Ethel Morton at Sweetbrier Lodge

le for Miss Graham to be summoned to a conference on the decoration of the bedroom floor, and wh

was hearing from all the Club members about their ideas for the bed-rooms, and so interested in comparing them with her own practical knowledge of how they

ne from the other immediately just from Margaret's and James's descriptions of them. She listened attentively to their suggestions and t

gly to Margaret as they stood at one side of the upper hall and watched her as she

Helen was not drawn toward interior decorating-she had already made up her mind, that she was to be one of the scientific home-makers educated at the School of Mothercraft-but she admired women with the courage to start new things, and this work seemed to her to be perfectly suited

em perfectly natural that it should be there, just as a blossom seems perfectly natural to find on a plant. I never like the phrase 'applied design,'" she conti

ith smiled in return. "Come and see ho

-that this dark-eyed, dark-haired, ruddy-cheeked young woman possessed. Her nose was a trifle too short for beauty and her mouth a bit too wide, but her coloring denoted health, her hair curled crisply over a broad forehead, her teet

look at her," Helen decided, "

sery where the Belgian baby enjoyed herself in the daytime. This porch was also shared by Elisabeth's care-taker. Each porch was

h the bed was to be shut off from the room at night and enclosed in the room in the morning.

desirable that the patients should never be chilled and t

ple. When the inside sash is closed, the outsid

end of a cord will go through a pulley fastened to the wall, high up over the head of the couch. There will be a hook at the other end of the cord. When this hook goes into

er the under side when it is hauled up against the w

t is going to meet that difficulty

our room of any decided

er since I was a tiny child," answered Dorothy. "I've

pple blossoms?"

appealed to her immediately as possible of a development far more exquisite than that which Dorothy had planned. Both would be pink, yet the fineness of the new color scheme seemed to her suited to Dorothy's slender grace. She could not have put it into words but she felt that

iked the

ed. "If Mother would only let me use wall-paper-I saw such a beauty pa

wall-paper," Miss Gr

not use wall-paper in the bed-rooms a

ut she was cheered when Miss Graham n

sn't a good plan to paper walls until the plaster is thoroughly dr

foundation," said Margaret, "that I should

il beneath may give a little when the full weight of a house rests upon it. The settling o

back the paper for a final

rator. "Here is what I should suggest for an apple-blossom room-though perhaps you have so

as it's pink and pretty I don

hine fell on the floor, the shadow at the end where the sleeping porch

it out. "That means a pink so delicate that it will not irritate the weariest nerves and will soothe to sleep by its beauty. The w

said tha

en across one end of the wall-on that shadiest side,-I should throw a branch of apple-blossoms, painted in the same blurry, indefinite way in which the flowers appear on the chintz.

orothy, and all the others expressed the greates

e book, and sketching with a few rapid lines the folds of apple-blossom chintz, fal

or with a fine cross-bar, whichever you like best. I should have those muslin curtains next to the glass all a

" laughed Helen, and Miss Graham flashed her brilliant smile on Eth

finish the other sleeping p

radiator on the one leading off

y careful about its freez

edge of her porch is somewhat higher than either Dorothy's or mine and there are pieces of lattice work to fill in the openings on very cold nig

able for

" said Miss Graham. "One that is largely white but has a dash of green and pin

nts us to have

old Chinese pottery. Tell me what you had planned in your mind for Elisabeth," she continued, turning toward the young girl and extending her hand so winningly that Ethel found herself not

you suggested for Dorothy's room, only blue instead of pink; and it seemed to me that the

ll white, but has a little blue, would be lovel

because a baby's room has to be kept so spick and span that y

that you sometimes see in railway

said she had

ld be light blue cushions on it. And then I think it would be fun if there was a low bench running aroun

light blue cushi

hought the id

ou paint the

," asked Ethel Blue. "You know that shiny paint that is so hi

bet's G

are a lot of little things that would be charming in the nursery," she continued. "You can have a solid table, whose top lifts off, disclosing a sand-p

t it would be two-sided," said Ethel Blue. "If the lower floor was a

still long enough to make a

a few water plants and some gold fish and you must arrange to have it on a good solid stand so that it won't tip over if Elisabeth should happen

g care of her, is trying so

to use what they know in their daily occupations. If Elisabeth had a clothes-closet small enough for her to hang up and take down her own

hel Blue, and Dorothy cried, "Do let us have all these things, Mother. Elisabeth will

for your own room, Mrs.

one of those gray rooms, with scarlet l

nswer, Miss Graham had in

y are very handsome because the real scarlet lacquer is beautiful in itself, and it'

t a proper color for a b

is that a room containing such a vivid color should be a dark room, and all of your bed-rooms are splendidly l

raham on to the landing

t of view, the entire floor ought to be harmonious. Behind us, for instance, is the baby's delicate blue nursery. Just ahead is Dorot

ce and agreed with her tha

scarlet lacquer rooms and the bed-room was done in tones of pale green and dull orange. You felt as if you were sittin

hat. You see the oranges gleaming through the

he blue and pink colorings for the other rooms here," she said, turning to Mrs. Smith with a s

f yellow, that would be sui

ould not be hard to find a lovely chintz, that would give you just the

of spring all the year around," said Ethel Blue; and ag