Chapter I: Front Matter

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

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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.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This volume is the result of an effort to bring together in close relation with fundamental principles of design a variety of practical problems which are more or less closely connected with the general problem of home decoration and suited to the constructive ability of boys and girls from twelve to eighteen years of age. While the book is mainly a record of the author's experience and observation in this department of educational work, he has received many suggestions from co-workers in the same field. It will be impossible to give credit to all who have directly or indirectly assisted in the preparation of this book: but special acknowledgments are due to Mr. Fred M. Watts, who furnished the material for the chapter on Pottery and several drawings for other parts of the book; to Miss Grace L. Bell for the illustrations and descriptions embodied in the chapter on Block Printing; to Mr. Burton A. Adams for the problems in metal work; to Mr. Edwin A. Finch and Mr. Lewis O. Richardson who contributed many of the specifications for the problems in furniture-making; to Miss Elizabeth M. Morton for specific suggestions pertaining to the subject of dress as related to the principles of decoration; and to Mrs. Ruth B. S. Flower, of Florence, Mass., who supplied several of the photographs and much of the descriptive matter for the chapter on Weaving.

Springfield, Mass.