The morning call., 1891-05-03

tilted against the wall and showing
here and there around the room at distance
of about foot or foot aud half apart.
These yellow bits standing out from the
blue background formed the frieze design.
The same idea can be done for any other
room. Take parlor. for instance, and
treat the walls in one shade bringing out
bits of pottery all of one cGloring, sharply
outlined against frieze background. The
idea was adopted with excellent effect by a
chronic smoker in the following way: His
wall he made of an old brick-red, washed
out very weak, till the mere suggestion
only of the red was there-a grayish red.
He arranged shelf below his frieZe-line,
and crossed and recrOssed about $50 long
stemmed brown clay pipes with plenty of
shaIp-red tobacco jars, resting also on the
shelf. The pipes and jars formed the de-
sign. They were not permanently affixed
to the shelf and wall, but could be removed
when needed. These articles stood cut in
sharp contrast and made an odd decoration
The reason that fashions ''rage" for
awhile and then die out is not so much be-
cause they are lacking in artistic value, but
simply because they have been found in
adaptable to all conditions. The white-and-
gold room, which is dream and delight to
the woman of glowing radiance and bisque-
daintlness of feature, becomes positively
painful in its contrast TO the dull and color
less face Of another occupant Therefore
that occupant soon tires of her whIte-and-
gold room, and encourages some other style.
A pretty hat at arms length, will please
any woman, but put that hat on her head
and let her see that it makes her nose look
stubby or her chin look sharp, or her face
too pudgy. or her Jaw too long, and the
thing that was beautiful as definitely apart
detail. becomes now perfectly re ellant. The
milIiner who best succeeds is she who I'M
proves ones looks. 1t is not the hat that is
being worn, understand, but the face. 1t is
not the room which should be on exhibition,
but the occupant.
We saw the ether day a room furnished
most pleasingly and permitting a rearrange-
ment or redresslng at trivial cost. The
walls were in neutral tint grayish sort of
tone, with which any color would have
looked all right. The gray wall had no
design, but carried light frieZe only. 1t
was relieved of its monOtOny, however, by
a pTotusi0n of etchings, framed in white
enamel, with broad gray mats. The occu-
pant had purchased about forty or fifty
artificial blush roses, at a season of the
year when those things can frequently be
bought cheap. On the wall. and every
where that it was practicable, one of these
roses or buds was caught up. A cluster was
caught at the corner of the mantel lambre-
quin, two or three were loosely GROUPED in
a piano vase, a bunch was caught uD the
SIDE Of the lace curtains, where the loops
had been drawn up to the side hook. The
effect was as much due to the cleYernesS of
the arrangement as to the idea. And the
beauty of the scheme was in the opportunity
it gave one to change the prevailing colorS
at any time, by merely substituting some
other kind OF flowers.
s. / was very much amused" said gentle
man recently, who for many years had lived.
in Constantinople, +" at some of the efforts