Selecting rugs

Wherever you are located—country, city or small town—there are cleaning problems to think about which will save you a lot of headaches. In the country there is very little smoke and soot to blacken your floorcoverings, but there is always dust, sand and mud which is eternally being tracked into the house.

A very dark color—blue, plum or eggplant, will show dust and dirt far more than a medium to light color. Smoke and soot is black, and there is little "good clean dirt" in the big metropolitan city, so there a medium to dark color is more practical. In certain large communities though, where smoke control is practiced, and especially in warm climates where little fuel is burned for heating, a light colored carpet is just as practical as it is in the country.