Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-10-25
COLOR HARMorIEs.
FRoper Arrangement of COIors Haa
Much to Do with the Beauty
of the Home.

The greatest amount of ugliness in
u furniture does not come from
penury, but from extravaganza. The
cottages of the poor are always at
tractive to the artist, because of their
simplicity and lack of artificial pre-
tentious ornament, such as is so often
seen in homes of people of liberal
means, whose wealth is unaccompa-
MED with taste and refinement. It
is in the last home and not in :he
home of poverty that we find shams
of every kind. Even the color scheme
of the poor cottage is generally some
thing suggested by nature, and so
far as it is this and not a vulgar
imitation of something quite beyond
the owners purse it is good. Even
the barbarian generally uses color
with a wild abandon which is as nat
ural as it is effective, says the New
York Tribune.
The persons who achieve the great
est ugliness in color effect are those
who have some knowledge but very
little wisdom in such matters. Many
people are coOr blind, just as many
other people are tone deaf, but these
are the exceptions. The majority of
individuals are not naturally color
blind, but acquire a certain perverse
taste in color from a desire to make
a pretentious show in their house and
dress.
Where we look upon color as some
thing we love and enjoy as we do
the sunshine, we do not use it in this
pr~etentious way, but carefully and
guardedly. So long as we are honest
in our attempts to achieve the best
effects and no insincerity enters into
our motives we seldom make mis-
takes.
There are . few rules that will help
us, but the correct use of color re-
quires thought and study. Rooms
intended fer festive occasions should
be FURNISHED in more delicate tones
of color than rooms for general use,
which should be furnished in SUBJ
stantial cobrs of a dark, durable tone.
Pale yellovs are very much used in
parlors today, and they are colors
that do net fade easily and do not
become tilesome. A wallpaper in
tones of pile yellow and cream adds
to the apparent size of the room and
gives that breadth so desirable. \
white and J1ue japanese rug in those
gray blue ones seen in MintOn tiles
and Delft pottery is the best floor
covering fol a simple parlor in faded
yellow. Th yellow tones may be
quite pronounced in the stained glass
windows ano the globes of the lamps.
There are ertain rose pinks and
gray green md a dull pomegranate
II --I.oI ~, - ,,-a1 - c,,oh n rOnrn
sparingly, bit all add to the color
effect when Foperly blended.
In contrast to a delicate parlor of
this kind, tn dining-room opening
out of it ma be papered in Delft
blue and while. The portieres over
the doors INST be blue denim and
white, and tn rug on the hardwood
floor a dark cimson. Dainty dotted
white muslin curtains should be
placed at the windows. If the win
dows are muli0ed and wide enough
for a seat, cuhion the seats with
blue denim, trimming them with
white and finishing them with a
valance. Thesevindow seats should
be arranged in terry dining-room. be-
cause they are Picturesque, comfort
able and do not axe up space in the
center of the roO. Use the old-fash-
toned, inexpensiv gray blue denim
still sold to work-en for overalls. not
the new hard hm blue denim sold
at house decoratiF shops at an espe-
cially high price. All the materials
that go to makethese two rooms
harmonious in cor are inexpensive
and both rooms a. repeatedly COM
mended. Let the tortieres between
the rooms be of Madagascar stuff
in dull blue, yellowgreen and red.