Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-22
Abundant Means

Abundant Means-
Do not guarantee always the best results
in making house artistic and homelike
unless the mistress has refined tastes. It
sometimes 10 quite as unfortunate to have
an abundance Of money as 1t is to be ham,
pered by limitation in this line. In other
words, the woman who has full purse Is
not so apt to exercise her originality as
her sister who Is obliged to think twice be-
fore spending her dollar. And, too. there
are SO many artistic ideas that can be car
ried out to beautify the home and to make
1t what 1t should be-the dearest spot on
earth-if one has the inclination and the
taste to do It.
Take the matter of photographs, for In
stance. We are all tired of seeing them on
the mantel and piaro. They seem so wholly
out of place. They are, therefore, tucked
away in albums out OF sight. Nevertheless,
in spite OF their Punishment there Is moth
ing quite so full of decorative possibilities
as the right photograph in the right place.
A clever woman. whose exquisite taste
exceeded her moderate means, was DESTROYS
especially OF having an attractive music
room. Fifty dollars was the sum set apart
for this purpose, and at first 1t seemed i'm
possible to accomplish much with such lin
tied capital. At length she thought of an
effective decorative scheme with photo
ideas.
The side walls of the room were hung
with a pale green satin striped paper and
the upper part was calcimned on cartridge
paper. q chocolate brown. Photographs OF
musical subjects were then pasted on this
brown background after which they were
carefully tinted In sepia tones by the dec
orator to harmonic.
Plester frames were then made around
the pictures. and these were connected with
flying ribbons and flower garlands, made
of the plaster also, in relief work. This
decorative scheme was carried out In near
" as dark a shade as the background.
The effect was more artistic and salts
factory than could be shown In a photo
graph, which loses much in values.
The subjects chosen were of the most pop
Stairs Aurora" Psyche" ''The Choir
Boys" Sonata and Elegy." "A Lesson in
Arcadia" Reynolds Angels" ''Cupid's
Minuet," and many other favorites These
were all oblong pictures. alternated with
panel pictures of the Angelica angels, with
their drums. cymbals and trumpets.
A musical girl who is a great admirer of
the old masters has a frieze in her music
room of all the famous composers They
are arranged in groups-the old and the
new-and include not only the old artists In
the place of honor over the piano. but the
modern composers like Strauss. These pho
tographs are arranged about the room In a
solid frieze under the molding, below the
topmost third, and they are finished in
frame OF the japanese cedar wood, which
is so beautiful for this purpose.
Inssmuch as the nursery Is one of the
most important rooms In the house, too
much care cannot be expended on fits ar
rangement. As the child's senses are first
educated and his tastes are first cultivated
in his nursery days. his surroundings
should be considered of great importance.
The decoration of the walls should be
given particular attention. and nothing is
more attractive or educational for the pur-
pose than photographs used as q frieze on q
plain background low enough for the chill
dren to see them.
The pictures should. of course, be selected
with thought and care, from the masters