Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-23
GREENS for the Dining Room.
HY GENEyIEyE HENDRICKS.

DY GENEVlEVE HENDRICKS.
Screens may be useful in almos
y room in which we place them, blu
no room are they quite so impor
ut as in the dining room. This il
peCially true of dining rooms tina
] We plain walls and where it is de
ed that there be some spot OF in
/ testing color and design.
Screens are as practical in the din
g room as they are decorative
: hey may be used to screen off the
ew into the buffers pantry at al
mes and thus may change into
.lightful corner of interest what is
Usually the despair of the fastidious
lousekeeper. These screens also, be
y easily moved from place to place
uring the preparation of meal, may
lock the view between the hall and
ching room for those of us who live
n small apartments or houses where
French doors do not serve this i'm
portant function.
Screens Now Within Reach.
The idea Of possessing decorative
screens is new for most Of us who
have looked with longing upon the
lovely Coromandel lacquer screens
from China and the richly colored
leather and wood ones from Europe,
hut who have not been able to afford
them for ourselves. Now, happily.
screens are within the financial reach
OF most of us, for we have learned to
use wall papers for coverings and by
clever treatment can make paper
covered screens as charming as almost
any that could be found.
There are several ways in which
screens may be made. Perhaps the
simplest method is TO cover well
braced, double-hinged wooden frames
with beaver board. preferably on both
sides. This ordinarily will require the
services of a good carpenter, although
those of us who are handy with tools
need not despair Of making our own
screens. For the ordinary house a
ee-paneled screen seems best, as
it is not too wide and has proper
bracing when opened. A good aver
age width for the panels of such
screen is from 10 to 20 inches.
screens may vary in height, accord
ing to the height of the room and
the use to which they are to be put.
\ 6-foot screen is usually satisfactory
IN the average American house.
Screens taller than this tend to cramp
the room, while lower screens tempt
US to try to peek over their tops.
Various Tops Possible.
Panels may be cut square across
the top, or may be made with semi
circular tops, or may be cut to the
shape Of a bow, as illustrated in the
accompanying sketch. The design of
the room in which the screen is to
be placed and the taste of the owner
will determine the form as we'll as the
designs and colors to be used.
These screens may be covered in
thousand different ways. They may
be covered completely with landscape
or foliage paper in any one of the
many charming designs that are now
on the market. Or they may have
the top two-thirds of the screen COW
cred in a landscape of pictorial paper
and the base covered with a more for
NAL design of the same colors or with
marbliZed paper. Again, they may
have one side covered with one type
of paper and the other side with an
entirely different paper. II this is
done, of course, care must be taken
that the two papers are harmonious
in color and design so that one may
safely be allowed to see both sides at
once when the screen is turned.
A hundred years ago in England 1t
was the fad to make scrap book"
Prints of favorite places and
things We're pasted on screen panels,
ground paper chosen to agree with
the colors in the room in which the
screen was to be placed. 1t must
have been great fun to make these
screens and also very gratifying, for
when the prints were carefully select
ed and placed in a balanced plan of
design the results were both interest
ing and charming.
Maps Form Panels.
An interesting screen in the dining
room of a far-traveled army officer is |
covered with old maps set one above |
the other. This idea might be worked |
but with modern maps as well, or |
with prints of the same size and sub. |
ject matter. Another screen which de- |
lights the soul of it's sportsman |
owner has prints of wild fowl placed |
)ne above another down two-thirds Of |
the length of the screen. In the plain |
panels at the bottom of the screen are |
simple drawings of bow and arrow, |
and of old-fashioned guns symbolic of |
The hunt. The prints in this screen |
almost entirely cover the panels. |
Narrow lines of gold and black passe-
partout mark off the panels and make
/ nice border.
There are many lovely Chinese de-
signs in the wallpapers Of today |
which make delightful screens. If
.hese papers are carefully placed on |
the panels and shellacked with the |
proper color of shellac and carefully |
waxed they give quite the effect Of the |
charming but distressingly more ex-
pensive Coromandel and other lacquer
screens from the Orient.
Many Types Of Designs.
There are as many charming de-
signs that are Enthusiastically
French, Italian, Spanish, English or
Colonial and these we may search out
and use according to the design and
of our dining rooms.
Materials may also be used on
dining room screens with splendid
effect. The Fortuny prints so de-
servedly popular with their soft
colorings and authentic designs
would add much to almost any
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