Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-09-17


is g. vastly different one of the family
with an income of SIS or 500 week
than of the family with unlimited
means. When the necessary living
expenses are deducted from $l5 or
$40 a week, very little is left with
which to furnish sitting-room which
must turn bedroom at times in these
days of restricted space and two-by-
four fats. The furniture and wall
coverings cannot be changed with the
seasons, and therefore both must be
selected with a view to durability as
well as artistic effect.
Green is still one of the best and
most often used colors in interior dec
orations. It harmonizes well with
wintry surroundings and produces a
cool and pleasing effect during the hot
DAYS OF midsummer For that reason
green is a good color to choose for
wall covering, and for a background
upon which may be grouped those
finishing touches of the home which
Mrs. Partington described as brick
bats and articles Of virtue" An
artistic way of decorating the walls. If
green is chosen, is to have them a
cool forest green from the floor up to
the picture molding. Above the mold
ing the color should rapidly shade into
the palest tint of green in the ceiling
This in turn should be almost white
toward the center. These shades may
be graded almost imperceptibly by a
good painter or calciminer.
II the room in question Is sort Of
combination or den, library, sitting
room, and parlor combined, an air OF
indy duality may be given to 1t by
woman Of quick resource. For in.
stance, square panels may be formed
upon the ceiling in the following man
ner Obtain some smooth scantlings
or laths the length and breath of the
room and three inches in width, with
a well-planed surface, from some
builder or small lumber mill or furni-
ture factory. These will probably be
quite cheap, as the only requisite of
the wood is that 1t shall be smooth.
These strips should be tackled across
the ceiling. The crosswise pieces
must be sawed to fit exactly between
the other strips, forming square pan
els. Unless the housekeeper is very
skilfu with the saw 1t would be wiser
to have this done by carpenter. The
strips should be stained mahogany
color and then touched with the stain
over any scratches made when lacking
them in place. This paneled ceiling
will cost considerably more time than
outlay of money. and Is sure to prove
a lasting satisfaction to the woman
with small means and desire for
artistic surroundings.
Tack width of burlap about breast
high around the room. This should
match the color of the wall covering
Border this with mahogany
scantling. Good photographs or etch-
ings or effective colored prints may
be arranged upon the burlap. Twenty
yards of burlap should be sufficient
for the purpose, the amount needed
varying. of course. according to the
size of the room. II will cost ali the
way from Is cents to 40 cents a yard
II the goods runs from forty to fifty
inches in width, 1t may be cut in half
In such case half the quantity of bu,.
lap need be bought. Some people
prefer for this purpose covering
known as English taffeta. This is not
silk-not even damask. II costs
about the same as burlap. with the
exception of the better class of dam
ask, and is over forty inches in width
Above the cloth dado the wall requires
only an occasional picture, Cheap
Colored prints In fancy and elaborate
frames are to be avoided like the
plague If an artistic effect is desired.
Good etchings are always to be pre-
ferred to paintings that not have real
excellence.
The most serious problem of all for
the family of limited means is the
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