New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-15

more wise and tasteful plans have been
baffled by the original wrong OF woodwork
than by any other obstacle. Ard people
house owners-are queer about wood
work. They will spend ever so much to
tear up the walls and cover them Wit
different and richer material, but th,
wood Of an impious ''mantelpieee' or
mirrored cabinet they will not think o.
dare II they do think. But the dear woman
who is the owner says: Disturb thai
beautiful wood? Never. while I live"
they go on doing over the walls sessN
after season. hoping some day to
pleased with them-and they never never
will.
In woodwork one should include in COS
sideration the furniture Here sgain color
surely counts. Red with mahogany
quite different from oak with red Mahof
any again will seldom enhance brown wal
paper, nor any shade OF oak he happy
with any shade OF red. Distributor
against the wall counts "a well. nI
chHonier Will obscure wall space sne
low dressing table reveal It: this In
small room particularly will have 10
effect on the massing OF color
That walls should not only be plan
that they should also be without pictus
for the sake OF shadows, Is quite W
novel notion for our common or house
hold variety OF mind 10 grasp. GIN"
English woman writer advance, the ths
ory thus:
Another good reason that We ousn
to leave blank. unvexed and unencum'
bered with paper patterns the ceiling ~
walls OF a simple house Is that the p'os
surface may be visited BY the unique ~
signs Of shadows. The opportunity ~
fine a thing that IL ought oftener 10
offered 10 the light and 10 yonder hsna'
ful Of long sedses and rUshes In vsss
Their slender gray design Of shadow up0
white walls Is better than a tediou
trivial or anxious device from the shc'
II must be granted To thom that
walls that should be sprinkled VI"
shadows Let then a plaque or petui'
be kept for banging on shadowless days
II was OF the author Of this sugsesto0
that George Meredith once wrote he ecu"
imagine Carlyle saying That woms'
thinks" But perhaps It ought TO be Sc
membered that Meredith and CsrHe
would here be admiring a literary lao'
engaged at the most charming OF essss'
on shelves. and not on decorating wv
households; and with men, as even
woman knows, this has always mace
difference.
The sleeping room has all manner %
attaching to its walls w
II would seem that more people nhsn,
come together on the first principles "
this room than Of any other. stripes az
always popular and always deoa's0'''
Their effect on an aimlessly staring Wv
such as must belong TO those WHO We :
bed, or even merely wake NJ there DIG,
be most irritating. The writer SHOW
never choose a paper for a sleeping 'V I,
on any other basis than its effect on W
recumbent eye Yet stripes are 100 WV,
laid on a paper dealers will, ana nov"
clusters too seldom rejected for cro"u's
ness or most unfioral stiffness. Inc "
right flower In a sleeping chamber WIN
a vision. and in the very young s".-
room particularly. Her violet ROOM
her rose room, or her room In forse'-"
not blue would sadly lack without t'''
dainty color clusters on the wall =,
One day a woman, taken suddenly
was borne into strange room :"
strange house. At the moment Of s"''
she framed to herself the words
What nice, quiet wall paper! "A
In that room she was given ether,
in that room. with uncommon pless.A
ness, came out Of It, when nrs
opened my eyes. did say anythins-",,
did say?" she asked the nurse c'r'o'' ,
afterward. w..,
you said" the nurse answered. 'N~
nice, quiet wall paper! .s.
And they smiled together, but botn ~
dered what difference a wall paper ~
was not nice and quiet might have nav