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THE (iJESTIONOF WALL PAPER What to Buy and What to Leave in the Shop : I^f'.VE.RY housekeeper will agree that ; t»j| - at ho time in the year are'her rooms I j more discouraging to look at than • rii the :first-bright; days in spring. From one end to the other, upstairs and down, cleaning and mending the old or replacing^ altogether by something new, is the, great springtime occupation. - ^^yearnearfy every Home ' will need mofe-repaifs than usual. If, when values werei.going up, three-or four years ago, we decided not to build, paint or paper and the work'has waited, today the property begins to look run down and cannot be neglected any longer. ¦ About nine-tenths of our joy in living comes from a combinational good health and the satisfaction we take in our surroundings, and there is no better cure for that tired, discontented feeling, " which comes with the first spring days, than to start something interesting in the way of house improvement. ' . -/ For the amount of money invested, nothing gives greater charm to a place than well-selected-paints and wall colorings. How to choose these with economy and good taste is a problem in which we are all interested. Tfce New Wall Papers Are Lovely THE new wall papers are very attractive and even in the lowest priced qualities there are artistic designs and colorings, but in each grade the price per roll is higher than usual, the paper-hanger's labor costsmore.and-iftheroomlookswrongwhen it is finished, one has worse than wasted quite a lot of money. In choosing new wail papers, do not start with the idea that each room should be quite different from all the . others; that you want stunning colorings, or would like a large patterned paper that will "just furnish the room," or a paper which your friends will exclaim about as soon as" they have crossed your threshold. Instead of either of these startling effects, plan to make your walls simply flat backgrounds in pleasant tones of neutral color, against which your more important things, the pictures, furniture, books and small articles, are to.be arranged. In other words, plan to say "hush!" to every wall in your house and ' make them all restfully good and quiet. Until quite recently we were accustomed to hear people speak of wanting a red room, a green room; or a pink, or blue, or brown room, always meaning that this particular color had to be used on the room's walls. And although artists are urging us to have quiet, neutral colors back of our pictures and furniture, persons who do not study coloring very much are still clinging to the idea of rooms decorated in this way. They have not learned yet that when walls are quiet in tone, careful combinations of pale and brilliant color used in the small furnishings, can make a room as delightfully "green" or "blue" or "old rose" as one could possibly wish; and that this is the sane and artistic way to make use of clear color. When a man says that his favorite color is red, he generally means the reddest kind of red; moreover, most men think they would like at least one room in the house done with red walls, and many a house interior has been spoiled by this experiment. For while hotel dining rooms, or public halls may be done in this color (though it takes an artist to do this right) red walls should not come into use at all in the small-sized rooms.of,private homes, for they are very irritating to .the nerves and greatly reduce the apparent size of the room. In this connection it may be ; A DELINE B. W HITFORD well to add that red paint on woodwork-is not desirable in room finishings. Somewhere recently the experiment was ¦/ ' tried of taking two rooms Of the same size, and coloring the walls of one , red, and those of . 'the other; a ' clear, cool ' gray. When both were finished, a committee of men was asked to give an estimate, without'taKffgjany-rrtea'surements, of the number: of ¦: square fetet; in'^h room.' Their exact .figures differed, but their'decision was that - the'roOniMVith' gray walls was nearly oneSthird' larger'than ' the :one with recTwalls. Strong green or brown or blue coloring would haye-had about the' same effect as the red in making theroom look small, but these would have gone further ' and made it depressing! / dark by day, as well as difficult to light up at night. This, too, is/one reason why experienced decorators avoid-the popular deep tan ' color on walls. '" Another reason for not making walls string in tone, even in such tints as pink, blue or green, is this: that four walls of a definite color will ' overpower all other use of this tone in the room. In other words, the rugs, chair covers, sofa pillows, ûnless pictures, and so forth, are very bright, they are out of balance with the strength of the wall tone, while if they are bright and equal to the wall covering, the whole room has of course been frightfully overdone. An eastern writer, in urging the purchase of plainer wall papers, especially those having small patterns, makes this statement: "A room with a very bad wall color—red , green and gilt scroll paper—is This Farm Home Living Room Is Excellently Decorated and Furnished. Moulding at Top of Wall Would Be Good Even if Ceiling Were Not Beamed beyond redemption; nothing can be done to make it attractive; such a paper dominates every other thing in the room and the proportion is hopeless. In this case, only two means can be employed, repaper, or tint over the old paper, if its condition permits." Demand Good Designs from Dealers DO not quote this to make us too discontented with what we may happen to I have but in order that those of us who have new papers to buy may help the move which is being made today called "Better homes in America." Indeed it would be a strong influence towards improving the art of wall paper designing in this country, if each reader of THE FARMER' S WIFE should let her local dealer know that today and tomorrow and from now on, there is to be an increasing demand for designs and colorings which are right when placed upon the walls and not simply attractive in the shops. For the great trouble has been that in buying wall paper we have usually made our choice from a sample only eighteen by twenty-four inches in size, sometimes a little more. In this small area the color and pattern are as interesting as a new picture, we liked them both, and thought we had chosen rightly, and yet only a woman who has had considerable experience can see clearly in her mind's eye how this colored and pictured paper will look when its pattern is repeated ovetand over again on four large walls. It is no wonder that the amateur home decorator is often keenly disappointed in the finished room, and sometimes still more distressed after the pictures and furniture ' are in place. Once on, of course, the hew-paper lias to. stay and as the work of selecting wall-coverings seldom has%be done mOre .thahVpnee ' in several .years;; it is difficult for the buyer to learn much from experiences ' which are so far apart. One can only avoid such disappointment by learning how to study each problem when it comes. . How to Know What to Select IN ORDER to know what tone of paper a room should have, we study the room's light. Sunny rooms will call for some of the tints of gray, while the north rooms or those with little sunshine must have tones which suggest the creamy yellows and light tans. This may sound as though the choice were small, but there are many lovely tones of cool grays, some of which show green or blue or purple tints or even a brown and smoky suggestion of red, yet in reality all are quiet gray. And there are quite as many yellow and buff tones, blended and multiplied into harmonies oi other colorings. Each year the shops show a larger number of patterns to choose from. This spring there are small and indistinct leaves and flowers, which seem like shadows, they are so softly colored; and other designs printed in a variety of clothlike patterns. Papers which look as if they were made of canvas, are printed with dim patterns in the weaving, each done with charmingly soft colors. There are refined, dignified designs for large rooms, patterns having character yet not pronounced in color, and there are quantities of misty, indistinct garden flowers in harmonies which combine pale tones of pinks and blues and straw color and lavenders, the ideal papers for bedrooms and just what every woman loves to choose for the best spare chamber. The large foliage patterns (leaves and ferns in smoky tones of gray and creamy browns, or in yellows and white) are the only examples of artistic large designs; but these, too, are indistinct. They are only used in halls and dining rooms, places where no one stays long at a time and where pictures are not needed—for of course, those huge shadowy leaves are all the decoration an average-sized room can carry. Stripes make a low room appear higher but let the divisions be very indistinct. If they are strong light and dark, or distinct flower stripes, (and especially if there is a small black line running up in the pattern) decide against them; for in a twelveby-fourteen-foot room you will have as many as a hundred and twenty of those up and down lines, and unless they are extremely dim, your walls may look as if they had been fenced instead of papered. When ceilings are high they may be made to look lower (and the room made to appear more homelike also) by having the light ceiling paper carried down on to the side walls for from twelve to eighteen inches. At this line, where wall coloring meets the lowered ceiling, place the picture rail. Dividing walls into upper thirds and having two kinds of wall paper, with mouldings or plate-rails where these join, becomes less and less popular as people 'CONTINUED ON PiOB 346> How About August? Just now seeds are only seeds— but they hold, the measure of your crop. a. & H. seeds meet your ex- ' pectationa at the end of the season. Our friends return each year. For 66 years farmers and gardeners have looked to us for good seeds, plants and trees. Ana they have received them. Over 1200 acres of land are devoted here to careful trials and propagating—we prove before we sell Your catalog is ready. Will you write tonight f •ThaStorrsandHarrUonCo. nurserymen and Seedsmen Bos lfrC P«inw»flle.OMo I nBKff JWUkb ui Fat at Ufa emmmrn {HHFSPECIAL OFFCR^P MSBW ¦•
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