use of the many lines and forms which, if you observe in them the conditions of art, guarantee the room's beauty and attractiveness. But in the use of colors there is a wider field still for changing the look of the salon.

I have a Lebanese friend in whose house is a beautiful salon, over whose arrangement its owner wrestled with several problems. The room is spacious and well-proportioned in shape, but the furniture is all upholstered in elegant gold brocade. For all the beauty of brocade, it can grow tiresome in certain circumstances. My friend went back to her carpet, of wonderful beauty, and found running through its threads a golden color, patched with rose and with a green inclining toward blue. And there was in it brown enough to make the carpet a set of colors that hold together. The brown was present in the wooden pieces — the furniture — and in the copper tones. Had this lady painted her walls the familiar beige, the salon's gold furnishings would have been lost in the kindred color of the wall, and the splendor of their color would have gone. So she put into the mixture of the cream wall paint a touch of red, until it took on the color of a faded rose; thereby she created a link between the wall and the carpet and brought out the beauty of the color in the furnishings. This rosy color, moreover, cast a lovely glow upon the face of the lady and her guests. The brocade of the room bore a pattern of fine, small flowers; she therefore chose for her curtains a large pattern in that green inclining toward blue,

and this green was repeated in the colors of the carpet and in the leaves of the flowers that adorned the corners of the room. The copper trays and vases were the middle color joining the gold of the brocade with the rose of the walls, and then the brown of the carpet and the wood. In this elegant and sumptuous room, which expresses

its owner's personality most truly, the lady adorned the walls with beautiful paintings of scenes of her beloved Lebanon, choosing the colors of the paintings to suit the other colors of the room.

Pictures

In using pictures to give your home meaning and charm, it is well to remember that a large space calls either for large paintings or for a group of small pictures. In choosing paintings you will find that if you fall back upon your own taste, they will generally prove suited to your home and your personality. It is sometimes possible to substitute fine carpets for pictures in adorning the walls, and they are often much like precious paintings.

Among the secondary conditions in beautifying the home is that

you place every piece in a position suited to the balance and rest of the eye. I stand astonished when I enter certain houses and see the pictures of the family and their loved ones hung above their heads, nearer to the ceiling than to those who would look at them. I believe this habit arises from the nature of this country: the necessity of high ceilings created the custom of hanging pictures high, to fill the emptiness of the tall wall. But there are other ways of filling this emptiness, which I personally prefer to hanging pictures as though they were flying in space. In the Arab countries we find that the architecture generally runs to high ceilings, and so the eye demands that this excess empti-ness be filled. If you are prepared to depart from the customary, and to face the opposition of family and friends, you can try a method I used in my own country.

My salon is smaller than the usual Arab salon, but the ceiling of the room was high; so I painted it a clear green, and at once it appeared lower than it was. Yes, the painter criticized me, and so did my friends when I put the idea to them; but after they saw the result, the painter himself took to recommending this method

Still in the home of Emir Maurice Chehab, where his wife appears, and beside her Mrs. Elizabeth Lewis, the author of this article, in a quiet sitting... Here it is clearly shown how the elegant lady can conceal the many doors of her rooms. This curtain can be drawn aside to reveal the dining room, which is no less tasteful and beautiful than the reception room.