Evening journal., 1902-10-04
LESSON IN
DECORATIVE ART
Suite of Furnished Rooms a
Factor at Fall Opening of
M. Megary & Son

Il is a liberal education in decorative
art to visit the furnished suite of rooms
displayed at the annual fall opening
Of NJ. Megary & Son. Sixth and Tat
nail streets. The rooms are on the art
floor and have been visited by thou
sands OF people since the opening
Thursday.
This department is distinctive and
is wide departure from the furnished
rooms ordinarily shown in stores. The
latter usually are beautiful, but so ex-
pensive that to reproduce them is be-
yond the person of average means.
The object in this instance is to show
how a home may be furnished in good
taste, yet at moderate cost. The dis
play also demonstrates that a moderate
amount of good taste and a moderate
amount of money may accomplish more
than great deal of money and very
little taste
The first room shows a hallway. All
the belongings are of the quaint old
mission style, which call forth bursts
of mingled admiration and envy from
eveny woman whose eyes fall upon It.
There is a popular fallacy regarding
this mission furniture. and it Is that IL
was made by the Spanish friars i'm
Mexico and California, and its plain
and peculiar forms were due TO the fact
that they had few and insufficient tools
with which TO work. This Is we'll
enough as far as it goes, but it doesn't
go far enough. AS a matter Of fact,
the style is distinctly Dutch. 1t was
found in Spain long before it was
brought to America, being taken to the
land of the dons by the priests at the
period when Spain ruled the Neither
lands The style originated In Elan
ders and is essentially Dutch, but is
dubbed mission furniture because the
Spanish monks furnished the missions
in California and Mexico with repro
ductions OF the articles which they
left at home.
Then comes the parlor. It is de-
cidedly modern and Frenchy I'm effect
The colorings are light and dainty and
the room is artistic to the smallest de-
tail Next is the library, thoroughly
comfortable and honey and handsome.
The color scheme is red. the draperee
and walls OF which tint them into fine
relief the leather couch, chairs, the
handsome centre table and sectional
bookcases. II is cOzy and one of the
most inviting rooms of the suite
Next TO the library is the dining
room, which is in colonial style. All
the articles are simply reproductions
but the effect is aM that could be de-
sired. IL is complete, even to the
doilies i'm Mexican drawn work on the
table and sideboard.
After leaving the dining room one
enters a dainty bedroom. all in green
and pink. The wall paper is covered
with great pink roses and the draperies
are of palest green. The carpet oI
Victoria Brussels also is of pale green.
The room is strictly modern in every
respect from the wall paper to tn,
brass and enameled bod and the pretty
mahogany cases.
The last is a faithful reproduction ol
an old time colonial bed chamber
There even are exact rep,icas Of tn,
Old-fashioned box couch, the fioweret
dhintz hangings and the wall paper
The four-posted bed, the chest o
darwers. the dressing table, all carry
out the idea perfectly. The coloring il
CT pink and green.
A fact which may be somewhat sur
J prising to some people is that not on
article lis used in the decoration bu
what was taken from the regular stool
OF the store. This is true as to pic
lures. cut glass, hangings and even tn
dOilies.
, One of the most important depart
ments is that containing the draperies
IL used to be rather a small factor
but all that is changed. New fixture
have been placed in, a new carpet lai
and the department stocked with no
only lace curtains. pOrtieres and thing
of that sort. but the little things s
J dear to a woman's heart and which S