The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-05-30
farmer. "shs has such dominion over
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his own. So get him In the barn, dear
brother, get him in the barn." IS
ABOUT TIE HOME.


Household Decorations Some Suggestion,
In Identifying the House.
Saturday Rtride. VI, .,I'
The question Is constantly before III
how sEall We decorate our rooms 80 as Ia
have u pleasing effect and still DO har.
monious In color. A few hints from a
practical worker may not be amiss. The
treatment OF walls Is the frat considera.
ton, and for room with high ceilings
and a bright light a charming effect may
DO had by tho use OF felt cloth In panels,
Say Of n dull old blue for the wide panels,
and a silver gray satin for the narrow
ones. The widest panel should DO four
feet across, and the narrow about six.
teen inches. On the edges put a mould.
Ing Of silver. A lew fine ctchings or en-
cravings with white frames would com.
plete tho dainty effect.
For a library or hall the Same design,
only treated In dark.blue and green, or
dark.red and brown, with ebonized
mouldings. makesa pleasing background
for sets Of armor. Cretonne makes a
dainty paper for any lady's boudoir, and
Is e,,sily put on. The heavy paste Ia
put on the wall, and tho cloth s,noothed
up from the base.board by roller pad.
Cream white cretonne, with delicate
sprays OF flowers, ia the prettiest, and
irleze OF felt or velvet, or even have the
wall for two or three feet tinted, and II
you are clever with your brush, paint
design on cloth. This would make a
most original room, and well pays for
the extra outlay OF time.
A dining.room tinted in old pink with
Il ffieze OF dull red can be made original
by making your own design for stencil
work on heavy paper and going over the
lrieze with gold paint. Most ladies are
working now at art, and conventional
designs Of stars, disks aad half moons of
silver or gold on tho dull red is easily
done and unique.
A blue room with walls lightly tinted,
might have irieze OF pale blue vel.
yeteen with sumac leaves Ia autumual
colors painted on it in broad, free
style. A Alikado room papercd with
heavy brown paper and gilt Japanese
letters scattered over 1t, is new. A Jap.
anese room seen recently, had frieze
made OF orange scrim with huge yellow
lilies stamped on it. The rest Of the
wall 10 the dado was left white, with |
Japanese scrolls and fans grouped in |
odd designs, while tho dado was Jana.
ne,'e mating with conventional flowers
to iuatch the frieze, painted on it.
Oar next consideration is tho cover.
ing Of the floors. Rugs are always
pleasing, not necessarily for hard floors
but over mating as well. A new idea
is to cover the floors with fine grade OF
white mattinga and patnt solid border
eighteen inches wide of dull red then al,
inch line Of bright orange, next II band
six inches wide Of bronze green, then a
two.inch band OF black. Ofcourse any
colors can be shown in selection SO as to
harmonize with both walls and rugs
which should never be put straight
with the lines OF the room. The new I
rugs made Of mating with odd designs
are pretty for cottage halls and dining
rooms. A wooden carpet" so called
because it can DO rolled up and taken
from house to house, comes now to imi-
late inlaid floors and has for a buck
heavy felt, 30 that all nDcvenness OF an
Did floor is done away with. These are
nice and can be obtained in
many designs. |.