Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-25
FOR SEPTEMBER WEAR.

ten who make the hall one of the spe-
cialties of autumn decoration. Indeed
I may go so far as to say that the hall
is comparatively neglected. In England
the hall corresponds greatly to u sit
ting-room, but the American use of the
word CONVEYS the idea Of q narrow pas
sage leading from the front door to a
| staircase opposite, or a passage That eX-
tends the full length of the house. 1t
is the main purpose OF this article TO
treat of hall decoration.
1t is easy enough to make DeautlIul
surroundings out Of material that is SO
charmingly designed as to be almost
self-decorated: but it is another mat
ter with regard to commonplace mater
ial, which needs all our efforts to ef-
feet success. Therefore, I am not going
to devote words to the pretty, squarely
built hall. which is only occasionally to
be met with, but intend to discuss ways
and means whereby the straight, mar
row hall, which is regarded as hope
less from an artistic point of view, n
which is encountered in most houses of
every day build, may be improved, and,
if it be a dark nall, l~ightened.
Here ere one or two schemes of color
ing. Cream paint and plain cream pa
per, with Anaglypta frieze or a dado;
or a cream paper picked out in gold.
and pale tan colored felt or corridor
rug on the floor, with surrounding oak
taine boards
Walls distempered in mignonette-
green or art-blue, with paint n car
peting to match or a shaed or two dar-
ker.
A self-colored wall paper of rough
texture in a shade of dull shrimp-pink;
or merely a dado of this paper and dis
temper above in a lighter shade. Ser
ra-cotta felt or corridor rug.
Dado of brown, rough paper, and wall
above washed cream. Brown felt or
fancy carpet in a mixture of shades of
brown merging to cream.
Primrose washed or papered walls;
paint to match. Art corridor-rug in
tones of soft green, burnt ivory n
primrose, with, perhaps, a ouch of old
rose.
Keep the scheme of decoration as light
as possible when the hall is too narrow
to admit of any furniture being intro
duced. When there is old oak to be
disposed of, a more solid-looking scheme
may be desirable. A plain self-colored
wall invariably forms a good back
ground of dark oak. Mignonette green
Or art blue, for instance. Again, "a
treatment that works out successfully is
to wash the walls art blue, and have
q dado of straw mating. These, then.
are a few suggestions which may be of
/ use as they are, or serve as guides to
! other ideas dictated by individual pref
erence.
There is one thing I should like to
add with regard to the mention of felt
as a foor-covering. Few things are
prettier, so far as appearance goes, but
felt has the drawback of showing soil
easily, and if used in a hall. where
there is, of course, constant traffic to
and from the front dooor. it is likely to
become discolored very quickly. On the
whole, therefore, it is more advisable
to use a corridor III or patterned stair
| carpet.
The novel feature of the hall I am
suggesting is he glass window let into
the upper part of the wall. In the Or
binary house there is usually a sitting
room leading out of the hall on the
right or on the left. The situation of
this room, therefore, must decide as to
whether the window shall be cut in the
right or left wall. In the sand
| WICKED" and semi-detached house one
| of the walls of the hall separates two
houses; 1t goes without saying, there
fore, that the window must be let into
the opposite wall. This window can
run the length of the wall as far as the
door Of the sitting room, or may be cur
tailed to any size. It should in any
case be divided into panes, and draped
here and there with dwarf curtains OF
art silk or muslin (colored or cream). A
lovely effect is gained if a little shell
Is run beneath the window to hold art
Jars of chrysanthemums, roses, or any
s~easonable flowers.