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an expression of love this stands for to an uncertain small girl? Brian also gave Judy’s room a combination of modern comfort and antique loveliness. This he achieved particularly in the pair of deep wing chairs, covered in light blue raw silk, that made a “conversation grouping” against the wall that faces Judy’s “big girl” bed. The wall behind it is of rubbed-down wood paneling, painted in the softest yellow, sprinkled with painted nosegays of pink, yellow and lavender flowers, and in the center of it hangs an exquisite portrait of Judy as she is now. The octagonal mahogany table between the wing chairs goes back to Governor Bradford’s time. Its deep brown patina, in contrast to the blue chairs, the pastel wall, and the plum covered sofa at the foot of the white covered bed, is a lesson in color blending, which Judy probably doesn’t even know she is absorbing. SHE probably doesn’t realize, either, that she is being influenced into the idea that books are fine possessions. But she is, by way of an outstanding break-front bookcase in her debutante room, which now holds a few of her father’s favorite books and a couple of hers. But she knows this is “to grow on.” Everything in the room, naturally, is on an adult scale and the one rule of the house is that Judy may visit her “future” whenever she desires, but she must not play in there. Her present sitting room, the fenced-in stretch of beach before the house and the downstairs living room is hers for play room. The piece of furniture in the living room which is his real pride and joy is a Welsh dresser which he picked up quite cheaply at an auction, simply because it was too big for an average room. He has decorated * that dresser with pewter plates and candlesticks, together with a pair of antique spice jars. However, Brian has no such slavish devotion to antiques that he excludes comfort. In the downstairs room, there are big soft modern, chintz-covered couches, pulled up before the huge stone fireplace, and fat squashy chairs here and there. But on the couch or in the chairs, wherever there is one pillow, there’s a mate to it. One is embroidered “Brian,” the other is embroidered “Judy.” Brian apparently isn’t even aware of one outstanding feature about his house, but i any woman would notice it, and be a little i touched by it. The simplest room in it is i his own bedroom. It’s very masculine, no dressing room, no fussiness about it. The bed is a beautifully carved antique. The bedside tables have the lights adjusted for ' reading the piles of books, lying alongside. There are a couple of comfortable chairs, : but that’s all. No suite, such as Judy has. No beautiful elegance. Brian doesn’t think he’s spoiling Judy with all this attention so long as it gives j her a sense of the continuity of social living, of the generations overlapping one 5 another, of friends on various age levels. He says, “I don’t believe that children !are spoiled by love or that there can be too much love given to them. I buy Judy more dresses than she wears, more toys than she needs, certainly, but she seems to know that when I see a pretty dress or something, I have to buy it, just because it reminds me of her. This way, picking up things for her ‘young girl’ room has been my greatest happiness. None of this makes her a naughty girl. She’s obedient because she wants to please me.” This is actually true. Judy is a sensitive, beautiful but radiantly “good” little girl. And certainly, the home she will share : with her father, as she grows toward womanhood, is all those things, too. The End Rayon satin: #831, white with white ribbons; #832, black lace over pink. A and B cup, sizes 32 to 38. $2 LOVABLE BRASSIERE CO. 358 Fifth Avenue New York 1, N. Y. Pictured on onother Lovable model Dress from Margot Dresses Inc. You’ll be lovely, too, in a Lovable’s captivating HalfBRA to wear with portrait collars or strapless summer frocks. Tie the ribbon snugly and it holds up, stays up! THE-MONTH BRA THE LOVABLE loves her Miss Caroline O'Connor Lovable Cover Girl P H 0 T 0 P L A Y 93