DIVIDING furnishing into sections by standards of expense can only of course be very approximate. Indeed the parcelling out of beauty in accordance with dollar-values is to the writer an extremely distasteful task; but this is a practical world and there must be some separation. Attempting to treat in one chapter a standard of decoration involving the use of furniture at $2000.00 a suite with another where but $200.00 is expended would manifestly be absurd and could only land us in confusion.

The present section will be one of medium cost - that is perhaps a better word here than moderate; for what is moderate to one purse may be cither very cheap or very dear to another. However, the range covered is wide and some sort of graduation is attempted.

It should especially be noted that in practice the sections may well overlap. For example, some of the decorated bedroom-furniture previously illustrated is very charming': in that section it was accompanied by fabrics of decidedly moderate cost, but with silken accessories and more expensive rugs it might well find a place in this division. It is evident that it is not furniture alone which involves cost: it may be the remainder of the scheme of decoration employed. Then, too, some rooms may often be more expensively furnished than others, and so a single home may include features from both sections at this end of the scale, or from the latter part of this division and that still more costly at the other.