Returning to the subject of dining-room furnishing it should be said that there is now a vogue for the technically-so-called breakfast-room suites. Originally designed for homes containing such rooms, they are also well adapted to the use of small families as dining-room furniture in the small house or apartment and a number of them are therefore illustrated. They are attractive in form, light in weight, and brightening in their decorative quality. Some are also produced in mahogany and walnut. Plate 18, just referred to, shows portions of two sets of such reasonably priced decorated furniture. As is usually the case with suites, so here the pieces are separately priced, and the purchaser may therefore select as many or as few as he requires.

Two other available sets are also here illustrated. Plate 21 shows buffet, table and chair and also a good cottage chair made by the same manufacturers as the set. These are finished with Japanese decoration, or in old mahogany finish at a lesser price. The lower two pieces in Plate 19 are the table and buffet, which are accompanied by the chair on Plate 20.

A digression may here be made to say that the writer has always maintained that the most suitable place for the usual simple form of the Windsor chair is the kitchen, or at least the very simplest rooms in very simply furnished cottages, and that when they are employed in connexion with furniture of a higher grade they lessen the general impression which would be given by that furniture without them. Furthermore their canting lines frequently disturb an interior in which the supports of the other pieces are perpendicular. Neither of these objections obtain here - this version of the Windsor chair is delightfully quaint, and its lines agree with those of the remainder of the suite.

The other pieces on these plates (19 and 20) are for general use and would admirably suit a living-room when mahogany is preferred to the oak we previously have been considering. The gate-leg principle of the table is also carried out in the drop-leaf table-desk, making the latter an especially good piece of furniture for narrow quarters. The telephone-table and low-backed seat are also attractive. The tops of this furniture are of 5 ply built-up mahogany (which does not warp) and the bases of gum, stained mahogany, a wood often employed by our Colonial forefathers. The chair-seats are of birch, likewise mahogany finished. By means of these less costly woods being partially employed it is possible to supply attractive, well-built, and sensible furniture at reasonable prices. We shall soon reach bedroom pieces of similar construction which will well accompany these.

PLATE 18. BREAKFAST-ROOM SUITE.

Manufactured by The Elgin A. Simons Co., Syracuse, N. Y.

In Antique Walnut and Ivory, or Soft French Grey, or other colorings Server, Height 37 in., Width 48 in., Depth 19 in. Table accompanies the pieces shown.

PLATE 19. GATE-LEG TABLE 48 x 48 inches.

D1N1NG-TABLE 48 X 42 inches.

DROP-LEAF DESK 40 x 11 inches.

BUFFET 50 x 15 inches.

Manufactured by Imperial Furniture Co., Grand Rapids. Mien.

PLATE 20. DINING CHAIR, TELEPHONE STAND AND CHAIR.

Manufactured by Imperial Furniture Co.. Grand Rapids, Mich.

In considering the bedrooms it will, however, be well first to recur to the furniture with which we began, so as to carry out that scheme in the event of its adoption.

Plates, 15, 22, and 23 contain bedroom pieces from the plainest to decorative character, all being also furnished in any of the finishes previously mentioned - stained, enamelled, or enamelled and decorated. There are also many other pieces of this make not illustrated here.

Either this furniture or any other which may be purchased may advisably be used in the different finishes in the bedrooms of the one house or apartment. For if there are any rooms to which brightness, airiness and general attractiveness are suitable it is the bedrooms of the home. When colour-schemes and textiles are reached, suggestions enhancing these features will be made. Let it not be supposed therefore that the extreme simplicity of the bureau, chest of drawers, and slat head and foot bedsteads are prohibitive of charm in the room where they may be employed - it will be shown that the final result may be quite otherwise. In any bedroom the Webster chairs on Plate 16 will be found very suitable. The rocker is excellent in form, and the bedroom, sun-room and sewing-room are really the only ones in which rockers should be found. Let us not forget, too, a roomy, easy wicker arm-chair in each bedroom, with a back of sufficient height to lean the head against. In these strenuous days even a few minutes peace and rest in such a chair will be appreciated.