Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-09-06
WOMAN AND HOME.
KITCHEN ECONOMICS AND THE
WASTES OF THE HOUSEHOLD.
knights Of the White Cross 4 lghSnina
kiss-Matrimonial Matters and Hin1s
for the Cuisine-Numerous
Decorative 'sDon'ts-"
by the Author Of Don't

by the Author of Don't
Don't forget this elementary principle
mat room must not consist II unrelateS
colors and objects, but possess tarmouiou
unity in its plan Of furnishing and decora
ton.
Don't put high colors on your walls or IL
| your carpets or tapestry, and very little o.
it anywhere else. Wall papers must b.
| quiet In tone If You desire to produce pleas
! ant effect Pictures can not look we'll il
hung against loud patterns or positive colors
your brio a brac is sure to lie ineffective and
tasteless If it's designs are confused with the
designs and colors against which it i
placed
Don't fresco walls or ceiling. Fresco
painting is very well for large halls or grand
saloons, but the effect is not 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 pict-
ures, furniture, hangiHgs or decorative OBJ
jects
Don't select carpets with gay tints or pro
nounced designs 1t is impossible for furni-
ture to appear TO good advantage set upon
florid 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 Il Is
impossible to furish a room agreeably unless
this principle is kept in mind.
Don't have white marble topped tables or
marble mantlesjn your rooms, for objects Of
this kind are enough to chill tho heart of q
brouzs statue White walls in a room are
equally chilling. 1t is impossible to do any
thing with them Cold and unrelentiny sur
faces they will remain, plan as one may A
touch Of gray or brown in tho 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 serious nuisance.
Every football mars them and it costs more
to Keep them in good order than to pay for
carpets at the outset If, however, these
are repeatedly oilei and vanished, and
ceaseless pains taken to keep them in good
condition, the effect is Very pleasing. Arti-
clos of furniture 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 are considered very artistic,
but the fact is, they usurp the attention al
together too much, and ii is difficult to get
them in harmony with walls or furniture.
A rug made from weli-seiec:ed Brussels car
pet is much more satisfactory. 4 rug of
this kind, with queer cent,rpiece and q
broad border, in which a little color is in
troduced, and made so as to leave about two
feet of stained floor space around it, gives
much the effect of rug furnishing. without
the annoyances that pertain to floors with
large spaces uncovered
Don't put elaborate brass CRATES in your
rooms unless you intend to use them. A
snowy brass CRATE, unstainei by smoke or
ashes, suggests in all its glittering newness a
showroom. and not a home A fireplace
not consocrated t. a flc. that has neither
warmth nor suggestion of warmth, is
dreadful sham. 1t is not artistic; it is not
it kills, rather than gives,
pleasure.
Don't hang upon your walls huge black
engravings set IN vast spaces Of white mar
gin Pictures of this sort arc very depress-
ing Instead of white margins substitute
gray paper, and if You must have black
prints select those that have a good deal Of
gray in them-pictures with tone and msl-
low effects. Etchings commonly have more
softnes; AMI artistic effect than engravinys
Don't hang chromos on your walls. or col
ored prints; don't display long lines of fam
lily photographs; don't hang MOSES or col
ored leaves or dried grasses about.
Don't have fancy devices for picture
Francs Picture frames should be OF gilt or
oak or walnut, never Of velvet, never of
leather work, never of shells or
burrs. or anything fantastic. Whatever
the material, let ornament b. sparingly
used. Picture frames should set of the
picture and not set of themselves
Don't crowd your rooms with too many
0bjectS. 1t is not good taste to transfer a
museum or bric-a-brac dealers collection to
your apartment A few articles, selected
with jud gment, AMI with their relation 70
the color scheme of the room in view, give
, sense Of beauty AMI repose such as We
should seek to obtain in our homes
Don't on the other hand let your rooms
b too bald and empty. Portieres and win
dow hangings do much towards relieving
baroness Some bric-a- brac Is very de-
,irable. and few pictures are important
The art is to have ones room filed but not
packed
Don't paint pictures or ornamental de-
'igns on your door panels. Unless door
panels treated in this way are kept vcr,
quiet the effect is loud and disturbing.
Don't select high colors for your furniture
covering. Blue or pink satin may do for a
ady's boudoir where the whole scheme Of
treatment is light AMI delicate, but in
} drawing room for general Use it is out Of
place