WALL PAPERS 



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FlG. 290. A Chinese Paper, Ramsbury, Wiltshire. 



covered with paper were cheaper, and gave greater scope for 

 the unrestricted hanging of pictures and prints as the taste for 

 such things developed. Then, again, more and more people 

 lived in hired houses, and with every fresh tenant new papers 

 could readily be pasted over the old. There was no idea in 

 those days of stripping off the previous papers ; and in dealing 

 with ancient houses as many as twenty layers of paper have 

 sometimes been found. But our notions of sanitation have 

 improved, and in the present day everything is removed down 

 to the plaster before the new paper is hung. 



The Chinese papers, as already observed, had some affinity 



