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The Curtaining of Ordinary Windows 
By ALICE L. SMITH 
{Drmui tigs by Sarah E. Ruggles ) 
N response to the queries of many women who have written to House 
an]) Garden on this subject, this article is prepared and offered. 
In a later number we will consider the correct draperies for doors 
and windows in more expensive houses. 
Since the curtaining of windows is of very vital importance to the 
decorative beauty of the room, this is a matter which cannot be lightly 
considered. What is best suited to the various styles of windows one 
encounters in ordinary houses; what material to use for draperies that 
is not too expensive; where to obtain it and how to make the curtains, 
are some of the questions which have been asked. In reply to these and 
others the following is submitted. 
Sketch No. i shows how a too narrow window may be given an 
effect of added width. The actual window from which this draw¬ 
ing is made is in a small house of the extremely ugly period of 
twenty-five years ago. A clever and artistic woman moved into 
it and in a marvelous way and at very little expense converted it 
into a charming home. The dominating consideration of cost 
made enlarging the opening of the window quite impossible, and 
in the way shown in the drawing she overcame the difficulty; 
also as the outlook from these windows was on factory chimneys 
and an unsightly side street, the use of double sash curtains of 
pineapple cloth was found both ornamental and useful. 1 he 
walls of her room she covered with an inexpensive paper in two 
tone stripes of greenish tan which matched perfectly the color of 
the sash curtains. The over-draperies were of wool damask, in a 
dull sage green color made with a three inch hem, reaching to 
the sill and run by a casing at the top on slender brass rods. 
The price of this wool damask is $3.50 a yard and it is fifty inches 
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