right kind of hangings the effect is most 
restful. We are apt to forget that our 
walls produce the atmosphere of our 
homes and should not, as a rule, stand 
out too strongly in relief. Little jasper 
stripes at twenty-five cents are charm¬ 
ing for bedrooms, and when used with the gay chintzes, 
in which birds predominate, the effect is beautiful and re¬ 
quires little in the way of pictures, or small bric-a-brac, 
to adorn the room. 
Some of the choicest little bedrooms have been covered 
with cream white wall papers of two- 
tone stripe, and their daintiness and 
beauty cannot be surpassed, especially 
with mahogany furniture and white 
paint, or even with furniture to match 
the woodwork; with a chintz pattern 
for chair seats and cushions, there is 
enough pattern in the room to make 
it bright and attractive. 
Although French paneling in paper 
has gone out, the French panel treat¬ 
ment in wood is very much used, 
especially in city drawing-rooms, or for 
a boudoir; but it should be the genuine 
French panel wall treatment carried 
out in wood, and not a tawdry imita¬ 
tion in paper. For years we felt that 
a tapestry dining-room, with mahog¬ 
any furniture and white woodwork, 
could not be improved upon, but this 
season broad two-tone stripes and 
plain papers have almost taken the 
place of tapestries. There are, how¬ 
ever, one or two new papers which 
suggest the old tapestry. One paper is 
two-tone until it reaches within four 
or five feet of the ceiling; here it is 
ornamented with fruit and flowers, 
in colors so soft and seductive that it 
still possesses the background effect. 
One of these new papers, with also 
a two-tone background effect for the 
lower walls, shows a wealth of Dutch 
tulips falling from the frieze line. No 
picture molding could be used on such 
a paper, because the cords could not run 
through the frieze, and a severe line of woodwork coming 
just below the frieze would spoil the charming unbroken 
effect; so, in a room papered in this style pictures might 
well be omitted. Plain hangings, or hangings with a fruit 
border, would be correct for such a room, 
Gone are tile effects in bathroom 
papers, and tiny Colonial figured 
papers have entirely taken their place. 
A small diamond pattern, in soft 
color, is particularly charming for a 
bathroom wall; but one lady has used 
this pattern in yellow for her halls in 
a large Colonial house in the country, 
and all who see the paper realize that 
it might have been designed especially 
for that place. It has a slightly pol¬ 
ished surface, so is easy to keep clean. 
Stripes are wider than ever this 
year, but there is so little difference in 
the color value of the two tones that 
they give almost the effect of plain 
paper, and what would be aggressive 
in a two-tone stripe is in perfect taste 
in these new papers. 
Very beautiful is the striking pat¬ 
tern and strongly colored bird paper 
intended for a large room; when used 
on the upper walls above a plain base 
it is distinctly decorative, whereas, if 
the same paper were used all over the 
walls of a tiny room, the effect would 
be overpowering and aggressive. 
The English poster friezes still hold 
their own, especially when used with 
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A tan cheviot paper bearing an Art Nouveau 
outline pattern in brown 
A poster frieze in red and green on a tan cheviot 
ground 
This kind of floral design becomes exceed¬ 
ingly tiresome through repetition 
i suing peonv irieze tnat wouiu ue suitaDie 
for lower hall, dining-room or living room 
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