The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1900-11-03
COLOR HARMoNIEs.
Proper Arrangement of colors ha-
Much 20 DO with the Beauty
Of the Home.

The greatest amount of ugliness IN
house furniture does not come from
penury, but from extravaganza. Inc
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. IL
is in the last home and not In the
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 ii is good. Even
the barbarian generally uses color
with a wild abandon which is as nat
ural as 1t is effective. says the New
York Tribune.
The persons who achieve the great
est ugliuess in color effect are thos
who have some. knowledge but very
little wisdom in such matters. Many
people are color blind, just as many
other people are tone deaf, but these
are the exceptions. The majority Of
individuals are not naturally colol
blind, but acquire q certain peryers'
taste in color from q desire to maxi
a ~pretentious show in their house ant
dress.
Where we look upon color as some
thiag we love and enjoy as we d.
the sunshine, we do not use II in Thu
p~retentious way, but carefully AM
guardedly. So long as we are homes
In our attempts to achieve the bes
effects and no insincerity enters int
our motives we seldom make mis-
takes.
There are a few rules that will hel
us. but the correct $ OF color re
auires thought and study. Room
intended for festive occasions shoul
be furnished in more delicate tone
OF color than rooms for general us'
which should be furnished In sui
stantial colors OF a dark, durable toni
. Pale yellows are very much used
/ parlors to-day, and they are coloi
: that do not fade easily and do ne
, become tlresome. A wallpaper l
9 tones of pale yellow and cream ado
. 10 the apparent size Of the Dor an
D gives that breadth 70 desirable.
A white and blue Japanese rug in thoi
= gray blue tones seen In Minton till
and Delft pottery Is the best ho'
covering for a simple parlor in fade
K yellow. The yellow tones may
i quite pronounced in the stained gla
u windows and the globes Of the lamp
: There are certain rose pinks al
:. gray green and a dull pomegrana.
d red which can be used in such a roo
sparingly, but all add TO the coll
effect when properly blended.
A. In contrast to a delicate parlor
this kind, the dining-room openil
out OF II may DO Papered in Del
blue and white. The portieres ov
10 the doors must be blue denim al
white, and the rug on the hardwo'
/. floor a dark crimson. Dainty dott
of white muslin curtains should
a placed at the windows. If the wi
" dows are mulioned and wide enouI
d. for a seat, cushion the seats wi
~ blue denim, trimming them wi
ID white and finishing them with
N valance. These window seats shot
ID be arranged in every dining-room,
n cause they are picturesque, comic
a. able and do not take up space in I
he center of the room. Use the old-fai
Is, toned, inexpensive gray blae den
still sold to workmen for overalls, 1
In the new hard hued blue denim 81
rt at house decorating shops at an esI
X cially high price. All the materi
IT. that go to make these two roo
,ir harmonious In color are inexpens
Nv and both rooms are repeatedly co
ST. mendsd. Lot the portieres betw'
ew the rooms be Of a Madagascar st
at in dull blue, yellow, green and red.