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18 THE SUNDAY CALL. Have Dou an Brtistic Dining MRoom? direct con- were n and were prob- s nstructed that t rench a back dr ing-room ecoration: emish, Colo- r the meal was ur The oak; odd furnl Ak thres o split. The s , for neral mark st a few s he hat made fr on aw firmer # a1 to find s of fineness, of the straw g, con- and these The hats of icres, the finest es in price ssary (o i whole to nce. Of equal m whole strz times th A whiter. at are stiffenec Good i =tiff enough not to d only ordinary panas —— HBere Rre =some That Give An Excellent Idea Of Barmonious ] rrangement For Beauty And Qomfort ture from the beginning of the clghteenth century. The dining-room should be the most se- vere gnd set in Its furnishings of any room in the house. It shounld lock digni- fied and substantial. Never overerowd it. A table, uare or round, as preferred; chairs, a sideboard in antique style; 8 buffet and two china closets are sufficient One of the closets is for crockery; the other, for cut or Bohemian glassware With the Flemish or English furnish- thgs, the room must be large, with high ceilings and plenty of wall expanse. Heavy furniture marks these styles. L} The Flemish, which is excecdingly popu- mr just now, comes either dark or light, | just as personal taste suggests. MRS.BISSINGER _ - -~ -DINING ROOAM . GEO.H. KN|GHT — F Some New Facts About Finger Nails. The detection of ¢ lieved, be much facl Tecent discovery of c curfous facts In regard to fingernails. When a crime is committed it iz important to learn whether the perpetrator is right handed or Jeft handed, and an examination of the fingernails will throw abundant light on this point. Dr. Regnault, in a paper read before the Anthropological Soclety of Paris, shows that there is a wide differ- ence between the nails of the right and those of the left hand, and that the nails of the right hand of a t handed per- son are broader than th: of the left hand, while the opposite Is the case with 1 persons. Mins| has made further re- searches in the same direction. Accord- ing to him, the differerce in the size of he of the right hand and left hand »m one-fourth to two millimetres, instanc in which both no difference in The thumbnail is al- st in the ‘case of adults finger has always the t in order being the finger and the lit- of the right hand flat in the case of right handed the index finger ané thumb be s ed in this respect. On left 1 d persons such flat nails e varely. if ever, seen. Dr. Minskow here seems to be a cu- inection Letween the circumfer- he chest and the breadth of the his numerous experiments own him that the broader the s the larger the nails are, 1s will, it is be- through the In the Colonial style one finds paneled In San Francisco are many ideal dine walls, with hardwood floors, rugs, mahog- ing-rooms. Among them is that in the any table, chairs and woodwork Hobart t To those who object to the darker shades the French oak 1s used. It is much lighter and browner. The wood- work and furniture should harmonize Tapestry walle, either real or in paper, are used; rugs, with rdwood or inlaid floors. If preferred ca be used and in our damp winter climate is per- . haps tq be preferred . " A very pretty idea, but one which can n be carried out better In a country home t than in a town house, is to have a door way leading from the dinin ) the garden or to a ve a N French or Spanish con and gi 3 to a dining-room a more homelike alr g o sho A fireplace is always essential in a din- ing-room. To come down to breakfast on a cold, ble: morning rere is nothing like a roaring, crackling wood fire to n make things cheerful. If the r - pens to be without a firenlace = the breakfaster a fit of blues tI probably last throughout the day Accidental Discoveries of Importance. The rolling of ¢ iron was first sug- g i ¢ kindness. gested, it is sald workman who was Or W T washing a placing a p carel in also without br »f the superintendent matter was investigated were m: and it was f 3 - S rolled fron is equal to st carry purpo: help | After much patient, A Nuremberg glass-cutter accidentally gareful m e e - ¢ fiscovered the art of etching upon gla: ed him and as to leave the that it had re avings and ha A few drops of aquafortis fell upon his spectacles and he noticed that the acid i the glass to corrode and soften. He took the hint, drew figures upon he glass with varnish applied the aqua- fortis, and then cut away the glass from around the drawing. Removing the var- nish, he found the figures that he had drawn raised upon a dark background Finiguerra, the mast.