November, 1907 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



423 



For the nursery there 

 simply must be a frieze, or, 

 better yet, sections of 

 friezes. And quaint nursery 

 frieze sections may be had 

 separately. The one illus- 

 t r a t e d costs seventy-five 

 cents, and shows the mod- 

 ern sort to be as inspiriting 

 as the old-time sort was 

 namby-pamby. Sturdy lit- 

 tle Dutch boys and girls at 

 play with solid Dutch toys 

 are among the most pop- 

 ular, though that original 

 Cecil Aldin "Cracking the 

 Whip" group has by no 

 means been ousted from 

 favor. Such sections are 

 often framed, or put up 

 with glass headed pins, or 

 pasted between architect- 

 ural features. At any rate 

 they should not be placed 

 around the top of the wall, 

 both because the effect is 

 monotonous and up where 

 the little occupant can 

 hardly see it. 



While this type of deco- 

 ration is best suited to up- 

 stairs rooms, splendid ef- 

 fects may be noted on the 

 main floor of many an at- 

 tractive house. 



A dining-room, foi in- 

 stance, may be vastly en- 

 riched by means of a crown 

 cut from a fruit paper. A 

 certain inviting dining- 

 room in a Florida winter 

 home has its cream wall- 

 paper topped by a design 

 cut from an orange-figured 

 paper, showing fruit that 

 looks as real as that which 

 hangs outside the broad 

 dining-room window. Very 

 often the smaller fruits are 

 utilized with fine effect, 

 though it would be difficult to d 

 itself as completely as the grape, 

 done in natural wood is cut from 



Quaint Nursery Frieze Sections May Be Had Separately 



iscover anything that lends 

 A crown for a dining-room 

 a paper with a Burne-Jones 



ground, which matches the 

 plain paper that is used 

 down to the wainscoting. 

 Upon the heavy, gnarled 

 vine in purple-tan shades 

 are dainty tendrils, leaves 

 of russet and green, and 

 great grapes of deliciously 

 warm purple hues. The 

 pictured crown is cut from 

 a design showing splendid 

 white grapes on a magnifi- 

 cent vine, and is used above 

 a white paper with a high 

 gloss stripe in a room with 

 immaculately white wood- 

 work and rare old mahog- 

 any furniture. 



So out of the ordinary is 

 the French parrot frieze, 

 and so entirely "in the pic- 

 ture" with the Colonial fur- 

 nishings of a Colonial 

 house, that it can not 

 be declared banal even by 

 the greatest stickler for 

 plain walls. No matter 

 how dead friezes may be in 

 the ordinary sense, they are 

 tremendously alive if they 

 be exceptional in themselves 

 or very much in accord with 

 the other furnishings, or 

 with the taste of the occu- 

 pant. This very deep par- 

 rot frieze, which costs 

 $1.50 per yard, shows 

 splendid parrots done In 

 blues and greens and a 

 sumptuous, rosy shade 

 which is both raspberry red 

 and watermelon pink. 

 Some of them are plucking 

 rosy grapes from the mas- 

 sive vine with its richly 

 tinted leaves. With rasp- 

 berry pink hangings and a 

 rug in that tone — what de- 

 lightful warmth! Indeed, 

 color richness is the key- 



note of this superb new French parrot frieze. 



Another exceptional example Is the sunset yachting frieze, 

 which has been used In the seashore house of a yachtsman. 



The Poetic and Fascinating Sunset Yachting Frieze 



