ABSTRACT
Fortunately, owing to a better education, more intelligent people now recognise the fact that furniture may be useful and yet artistic. Attention has been much turned of late to domestic art, and the expectant householder now casts about to see if it be not possible to buy chairs that are beautiful as well as comfortable, and to procure tables and sideboards that will mean something, as well as hold plate. The colours of the woods employed in furniture are perhaps limited. The tints and shades of the materials used to cover walls, chairs, draperies, and floors, are practically limitless. In smoking and billiard room furniture the rougher jute cloths, in simple lines and figures, give a peculiar air that is odd, sensible, and attractive. Effects of drapery, carpets, and furniture, unheeded by the casual observer, are noticed, and made to serve their utmost.
