June, iqio 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
to Little Red Ridinghood. The four col¬ 
ored panels were then varnished and the 
moldings replaced. The children are de¬ 
lighted with it, and as Walter Crane's 
colored drawings are to be had in these 
inexpensive books, it occurs to me that 
this will suggest another decorative use 
for them in nursery and playroom. 
E. T. 
Old-fashioned Wall Paper 
' I ' HE wall paper in our house, which is an 
A old Colonial one in excellent preser¬ 
vation, was until recently, in very good con¬ 
dition, the large hall having had very quaint 
old-fashioned patterned paper with little 
landscape medallions in gray for its design. 
This paper was a very old sort, and I am 
writing to ask if anything like the old-fash¬ 
ioned patterns may be obtained nowadays? 
N. R. 
One may obtain just the sort of paper 
you desire, at various prices up to $2.50 
a roll. At this latter price there may be 
had, from the firms whose address has 
been sent you, a lovely gray paper with 
greenish - gray medallions of pastoral 
scenes. Then there is a cheaper paper 
with mythological scenes in gray relief, 
and a lovely “Shepherdess” pattern in 
warmer grays. Indeed one will find 
many reproductions of old-time wall pa¬ 
pers in the market to-day, and they are 
just the thing for the walls of Colonial 
rooms. 
One Stenciled Pattern Through¬ 
out a Living-Room 
HE hangings for the living-room here 
pictured were of rough linen in its 
natural pale brown tint, and domestic 
monk’s cloth in the same color. 
The conventionalized Iris-group was 
stenciled on these draperies in dark blue, 
the medium used being a dye that comes 
in large tubes and can be mixed with 
boiling water and kept from running by 
The portieres were stenciled in dark blue 
upon ecru monk’s cloth. Dark blue mer¬ 
cerized couching cord marks the center of 
each Iris and helps to form the border 
a slight intermixture of mucilage. “Ca¬ 
det” and “navy” blue were mixed to get 
the desired shade. 
The broad windows in this room were 
curtained in plain cream-colored scrim; 
but the side curtains and valance were 
of linen in its natural color. The long- 
side strips were made very full, while the 
valance above was made of a straight 
strip of the linen, 25 inches deep and 2 
yards long. 
Five inches above the lowest edge the 
Iris-figure was stenciled on the linen, a 
space of 2j/2 inches being left between 
the lower portions of each of the triangu¬ 
lar figures. A deep border of solid blue 
was then painted on, so arranged as to 
fit in deep scallops between the flower- 
groups. To do this, a piece of stencil 
paper was cut in large scallops, 4g> inches 
For the natural linen curtains a scalloped 
solid blue border was used. The smaller il¬ 
lustration is of the table scarf 
deep and 11 inches wide, and these scal¬ 
lops were then laid over the Iris-groups, 
and all the material extending below the 
scallops, painted blue. In the same way, 
by pinning a straight strip of stencil pa¬ 
per an inch from the edge, a straight dark 
border was stenciled up the sides of the 
curtains. 
The scalloped border and dark side 
borders were then outlined with dark blue 
mercerized couching cord. 
On the couch-cover of ecru monk’s 
cloth the stenciled figure was arranged as 
an "all over” design; the Iris-group be¬ 
ing dotted at regular distances over the 
entire surface. A border was formed by 
making two rows of closely clustered 
flower-groups, with a solid band of dark 
blue painted along the edge. This solid 
border was four inches deep, except where 
the stenciled figures came; the scallops 
that were used in the curtains being here 
laid over each flower group, narrowing 
the solid border beneath. 
This solid band was outlined by a dark 
blue mercerized cord, and the centers of 
each flower marked by two stitches of the 
On the couch cover the stenciled pattern ap¬ 
pears on monk’s cloth with a solid blue 
border 
couching cord to give them a bit more life. 
On each of the portieres the Iris-figure 
was arranged as on the couch cover; and 
the centers of these blossoms also marked 
by two stitches of the heavy cord. But 
the portieres had no solid blue band 
painted on as a border; lines of the 
couching cord alone setting the border off 
from the rest of the curtain. 
• A table scarf was made of a strip of 
monk’s cloth, with the Iris motif stenciled 
on each end. In this case the whole figure 
was outlined with the heavy blue cord, 
which also marked the hem at the sides 
and ends of the scarf. 
Curtains for the built-in bookcases 
were also made of the monk’s cloth, with 
the stenciled figure painted in a close bor¬ 
der just above the hem. The couching 
cord marked the top of this hem, and ran 
up the inner side of each curtain. 
Harriet Joor. 
A Problem in Bedroom 
Furnishing 
\\T E have just bought a cottage in the 
* country on a quiet road half a mile 
from the village. I want to make the three 
sunny bed-chambers bright and attractive, 
and it has occurred to me that the English 
chintz styles, of which I have read, would be 
appropriate. The rooms are all very large, 
and we have a lot of old-fashioned mahog¬ 
any furniture (four-posters, etc.), with which 
to furnish it. Will my suggestion be all 
right? E. V. R. 
If your rooms are large and cheerful 
and sunny you could make very attract¬ 
ive bed-chambers by painting or enamel¬ 
ing the woodwork ivory white, tinting 
the ceiling to correspond, and papering 
the walls with one of the many wall pa¬ 
pers now on the market to accompany 
chintz fabrics. We send you the ad¬ 
dresses of dealers who make a specialty 
of such wall papers and chintz fabrics to 
match. These papers cost from fifty 
cents up per roll, and the chintz from fifty 
cents up per yard. However, the fabric 
is of good width. This season wall pa¬ 
per manufacturers are also showing de¬ 
lightfully designed papers of English 
make, patterned with quaint sprigs of 
bright old-fashioned flowers, unlike any¬ 
thing that has been on the market before. 
Possibly some of these papers would ap 
peal to you. Thev should be used with 
monochrome curtains. 
