Tlie Island of Capri Frieze 
Modern Wall Coverings 
By LOUISE KING 
A CAREFUL study of the various phases of the 
wall covering foisted upon a patient public for 
the greater part of the past twenty-hve years, 
shows that in the last half decade there has been 
introduced a period of elimination through the manu¬ 
facturer, the designer or perhaps a more discrimi¬ 
nating public. Apparently this season the crux of 
this well-directed crusade is reached. 
The leading wall-paper shops are now showing 
papers which are well suited to the living-rooms of a 
house and are beautiful in color and quality and pat¬ 
terned discreetly where a pattern appears at all. 
Many of the best of these papers are plain in color 
or show a broken effect in two tones or stripes of 
various widths. Papers showing the fabric weave 
are produced in charming shades, neutral and dull, 
crisp and fresh. Soft golden browns, cool greens 
and water blues of this paper are particularlv 
beautiful, also there 
is a pleasing ex¬ 
ample of that 
most difficult of all 
colors in wall cov¬ 
erings, a dull old 
rose to be found. 
The prices vary 
slightly with the 
color, none of them 
however, exceed one 
dollar a roll of eight 
yards. 
There are friezes 
to be used with 
these, some of them 
delightful in col¬ 
or and design; 
although the frieze 
is by no means a 
necessary adjunct to the papered wall, it adds much 
to the eff ectiveness of certain rooms and styles of fur¬ 
nishing. Some of these friezes in eighteen - inch 
widths are as follows: A wind-mill design which 
may he procured in two colors, in shades of dull 
green or delft blue. A bit of country roadway with 
the perspective of shadowy trees and blooming 
hedgerows in the foreground, shows a charming 
mingling of the green of the trees and the blue of 
the sky. 
Particularly well suited to the sunny library or 
morning-room, is the frieze known as “the Birches,” 
full of lights and shadows. In one coloring this 
shows the trees outlined against a pale violet sky 
which combines happily with the gray and green 
tones of its color scheme. 
For a dining-room fitted after the craftsman style, 
there is a frieze showing sturdy Viking ships on a 
tossing blue-green 
sea. This set above 
a high wainscot of 
dark oak or a pan¬ 
eled wainscot show¬ 
ing dull blue grass- 
cloth in the openings 
is essentially decora¬ 
tive. Each of the 
friezes described 
(and m a n y o t h e r s 
which we have not 
space to mention) 
is a well-drawn pic¬ 
ture, the color laid 
on in broad clean 
sweeps. 
For the first year 
of a house it is often 
deemed advisable to 
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