Morning journal and courier., 1885-06-04
Some Decorative ssDon,ts.,
From the Christian Union.

Don't forget this elementary principle that room must not consist of unrelated colors and objects, but possess 8 harmonious unity in it's plan of furnishing and decora- tion.
 Don't put high colors on your walls or in your carpets or tapestry-and very little of 1 it anywhere else. Wall papers must be quiet in tone if you desire to produce pleasant effect. Pictures cannot look well if hung against loud patterns or positive colors your bric a-brac is sure to be ineffective and | tasteless if its designs are confused with the designs and colors against which it is placed. Don't fresco walls or ceiling. Fresco painting is very well for large halls or grand salons, but the effect is not so good for do nestle rooms. Color on the walls in this way is sure to be in conflict with whatever color may be brought in, whether in pictures, furniture, hangings or decorative objects. Don't select carpets with gay tints pro nounced designs. It is impossible for fur niture to appear to good advantage set upon forid patterns clamoring, so to speak, to be seen. Carpets and wall colors should be as foils for color and ornament, rather than color and ornament in themselves. It is | impossible to furnish room agreeably un- l less this principle is kept in mind. ! Don't have white handicapped tables or marble nantels in your rooms, for objects of this kind enough to chill the heart of a bronze statue. White walls in a room are equally chilling. It is impossible to do any thing with them. Gold and unrelated sur faces they will remain, plan as one may A touch of gray or brown in the tint is great help, but white is absolutely fatal to decora- tive effect.
 Don't be persuaded into vanished floors and rugs instead of carpets. Floors treated in this manner are a serious nuisance. Eve ry footfall mars them, and it costs more to keep them in good order than to pay for car pets at the outset. If, however, they are re-
 peatedly oiled and vanished, and ceaseess pains taken to keep them in good condition, the effect is very pleasing. Articles of fur ulture stand out against the dark varnish in rich and artistic contrast.
 Don't be induced to lay upon your floors Turkish or Persian rugs. The figures and colors of these rugs are considered very ar tistic, but the fact is that they usurp the at tention altogether too much, and it is diff cult to get them in harmony with walls or furniture. A rug made from well-selected Brussels carpet is much more satisfactory.
 A rug of this kind with quiet centerpiece and broad border, in which a little color is introduced, and made so as to leave about two feet of stained floor space around it, give much the effect of rug furnishing without the annoyances that pertain to floors with large spaces uncovered.
 Don't put elaborate brass grates in your rOOlnS uul6SS you llll0nG JO use tn0In A showy brass grate unstained by smoke or ashes suggests in all it's glittering newness a showroom and not home. A fireplace not consecrated to fre that has neit ther warmth nor suggestion of warmth, is dreadful sham; it is not artistic, it is not decorative, it kills rather than gives pleasure.
 Don't hang upon your walls huge black en- cravings set in vast spaces of white mar gin. Pictures of this sort are very depress ing. Instead of white margins substi ute gray paper, and if you must have black prints select those that have good deal of gray in them, pictures with tone and mel low effects. Etchings commonly have more softness ana artistic effect than engravings Don't hang chromos on your walls or col ored prints; don't display long lines of fam fly photographs; don't hang mosses or col 1 ored leaves, dried grasses about.
 Don't have fancy devices for picture | frames Picture frames should be of gilt or oak, or walnut-neveI of velvet, never of ornamental leather work, never Of shells or | bur1s or of anything fantastic. Whatever the material let ornament be sparingly | used Picture frames should set of the l picture and not set of themselves.
 Don't crowd your rooms with too many l objects 1t is not good taste to transfer a museum or Q. bric-a-brac dealers collection to your apartments. 4 few articles, select ed with judgment and with their relation to the color scheme of the room in view,
 
 we should seek to obtain in our homes.
 Don't on the other hand, let your rooms be too bald and empty. Portieres and win dow hangings do much toward relieving baroness. Some bric-a-brac is very desira ble and a few pictures are important. The art is to have ones room filled, but not packed.
 Don't paint pictures or ornamental de- signs on your door, panels. Unless door panels treated in this way are kept very quiet the effect is loud and disturbing.
 Don't select high colors for your furni- ture covering. Blue or pink satin may do for ladys boudoir, where the whole scheme of treatment is light and delicate, but in a drawing room for general uses it is out of place.
 Don't purchase potichomanie or resort to any of the make believe devices for orna- mentine glass or china. limitations and subterfuges of all kinds should be avoided Don't bring into your rooms lncongruous things. Have variety, but not dlscords A single bit of loud, raw color is very dis turbing. One picture not well selected may throw the whole room out of key. The general effect must never be lost sight of. A site for the proposed Waterbury hospital has needed will be made at once. The place chosen is The will of the late Mrs Frances l.. Cayarly ad- mitted to probate June l, bequeaths $2,0oO to the Second Congregational church and g, 900 to the Second Congregational church in trust, the
 thereupon to be applied to the support of the pas tor of some poor church in the West.-New London Day.
 The Graphic says these notices were actually posted in Greenwich: By photographer, On ac-
 count of the anniversary of the death of my. moth erin-law will take pictures at halfprice to-day" In restaurant, ''Closed because cannot get any | pork for Avery & Wilson's beans.''
 Joseph Montana, an Italian who some months ago ! murdered Edward McAloon in Hartford by stao-
 bng him in the abdomen, was found guilty or inur-
 der in the second degree in the Superior court yes | terday and nCed to State prison for ife. | The schooner Robert A. Morgan was towed into | New London on Tuesday with headgear and lore
 topnast carried away, having been in collision with | off Fire Island on Monday The Moora's damage is unknown