St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-06-03


Ideas about house decorations, and ii
this be fad, we are all "fadists." In
liYidualty has charm that the most
cynical cannot deny. and this new fact
Of very clever woman, we'll known i'll
St. Paul, may be fruitful of suggestions
10 others. A writer i'll the Philadelphia
Times tells this:
Mrs. Palmer-Henderson crossed over
the Rocky mountains and rode Dron-
rho for days and days down into the
southwest corner of Colorado to eX-
piore the cliff regions, slept out under
the skies nights and came back safe and
sound to write about the remains OF a
strange people we know very little
about.
But all these stern and adventurous
occupations do not prevent her from
having the most feminine of fadS. Her
dearest one is notices. There isn't a
room in her house but has them on the
walls. Not worSted work denominations,
framed in black and gilt, but words
from the poets and writer's We love TO
remember, traced in large script OF her
own in gold paint upon the walls. They
form fYieZes, over-dOor decorations, and
take the place of thing round the arch OF
the fireplace.
All this writing with gold paint
would scarcely be possible in a rented
domicile; but Mrs. Palmer-Henderson
owns her own home and revelS in paint
accordingly.
In the dining room over the sideboard
"Plain Living and High Thinking" con-
fronts you as sort of moral stimulant,
while over the chimney-plece the crime
of inhospitality is pointed out in the
sentence: They who feast alone eat
sin and drink of sin"
Traced in gilt letters upon the black
mantel in the parlor are the words:
Each mans chimney is a golden mile
stone" while over the piano is this
pointed but gentle discourager of SLAM
der: Now happiness for us and good !
word for the absent"
Within, in silver, upon the pale green !
wall of the library, is this passage from !
Edwin Arnold:
Near 10 renunciation-very near
DWelleth eternal peace.
On the door are the words from |
Homer:
And what he greatly thought he no5ly dared. |
In the spare bedroom is to be found: /
'GOod Night, and Good Tomorrow" |
"
If this fOndness for notices be fad, !
it certainly has. unlike many other fadS, |
a good reason for its existence. When |
the sentences are chosen by thought |
full and cultured mind, who shall say
what marvellous seeds may be soWn and
what beautiful fruits may grow from
the inspiration of word uttered by
one of the jmmortals. We all know how
thought put to us in peculiarly forci-
bic or striking manner has illumined
our horizon with new and never-tO- |
be-eXtinguiShed light. Suppose we may
have read an author many times. Some !
night when we are too tired to read or
work, we throw ourselves down in the |
big chair before the fire, and the golden |
letters over the chimney piece suddenly |
spell OUT TO us a new aud WondrouS
message.
ut is my way of decoration" said
Mrs. Henderson, land l like it better
than unmeaning figures that might not,
unless done by skillful hand, be good |
art or even bearable. Then, too, [ do it |
so easily. When | want to write SEN
teuce straight along the wall l chalk
string, and, after having measured and |
marked where l want the ends to come,
l get some one to hold one end of the |
string while | hold the other close
against the wall and taut, as a sailor
would say. Then lift up the line and
snap it, and l have all even line so |
lightly chalked that it is easily wiped off |
when am through with il. | take my
brush and gold paint and write in my |
ordinary hand whatever sentence | |
wish. AS my letters are always straight |
up and down and my hand little odd,
though, believe, easily read. the mot !
toes have at least sort of individuality |
of their own. They are more quickly |
and easily done, too, than almost any !
other kind of decoration.
Let me tell You how to buy gold or
silver paint. Don't get it mixed or in the |!
little bottles of powder and liquid that |
come prepared i'll boxes. Get the gold, |
silver or bronze powder by the ounce !
and buy the liquid medium separately,
as many ounces at time as you wish. |
You know the bottle of liquid never |
lasts as long as your powder, because it |
dries away and evaporateS so rapidly. |
In this case you get any amount you |
wish. Mix small amount at a time,
use it as quickly as you can after it is |
prepared, and always keep your bottle !
eorked."