The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-01-04

the rooms of house must OF course %
that Of convenience. Any thing done In
the nominal interest of artistic results
which interferes with this consideration
Is wholly bad. The way Of building
houses 50 common among US, BY which
the passer-by can tell the whole interior
arrangement by the exterior form, ana
can count the rooms and see just how
the halls run, and where the doors open,
almost as we'll as though the front were
OF glass, is not to be commended. In
house there should be something like
surprises, doors opening in unexpected
places into unlooked-for rooms leading
The visitor TO feel that there may yet be
surprises i'm store for him, and that he
has not seen the whole house at q
glance.
Ample space should be given to halls
and stair-cases though II be taken from
the parlors and boudoirs and sitting
rooms. The hall should not be narrow,
width being more important than depth
in giving sense of hospitable welcome
TO one who enters the house. Hall
floors are often decorated prettily with
tiles and may even bear an inlaid IN
scription of welcome, which would bet
ter be in good Saxon, however. VI one
gentleman who had the Latin welcome
" Salye" thus displayed, rural visitor
asked il the I" salve was good 10 cure
corns.' Above almost every thing else
make the staircase easy: The health Of
the women Of the family as well as the
comfort Of the family require this. AS
TO decorations, let the hall be synopti-
cal introduction to the house. A few
books will do much TO make one feel
that he has penetrated the home when
he has crossed the threshold. A picture
or two fitly selected, and, if your taste
runs that way, few ceramics are in
place in the hall II SO disposed.
There seems to be nothing for the cell
ing OF rooms preferable to plastering.
Wooden ceilings absorb too much light
and give but little opportunity for
change or decoration. The plaster or
naments of relief which were in vogue a
few wears ago are fortunately now dis
appearing. II any decorations are APP
Piled to the ceiling, those in color are
The best; but they, as we'll as the paper
hangings. il such are used, should be
modest lest they destroy the effect OF
other parts Of the room and furniture.
MANY beautiful and tasteful designs In
wallpaper are now made, but Tor the
rooms in most of our homes there Is dam
ger that whatever we have in pictures
J and other room-ornaments will be out
of harmony with any thing elaborate
! in wall decoration. From these and the
various other methods used for wall
decoration, fall back on plain tinting,
and prefer, too, the natural tints, that
our common furnishing and pictures
NAV fit easily into subdued and unas-
summing setting.
The modern tendency to do away
:. with the painting OF the woodwork,
snch a. doors, window-sashes, wainscot-
!. ing and the like, is to be commended.
= In the grain of the wood we have ma
!. ture, and are reminded, perhaps when
!, the brain is weary and sick, by the twists
= and turns in the groin, Of the processes
I. out in the woods under the open SKY
J and in the free air by which all these
: were wrought. How much better the
association than the thought Of the paint
err with paper cap on, smelling strongly
with varnish and creeping cat-like about
q the houscp Nor is ii necessary TO have
$ expensive woods. Butternut and chest
y nut are not much more costly than pine,
i and pine itself has great advantages fol
/. decorative work. With thin coating
: Of asphaltum it has a good surface, and
u by careful selection shows as good q
Q grain as the more costly woods, while II
g q the best adapted Of all to endure the
g yicissitudes of our climate.
q The fireplace is an essential to the
= house. No other means of ventilation
y Il SO good. II is remarkable that large
= number of leading physicians, when IN
e ouired Of as TO the best means OF ven
y tilating a hospital, replied almost unani
d mously aud without conference together
IL the fireplace. About the fireplace
te and the mantel gather the pleasantes
r associations of the room, and here Is tn
y place for true home art TO be used at II
As best. Most of our fircplaces are bull
)y IN imitation Of either the French, mar
Y row and low with f1aring jamb, or tn
10 English. high but still narrow, wei
g, adapted for their use in burning btu
minous coal. What we want for on
homes Is the generous, old-fashlone'
New England fireplace, and we ougn
not to import these exotic forms: ~
" the mantel we naturally look' II any
~ where in the room. for vase or two
n and perhaps something more preten
~ tious in the way Of ceramics. But y
\, ought not to fill our rooms too full 9
"a these fragile articles, putting upon gu
As visitors the necessity Of great care les
70 they accidentally break some OF on
e household goods. A cabinet secure
~ firmly to the wall is a proper receptacl
81 for such treasures Haven Le
~ tire.
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