The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-31
4 THE WOMEN'S REALM
cOL0Rs IN INTERIOR DECORATION
AND HOME FURNISHINGS.
Ways in Which Women Make Unnec-
essary Work for Themserves-What
Little Girls VIII Wear.

II have been helping an old school chum
to refurnish her house, said young wom-
an of observation TO a writer in the New
York sun .and / have learned more about
color effects in one week than l ever knew
before You see houses are not painted
o. papered as they used to be. on the old,
simple plan of that will look well here,
and such a pattern will be all right there
but according to settled laws, canons ana
rules. It's quite a scientific matter now,
assure you.
..Yelows, for instance, are all right for
a hall or vestibule, but they must not be
used in any room in which one rests Or
reads or works. Why? Because yellows
do not absorb any light. but are strong
ref1ectors, and the reflected rays of light
are not only trying to the yes, but posi-
lively affect the brain and the spirits, Gre
ating distinct disturbance of the nervous
centers. So the modern scientific decora-
tor, at any rate, tells US, and we believe
him.
ION the other hand Bluffs and creams
are recommended for the nursery and
childrens sleeping rooms, because of their
tonic qualities They are better than white,
which is apt to disturb the young optic
nerves by it's brilliancy and are calculated
to impart cheerful but not too boisterous
temperament well good complexion
TO the youngsters.
no color like coffee Coffee. in fact, is the
most soothing thing in the color world, IL
seems. 1t induces a pleasant nirvana feel
ing, such as nothing else does; il conduces
to habits of speculative thought; it pro-
duces a philosophical calm, and it is emf
literary efrorts indeed there t seems to be
some delicate and abstruse connection be-
tween coffee as a beverage and coffee as a
color domestic decoration. L
something Of this sort to the handsome
and interesting young artist who h was enS S
II have learned one really important
fact about colorS, however / used to i'm
agine that there was no color so cool as
white, but l have been taught that to
red-not the fiaring. glazing red. but the
dull Pompeiian red and terra Gotta These
are cool Of fhe ap
to light. warm them and had to-day
a most convincing object lesson OF this
the Wordsworthian poem is all very nice
to read about. and does at first sight i'm
press one as being such, it does not begin
red. A visit to the two rooms had just
the same cooling effect on me that is pro
shadow. OF course you know 1 am speak
ing all the time of interior decoration, al
town would not be considerably cooler
than wliitewashed one. So you see the
cooled co o ther ara and paos bn pan
ing the town red The only other color
which approaches Pompeiian red for cool
ness, the elegant and artistic young
workman told me, is dark green, but it has
been found to have SO depressing mental
effect on most people that it Is very spar
ingly used Then 1 was told lots about
mass effects. distance shadows and length
lines, and / don't know what else, but
quite enough to convince me that the dec
Grafton OF house interiors is conducted
upon a plane SO lofty it is impossible to
yxyhn c a 1Ot
scientific art
House Decoration and Fancy Work.
Harper's Bazaar.
Going from house to house in New York
and undoubtedly it is the case in all large
cities-in response to the great number of
tea and reception cards that every days
mail brings, the woman of society sees much
to initiate, well much to avoid, in the
infinite variety of table decorations. 1t is
only a small table. or course. that is pre-
pared on these semi-formal occasions, but
it is daintily arranged to tempt the caller
who drops in between and z, in response
to her card of invitation; but each hostess
strives for originality. or, despairing of
that, aims at decided and formal conven-
tionality. In the latter case a caterer gen.
orally has charge OF everything; and in the
center and corners Of the table are occupied
by large saivers of silver and plaques of
the contrary. are all an effect of the mis-
tress's own taste. there is sometimes less
the setting of one table of the latter class,
green and white were adhered to with very
s peas Corners. and covered With Nile.green
surah satin, pushed into irregular burrows
or pillows. Over the satin fresh fern leaves
were laid down at random The edge OF the
Nile-green cover was decorated with Breton
lace. which lay on the polished table
piece was square of boiling cloth with a
painted border of white jonquils cut out on
the edge. and connected by a waved line of
pale green ribbon, also painted on the cloth
A cut-glass bowl resting on the center of
the boiling cloth square held, | am sorry
bunch of green carnations, whose strange
artifically was almost an antithesis to
the fresh springlike beauty of the table.
The coloring was represented in nearly all
of the more substantial part of the table
setting. The china plates, in convenient
piles, were white, with a narrow green
edge The sandwiches were made of thin
bread and butter, rolled into slender tubes.
with a celery leaf projecting from each
end, thereby giving color and indexing- the
filling, which was q mayonnaise of finely
ehopped celery Ine sma fancy ,t fakes TO
The bofrbons were all green and white; and
the punch was obscured, except as seen
through the sides of the huge cut-glass
bowl, by its floating freight of white rose
petals and fresh sorrel leaves. In the open
the tender trefoil of sorrel in March, but
even the weeds weeds; thar properly belong to
by the fin de steele florists.
Women Who Stand.
Dorothy Maddox, in Philadelphia Inquirer.
You are old before your time Why?
Ask somebody who follows you closely
in your daily methods and the natural an
swer will be, Because you stand too
much"
Women fairly stand themselves into a
condition attended by wrinkles, gray hairs
and complete mental exhaustion. 1t is lit
tie wonder that naturally robust constitu-
tions are ruined long before their owners
reach maturity. it is surprising that
two-thirds of the sisterhood look like walk.
ing ghosts.
1t is distinctly a feminine fad to stand.
Watch thoughtless sixteen she adj
ninht no r,ornip uSil 9eioAss