ABSTRACT
From the time Eve commenced house-keeping, a beautiful house has been the most deeply grounded desire of every feminine soul, and is manifested as early as doll days, when the peoples played “keep house”. The woman’s building at the Columbian Exposition (the design of a woman and the best expression of elegance, harmony and beauty, with its exhibition limited to work done by women alone), was in itself, in the region of art, a great inspiration and incentive for women. A woman can learn to distinguish, at the glance of an eye, between truth and trash: and in a work in which she has so much at heart as the beautifying of her own home. A room should declare its purpose or nature of occupancy, and should also declare its logical relation to the rest of the house. It should harmonize with those rooms which adjoin it, thereby exerting a pleasant influence upon the person passing through them.
