HOUSEHOLD GEMS
Flowers are gems in a house when they are tastefully arranged and placed in the best possible places. Nice glasses and bowls are the diamonds of a house, particularly if you keep them brightly polished and glittering. Books are rare gems in a home if they arc the kind of books that one can read with profit. Dark bindings of soft leather are always best because your visitors can pick up books so bound and read them without dirtying them. Pictures are the pearls of a home, but. like real pearls, they must be properly graded, not just hung anyhow on your walls. Antique articles of furniture can be gems only when they match the whole scheme of things. It is worth while moving an antique a dozen times if you can manage to get it. just right in the end. Your kitchen, too, can be adorned with many household gems, such as bright cake tins; cheerfully coloured plates, and that rarest of kitchen gems, a gas stove that is always spotlessly clean. Finally, however, the rarest gem to be found in a home is a smile. The smile of happiness and contentment.—A. G., in an exchange.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22137, 15 December 1933, Page 18
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