The daily Alaskan., 1916-05-16

III ~A NA@AAAAa IOhA 4NS4AA2 S%A'~AS -~ one rule that is usually good to fol- low. Have your floors dark, your walls lighter and your ceiling light est. If. your ceiling is high the ceiling paper may be dropped 12 or IS inches. The picture molding, which may be the color of the cell ing or the wood work, should be placed over the hne where the pa i pers meet. The ordinary wall pa per trieze Is bad art at the outset, since t tends to carken the upper wall in. violation of the rule that the upper portion of a room should be llghtest in tone. If your ceiling is low striped paper may be used and 1t will add to the apparent height if the side paper Tuns clear to the ceiling. As a wall paper serves as background for pictures and furniture, a plain paper is bet ter, m selecting a color scheme for your room, tue exposure should be taken into consideration. A room that does not receive much sun light must be treated differently from enc that does. If rooms are small and open directly off one an other it will add much to your home if the wood work, carpets, wall treatment and drapenes are all alike. Care should be taken in hanging draperies that light and air is not excluded. Here, in Skagway, where we have such. wonderfully beautiful scenery and such a wealth of color 1t seems pity to shut off any of the view by heavy, unin- teresting window draperies. Here, there is hardly Q window in any home that does not frame some very interesting natural picture. Yolumns could be written on the color and scenery of this spot, but 1t Is better to feel the beauty than 10 talk about it. l am remind ed of story thls is told of a tour- ist with Q temperament who was walking along in Wales. One beauty after another filled him with more and more delight. Now, it was castle under wide, warm sky, is crumpling gray towers seen against the purple moorland, and now it was Q fair green valley stretched cOntentedly in the after noon sun, lattice of silver streams threading from it into the rose pink mist of the southern horizon. Bursting with rapture he came sue denly upon an old woman sQuatted by the roadside. Upon her his en- thusiIsm oYerflowed in a cascade of words. she sat like dumb wo- man under the torrent and puffed steadily at her old black pipe. Such indifference was at first dampening then irritating. The flow of elo- Quence finally stopped and disgust edly he said, You don't care for beauty, I see" She took the pipe suNooI HTmIeo puu Vlnow Ieq moIJ at him said, "I enjies it-I don't iabber."
 The lighting of your rooms should receive very careful at tenticu. Beethoven once said that 'tne best musical instrument was any instrument well played" This is apropos with reference to lighting. The pest lighting fixture is one that fits into the decorative scheme of your room, is placed where it will give the best ser vice, and is free from glare. The
 white light" of electricity is hard on the eyes. The best color for lighting is the color we get from oil lamps. There is 8 process by which bulbs may be treated so as to Ootain this effect with electric lights. On entering house, we are cften conscious of a state of Ing badly arranged. In arranging confusion, which on consideration seems to result from things init be- furniture there should be a reason for each piece being where it is placed. Chairs should be so placed that they need not be moved.
 Some one said that the tact of a hostess is shown by her arrange ment of chairs. Rugs should fol- low the general line of a room and should not be thrown down at angles.
 As pictures should reflect the owners personal taste, the selection of them should receive careful at tention. It Is much better to have copies from the old masters rather than originals of questionable art. It Is hard to estimate the influence | If a sood Dicture.