New-York daily tribune., 1844-11-30
PRINCIPLES OF ART APPLIED TO DoMEs1


PrINcIpLEs OF ART APPLIED TO DOMESTIC
UsE.-You are going to decorate your drawing
room or dining room both with furniture and
coloring. Before you speak to your uphclsterer
or house painter havo perfect understanding
and recognition ofwhat IS the aspect OF the room.
Let no circumstance make you regardless OF this
fundamental consideration. Spend what you
will you will always repent having cold color
in a room lighted from the north. If tho aspect
be north, northeast, northwest, or due east,
the general tone of coioring should be positively
warm. Blues, greens, and ell shaded coiors
which involve any predominant use OF blues,
must be avoided. There is a ors"lng-room III
the Reform Club looking north, which may cen
vince any of the mistake of forgetting aspect
The walls and curtains are blue; with all Its
elegance-end its ceilings hnd cornice are beau
tiful-ihe effect of The room by daylight Is al
ways chilly. 1t would be Just the reverse II 1t
looked upon Carlton Gardens. There is also
room in Windsor Castle, looking on the north
terrace, called Queen Adelaide's room, which Is
decorated with blue and silver, most tngld-
looking. room even in the midst OF Summer. In
such aspects the choice should tend toward reds,
and all their various combinations with yellow.
AS the aspect approaches east and west SO the
colors should verge toward yellow rather than red
tints In an eastern aspect tints of yel'ows,
lemon. coors, sc. are always effective and cheer
full. If the aspect of the room be south, south
west, or west, and open to the sun, then we may
venture on the use of cooler colors, even on post
tive blue, should our taste lead US in that di.
reetion.
The supplyof light, the SIZE of the room, and
It's purpose, appear To be The chief circumstances
which ought to regulate the strength or depth OF
the color,ng to bo used. Where the light is
strong, unobscured and plentiful, the tone of the
coloring should be light In the houses OF the
ancients, the strongest and darkest colors, even
black, as we have already observed, were used
on large surfaces when the apartment received a
full and direct light from above. Under strong
and abundant light, full-tened colors preserve
their brightness and distinctive character, but
when the light is feeble, and the supply of it linn
tied, they become dull and gloomy. Full-toned
colors lessen the apparent size Of the room; light
coloring enlarges it. A little attention to the
proportion between.he space to be co!oIed and the
depth of the coloring, becomesthereforec cfgreatlm
portance. If you wish to made your room ap.
pear as large as possible, then exclude dark coior
ing, not only on the large surfaces, but even In
the patterns of the paper.hangings, and even IN
the mouldings and ornamental parts. The ma
ture of the use 10 which the room is applied,
should also influence the decision as to the tone
or coloring. II the room is used mostly by ar
ti6cial light, which, being less pure than day
light, materially modi6es the appearance of most
colors-much or htle, according to their strength
then keep the coloring light If, on the other
hand, it is room for occupation during the day
light, then the tone of coorng must be deep
Red and green, with black, appear dark and
grave; with white they appear gay. We see
these effects srikingly illustrated in book wrap
pers Black letter preas is applied indlscrmi-
nately to red, blue, lilac, green and yellow COW
ers. A publisher of taste would DO well to con-
slider how much the purchase ola book is affected
by the frstimpression. Atheneum.
A DRUNKEN PAasoN.-On Tuesday the Rev.
Thomas Hanbury was brought before the sitting
magistrate at Maryebone, tMr. Rawlinson,)
charged under the following disgraceful circum-
stances Police constable Bartlett, 50 D, de-
posed that ON the previous night, about II
o'clock, as he was on duty in Duke.street, Ok,
ford.street, he saw the prisoner drunk, and quite
incapable of taking care of himself. A cabman,
who was present at the time, said that be had
brought the prisoner from the Haymarket, and
was unable to obtain from him any information
as to his real place OF abode. He (the cabmen)
farther stated, that he had upon former occa.
sion driven the prisoner, who described himself
to be clergyman. MIR Rawlinson 10 the ptis.
onor)-" What rs your answer TO the charge 2"
Prisone,-"I am very sorry; but l was certainly
lpsy." Mr. Rawlinson--'' What are you !''-
Pnsoner-"I am clergyman" MIR. Rawiip-
SON" Not clergyman of the Church of Eng
land, hopel" Prisoner" Yes, | am, SIR
Mr. Rawinson-" Then why did you tell the
inspector of the station.house that you were a
.grazier1' percsivo by the charge sheet that
YOU did so." Prisoner-"I occupy land, and
thought the description 'grazier' was, therefore,
was sufficient; aferwa,d mentioned that
a clergyman" Mr.. Rawlinson-" For per-
son 10 your station, shal, inhict q penalty Of
20s." The Rev. gentleman, who is about so
wears of age and who said at the station that he
was stayng at the Castle aud Falcon, Aldergatc-
street, paid the fine, and lcf, the office.
SrAsARp's RocK.-The rock was discovered on
the 10th August, 1885, by Captain Stapard. ltis
situated in Lake Superior, IA a99G' iat: 4I deg 10
wich Ii is about 80 miles Southeast OF Point Nee
waiwons, and 50 miles North OF Chocolate riyer,
The pearest;land is Manirou islsnd, some ~ miles
10 the Northwest. Capt. Smiihric, OF the schooner
Algonquin, in 1913 was the 6rst person 10 iand
upou it. In June, 1914, CaptsiE B. A. Stsnsrd, OF
fbe brig As,or, and Mr.. Mendephall, landed upon
the rock and took behring's and soundings, The
rock belongs the class known as ITap-rocks, and
is is or 90 feet long, and CT 10 broad rising above
the surface OF the lake or feet, and resembling.
in the language of its dscoverer, bsteau bottom
upwards" To the Northwest OF The rock, reefputs
out 10 the distance OF quarter OF mlle, but on all
other sides no bottom could bs found with iorty
6.fhom line The situation OF the rock is rather
dangerous as it is only about 10 or II miles 10 the
South Of direct line from White Fish Point, near
the lower end of Lake Superior, and Copper har-
Dor, on the Northerly side OF Point keswaiwona;
[Cleveland Herald
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