The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-17

IL ak depends on the shape OF the
chimney piece, It's size and color
whether a flreside inscription will be
suitable or no. OF course if your draw
ing room mantel is a reflection Of the
pure Italian renaissance, not only in Its
lofty mirrors, but in the carving and
gliding. an inscription is quite out Of
the question, and in all the very new
and splendid houses Italian or French
renaissance chimney pieces are the
thing
They extend from floor to ceiling. The
wall above the narrow lofty shelf is
faced with looking glass. while the
shelf Itself must only display three or
naments, a. pair of splendid gilt candel-
abGa and long, low gill clock. AS to
the panels, facing the fire place proper,
they must be of marble, either black or
white and chiseled in NEUROLOGICAL fig
I lres. Naturally it costs a deal of
money 10 provide one such chimney
place as this, but the present object
of architects and householders is to
( elevate the fire place into paramount
/ interest in every room.
PLACING A COAT OF ARMS.
/ Obviously on such a mantel. as the
one limited at above, anything like a
hOspRable or sentimental inscription
would be gTievousiy unsuitable, but one
opportunity for glorifying a renaiss-
ance chimney piece wealthy house own
ers have not lost, and if you possess a.
fine coat of arms by right of purchase,
adoption or inheritance, there is no bet
ter place to set it than cut in bold re-
lief, motto and all, above your stately
hearthStOue.
This you must have done in Italy
or there are tempting bargains in rich
~ scuiptured and previously historical
mantel shelves to be had from old Ven
etian, Florentine and Roman palaces,
with escutcheons worth adopting al
ready cur in their panels. Those up
rooeed from gorgeous Venetian salons
are considered to have especially spien-
did mirrors for wall baci1ings while
the andirons are huge bronze or brass
affairs in the form Of fierce, long
slim bodied lions.
FOR FoYERs AND DRAWING
ROOM.
Two famously beautiful F'lorentine
mantel shelves decorate, one at either
end, the long. gray drawing room of the
Cornelius Wand erbiit house at New
port, and to the lay mind, architects
now carefully explain the difference be-
tween a mere hall and a foyer. The
latter is a hall enno0led with a fire
place and the great houses now in
course of erection or those undergoing
their annual redecoration, are having
their hall hearth stones modelled on the
EliZabetnan mode.
These are just as stately. as the draw
ing room fires6deS, only they are uOare
in carved wood. Two mighty black oak
pillars support the shelf, by rising from
Une floor to the ceiling, as for example
in they foyer of the beautiful Ms.
Yerke's house in New York or in Mrs
Calvin Brce's Washington palace.
Some choice bits of arEn0r furnish the
shelf, two low tapescried stools provide
seats and no and-rons are used.
Inside the cavernous bronze fire place
two huge oak logs are laid fiat down,
amid a heap Of ashes and one great
iron pointed stick is used to poke the
smouldering wood with. So big is the
hall fire place in Mrs. Austin Corbin's
New Hampshire home, and so great Of
gfrth the logs she burns, that only once
in twenty-four hours are they turned
and a couple of logs will last week.
But once a month are the ashes taken
out and for all these foyer hearth
stones the logs have to be sent from
the districts where big trees grow, and
boxed and freighted through as care
fully as barrels of china.
INGLENOOK INSCRIPTIONS.
1t is the library fire place that is al
ways reserved for some charming in
scriptiou done on the panel below the
shelf, and what the inscription shall be
depends on the type Of mantel selected.
If it is done in the delft tiles, now
somewhat waning in popularity a
quaint Biblical quotation in antique
Dutch lettering is the proper thing,
but if it is an English hearth, built
with ingenooks then go through the
old poets for a suggestive set Of lines,
. or borrow from Burns a couplet to have
carved or burnt into the board below
, the shelf
Is fair sample of the sort of senti-
meTt expressed on an inglenook fire
place. that may be all done in smooth
Pompeian red tiles, or carved Irish bog
oak or it may be an American colonial
hearth. brought bodily from some an
cient Virginian mansion. But what
ever type the fire place follows the
inglenooks are absolute requisites
They are made, by letting the whole
depth of the chimney extend into the
; room and fitting up the corners formed
by the wall and chimney, or by plac-
ing seats right inside the deep fire
place itself. Inglenooks are usually
used as cosy writing and reading cor
ners, fitted up with cushions. drop
electric lights. book pockets, writing
flaps and the like, excellent for small
maps. flirtations. or invalids; especially
when they are set inside the deep fire
square Now in an 1Ilgr eH0o55 -eplace
no such denominations as gas logs, red
quartz embers, or a stingy little hook
CRATE, filed with small Jumps of an
thracite coal are allowed. Don't have
inglenooks at all, unless you can afford
a low broad basket CRATE and keep
flaming Jumps of resinous Welsh can
mel blazing in It. or # that Is not to be
had set in pair Of lofty wrought iron
fire dogs and use seasoned ash logs,
while on special occasions drift wood
must be mingled with the ash and
hickory. OF course the genuine drift
wood is difficult to secure nowadays
but thrifty women buy pot of drift
wood paint. have the house maid dab
on the liquid and a very effective con-
hagration in the chimney is the re-
suit.
OF course, if you have money t.
burn, in the literal sense, you car
have your ingienOok fireplace built out
half way into the room and raised on a
dais Of three shallow marble steps, the
great hooded chimney set or a row oil
columns and the rest Of the decoration
done in glass mosaic. Then when tbs
fire is lighted the designs in the mosaic
show like those in a stained glass win
dow.
THE INN FIRE PLACE.