The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-05-22
HOME DECORATION.
Suggestions About The Arrangement
Of Pictures and Furniture.

Never hang a picture so that it viii
be necessary to mount astepladder TO
view il. Hang it so that the centre
will be about five feet and a half from
the floor, a little below the line of
/ vision OF a person of average height.
Never select furniture whose ''means
Of support do not appear adequate.
Chairs with spindle legs inclined too
far outward have an apparent ten
dency toward disruption and are a
constant terror to callers. Straight,
substantial legs suggest strength and
inspire confidence.
Never treat a hallway as though it
we're a doorway aud no part OF the
house proper. A hall should be in
viting, and hold out to the visitor a
promise of the beauty of the inner
rooms.
Never put a piece of furniture into
q room merely because 1t is pretty and
will fill up. Every article should nave
its real and apparent use; as q general
thing the necessary pieces Will occupy
all the space allotted to furniture.
Never permit a white marble mantel
10 u1oil2uIt ah "a NA1
room. Cover it with a draped mantel
bodrd. White marble has a sugges-
ton OF cemeteries about it. 1t always
looks crude in a drawing room, even
i'm the form of the finest sculpture.
Never forget that an open fire and
iudieiously selected pictures will make
any room cheerful.
Never put paper on the walls OF a
nursery. 1t is better to either paint
or kalsomine. There is always dan
ger of poison in the coloring of the
paper or of the paste becoming sour.
Never have a drawing room so filled
with frail and delicate bric-a-brac
that the least movement is fraught
with danger of costly and wholesale
breakage. This does not conduce to
ease.
Never have dark carpet and walls
in a room that is deficient in light.
Only apartments open to the outer
light will stand gloomy tones in deco
ration.
Never use an inordinately lage mir
ror with a Dubious gilt frame, plan
ned with the evident purpose of get
ting rid of as much gold leaf as pos
sible. Small beveled glasses in n
or framed in rich plush or color har-
monizing with that of the wall paper
are in better taste.
Never hang a picture from one nail.
Aside from the mere question OF
safety, the use of two nails, the cord
stretched across them so as to come
down squarely to the of the
frame, has a symmetrical effect and
makes the walls look very much more
finished,
Never have a carpet patterned with
gigantic roses or other actual flowers.
They harmonic with nothing. The
colors in a carpet should in a great
measure complete the color scheme
adopted for the room.
Never place a picture or a bit of
decoration where it does not serve
some artistic purpose If a picture is
intended to be seen in a strong light,
I do not put it in an obscure corner,
and, on the other hand, if it be paint
ed in a high color key, do not bring it
within the influence of a brilliant
sun burst.
Never initiate a rich material in a
cheaper one. The use of glossy paper
laid on like squares of marble for hall
decoration has fortunately been done
away with, but the use of bogus
stained glass still continues to charm
the tasteless DRY Goods Chronicle.
"Kicking Down Stairs"
In an article In a recent number Of
the North american Reoiea0, Mrs.
John Sherman, discussing some
phases of the everlasting marriage
| question, saws :-"I remember
| hearing at a dinner table in Lon
don, three years ago, where the diff
ferences of a certain noble couple
were being discussed (they had just
gone through the divorce COURTS, this
remark from a delicate and elegant
| countess. who was the friend of the
wife:-'You see, Anastasia was one oil
those women who needed kicking
down stairs, and Marmaduke was
| gentle: he was not up to it. >" 1t is
impossible to develop the moral
sense in some people without
kicking them down stairs, just
as Charles Lamb said it was
impossible to get a joke into q
Scotchman's head, without trepan-
ming him. lido not mean that in
every case it should be a literal kick
ing, but something that viii make
them recognize other peoples rights.
A woman who had a bad husband
bore with his cruelty and neglect fol-
years, then when her hair was begin.
ming TO whiten prematurely under the
strain, and her system was
shattered, she resolved TO kick him
down stairs, figuratively speaking
and when he comprehended that she
was in dead earnest and would endure
it no longer, he turned owe a new
leaf, began to act like a man, and the
home became a happy one. There
are a lot of domineering, selfish, ava
ricious people in this world who want
heroic treatment to cure their mora
Hoods S~arsaparilla
Is a peculiar medicine. 1t IS carefully prepared