Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-05-18
MAKE HOME LOVELY.

Most of every mans and woman's life
is spent in contemplating the idea of a
home; first in chill hood in "playing
house," In maturity in gathering
together household goods, keeping
house, and trying to have a finer house
than ones friend, SO that it is little
wonder that art and science turn 10
embellish and perfect mans abode. If
one have plenty of money one can
surround ones self with the most per-
fect appointments. And even when
,ne is refined and has 'ideas" on
decorating and furnishing, 1t is just as
well-always providing one has money
and a great deal of ito leave the
carrying out OF those ideas to some
person who has made a study of and
practiced that sort of thing.
For such there is all the beauty of
the past and of all nations to choose
rom, while charm of color need not be
sacrificed on the altar of utility.
But to the men and women who must
work out their own salvation, as 1t were
IN the identifying of their homes, a
''color scheme" means nothing and the
STYLES of periods and nations are so
many empty words. 1t would be safe
20 wager that not one manor woman
out of ten can tell to certainty the
difference between the Louises, and
hat the harmonious combination of
,olors or tints in room would plunge
them In a sea of dispalr.
Every woman has some time In her
life had her heart set on having a white
and gold room, a blue room, pink
room, a terra Gotta room, or room of
some color dear to her heart and be-
coming to her complexion aud the eff
iects she has produced in her attempts
TO realize her wishes have been horrible
enough at times to make the colors
ight it out with each other.
Rooms are rarely furnished in a
single color now, although one color
usually predominates. Contrasts are
pleasanter. and less monotonous. Take,
Tor instance, a room that is to be in
white and gold. In the old days it
would have been white aud gold
straight through, with an indescrib-
ably chilly, barren effect. Now the
woodwork is made white and gold, and
he ceiling is decorated IN white aud
gold, and, also, the walls, but in the
after there are panels let In of some
very delicate shade of blue in silk or
,atin damask, and again on this there
nay be a composition in white and
gold, leaving only six or eight inch
nargiu of the blue. The floor cover
lng, if the roC m is a boudoir or draw
ng room, is usually a handsome Ori-
entail rug harmoniZing with the sur
-oundipgs, and the furniture has white
and gold woodwork with either gold
brocade or delicately tinted coverings.
The hangings are of some contrasting
,olor to the panels on the walls, of a
ielicate pink if the panels are blue,
Or vice versa, and they are hung on
poles instead of cornices. The effect
Of introducing these delicate tints into
the white and gold setting is far more
cheerful, bright and dainty.
Where one color is used, as a green
IT n terra Gotta, the monotony is re-
ieved by using as many shades of the
color as form harmony; but it is rarely,
indeed, that an amateur succeeds so
we'll i'll handling a single color as in
making contrasts.
In drawing rooms the effect sought is
A mingling of the light and airy, and
the solid and comfortable-a combina-
hon of richne with grace,
In dining room an imposing
dignity is the order of the day. Oak is
the standard favorite for furnishing
dining rooms, but mahogany is the
more elegant and expensive furniture.
An effort has been made to bring into
nse the beautiful, carved high backed
chairs of the Renal sance, with the
lovely old faded coverings of tapestry,
or else the new leather covering in which
the wrong side of the leather is turned
out, and loo ks like ooZe. The backs
are too high, however, and interfere
with the service, causing all sorts OF
dire mlshaps to guests, dishes and
walters, and in consequence the high
backed chairs are relegated to library
and ball.
The furnishing of bedrooms has uD-
dergone a marked change. Everything
must be light and dainty and admit oi
easy cleaning to be In good taste.
Carpets are more generally used than
rugs. The Empire and Louis sty les are
usei in furnishing. The hangings are
inexpensive and dainty. The preference
in these is given to the pretty FreL ch
cretOnnes and chintzes, and where there
are only two windows in room the
window, door and bed draperIes are
alike. The Empire style commends
itself most highly for use in bedroom,
for there is a chaste besuty about il
that the more ornate French and
clumsy English lack. Next to that
the prettiest furniture comes in the
Louis XIV style.
In the most unpretentious household
where good taste reigns, there can at
least be one room pure in style and
harmonious in colorIng. Good pieces
of furniture of a distinct period-furni-
ture that has character-cost no more
t. an pieces of furniture that have no
character, and it'll, bit of historical
research will help any one to determine
for himself what is the true character
and what is a corruption of style.
1t is just as easy, too, to carry ont a
color scheme harmoniously as to buy a
yellow chair, a red table cover, have
terra Gotta walls, blue hangings, green
sofa pillows, and the like of that; and
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