Inside the House 
Timely Suggestions and 
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Attractive Bedroom Papers 
A NUMBER of years ago wall papers 
with small conventionalized motifs 
repeated upon them became very popular. 
At that time most of these simple little pat¬ 
terns were made in England, and the 
papers were fairly high priced. Since 
these papers with small repeated patterns 
have been so much in vogue domestic 
papers have, of course, been made in imita¬ 
tion of the imported ones, and the imported 
papers themselves have become much 
lower in price. For children’s rooms and 
quaint, old-fashioned bedrooms these 
papers offer a most pleasing field to work 
in. Small trees, little baskets of fruit or 
flowers, and small conventionalized flower 
designs are the patterns one usually finds. 
These are so simply handled that a stencil 
may easily be made of the design and used 
in a number of ways in the room. 
A dainty guest room may be decorated 
with the paper showing a little fruit tree 
growing in a basket. The basket is yellow 
and green, the fruit red, and the leaves 
green. This on a background of white in 
which there is an indefinite stripe and dot 
of very pale gray. This should be used in 
a room with white enameled woodwork, 
and the paper carried all the way to the 
ceiling. The pattern is too simple to re¬ 
quire a frieze or border of any kind. Such 
a finish would be too overpowering for 
the simple, dainty paper. 
A bedroom set of white enamel furni¬ 
ture should be used. A very pretty and 
appropriate suit, including bed, dresser, 
chiffonier, dressing table, a straight side 
chair and a rocker, may be purchased for 
$96. This price does not include the 
spring and mattress for the bed, which 
may be had for any price that one feels 
able to pay, from a very moderate one to 
a high price for spring and hair mattress 
of the best quality. This bedroom set is 
modeled on simple Colonial lines, and the 
bed is a “four poster.” The posts are not 
very high, and I doubt if a frill could be 
put around the top of the bed without cut¬ 
ting off a good deal of air. A very nar¬ 
row one might be used, however. On each 
piece of furniture the little fruit tree pat¬ 
tern may be stenciled or painted. Three 
little trees may be painted on the foot¬ 
board and the head-board of the bed. A 
tree in the middle of each bureau and chif¬ 
fonier drawer, and one tree on each chair 
on the top splat. This motif may be re¬ 
peated, too, in the panel of each door in 
the room. Curtains of fine white scrim 
with a plain hem will be best to use, and 
on these curtains the same motif may be 
stenciled at regular intervals. The white 
shades may have the pattern repeated 
along the top of the hem. Thus far there 
is very little color in the room, and a little 
stronger note of it must be introduced to 
give the room character. A pretty, me¬ 
dium tone of green will give the room a de¬ 
lightfully cool and refreshing appearance. 
An unfadeable fabric, fifty inches wide,, 
which costs in the neighborhood of $1.25 
a yard, is the material I should choose for 
the over-curtains, the ruffle around the bed' 
and the narrow ruffle at the top of the bed, 
if one were used. If a white enameled' 
willow chair were used in this room, both 
cushion and a pillow should be of the same 
tone of green in a heavier material, of 
which there are many patterns in the sun¬ 
proof goods. Other notes of green may 
be introduced in the bureau and mantel’ 
ornaments. 
Candle sticks of white painted wood are 
to be had for a small price, and these may 
have dainty shades of white silk, with little 
fiutings of pale green. More pottery is 
made in different shades of green than in 
any other color, so we shall not be at a 
loss to get bowls and vases of charming 
shapes for the cut flowers that we wilt 
If the wall paper has some simple unit design, such as the little fruit tree and basket, a more 
complete effect may be attained by repeating it in stencil on shades and curtains 
