New-York tribune., 1893-12-24
ART ~ THE HOUSEHOLD.


Every American who travels IN Europe comes
back with an armful Of photographs among her
plunder and then every other Of the pilgrims
wonders how che will preserve th"m so that
they will be only safe but accessible. There
are several ways one is to put the photographs in
scrap books. pastng them with a little dab OF -four
paste on each corner. This is perhaps the best
way If they TO be put in books at all. TO have
the book made OF double pages. left unseparated
from each other by the binder. and 20 insert The
corners OF the photographs In diagonal Sits Is
convenient II 1t is desired TO change the position Of
this or that picture from time 10 time. but II Is
undesirable otherwise. for the Sits apt 70
get torn the photographs 10 slip out. and the
whole thing to look sovcnly In month or i've
The best color for the pages OF photograph book
which be made at a moderate 'Xpcnee 10y any
bookbindor is either darAish sky-bluc or a gray
like that Of the granite" blottin. paper sold By
the stationers. 4 better way than putting them In
books however, is TO mount each picture soliily on
a separate board that IT may BE- used anywhere
about the house as a decoration TO frame them
would be extravagant. and only In the case OF
few particularly beautiful prints would Il be in
good taste When a handsome photograph Is framed
Il should have "A rich gold mat with DARK oak
frame. 1t should be without mat ana framed
in gold. TIE best gold frame for a photograph is
not the familiar polished gliding OF tho frame
maker. but piece Of wood with the grain show
ing through the gold
Now as to the board that IS best Tho white or
gray board from the photographer IS expensive anI
useless for unless the prccauton IS taken t. mount
a piece Of paper on the back 10 cqualze thin2s II
will warp all on, Of shape. A young lady Of artis-
tic tastes who brought about 800 photographs from
abroad not long has prontcd by idea very
little known except by few professionally artistic
people and has mounted her pictures IN pieces os
binding" or trunk" board of q uniform size %
% by 20 inches This leaves good margin arounc
the typical European photograph. The board Is an
eighth Of an inch thick. and Is 50 tough that it
will not warp and will stand on a mantel. book
case against the Dashboard or wherever clsc II H.
placed. In color II IS a dull brOwnish gray. spotted
irrcgularly with small. dark, almost black, nccks.
1t has what artists call texture" we'll color.
and 10 those artists "who know IT, It Is the most
artistic background for photograph that was ever
invented II Is not expensive. and II bought at
wholesale from n binder. who viii cut sheet in
two 10 make the sic noted above an1 viii trim
the edges into the bargain. It is the cheapest as
well as the best solution Of the phOiograph diem
ma 1t is not necessary to send the work 20
photographer. With tub OF water In which 20
soak tho photographs 10 n state Of natncss. some
large sheets OF blottlng paper to all but dry them
with n damn surgeons sponge 10 spread evenly
over the entire photograph the four or starch
paste kept handy in n china bowl piece OF broom
stick wrapped in clean brown paper to serve rs
roller and finally n pair OF deft hands. every en-
ergetic young housekeepcr "do" her own pho
togrophs Then Ike the young lady who has sue
cess;ully done all this she win have huge pile ~
pIcures TO be scattered in library. sittlrg-room.
bedroom and hall. and changed as often as they
grow mOnOtonOus.
Decorations at good and as cheap as
photographs bought in Europe at half franc an1
mounted after the fashion suggested above. are not
casv To find in America; yet there Is many GOOD
thing within the reach OF people Ike the Western
corrosuondent who inquiries as 10 whorc and how 10
nurchase "inexpensvc copies Of real works Of art"
Io had for tn
nothing but for sums ranging from s. to SJ n"
leading picture dealers in any town Of prominence.
sucb a. Detroit. Cleveland. Minneapolis or Chicago.
will cell artistic reproductions Of good paintings.
The large carbon photographs made by y.
praun Of Dornach and Paris offer the best selec-
,,or for thov embrace works by old and modern
masters. they as near perfection as a repro
duct,o, made by a camera can be. and they never
t,do A proun copy OF Titan's "Man with the
| Glove" in the Louvre, Of Madonna by Raphael.
| OF any portrait by Rembrandt. Van Dyck or Has.
| or n landscape by Corot, OF figure piece by Met.
Daenan- -Rouveret Lerolle. Is a source Of endless
| aesthetic pleasure. and 1t can be bought and In
| closed In a plain oak frame at pgrativcly slight
! cost II color is desired any picture dealer can
| nrovlde at n fair price. fac-simes made by the
best French processes after exquisite water colors
! hv Rossi Marchetti. Leloir. Madclein Lemare.
| norcet Kaemrnerer and other painters whose work
| n is an enjoyment to see. Photogravures from
modern paintings are frequently excellent black
nd ,,h,,a decorations but these. like ctchings.
ai ae. "nub,ng AS regards the etchlngs The house
keeper is warned against ain sti,, The remargue proof
r,n,ed liz on The margin from the same plate but in
tended TO begule the innocent purchaser into think
nere voluoble than plain proof with no renarque.
Il means nothing. The remarque proofs are limited
Without the remarque is every very In inch as good
inc,c 70 - ,se more less, but which Is not
as widely as it ought a, to 9s n. good plaster
cast, wei, me most artistic objects that can be
paced Si in too modest in ts other decora
both both Of the Della Robbta ShGTs,er ,sre panels which
the ssOgs 81 iHy the feet hg Of bs ns
n the Louvre called la Femme b., In Of
Barye i'i Wiio IN ature-these are few OF the
pieces be cas nnd from iron New
ases orx at ieas be in plaster east shops all
the principal cities ue meuaons sr Of ancient