
make
herself
miserable.
I
have
seen
a
shy
young
woman
completely
changed
because
she
happened
to
sit
upon
a
certain
deep
cushioned
sofa
of
rose-colored
damask.
Whether
it
was
the
rose
color,
or
the
enforced
relaxation
the
sofa
induced,
or
the
proximity
of
some
very
charming
people
in
comfortable
chairs
beside
her,
or
all
of
these
things--I
don't
know!
But
she
found
herself.
She
found
herself
gay
and
happy
and
unafraid.
I
am
sure
her
personality
flowered
from
that
hour
on.
If
she
had
been
left
to
herself
she
would
have
taken
a
stiff
chair
in
a
far
corner,
and
she
would
have
been
miserable
and
self-conscious.
I
believe
most
firmly
in
the
magic
power
of
inanimate
objects!
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