chair or settee, a table for _cartes de visite_, an umbrella
receptacle, and a mirror wall hanger with hooks for the use of guests.
The time-honored halltree is no more, and long may it rest in peace.
If there had been no other reasons for its passing, its abuse in the
average household made it an eyesore. Intended only for the
convenience of the transient guest, its hooks were usually preëmpted by
the entire outer wardrobe of the family. A good plan is to have a coat
closet built in, under the stairway or elsewhere near the place of
egress, leaving the few inconspicuous hooks in the hall to afford ample
provision for visitors. An appropriation of $50 to $100 will fit up a
small hall very satisfactorily. A pretty hanging lantern of hammered
copper, with open bottom and globe of opalescent glass, will add more
than its cost of $12.50 to the good impression the hall is to make upon
those it receives.



THE FAMILY CHAIRS

Some good folk would banish the rocker unceremoniously from the living
room, and we might not miss it so much as we think. It is the
adaptability of the rocker to comforting positions, rather than a love
of rocking, that endears the chair to the majority, and when the same
qualities are found in the reclining or easy chair we can well spare
the projections that menace skirts and polished furniture, not to speak
of the space they take up.

As a general thing it is the man of the house whose comfort is most
sedulously looked after. For him the easy chair, the slippers, the
reading lamp, the smoking outfit, the house jacket, the evening paper.