Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-09-08
A Cheerful Room.

The first essential for cheerful room is
sunshine. Without this, money, labor, taste,
are all thrown away. A dark room cannot
be cheerful and it is as unwholesomc as it
is gloomy. Flowers will not blossom in it I;
neither will people. Nobody knows or ever
will know, how many men and women have
been killed by dark rooms.
Celebrity the rooms Glorify the rooms p
Sidney Smith used to say of a morning,
when he ordered every blind thrown open,
every shade drawn up to the top of the win
dow. Whoever is fortunate enough to have
a southeast or southwest corner room, may.
if she chooses, live in such floods of sunny
light that sickness will have hard work to
get hold Of her and as for the blues, they
will not so much as dare to knock OF her
door.
Second on my list of essentials for cheer
full room put-color. Many room that
would otherwise be charming is expression
less and tame for want Of bright color.
Don't be afraid of red 1t is the most kind.
ling and inspiring of colors. No room can
be made perfect without good deal Of it.
All shades Of scarlet or of crimson are good.
In an autumn leaf in a curtain, in chair
cover, in pin cushion, in vase, in the
binding of a book, everywhere you put it,
it makes brilliant point and gives pleasure.
The blind say they always think red must
be like the sound Of trumpet and | think
there must be deep truth 10 their instinct.
1t Is the gaddost, most triumphant color
everywhere.
Next to red comes yellow; this must be
used sparlngly. No boquet of flowers is
complete without a touch Of yellow, and no
room is as gay without yellow as with it,
But boquet in which yellow predomnates
is ugly; the colors Of all the other flowers
are killed by it; and room which has one
grain too much Of yellow in it is hopelessly
ruined. have seen the whole expression Of
one side Of a room altered, improved, toned
up by the taking out of two or three bright
yellow leaves from big sheaf of sumac,
aud ferns. The best aud safest color fol
walls is a delicate cream color When say
the best and safest, | mean the best back.
ground for bright colors aud for pictures
and the color which is least in danger of dis
agreeing with anything you may want to put
upon it, So also with floors the safest aud
best tint is neutral gray. If you cannot
have bare wooden floor, either of black
walnut, or stained to initiate it, then have a
plain gray felt carpet. Above all things
avoid bright coors in a carpet. In rugs,
to lay down on plain gray, or on dark
brown floor, the brighter the colors the bet.
ter. The rugs are so many distinct pictures
thrown UP into relief here or there hy the
under-tint Of gray or brown. But pattern,
either set or otherwise, of bright colors jour-
neying up and down. back and forth, breadth
after breadth, on floor, is always aud for
ever ugly. If one is so unfortunate as to
enter Into the possession Of a room with such
a carpet as this, or with wall paper of sim
liar nature, the first thing to be done, if pos
slhle, is to get rid of them or cover them up
Better have ten cent paper OF neutral tints
and indistinguishable figures on the wall,
and have bare floors painted brown or gray
II, II. IN 50. Nicholas.