The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-02-06
Margaret Walter Tells How Modern
Brides Make Over Old
Dwellings.
BY MARGARET WALTER.


cells In dress. Her house is a bleak
waste OF comfortless chairs and stony
cushions The English woman wears
what comes handy. In the furnishing
OF her house she finds expression for
ell her artistic personality. Its a lib
eral education TO watch women at this
season of the year choosing house fur
nishings, chintzes and wall papers ana
replenishing their stores of glass, ma
perry and a-brac.
English women seem TO know intui-
lively how 10 make house honey and
IL Is pretty safe to trust any woman
of your acquaintance offhand TO fur
nish a house or apartment in any per-
Tod or style
You cant tell in the least by the
loos Of a woman whether she is do
nestle artist or not. Her dress is
no indication. She may be shabby,
III shod: in fact she is more than
likely to be rather clumsily got up
with comfortable hat set well back
from a well polished forehead guilt
less OF power. But when she gets into
the house furnishing department or
enters the broad portals Of one or an
other of the great stores which spe-
cializes In furniture and decoration she
enters her kingdom in very truth.
In house furnishing tradition rules
supreme in England. That is, the ira
ditIon which each period and style
carries with il. For example, it comes
az natural for an English woman TO
Introduce blue Chinese ware into a
Victorian room as It is natural for us
TO furnish bungalow in Mission
STYLE. The Victorian drawing room
which Whistler painted as background
in his pictures always had its ebony
and gold cabinet, full 10 bursting with
Chinese red and blue jars and dishes,
the austere marble mantlepiece had
it's bright Japanese fan and It's thlck
china vase OF fresh flowers. The VIC
torlan dining room was choked with
Benares brass and richly carve IN
dian silver set out on tes Jdd
dressers as heavily carved. &c An
mahogany and finlaid rosewood de-
mand satin brocade of puce ana rose
IN stripes and biadere and Jacobean
carved oak a bold Chinese chintz. 10
The English woman these details are
"a the laws of the Modes and FER
SLAMS. She never transgresses IL Is
simply not done. Waterford glass IS
set on Georgian walnut ran tables
and 50 on
"a
Al furniture are admitted but the wo-
man OF taste confines her innovations
10 single apartments or suites.
First and foremost the English wo-
non studies the house she is going
!, furnish and the people who are
,,,inp 10 live in e.. She takes in the
stze and the shapes of the rooms and
Inc corridors, the height of the cell
,ngs and the lay OF the floors ana
never M to the moment the last lamp
sbade Is chosen and the ultimate cush-
ION tucked in place does she forget
Rut with all the observance of rule
a,d tradition il isswonderful how both
,raotice and precept can be ana are
a,,odad I'm the most beautifully tur-
nished houses in England today. ~
.oas. without saying that these are
nearly always old houses whlch nave
been rebuilt, added to and altered from
generation TO generhtion Ana the
modern woman is quick to take al
vantage OF lapses in successive opser
vance TO introduce the noVeltles VI
her own day. ,.-,,4
wider windows, more clear space ana
less ornament Is easily satislleo ny
clever house furnisher.
4
4, Curzon street which has lately TAI
Ia INTO the hands OF an ultra modern
.,,rl bride. She has not disturbed
6annister or wainscoing but she has
.Ieared away the Victorian glazed
r.intzes and the antimaccasars OF hes
erandnother- in law, These cumber-
I'd the small oddly shaped, rooms ana
choked the landings. She has mad
all the walls distempered right over
t.oe heavy embossed tapestries in their
dav the pride of their possessor. Inc
5.au,inV room is tinted soft shade
~ raspbarry 1t is a north room and
needs glow The morning room which
would catch any CLEAN of sun there
might be is in soft gray, the carpets
on the black lacquered hard wood
floors are shade darker than the
walls. the ceilings several shades
tighter. Oxydized chandeliers with
howl shades OF self color silk and
black tassels furnish the light and
the two antique scenes on each side
Of the drawing room mantel of flat
marble slabs have been left in their
places.
All the pictures have been removed
and in the very center of each wall
panel has been inset with narrow
heyelled frame of black lacquer an
oval section OF antique tapestry.
A bright bit of color is furnished
nv a black and gold and purple lac
ouer cabinet in which Victorian orn-
aments are all securely shut away.
The hard upholstery of spindle legged
chairs and fragile sofas is supplanted
Nv soft deep cushions OF raspberry
silk a concession TO modern ease, and
an abundance OF sausage pillows in
All tones Of raspberry and mauve and
silver shading to palest gray complete
the furniture. old glass vases and fra