The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-06-05
WALL PAPER FASHIONS
Many Novelties to Be Seen In
Styles For 1904.
STRIKING DESIGNS AND OoLoRINGs

Ono Shows Perspective Effect of
walling Rosez Behind Latticework.
Another Represents a Canadian
Baseball PAPER Being AFnnufac-
tured.
Ever since fashion invaded the realm
Of wall paper several years ago and
decreed that the covering of ones walls
should change almost with the sea-
sons the shop windows in New York
have shown at half yearly intervals
the strange and new wall paper con-
ceits offered by enterprising manufac-
turers, says the New York Evening
World.
Already the styles for 1904 have be-
gun to make their appearance, and
enough have been shown to prove that
this year the expert designers have
permitted their fancy the fullest range
and that New York houses next sea
son will be fairly bewildering in the
strange designs and colorings Of their
walls.
Perhaps the most remarkable novel
ty Is the perspective" wall paper,
combination of trailing roses and unre-
lieved latticework so arranged on each
Of the four sides Of the room as to
produce the effect Of long vista. This
design, though pretty, would be apt to
produce an effect of mental bewilder-
ment If looked at too long. A simpler
and more beautiful effect is that which
combines dado made to initiate nat
ural wood and crown Of tall ever
greens, which produce the illusion of
dense Canadian forest of spruce trees.
The natural WOOD papers, reproduced
from long planks Of the real wood, are
especially good in library and dining
room decoration. Another design has
the dado of birdseye maple and
crown showing an elaborate aquatic
scene, in which sailing vessels, wind
mills and long lines of coast are effec-
lively combined, with the CLEAN of red
roofs In the distance.
The sporting papers, introduced for
the first time last year, show new
design portraying gay coaching par
ty winding down a dense, leafy road
way. Golf, tennis and pingpong pa
pers are notable among this collection,
and Buffalo firm is getting out spe-
ctai baseball paper so that enthusiastic
fans will hereafter be able to have
their walls covered with portraits Of
their favorite players. Needless to
say, these exceedingly novel papers
are used chiefly for dens and club
rooms, and more conventional designs
still obtain for the drawing room and
the boudoir.
Among the less freaky novelties is
one patterned after design used in
the decoration of the Wadsworth coun-
try seat in Genesee valley, New York,
in which seventeen different colors
were used. The design originated in
France, but the foreign manufacturers
refused to reproduce it when called
upon, as many Of the seventeen colors
used had to be painted in by hand. A
piece Of the paper reached the hands
of New York manufacturer, who sue
cessfully reproduced it, thus reaching
the high WAGER mark Of color reproduc-
ton by machinery.
Very expensive are the paper imita-
tons of hand fooled leather, which are
late novelties for library decoration.
They sell at from So to SIS roll and
were recently introduced extensively
in the redecorating Of Harold Wizards
home in New York.
Another interesting design is a re-
production CT an old paper which had
hung for 200 years on the walls Of the
old Livingston mansion at Catskill
Landing, which was recently manufac-
tured by special order Of Henry Llv-
ingston.
The famous Mackay rose paper used
in the large hall at Roslyn, N. Y, has
been so extensively copied throughout
the country in clubs, hotels and else
where that Mr.. Clarence Mackay re-
Gently wrote letter to the manufac-
turers saying that he intended to have
it torn from the walls and new and
more exclusive design substituted.
Cutting Great Diamond.