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Bedroom Door Knockers 
HE possession of a Colonial house is 
followed swiftly by the realization 
of the possibility of having an old-time 
door knocker, such as we remember from 
the days of our childhood. It has re¬ 
mained, however, for a Twentieth Cen¬ 
tury manufacturer to carry out the idea of 
applying a knocker to every bedroom 
door, as well as use the large knocker for 
the entrance door. These little knockers 
are practical as well as ornamental, and 
are designed to fit the simple, artistic lines 
of the Colonial door. They are made of 
dull or bright brass and are fastened to 
the door by three screws on the projec¬ 
tions, two as shown in the photograph and 
one under the pendant tongue of the 
knocker. The base of the knocker is a 
flat, heavy surface, somewhat in the form 
of a cross, while the tongue is a heavy 
dumb bell, which makes a sharp, clear 
click against the base when swung upon 
its pivot. 
A Good Color Scheme 
ORONATION papers are very much 
in vogue at the present time. Last 
year Windsor Castle was redecorated 
throughout and many of these handsome 
designs, so rich in color with a back¬ 
ground of deep black, were used. Doubt¬ 
less aside from their beauty this fact has 
much to do with their present popularity. 
These handsome coronation papers are 
not cheap, the French and English im¬ 
portations with hand-blocked patterns 
costing several dollars a roll, and in a 
large room where much of the paper was 
used they would make a fairly expensive 
decoration. However, the papers are so 
rich in color and of such excellent grade 
that a little of them may be used as a dado 
or frieze or in panels, more effectively 
than where a larger quantity is employed. 
A den, library or living-room may be ap¬ 
propriately decorated with this paper. 
A French Chinese Chippendale paper, 
the design in very beautiful soft colors of 
rose, tan and orange outlined in gold on 
a background of black, shows the figures 
of Chinamen at various occupations. One 
sits in a fantastically designed crotch of a 
tree smoking his opium pipe. Above him 
a heron is perched in a decorative swing. 
Two small boys are see-sawing on a fan¬ 
tastic pole swung over the branch of a 
tree. A Chinaman standing on rocks by 
the edge of a brook is tossing a fish into 
a net held by a man in a balcony. All this 
design and much more is cleverly woven 
into this Chinese Chippendale paper of 
unusually lovely color. 
A frieze of such a pattern may be ef¬ 
fectively used with the rest of the wall 
covering of a harmonizing shade of grass 
cloth. The woodwork may be finished in 
ivory enamel with a little warm brown 
paint put into the crevices of the trim, and 
then rubbed off, giving an effect of old 
ivory which is most harmonious and ap¬ 
propriate with the paper of Chinese de¬ 
sign. While the paper at $4.00 a roll and 
grass cloth at $4.50 a roll are fairly ex¬ 
pensive, the other furnishings of the room 
may be more moderate in price and still 
carry out the color scheme and the idea of 
the room. 
In the illustration a black Japanese 
chintz with gold design is shown. This 
costs but 50 cents a yard and may be used 
A small knocker that is artistically simple 
as well as practical 
in narrow strips for the side curtains in 
this black and orange room, thus carry¬ 
ing the black of the border in straight 
lines down into the room. 
Chinese Chippendale furniture finished 
in black instead of the mahogany tint 
which is ordinarily used, and some pieces 
of teakwood, a chair and a stand of sim¬ 
ple, straight lines with little carving, will 
appropriately furnish the room. 
A persistent hunt among the stores 
which carry rugs will result in the finding 
of a few excellent rugs of harmonizing 
color and design. A very few rugs may be 
had with black medallions in the center and 
tones of brown, orange and rose in the 
border. Such rugs are not usual and a 
good deal of time may have to be spent 
in the search for them. 
An effective lamp may be made of a 
piece of black pottery, which will also re¬ 
quire some search, with a shade of soft 
orange silk shirred and lined with rose 
color; or a handsome brocade of Chinese 
design will make an appropriate shade 
for the lamp or electrolier to be used in 
the room. If brocade is used for the lamp 
shade, some of the sofa pillows may be 
made of the same material and one or two 
pillows may be covered with burnt orange 
velvet or velour, both of which are to be 
had at $2.50 a yard. 
The coronation papers come in so many 
beautiful designs and colorings that it is 
difficult to choose the handsomest. An 
attractive design shows birds of paradise, 
old blue in color, amongst peonies of old 
rose. A room in old blue and black may 
be very effectively carried out with the 
use of this paper. 
The illustration showing the birds on a 
branch is called “The Birds of Plumage” 
design and costs but $2.50 a roll. A green 
parrot with touches of rose and blue in 
his plumage, and two other birds with 
their plumage in full color—violet, rose 
and green predominating—have alighted 
on the branches of a peach tree in full 
bloom. The rich color of the blossoms, 
a soft rose, may be chosen for the color 
scheme of the room. A velour in just the 
color of the peach blossoms is to be had 
at $2.50 a yard and the other furnishings 
of the room may be considered to go with 
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