and colors of costly papers are successfully reproduced in the cheaper grades.  Tapestry papers are too heavy for bedrooms.  Those figured with that mathematical precision which drives the beholder to counting and thence to incipient insanity, and others on which we fancy we can trace the features of our friends, are always distracting, especially during illness, when restfulness is so essential.  The plain cartridge-papered wall with frieze and ceiling either flowered or of a light shade of the same or a contrasting color is never obtrusive and always in good taste.  With a flowered wall a plain ceiling is a relief, and vice versa.  Figures in both walls and ceiling are tiring, besides having none of the effect resulting from contrast.  Walls in plain stripes need to be livened with a fancy ceiling, or ceiling and frieze, with their background always of the lightest tint in the side wall.  One room of particular charm was all in yellow.  The molding had been dropped three feet from the ceiling, giving the impression of a low ceiling and that snugness which goes with it, and up to it ran the satin-striped paper, while over frieze and ceiling ran a riot of yellow roses.  And here was asserted the ingenuity of its occupant, who had cut out some of the roses and draped them at the corners and by door and window casings, where they seemed to cling after being spilled from the garden above.  This same idea can be worked out with garlands or bunches of different flowers, bow knots, or other distinct designs.  No large figures of any description should be introduced into a small room, and the whole effect of the decoration must be cheerful without being boisterous, gay, or striking.  If the ceiling is low, the wall paper continues up to it without a frieze, the molding—­which corresponds with the woodwork—­being fastened where wall and ceiling join.  Backgrounds of amber, cream, fawn, rose, blue, or pale green, with their designs in soft contrasting colors, are the strictly bedroom papers.

BEDROOM WOODWORK

The very prettiest bedroom woodwork is of white enamel, which has that light, airy look we so want to catch, and never quarrels with either furniture or decorations.  But of woodwork painted in any color beware, take care!  Finely finished hardwood has the honesty of true worth and needs no dressing up; but its poor relation, that hideous product of old-time dark stain and varnish is only a kill-beauty, and should be wiped out of existence with a dose of white paint.

BEDROOM DRAPERIES