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 THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL

E'RE taking up the House Beautiful—our Little Group of Serious Thinkers, you know—for we've decided that Environment has more effect on personality than Heredity.

Interior decoration is the greatest of the arts—don't you think?—because it furnishes the proper setting for the spirit.

The loveliest woman gave us a talk on interior decoration the other night—she wears these slinky, Greek things, you know, with straw sandals, when the weather permits—and I engaged her to do the house over.

But right away a problem presented itself—whether to have the house done to fit my personality or whether to have the house done to fit the thing I want my personality to evolve into, and trust the environment to help in the evolution.

Modern thought complicates life immensely, doesn't it?

But I always feel that it is my duty to give the best in myself to these problems.

Someone must help Evolution evolve. Someone [79]