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The House in Good Taste
·
Elsie De Wolfe
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XI
THE
LIVING-ROOM
The
living-room!
Shut
your
eyes
a
minute
and
think
what
that
means:
A
room
to
live
in,
suited
to
all
human
needs;
to
be
sick
or
sorry
or
glad
in,
as
the
day's
happenings
may
be;
where
one
may
come
back
from
far-reaching
ways,
for
"East
or
West,
Hame's
best."
Listen
a
minute
while
I
tell
you
how
I
see
such
a
room:
Big
and
restful,
making
for
comfort
first
and
always;
a
little
shabby
here
and
there,
perhaps,
but
all
the
more
satisfactory
for
that--like
an
old
shoe
that
goes
on
easily.
Lots
of
light
by
night,
and
not
too
much
drapery
to
shut
out
the
sunlight
by
day.
Big,
welcoming
chairs,
rather
sprawly,
and
long
sofas.
A
big
fire
blazing
on
the
open
hearth.
Perhaps,
if
we
are
very
lucky
we
may
have
some
old
logs
from
long
since
foundered
ships,
that
will
flame
blue
and
rose
and
green.
He
must
indeed
be
of
a
poor
spirit
who
cannot
call
all
sorts
of
visions
from
such
a
flame!
There
should
be
a
certain
amount
of
order,
because
you
cannot
really
rest
in
a
disorderly
place,
but
there
should
be
none
of
the
formality
of
the
drawing-room.
Formality
should
be
used
as
a
sort
of
foundation
on
which
the
pleasant
workaday
business
of
the
living-room
is
planned.
The
living-room
should
always
have
a
flavor
of
the
main
hobby
of
the
family,
whether
it
be
books,
or
music,
or
sport,
or
what
not.
If
you
live
in
the
real
country
there
should
be
nothing
in
the
room
too
good
for
all
moods
and
all
weather--no
need
to
think
of
muddy
boots
or
wet
riding-clothes
or
the
dogs
that
have
run
through
the
dripping
fields.
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