The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-13
FURNISHING ROOMS.
Valuable Information in Regard to
Refurnishing My Lndy's Suite of
Rooms.

Valuable Information in Regard to
Refurntshing My Lady's Suite of
Rooms.
The colors chosen for my lady's dam
ty rooms are seldom selected with any.
other idea than their artistic fitness
in upholstery or decoration. If the
room is perfect in itself it is deemed
sufficient Little attention is paid TO
the room as a setting for those who
occupy it. There are certain drawing
rooms furnished in violet blues, which
are most unfortunate backgrounds for
any company. The color seems to
throw CHASTITY tint over every ones
complexion.
Rrunettes develop q jaundicted hue,
and fair women's skins show sickly
greenish tones under the glow of this
unfavorable color.
Royal purple is almost as bad. 1t
makes all brunettes sallow and brings
out the worst features of any COM
plexion that is not faultless. Most
women know this, and few are so dar-
ing as to furnish a drawingroom in
this color.
A few years ago a magnificent Sevres
vase was imported to this country.
1t was superb in color, but no woman
was bold enough to purchase it and
make it the keynote for the color of
hands for a long time; then finally 1t
found its way into some picture gal
lery, where it did not demand purple
hangings and upholsterings.
Even the violet and white bedrooms
and boudoirs that have been lately
fashionable are unsatisfactory. The
large amount of dead white used in
their decoration is a relief to the violet
hue, but it is exceedingly trying in it
self-"eXalting as the artist expresses
it, all colorS and bringing out all i'm
projections of the complexion.
Translucent draperies which have
the effect of gray, with the light shin
ing through them, are far more desira-
bic for this reason than curtains of
thick, lustreless white, like dimity or
Bolton cloth unrelieved by color.
The soft primrose yellow tintS now
fashionab BILE make a room very becom-
ing to a clear brunette. Some of the
new rooms are a study in golden
lilies and cream white" The wall is
hung in pale yellow cartridge paper.
There is a creamy muslin frieze, draped
above the paper. This is printed with
stripes of yellow daffodil, with their
lance-shaped leaves in tender green.
Similar muslin forms the short dra-
peries at the windows. The bed-tester
is draped with white Liberty silk, fig
ured with yellow daffodils. A pictures
que lllll6 SldSS ldUtG uOlOS d QdlIl-
ty night lamp, with a yellow porcelain
shade. A great-winged chair, uphol-
stored in a yellow patterned Indian
cotton, is part of the furniture of the
room. The motif color for everything
in the room is given by the golden"
lily of st. Valentine, which every
maiden who would be lucky in love
must wear on Feb. IA.
An equally charming room was
chosen in shades of pure blue. The
azure periwinkle of old-fashioned gar
dens gave the keynote of color. The
draperies were the pretty printed cot
tons made by the Society of Associated
Artists. The short window curtains
and the frieze Of the room were of
periWinkle cotton. The dainty blue
blossom and it's glossy leaves, which
led some persons to call it myrtle,
formed a narrow stripe on creamy,
rather sheer muslin. Fluffy little taS-
sells and a gimp in blue and white fin
ished the lower edges of the hem of
the curtains. The pretty linen covers
of the toilet table were embroidered
with periwinkles, which were in slight
ly conventional design and scattered
over the linen. Toilet bottles of Delft
ware, and a picturesque plaque Of. old
Delft, with a landscape of sea and
windmill. gave a pronounced note of
color to the room.
Pale willow green is one OF the most
becoming colors for fair woman to
choose for her room. Where there is
a relief of cream color and some gold,
pale green is one of the most effective
of all to blend with it for a draw
Ing room. If the proper shade and tint
are chosen, it lights up well, and
though little trying, perhaps, to the
complexion of sallow brunettes. ii
frames the beauty of fair women as
with an aureole. Sage green, terra
Gotta reds-the bricky colors that har-
monte so well with pressed brick man
tles-are all effective and usually be-
coming, colors for the decoration OF
ordinary rooms. Pale blue, unless il
is on the grayish Delft tones, is gen
orally trying, and is better fitted tc
French milliners' parlors than a home
room. When pale blue is relieved by
pink, as in Pompadour colors, 1t is moi