The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1906-01-14
NEW IDEAS IN THE LATEST WALLPAPER DESIGNS

those types; being utterly out of place
in q dining room or hail. for instance
but setting OF bedrooms and drawing
rooms with a rich simplicity.
For gold frames to pictures. for the
pretty furniture which is copied, too.
from French ideas, there is no prettier
background than those soft gray and
white stripes. There IS no danger of
making eOld-lookng room of it-every-
thing in the room, If carefully placed.
will conspire against that-and the ap-
parent delicacy wears well.
But don't use il II the plastering Of
your rooms shows uneven streaks-eaCh
uplv place will stand boldly out.
For dining rooms and halls come many
types of papers-not tapestry papers,
but printed in designs which are echoes
and developments of tapestries. Instead
of the soft. old coloriDgs, these may
be printed In strong. deep shades, max
ing strikingly handsome paper without
any of the frills in the way of gilt o.
elaborate form of design being reSOTted
to. Fruits-conVentiona forms. of
course-are grouped in a confusion OF
mellow tones: and even flowers, though
these are more seldom used upon TINS
type of paper, occasionally bloom IN
rich colOTs, utterly untrue 10 nature,
but charming, for all that:
Wallpapers for nurseries have de-
veIoped wonderfully since those nFst
Mother Goose ones were invented Ihey
took like wildfire. with the result that
nursery rhymes ard favorite childlsn
pictures were taken as inspiration Win
delightful results. Panels Of dancing
children. done in gay colors on a BACK
ground of dark green. make the cheer
lest sort of room, and odd single ns-
ures of picturesque little men and maid
ems made all sGrts of original treatment
possible. Dutch boys and girls dance
a merry sabot dance on some OF them,
while Kate GTeenaway children. with
their quaint, Impossible bonuets ana
great muffs, are almost irresistible
Animal papers are no less interesting
Great white geese waddle along one in
teresting frieZe, trailing through a neld
of daisies; rabbits-2regular bunnles-
scamper past a background of trees ana
bushes. and the loveliest OF birds wing
their way against Italian blue skies.
But back TO flower rooms for mo
ment-just for a peep at one pretty
WAY of getting around the paperlng OF
windows. A quaint little paper was
chosen. white ground, with narrow
satiny stripes alternating with duller
ones Bits of color fiecked 1.-THE tiniest
but most brightly colored OF flowers. set
absurily far apart-for all the world
like an old-fashioned dimity. with its
widely set apart figures. That covered
the walls-almost 10 the ceiling.
But the use of the border was what
made the room unusual 1t was narrow.
not more than six inches wide. into
which had been crowded hosts of those
little flowers until il was nothing but
a mass of gay bloom.
That border ran around the lower
edge of the wall, just above the wash
board. as we'll as around the top of the
room Down each corner or the room
IT ram the strip on the furthest edge of
th. side meeting that on the other II
outlined each window and door. widen
ing the two r.@frow spaces IN an almost
miraculous way.
In the rest of the room no .coIors were
used-bed, bureau. everything was kept
spotiesstc white. That gay little Dor
der Was enough.
There's so much more Individuality
applied 10 the papeging of rooms lust
now. instead of the tiTesome using of
papers To- fashion whether or not the
style suits hat of thereon it Is to be
used IN. Quaint houses built on old