Twentieth century culture and deportment, or, The lady and gentleman at home and abroad : containing rules of etiquette for all occasions ... . ting for a beautiful moving picture of the shiftinggroups of people in it. Too much gilding, too many gaudy oil paintings attract the eyeand distract the mind. There is a simple picture in my room, red curtains, a white-robedchild kneeling, that is all, but everything in it harmonizes, and itharmonizes with the furnishings of the room, and my eye is oftendrawn toward it. One authority objects to portraits as a decoration. Their presence,if at all impre
Twentieth century culture and deportment, or, The lady and gentleman at home and abroad : containing rules of etiquette for all occasions ... . ting for a beautiful moving picture of the shiftinggroups of people in it. Too much gilding, too many gaudy oil paintings attract the eyeand distract the mind. There is a simple picture in my room, red curtains, a white-robedchild kneeling, that is all, but everything in it harmonizes, and itharmonizes with the furnishings of the room, and my eye is oftendrawn toward it. One authority objects to portraits as a decoration. Their presence,if at all impressive, is too stimulating. Picture frames should never be so gorgeous as to distract the mindfrom the picture. Frames are to protect the picture and relate it tothe walls. Group etchings together and put engravings in the portfolio. Overlow bookcases pictures should be large, and in this form they give astyle to the room. Water colors look admirable if treated in thismanner, and if two bookcases are put together so as to form one, 490 ARTISTIC HOME DECORATIONS, divide the pictures by a bracket, on which place a jar of some SELECTING PAINTINGS FOR HOME DECORATION. Small rooms require medium-size pictures, which can be hung oneabove the other, and three may even be placed on line with goodeffect. For an ideal head in oil the frame should be of broad gilt. ARTISTIC HOME DECORATIONS. 491 Hang it in a good light, and on one side group two small water-colorpieces in the fashionable white band frame. For an oblong picture asmall sketch under it looks well equipped. A very large and beautiful picture sometimes sets the keynote ofcolor for the apartment. Otherwise, subordinate them as decorationsto the colorings of the room, as in the ivory and gold room. In a room where there are to be many pictures, give rather aneutral color to the walls, merely as a picture background. Wherethere are finely decorated walls pictures are rather out of place, sinceone decoration spoils
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