Another portiere we have seen is a great and lasting success, for it is of solid wool which in fifty years will still be firm of texture and pleasing in color. It is fine ingrain carpet of beautiful olive color, quite plain. It can be bought in a great variety of colors, but olive and crimson have the advantage of fading handsomely.

Down one side of each breadth (there were four, for it covered the space between rooms where there had been double doors) was worked in Germantown wool, - a pattern which was adopted from a Turkish rug. The pattern was outlined in black and filled in with red, pale blue, white, and a little gold-colored filoselle. The effect was so good and the material so durable that a great comfortable sofa with three cushions received a new dress of the same, and the children play on the tough material unreproved.

Let me here suggest that all decoration in homes where there are children to be thought of (alas! for those homes where there are none) should be of firm, excellent, unfading quality in accordance with the loving spirit of Mary, and not cultivating the anxious one of her sister. The reward, as in all right-doing, will be greater than you expect, for your decoration will be better and in nobler taste.