. American cookery. BOUDOIR AND LIVIXG-ROOM boarding house, or furnished-room life,both of which are so sadly lacking inreal comfort? Why should she nothave a home of her own? The room chosen for her experimentwas a long, narrow one. To be ac-curate, it was nine feet wide by twentyfeet long. Its two wide windows, over-looking ugly rooftops in a squalid Italianneighborhood, framed anything but apleasing picture, but they afforded 747 748 AMERICAN COOKERY. VIEW SHOWING GRILLE WORK plenty of light, and could be made effec-tive as well. First came the walls. They must beplain, of course, to furnis
. American cookery. BOUDOIR AND LIVIXG-ROOM boarding house, or furnished-room life,both of which are so sadly lacking inreal comfort? Why should she nothave a home of her own? The room chosen for her experimentwas a long, narrow one. To be ac-curate, it was nine feet wide by twentyfeet long. Its two wide windows, over-looking ugly rooftops in a squalid Italianneighborhood, framed anything but apleasing picture, but they afforded 747 748 AMERICAN COOKERY. VIEW SHOWING GRILLE WORK plenty of light, and could be made effec-tive as well. First came the walls. They must beplain, of course, to furnish just the rightbackground for a few pictures and simplefurnishings. As the transformation wasto be effected as nearh^ as possible byher own hands, wall papers were notconsidered. Instead, a satiny greenJapanese matting was chosen for hang-ings. These strips were easily securedto the wall by means of furniture tacks,from the baseboards to the upper-third,or a trifle higher. For the upper panelthe artist painted a three-feet, deepfrieze in water colors on a bluishgray paper mounted on cheap the gray terraced balustradewere painted delicate pink flowering al-monds, and in bold relief on this ex-quisite background strutted white pea-cocks. This frieze, by the way, was madein two sections to fit the upper wallspace opposite the doorway, and one entire side of the room to the dividinggrille. It was a simple matter to tackit into positio
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