The library and living room are generally next each other, and so each
may and should have a fireplace in the common chimney. That of the
library should be of severer design; that of the living-room more
homelike. Dutch tiles, with pictures that interest children, are
specially appropriate for the latter.

Where the father of the family demands a "den" for reading and smoking,
this may be a small room on the same general order as the library, but
with an emphasis on comfort. Thus, the sofa should be replaced by a wide
divan, which may also serve on occasion as a sleeping-place. The Turkish
style of furnishing is the customary one; the Japanese style being a fad
that came in with the aesthetic craze, was carried to an uncomfortable
excess, and has gone out of fashion. The most appropriate style for an
American house is American Indian. The brilliant and strikingly designed
Navajo blankets may be used for both rugs and couch covers, or hung up
as wall-ornaments. Moqui basketware serves equally well for useful
purposes, such as scrap-baskets, and for ornamentation. The pottery of
the Pueblo Indians, being naive and primitive in design, is much more
intimate and therefore appropriate than the Japanese bric-a-brac which
it replaces.

The living-room is the heart of the house, and everything in it should
be of a nature to collect loving associations. Almost any style of
furniture is admissible into it, if only it is comfortable. There should
be rocking-chairs, for the woman and the neighbors who drop in to see
her, other chairs stout enough for a man to tip back upon the hind legs,
and little chairs, or a little settee by the fireplace, for the
children. The mother's desk should stand here, plainer than the one in
the library, but of design similar to it; there should be a sofa as