oc-plain-dealer 1923-10-08

SECOND SECTION TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR Better Homes and Gardens THIS IS AGE OF COMFORT IN HOME That feeling of utter comfort and well-being which we get when we sink into the depths of a generously proportioned overstuffed chair is our reason for owning one. This is surely the age of comfort and luxury. Comfort we may have whether we have luxury or not. Comfort does not always mean vast amounts of money expended, for a liberal amount of comfort may be obtained by a limited outlay of actual cash. Attention to detail, foresight in the selection, caution in buying, mean more than money in the making of a livable, satisfying home. If unlimited means are available it is only necessary to procure the services of a thoroughly competent professional decorator and then forget all about the house until the bill is presented, but few of us mortals are able to do that. With unlimited money out of the question, we must bring caution, foresight and good Lamp’s Beauty Enhanced by Use of Mirror An art treasure is beautiful in itself, but its very nature demands an appropriate setting. Frequently, the artistic person can place the lovely pieces of his household so that each will not only look well, but so that they are mutually helpful. There is nothing which will set off the beauty of a lamp so well as a mirror background. Consider an exquisite lamp set on a wall table against a mirror. The lamp should not be placed in the mathematical center of the mirror, but to one side so that if it be a frivolous lamp, it may see to flirt with itself in the glass, or if it be a serious type it may be greatly enriched by its own reflection. HOW TO MAKE COZY APARTMENT HOME Although to own one's home is the ideal of every one, we yet have with us the cities. Cities ever mean congestion of population and when an acre of ground must form HOW TO MAKE COZY APARTMENT HOME Although to own one's home is the ideal of every one, we yet have with us the cities. Cities ever mean congestion of population and when an acre of ground must form the homesite for scores of families, the apartment building is the only solution. Thus, the range of apartment furniture has become much greater within the last few years. When selecting the furnishing for the apartment, the home-maker should begin with the living room. If this room properly reflects the home atmosphere, the rest of the apartment can take care of itself. It is not necessary that the furniture be of a specific style or period, or even matched, but the chairs should all be comfortable, and each piece in the room key with the others and with the walls, rugs and hangings. The furniture should not be too heavy and cumbersome. Great, overstuffed pieces that look well, and are delightfully comfortable in the spacious country house, are taboo in the city apartment. But there are innumerable upholstered suites of dayport, rocker and easy chair, whose slender carved or tapered legs, can inserts and other features, give them an air of being in their proper surroundings. A good reading table is a necessity, which may be larger or smaller, according to the presence or absence of a piano. A couple of extra chairs, possibly of the comfortable Windsor type, which blends happily with most upholstered furniture, are sufficient. HOTEL CALIFORNIA. FULLERTON Charles Andrews, Freno; J. Renborn, F. H. Bushman, Frank Neal, C. E. Manahan, and D. C. Boring, Los Angeles; E. G. Arthur, San Diego; Mrs. S. L. Lilly, Sacramento; and H. B. Hart, Pomona. Artistic Hangings National Home-Beautiful Week OCTOBER 8-14 Artistic Hangings National Home-Beautiful Week October 8-14 Make the Most of Your Decorations NATURE'S PICTURES SEEM MORE BEAUTIFUL WHEN VIEWED THROUGH ARTISTIC AND TASTEFULLY CHOSEN CURTAINS AND DRAPERIES. OUR HOME BEAUTIFUL WEEK OFFERING OF DRAPERIES AND HANGINGS ARE BOUND TO PLEASE EVERYONE—WE OFFER THIS FALL THE NEW— Sunshine Nets —a beautiful new creation designed especially to brighten that dark room. Also the New Chiffon Marquisette —in green, orchid, rose, gold and natural. National Picture Week Oct. 8 to 13 We are expecting in a few days one of the finest and newest offerings from the world of art— "Day Break" a beautiful study by Maxfield Parish. Blue Bird Drapery and Decorative Shop 323 E. Center St. Anaheim, Dalif. THE ORANGE COUNTY Plain Dealer Anaheim, Calif., Monday, October 8, 1923 ines as Cure for Wor ATTRACTIVE DISPLAY OF FURNITURE AT STROUP-BARNES' ARTISTIC STORE The picture was reproduced in "The Furniture Age," leading publication of the furniture business, with the following cut lines: "The Stroup-Barnes display man at Anaheim, Calif., deserves a prize for the artistic manner in which he arranged the furniture on the main floor of that store. All in favor of the motion, give this well-planned arrangement another glance." FURNITURE MAKES FINE XMAS GIFTS Usually but little attention is paid by most persons to their holiday shopping lists until the season is immediately upon them, when we lay ourselves open to sweeping accusations that most of our Christmas or New Years' giving shows lack of imagination. We should realize that our gifts would carry more meaning and give greater pleasure if we used better judgment and more imagination in the selection of our remembrances. It may be truthfully said that all gifts that have an appropriateness both general and individual, none can compare exactly with furniture, nor can any afford so peculiar a range for selection as the field of modern furniture design. All of which leads us into the question of gift selection more fully. There is a variety of pieces of furniture that make ideal gifts or remembrances, especially period furniture. Probably the children have been secretly planning on giving mother a birthday anniversary, or Christmas present. So they decide on a dining-room suite in some pleasing period style—Queen Anne, Sheraton, Hepplewhite or probably Colonial. Regardless of the season or the event, what would be more acceptable to relative or friend than a three-piece living room suite, a console table and mirror, a davenport table, a side table, an end table for davenport or sofa, a spinet writing desk, a Queen Anne secretary, a John Hancock desk, a Martha Washington sewing cabinet, a high-back Jacobean or Elizabethan chair, a Colonial design cedar chest or other of the innumerable articles of furni- Never Was Such Demand for Living Room Furniture, Says H. E. Barnes Never in his memory has there been such a demand for living room furniture, "Doc" Barnes, head of the Stroup-Barnes Furniture Co., declared today. The furniture business naturally benefits from the increased activity in building, said Barnes. The company has added a space 30 by 91 to its quarters in the Kraomer building to be used as a Baby Room. Here mothers can pick what they need without being obliged to inspect quantities of furniture in which they are not interested. The company also has set aside its mezzanine floor as a gift department in which smaller articles such as lamps, roving tables and mirrors are shown. The new department is of particular convenience now that the holiday season is approaching. Recently a rack to show bed springs was devised. No article is so difficult to display and remember some as a bed spring, and the new device is a model for the purpose. The store, always beautiful, never looked better than right now. It is full of the finest things money can buy and at prices that are extraordinarily reasonable. People now are buying furniture for a lifetime and get durable stuff, says Barnea. As a matter of fact, furniture prices are distinctly out of line with those on other goods, which are far more expensive, value for value. Some of the new things include dining room sets in fluted Tudor and modified Italian styles, both in solid black walnut. ING period style—Queen Anne, Sheraton, Hepplewhite or probably Colonial. Regardless of the season or the event, what would be more acceptable to relative or friend than a three-piece living room suite, a console table and mirror, a davenport table, a side table, an end table for davenport or sofa, a spinet writing desk, a Queen Anne secretary, a John Hancock desk, a Martha Washington sewing cabinet, a high-back Jacobean or Elizabethan chair, a Colonial design cedar chest or other of the innumerable articles of furniture that are produced in period styles? S. A. SILVER BAND WARMLY GREETED By ADJUTANT GUERLY The Salvation army No. 2 silver band has come and gone, and we wish to express our sincere gratitude to the newspapers for the very generous way in which they got behind the publicity and boosted, so that in so short a time we were able to gather so large a crowd; also, to City Manager O. E. Steward for providing us with the space in front of the new city hall, which was very kind indeed of him, and for getting the space so well lighted for the boys to play for the people of Anaheim. And, too, for his very generous remarks. Altogether, we all had a very enjoyable time. Everybody has spoken very kindly of the boys, who left their homes and shops and came here to play without pay for the cities throughout Orange county. And in return everybody was very kind to us all indeed. The Salvation army extends a vote of thanks to all who contributed to make the open-air concert a success. Everybody stayed to the last and was very much interested. It has been arranged for army bands to make these trips more frequently. We want to thank American Legion Commander Sampson for providing us with the chairs for the boys to sit on while they played. This very greatly contributed to the success of the concert. FOR RESULTS—Try a Plain Dealer Want-ad. GUEST ROOM VERY OFTEN SLIGHTED All too often the guest room looks as inviting as a room in a fourth-rate hotel—it is just about as imperial. The furniture may be expensive, the rugs and hangings good in themselves, but the room will still be a veritable icebox. The secret of injecting an air of hospitality into the guest room is not one of spending vast sums of money. The thing needed is careful thought—remembering what one might like if one were the guest instead of the hostess, will help. Given light tones on the walls, good floors, a few rugs of neutral colors, and the rest of the decoration of the room should be a pleasing occupation. Select comfortable beds of the twin type, a chest of drawers and a dressing table, a desk or table on which to write, a desk chair of the low back variety, which may also be used at the dressing table if there is no room for two straight chairs, and a low, comfortable chair, possibly a rocker, and the necessary furniture is assembled. *The sort of furniture chosen will decide the question of hangings and bed coverings to be used. Painted furniture, if that is chosen, must be considered when deciding upon the color of the curtains and hangings, as well as the covering for the bed, the chair cushions and possibly the rugs. Plain Dealer Want-ads bring results. Today's News Today World’s Unrest! NATIONAL INPROVEMENT PROGRAM WIDE IN SCOPE Suggestion Made by President Harding to Bear Fruit Throughout United States; Artistry Will Mark Entire Proposed Crusade. ONLY those institutions which are founded on the deepest human needs have survived and developed during the changing centuries. Because the home contributes to more needs, in more ways, than any other institution and is vital to man's very existence, its influence is more far-reaching and uplifting than any other agency. So it is only natural that in the last few turbulent years, America's leaders in thought and action have come to realize that in the home alone lies the cure to the world's unrest, and that only from better homes can-come better citizens to solve the world's problems. It was a casual remark of the late President Harding which lighted the spark that started the nation-wide Better Homes movement—the remark that he would like to see a model home on exhibition in every community in America. As a consequence a great national organization was formed, and every year intensive "Better Homes" campaigns are being carried on throughout the length and breadth of the country—exhibits, lectures and publicity all serving to implant new and helpful ideas for home-making and home living. EVERY PHASE OF BETTERMENT INCLUDED IN BIG MOVEMENT and action have come to realize that in the home alone lies the cure to the world's unrest, and that only from better homes can come better citizens to solve the world's problems. It was a casual remark of the late President Harding which lighted the spark that started the nation-wide Better Homes movement—the remark that he would like to see a model home on exhibition in every community in America. As a consequence a great national organization was formed, and every year intensive "Better Homes" campaigns are being carried on throughout the length and breadth of the country—exhibits, lectures and publicity all serving to implant new and helpful ideas for home-making and home living. EVERY PHASE OF BETTERMENT INCLUDED IN BIG MOVEMENT No phase of home improvement is overlooked in the varied programs of the committees in charge of the "Better Homes" week demonstrations—color schemes, correct and beautiful lighting arrangements, furniture styles, fabrics, electrical conveniences, pictures and art objects and their relation to home atmosphere; the beneficent influence of good music, problems of buying and financing homes, kitchen and household conveniences of latest invention and, most important of all, the many features which bear directly on the upbringing of children. The advisory council of the "Better Homes in America" bureau is headed by President Coolidge, and includes Herbert Hoover, Theodore Roosevelt, the governors of the majority of the states, and other high officials in state and educational circles. 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