As it was, I left the apartment with a feeling of treading softly as when we pass through a door hung with crape.

Vagaries of this kind are remediable when they occur in cravats, or bonnets, or gloves--but a room in the wrong colour! Saints and the angels preserve us! [Illustration: SITTING-ROOM IN "WILD WOOD." ONTEORA (BELONGING TO MISS LUISITA LELAND)] The number, size, and placing of the windows will greatly affect the intensity of colour to be used.

It must always be remembered that any interior is dark as compared with out-of-doors, and that in the lightest room there will be dark corners or spaces where the colour chosen as chief tint will seem much darker than it really is.

A paper or textile chosen in a good light will look several shades darker when placed in large unbroken masses or spaces upon the wall, and a fully furnished room will generally be much darker when completed than might be expected in planning it.

For this reason, in choosing a favourite tint, it is better on many accounts to choose it in as light a shade as one finds agreeable.