TIMES IMPROVE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1374, 27 February 1912, Page 9

TIMES IMPROVE.

A woman correspondent of an English paper has been interviewing the manager of a big furnishing firm about modern ways and current fashion. "The love of the home shows 110 sign of diminution, despite all rumours to the contrary," was one of his sayings.' "People are buying better stuff to-day than ever they did, and getting far better value for their money than five years ago. The change in the price of good furniture is one of the most striking features of our business. Wooden bedsteads have entirely ousted brass ones in up-to-date furnishing, hnd the four-poster without hangings is comilig much into fashion. Fashionable bedrooms are often furnished in highly polished grey wood, and glasstopped dressing tables are taking the place of the. French-polished ones, which showed every mark and stain.

"In dining-rooms (continued this authority) Georgian furniture is in demand, and the craze of the day is for mirrors to take tho place of pictures, solid and heavily mounted in ormolu for preference. All the electric fittings are of the cutcrystal type, placed high in the ceiling. No one asks for a square or long dining table'nowadays, it must be oval or round. French drawing-rooms with much gilt about them aro very popular, both in houses and flats. The trend of the day is to give up the best rooms in tho house to the children, to use electric radiators for heating, and to avoid stairs."