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WALL PAPERS FOR BEDROOMS 
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quite silly shape on a plain white 
ground. That, too, gave the illusion of 
space. In these papers it is the contrast 
that counts and provided there is enough 
of the clear light ground showing to 
keep the light reflection sure, the sharp¬ 
ness and darkness of the other colors 
only serve to enhance the effect of airi¬ 
ness and openness. These papers with 
their vigorous, colorful patterns are 
quite masculine enough for men’s rooms. 
The effect of spaciousness is achieved 
in the same manner, sometimes by pat¬ 
tern, often by contrast and sometimes 
by color. For the most part, the paper 
which gives no hint of definite limita¬ 
tions of space in its measures or its 
movement is the most successful. Let 
the pattern lead you on from point 
to point and your room becomes limit¬ 
less in its dimensions. For the large 
room, you may prefer the more definite 
designs, for a large expanse of plain 
neutral toned walls is monotonous and 
lacking in decorative effect. 
The wall should make itself felt as 
an integral part of the room .scheme. 
Too light a tone in a large room is just 
as bad as too dark a tone in a small 
room; too little decoration just as bad 
as over insistent decoration in a small 
space. There should be enough pattern 
and color interest for the wall to hold its 
own and slip into every other shape, 
color, and bit of pattern in the room. 
Then you have the perfect background. 
There is nothing better for bedrooms 
than the chintz papers, and they come 
all the way from the dainty, delicate 
and almost lace like effects to the 
stronger, more sharply defined colors in 
more decorative vein. These latter are 
splendid to use in rooms in which the 
wall is to be a large part of the furnish¬ 
ings, so often the case in the bedroom. 
The old rule, a figured wall and plain 
curtains, need not frighten the lover 
of color. With these chintz patterns 
the jolliest of effects are obtained by 
quite the reverse order of procedure. 
The piquant notes of color and design 
in the walls need equally distinctive 
draperies to bring out their full beauty 
and give the room the snap and interest 
it should have. So long as the move¬ 
ment is harmonious and the colors are 
in accord, there is nothing to fear, and i 
often much to gain. , 
For those who do not enjoy the 
flowered designs of these papers there 
are the blends, the stripes and the little 
plain effects, many of which come in 
fascinating textures and colors. There 
are also the quaint, old-fashioned papers ' 
with their set geometric figures, par¬ 
ticularly good in the early American 
rooms so popular just now. 
Study your room carefully before be¬ 
ginning to decorate, especially regarding 
the light. Keep the feeling of space, air 
and openness and you will have a bed¬ 
room, refreshing, pleasant and restful. 
Wall paper plays a large part. Before 
planning anything else, decide on the 
background best suited to the size and 
light of the room. Then choose the 
paper that in addition to these other 
qualities will give the greatest interest. 
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to the LOG CABIN 
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of sunlight drifting through a filagree 
of green. But when choosing a lake 
shore for your site, don’t forget that 
the season when you are there is its 
mildest and friendliest aspect. Other 
times, if it is a shallow lake, the melt¬ 
ing snows and spring freshets will raise 
it, or if it be like our own old mon¬ 
ster, it will lash itself into wild fury 
under the pressure of equinoctial storms. 
Angry waters have a way of gnawing 
beyond a reasonable reach. 
The suggestion to choose a site high 
and dry is likely to bring a smile of 
amusement. Yet a spot that appears 
dry as a barn door in hunting season 
may be partly under water at other 
times of the year—at least this is true 
of melting seasons in Minnesota and 
Wisconsin. On the contrary, to build 
upon the highest point, unprotected, 
will make you the victim of the pre¬ 
vailing winds. Our cabin site is just 
enough higher in level to admit of the 
drainage being from it on all sides, 
and is sheltered by trees from all the 
unkindness of the elements. 
Of course you will choose to dwell 
among trees—probably among ever¬ 
greens. Keep in mind that balsams are 
more lightly rooted than sister spruce 
and more likely to drop athwart your 
beloved cabin, victim of winter winds. 
Maple, oak and larp healthy birch 
are staunch, and white pines a body 
guard. Some trees will have to be 
cleared out for your building, but in 
doing this, leave them remaining in 
groups, for trees like humans, seem to 
thrive better with a few well selected 
comrades to grow alongside. Sound 
trees, well-rooted and in friendly groups 
will withstand all save fire. 
F'ire is a hazard—but not such a 
fearful one as some would have us 
imagine. The pioneer cabin is invari¬ 
ably in a clearing. To the pioneer type 
of mind ruthlessness indicates his 
strength, and love of beauty is a crim¬ 
inal weakness. I still sicken with the 
memory of a grove of a hundred year 
old cedars that a certain neighbor set¬ 
tler sacrificed to some vagrant fancy 
for a cabin-site. Once in a while I 
wish Nature were animate enough to 
tell impertinent Man what she really 
thinks about his smug, spry little de¬ 
cisions ! 
As to the soil, there is a Biblical 
precedent for not building upon yielding 
ground or shifting sands. The cabin 
must be builded upon rock—in fact 
upon several rocks whose base 
must be fixed in firm soil foundations. 
Upon these the sill lo^s may be laid 
to hold the floor joists with every con¬ 
fidence that they will be as solid as 
American currency. 
It all comes to this: Use your com¬ 
mon sense and see your dream cabin 
clearly in imagination before a stake 
is placed—for a man is judged by his 
site. A practical man of affairs dis; 
puted this with me recently and as his 
best argument instanced the site of his 
own summer home—a rather preten¬ 
tious affair upon a large acreage. Of 
course I had to accept in silence for 
how in the world could I tell him that 
I learned to know him from this very 
thing ? I had discovered his garage 
placed upon a point of vantage—com¬ 
manding a view of hills upon hills 
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