The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-30

IuTInsn snlaH apartment WIN Deauti VI
antique things for less money than you pay
for the cheapest Of tawdry new articles.
You can get artistic plain wall papers
cheaper than you can snowy fashionable
designs. You can find real curios for half
the price that you pay for machine made
shoddy ornaments. You can get rare
Japanese print for one-fftieth the price OF
a poor oil painting. and for the price OF
two roses for a matinee you can buy a
sturdy fern that will last as long as you are
kind to It,
With a good sense for color harmonies,
with determination to hold to one color
scheme, and that simple and becoming, and
with some little knowledge Of real thing
when you see 1t, you can start out in New
York and furnish three rooms for the price
OF an imitation Empire drawing room
suit.
but, naturally, you must know the loom
OF persin from that Of Jersey City, and you
must recognize Syrian enamel as not
poor imitation OF American glass mosaic.
And you must prepare to spend little
more time looking about than was necessary
Immediately after the Chicago fair. when
New York was flooded with genuine stufs
from the Oriental bazaars Of the Middle West
exhibition.
There is no Oriental quarter in New York
where you can do your furnishing up Of
morning, no queer old streets wholly given
over to bazaars, as in London or San Fran
cisco. You find "outcast' rugs and curtains
the old and torn and worn and beautiful,
usually on the top floor Of some smart estab-
lishment, or strange to say, in the rug section
Of department stores, where they just dropin
with big auction lots of modern wares, fire.
quently unrecognized by the stately floor
walker, and yours for the finding and few
dollars.
beautiful old Killim prayer rug was
picked up in this way just few days ago
for s.. 40 1t was in wonderful terra Gotta
dyes, with dull vegetable blues and rare
old design. and worth at least $60-a rug
that had been woven with loving interest
by more than one member of a family and
that had been knelt on through many
sunset hour at the call to prayers.
Yet linoleum rug for a bathroom would
cost you more.
observation-disclosures and carvings and
enamels-involve more work. They are
found in isolate ed shops, known TO the initi-
ated, scattered through the Syrian quarter
on the lower West Side Of the city, or in
the Russian jew settlement southeast OF
the Bowery. There are no more bargains
In Chinatown-only heaps Of stufs, drap-
cries and ornaments, made for the American
market, and new, crude, expensive and
perishable.
II you take lease OF pretty, we'll kept
apartment most landlords will permit you
to choose the tone Of wall paper and the
color Of woodwork you prefer. You will
be allowed to put in few shelves under
protest, and your wall seat and window
seat may even meet with his sanction.
Be grateful for the paper priv ilege. for
you must have plain rough paper on your
walls II you have Oriental effects Ingram
paper can be had in every effective shade,
and as it is only ten cents a roll is seldom
refused.
For your antique fittings you must have
dull tone Mustard yellow. burlap shade,
old green, Indian or Italian terra Gotta
all make admirable backgrounds, for the
mellow exquisitely modulated hues OF
Oriental hangings. And you can use one
particular shade of Chinese red, deep tone,
though vivid and having some Of the lustre
and perspe ctive of Syrian purple, which
was actually very bright red.
The red is less restful, moro suddenly
beautiful lighted at night, gorgeous har-
mony with dull blue and yellow. Madras
embroideries and with the sparkling black
and white Pshawur curtains, an adorable
effect to COLL upon, but trife nerve racking
to live with, unless one loves red better
than any other expression OF nature, as
some men and women do.
Green is almost invariably certain to pre-
duce a gently pleasant artistic idea. 1t
ser ms to belong to all the color schemes
Of all times. but it's cold to cast your perma-
nent lot with and does not gather up and
hold the sunlight for you. Mustard yellow
does, and 30 does terra Gotta,
You can't make a mistake il you select
the soft old-yellow paper, the tone you see
in antique Turkish rugs and in the very
rare old floor mats brought from China.
Be sure that your paper Is the rough in
grain and your ceilings dull old ivory.
For woodwork. II you can get the Flemish
oak. uneven dull brown, with lighter streaks
81 ere ai d% ebony stain Would ID be
next best, and after that, IL you have no
choice, leave the doors and mantle oak
as you find them. But avoid cherry or
mahogapy|.they belong eInsos to other other schemes;
Have your shelves like your doors. unless
the doors are oak; then have shelves and
furniture black.
II your rooms are small. and they are,
don't attempt to use curtains in the arch |
there always is one--connecting the two
front rooms To hide the deadly square
effect Of the so-called arch use the pettiooat |
strip OF a wealthy woman Of Madras.
dye. a yard deep and four yards long and
1t will be effectively embroidered by hand, |
in some uneven all-over leaf or conven-
tional flower design in dull yellow silk.
And scattered between these designs will |
be scraps of mirrors couched on with red |
silk, and here and there a word or two |
embroidered in red silk and expressing |
interest in the worko a moment OF religious |
fervor.
This strip should be tackled across the |
archway-softly, so that the janitor does
not hear you-and allowed to fall nearly |
to the floor on one side. where there Is |
corner seat done in Japanese linen. just |
the same shade OF blue. with pillows of some |
odd bit OF old Calcutta or Bulgarian en-
broidery.
The madras skirt, one Of the prettiest,
will cost you just s1.9s, the linen about 81,
and bits OF old pillow embroidery not more |
than o. all together
The best draperes to follow the dull |
yellow color scheme are mirrored Phul- |
karis. They are cotton, in dull old choco- |
late shades, several varying shades in each |
curtain, where they have been added TO |
from generation to generation by ,opulent |
lepatees And scattered over this changing |
surface, which brightens into terra Gotta |