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FARMAN MOSQUITO

you have room enough to move and that feeling of space which will give you the calm necessary to good digestion;

3. In your living-room fittings to bold your books and protect them from dust and to hold your collection of paintings and works of art. And in such a way that the walls of your room are unencumbered. You could then bring out your pictures one at a time when you want them.

As for your dressers, and your mirrored wardrobes, you can sell all these to one of those young nations which have lately appeared on the map. There Progress rages, and they are dropping the traditional home (with its fittings, etc.) to live in an up-to-date house à l'européenne with its imitation stone stucco and its mantelpieces.

Let us repeat some fundamental axioms:

(a) Chairs are made to sit in. There are rush-seated church chairs at 5s., luxuriously upholstered arm-chairs at £20 and