THE LIBRARY OF WORK AND PLAY

Carpentry and Woodwork By Edwin W. Foster

Electricity and Its Everyday Uses By John F. Woodhull, Ph.D.

Gardening and Farming By Ellen Eddy Shaw

Home Decoration By Charles Franklin Warner, Sc.D.

Housekeeping By Elizabeth Hale Gilman

Mechanics, Indoors and Out By Fred T. Hodgson

Needlecraft By Effie Archer Archer

Outdoor Sports, and Games By Claude H. Miller, Ph.B.

Outdoor Work By Mary Rogers Miller

Working in Metals By Charles Conrad Sleffel

Hanging a Picture The wall space is a part of the framing of a picture

HOME DECORATION

BY PROF. CHARLES F. WARNER, Sc.D.

For eight years Master of the Rindge Manual Training School, Mass. Twelve years principal of the Technical High School and Director of the Evening School of Trades, Springfield, Mass.

Garden City New York

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

1916

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN

COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

TO THE BOYS AND GIRLS OF AMERICA THIS BOOK WHICH RECORDS WHAT SOME OF THEM HAVE DONE IS HOPEFULLY DEDICATED

Some pure lovers of art discard the formula, Art for Progress, the Beautiful Useful, fearing lest the useful should deform the beautiful. They tremble to see the drudge's hand attached to the muse's arm. They are solicitous for the sublime if it descends as far as to humanity. Ah! they are in error. The useful, far from circumscribing the sublime, enlarges it.... Is Aurora less splendid, clad less in purple and emerald—suffers she any diminution of majesty and of radiant grace, because, foreseeing an insect's thirst, she carefully secretes in the flower the dewdrop needed by the bee?

Victor Hugo.