The Cairo bulletin., 1907-02-22
WALL PAPER
George and Helen Look Over
Samples

=. What is II, llelenY" SAID Mr.. sweet
ley.
Il have had lot of samples OF wall
paper sent up this afternoon and here
they are. | want you to help me select
nne for the parlors. You have such ex-
vellent taste. Here they are. nice large
samples that show the full pattern.
! The trouble Is that several of them
are so pretty it is hard TO select. They
do have such lovely wall paper nova
days Now please put down your book
! and lay aside your cigar and give your
| undivided attention TO .his wall paper,
| want TO be quite sure that the paper
pleases you. | should take no pleasure
in IL ii 1t did not. What do you think
Of this PATTERN"
Il don't see but that ii is all right.
Why George! You honestly and
truly wouldn't want that on our parlor
walls | think il is horrid Such a
stiff, conventional pattern"
20, | don't know. 1t seems graceful
to me"
Graceful? Those great, stiff figures
all OF the same size graceful? would
not, have that paper on the walls II
they would put it on for nothing How
do YOU like this pattern?"
Well il seems rather characterless
to me"
"Characterless, My goodness me,
think it has ten times the character
of that other pattern. Still, ii is too
dark. The parlors are not as well
lighted as | wish they were. and this
paper would make them still darker.
/ was sure that | wouldn't want that
paper when they gave me the sample.
What do you think of this pattern"
Il Ike that first rate,
You do? Wen, now it seems like !
very commonplace pattern to me- just
such a paper as you would be apt to
find on any ones walls. | want some
unique and yet not con
spicuously so. Something that-you |
know what / mean. My idea is that |
wall paper, like furniture, should in a |
certain way reflect the character OF
the people in the house 1t should |
nave a certain observation-disclosures do you |
ike this PATTERN
Il don't like striped wall paper"
You dou't9 Why it Is very fashion
lble. and it gives height to a room. /
ion't like a distinct and positive stripe
nut you see that this is not that kind
[ is more of suggestion OF stripe.
Sill, If you do not want a stripe"
II do not insist on The paper not hay-
ne a stripe i'll Il.
But I want the paper to please you.
lear, and If you hate stripe l."
II didn't say that | hated stripe"
Well, do not want anything that
on even dislike. rather like a stripe
they told me at the store
hat this paper is being used great
cal. Do you like it?"
Wen, yes; | thiak / like 1t better
ban any piece You have shown me-
Why, George! Do you? It seems
horrid to me. Ii looks loud
And it would simply {
i'll any picture hung on it! That Is {
we want To considerable {
ictures. Then this paper would be |
Il out of harmony with the rugs in
ne parlors. II would be screaming a
ote of discord all through {
Then why did you have a sample !
it sent?" n
Well, | thought it would give us a
lriety from which to select Now |
Ike this pattern immensely Don't
)u?"
Well, to tell the honest truth, ~
elem ! do not fancy it,"
You don't? Wen. now, like it bet
n than anything I have found yet,
nd | think that you would grow to -
Ike it, The clerk at the store said :,
lat 1t was so much in demand that
ley could hardly supply 1t fast Il
lough. He said that they put ii on d
e parlor walls OF a perfectly elegant u
Nv house only last week II is some {
ing entirely new and l think that it G.
rs great deal OF character and II
.rtain tone of refinement in it that s.
i'll. if YOU do not like it" II
i do not exactly fancy il. but il you II
e so taken with it get it by all
cans. | shall be satisfied with IT,
q not in the parlors once in a coon's
,e anyhow, and don't want TO be i.
ere that often. Seems 10 me par Id,
r in a house is kind OF chamber OF d
,rrors anyhow. Now, il you like that n
lper have it put right on the walls S;
ID" \,
But not If you don't like st. must f.
MESS that like it ever so much and "a
feel sure you would like 1t better If ~
IA could see several strips of IL hung p,
lie by side as I saw them to-day in o,
Q store. One cannot get the full ef- nj
Ct from a sample. not even from j 10
.ge sample" n
Il suppose not. Just order that ~
per and have it over with =,
But want you to like II" said Mrs. =,
yeetley, amiably
20. III like it all right" said Mr..
yeetley. beaming az her.
D. Because" continued the lady. Il
,uldn't take the least bit Of pleasure H'
1t Il felt that you didn't like il. ] I'd
Int the paper to be your choice as %
III az mine as ! say. the effect Is al
ferent when you see a lot OF it to- x
Their 1 showed it to Mrs Van sam. pc
10 was calling here this afternoon So