The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-11-14
Chats With Young Houseleepers.
WALLPAPER

Chats With Young Housekeepers.
I.-WALL.PAPERs.
Paper-hanging is quite o modern in
vention as regards its western use,
though in the east wall papers have
been known from time immemorial.
One must be guided, in purchasing,
by the size and character of each room,
and the amount of sunshine and shadow
that the room will have.
Thus the dining-room, above all 9TH
ers, requires a paper of rich, warm tints
-crimsons, golden browns, old Pom
peian reds and blues.
When the apartment is sunny, the
paper should display more or less OF
these colors arranged in small, geomet-
ric designs of squares, wheels and bars,
upon a quietneutral ground; if the room
is dark, however, the background must
be ofsome warmer hue-cream ,ashes-of-
roses, or corn-color-and q touch of
gilt included in the pattern.
Papers for the sitting-room and
bedroom are also to be selected
with reference to the light and
shade of the room. 1t is we'll
known that reds, dark blues and violets
absorb heat; so, for chilly rooms on
the north side of the house choose the
summer hues of roses, clear heliotrope
tints, deep, pure blues with slender
traceries of pearl and gilt, and in bright,
southern chambers use cool, delicate
colors just off from white-sage-grays,
tender blues, sea-foam greens.
Papers bearing quaint little figures
of pink, yellow, maroon and robin's-egg
blue, mingled upon a gray ground so
as to present a soft, notified appear
ance, are especially pretty and 'desira-
BILE for small rooms, while the "olivine'
papers-embracing every shade of olive,
from the falntest to the deepest, in
close, graceful patterns of arabesques,
leaves and grasses, sprinkled with tiny
fower-clusters or nodding wheat-sprays
tastefully appropriate for apart
ments ordinarily light, and Of medium
size.
A parlor wallpaper should be as
lovely as ones purse can afford, and al
ways of pale, exquisite tints, since they
impart an air Of dainty elegance which
is the chief and essential charm of
o room devoted to fesitivity and enjoy
ment.
During the last few years competition
has lowered the prices of wall papers
until they are now within the reach of
the most moderate circumstances, rang
ing from twenty to ninety cents per
roll, with friezes N dados (Which may
be further defined as borders ard
lower borders) costing respectively from
five to fifteen, and twelve to thirty cents
q yard.
Heavy gilt and velvet papers come t.,
two dollars a roll and upwards, but are
less popular than the cheaper decora-
tive styles. When much xpens is to
be avoided, common %six-cent papers
turned wrong side out make o uniform
French-gray surface that is both fresh
and tasteful, bordered with a brilliant
frieze one can fashion at home, by cut.
ting aroll of plain paper into lengthwise
strips four or five inches wide.
There are many refined, helpful wom-
en- who not only make their own ~friezes,
but paper their walls as we'll, and
for those who are thus fortunate
and independent, we give q standard
recipe for paste, with the caution thor
oughly to cleanse the walls of all old
paper and paste before applying the
new.
Take four pounds of good white-hour
(sifted) and enough cold water to make
q stiff paste; beat until it is smooth and
light, then add two ounces of pulverized
alum and one-eighth of a pound of
common-glue. Stir this mixture gradu-
ally into five gallons of boiling water
and continue to stir until the mass sweils
and assumes q white, startch-like APP
pearance, when it is ready for use
Youths Companion.