Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-03-02
WALL PAPER
George and Helen Lcok Over
Samples

Il have had lot OF samples of wall
paper sent up this afternoon and here
they are. / want you to help me select
one for the parlors. You have such ex-
cellent 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 this wall paper.
want to be quite sure that the paper
pleases YOU l. should take no pleasure
in it if it did not. What do you think
of this pattern?'
Il don't see but that it is all right"
truly wouldn't want that on our parlor
walls! | think it 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 If
they would put it on for nothing. How
do you like this pattern?"
We'll, it seems rather characterless
to me-
"Characterless! My goodness me!
think it has ten times the character
of that other pattern. Still, it is too
dark. The parlors are not as well
lighted as l 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 patterns"
II like that first rate"
You do? Well, now it seems like a
very commonplace pattern to me. Just
such paper as you would be apt to
find on any ones walls. / want some
thing-well, unique and yet not con-
spicuously so. Something that-you
know what I 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
have q certain indefinable-how do you
like this PATTERN"
IL don't like striped wall paper"
You don't? Why it is very fashion
able, and it gives height to room.
don't like distinct and positive stripe,
but you see that this is not that kind.
1t is more of a suggestion of stripe.
Still, if you do not want a stripe"
90 do not insist on the paper not hav-
ing stripe in it,"
But l want the paper to please you
dear, and if you hate a stripe I"
II didn't say that l hated stripe.
well, l do not want anything that
you even dislike. rather like stripe
and-now they told me at the store
that this paper is being used a great
deal. Do you like it?"
well, yes; / think l like it better
than any piece you have shown me-
why, George! Do you? 1t seems
perfectly horrid to me. 1t looks loud
| bold-braZep! And it would simply
kill any picture hung on it! That is
something we want to considerable
pictures. Then this paper would be
all out of harmony with the rugs in
the parlors. 1t would be a screaming
note of discord all through"
Then why did you have sample
of it sent?''
well, thought it would give us q
variety from which to select. Now
like this pattern immensely. Don't
your"
Well to tell the honest truth
Helen, do not fancy it,
"You don't? Well, now, like it bet
ter than anything l have found yet
and | think that you would grow tc
! like it. The clerk at the store sale
that it was so much in demand tha
they could hardly supply it fas
enough He said that they put it Oh
the parlor walls of a perfectly elegan
new house only last week. 1t is some
thing entirely new and l think that i
has a great deal of character and {
certain tone of refinement in it that
still, if you do not like it"
Il do not exactly fancy it, but if yo,
are so taken with it get it by al
means. I shall be satisfied with it.
am not in the parlors once in a coon!
age anyhow, and | don't want to b,
! there that often. Seems to me a par
lor in house is a kind of chamber o
horrors anyhow. Now, If you like tina
paper have it put right on the wall,
| and"
But not if you don't like it. ! mus
confess that | like it ever so much ant
feel sure you would like it better i
! you could see several strips of it hun!
side by side as l saw them to-day il
the store. One cannot get the full ef
feet from a sample, not even from
large sample
Il suppose not. Just order tina
paper and have it over with"
But want you to like it," said Mrs
Sweetley, amiably.
20, III like il all right" said MI
Sweetley, peaming at her.
Because" continued the lady,
| wouidn't take tho leact hit IF p1aocur.