Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-19
TO FURNISH TAsTEFULLY.
Good Advice About Choice OF Pictures
and Care TO Be Used in Selec-
ton of Frames.


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TO furnish a house comfortably,
tastefuIly and economically is an ac-
eomplishment that nan women would
Alike to possess. Many of the houses
that one enters show the host of taste
in regard to color schemes and furni-
ture, and fail miserably when it comes
to the choice of pictures and their
frames. The reason partly is, that UNI
less great expense is gone to, it is not
a to find good pictures with suit
able frames. Many good pictures can
be had at any picture shop, but it Is
another thing to frame them suitably.
The frame must not only suit the pic
fure,, but what is more important, it
must suit the place whore it is to be
hung. Hall pictures should be strong
in tone, having large masses Of lights
and shadows. so that a person walking
Through a hall can see at a glance the
meaning of a picture. Sculpture or
architecture are suitable subjects. The
fParthenon, the front Of Amiens Cathe-
hral, Antwerp Cathedral, Bruges Ca
thedral are all good.
I'm a sitting room, reproductions of
famous paintings, photographs and
plaster casts are always decorative.
The Singing Boys framed in sec
tions in a broad, wide frame, make a
beautiful subject above a ma%ntelpiece.
ut is part of a frieze executed in the
fifteenth century by Lucca della Rob
Hbia for the cathedral of Florence. An
other cast which is extremely decora-
tive is called 1.-THE Chariot Race; this
is also improved by being framed.
These can be bought in the white for
very little; the tinting of them is
quite simple. They require a coat Of
white shellac. When this Is dry a mix
|ture OF burnt lumber and %turpentine is
spread over the cast. When this is
partly dry a cloth dipped in turpentine
and rubbed from the right to left over
the surface removes the color and gives
1t the appearance of old ivory. Few
fpictures are necessary in bedrooms,
prints and photographs in narrow black
frames being suitable when the pat
tern of the wallpaper is not too pro-
,nounced.
IN selecting chairs the main thing
rs to see that they are comfortable
which is a harder thing than at first
Thought appears. There's nothing
znflch more unpleasant than going to 9
card party of a porch ~party-any sort
OF an affair where you sit for a couple
of hours-and finding yourself in al
uncomfortable chair. The pretties
chairs are often uncomfortable ont
way or another. The seat nay be tor
nigh, or the back awkwardly curved 50
that a corner or a roll of the wood
seems to run into your back, or the
arms may be badly placed, so that you
can neither rest your arms on them
nor escape them for comfortable NOV
ing. The trouble usually is that chairs
|are more frequently bought from the
way they look, instead of a combina-
tion of the way they look with the way
they feel. Those tiny chairs, high and
marrow. are the most uncomfortable
things imaginable. But big chairs may
! he quite uncomfortable-even the great
TO0my looking kind that look as il
They were the very incarnation of com
fort.
Try every chair you buy and take
kome one of normal size along witt
Y II you're an "odd size" individual
I've some low enough for the small
'tals who visit you to sit back il
plant their feet firmly on the fiool
e same time, instead of dangling
the edge. Have some deep-seat
\ chairs, with backs well curved
tothing in the way of cross sup
Ito press against your spine
chair or two with a back higl
to rest your head against, ant
We rockers, see that they are no
Elcherous kind that give an ex
backward suddenly, seriousl,
n ling your equianimity, If no
hnter of equilibrium. Try ever!
salafr two or three ~ways-eyery sor
1 of chair, from the stiff leather covered
dining-room chairs (Which may be per
fectly comfortable in spite of tlei
apparent stiffness) to the perilous del
acate little things with the spidery leg
which appear here and there in draw
1900 80 wo.I.,. g...l.l.