breathe into them the warmth of your affection

and your love.

And now, Madam, I have tried to lay before you a few observations, namely: First, that the house reflects the mentality of those who live in it and bears the stamp of their personality. And second — that the house is the handiwork of the woman who undertakes its care and keeping: with all its contents it will become either a place dear to hearts, or a place where hearts find what stirs their gloom and their unease. And third: that the house is a token of

a people's progress and of its level of civilization.

How much, then, Madam, will you contribute to raising the standing of your nation and increasing others' respect for it, and to creat-ing a happy, wholesome family — one of the cells of which society is composed — if you devote your attention and consecrate the greater part of your efforts to designing your home anew upon the principles of elegance and sound taste.

In the coming issues, God willing, I shall speak to you of the technical side of arranging the

house, of the modern fashions followed in this matter, and of everything connected with the house from the artistic side — among other things, the choice of flowers and their arrangement, the selection of pictures and their hanging upon the walls, and the combining of the different colors of furnishings and determining what suits each room of them.

And may all this arouse your interest, so that you will address to me, through "The Woman's Voice," whatever problems present themselves to you, and whatever explanations you desire.