great distinction in dining-rooms or halls with ivory or cream-white woodwork and wainscoting, and Georgian or Colonial furniture.  One should not use pictures with these papers, but mirrors are permissable and will have the best effect if placed on a wood-paneled over-mantel.  These papers come in tones of gray and white and also sepia.  Oriental rugs, if not of too conspicuous a design, may be used with them, but plain rugs are better with plain hangings and striped silk chair seats.  These papers are very attractive in country houses.  There are also colored scenic papers, an especially fascinating one having a Chinese design which could be used as a connected scene or in panels, and would be lovely in a country house drawing-room or dining-room or hall.  It could also be used in a city house with beautiful effect if due thought be given to the question of hangings, woodwork, rug, and furniture.  Introduce a false note, and a room of this kind is ruined.  These scenic papers come in sets, but the copies of the other old papers come in the regular rolls.  Some of the lovely old “Toile de Jouy” designs have been used for wall paper, and these with other chintz designs, can be softened in effect by a special method of glazing which makes them very harmonious and charming with antique furniture or reproductions of fine old models.  These old chintz papers are lovely for bedrooms or morning-rooms, with fresh crisp muslin curtains and plain silk or linen or chambray side-curtains.  Either painted or mahogany furniture could be employed.  A motif from the paper can be used for the furniture or it can simply be striped with the color chosen for the plain curtains.  Some of the good and rather stunning bird design papers treated with this special glazing make beautiful halls with plain rugs and hangings and chair covers.

Papers cost from about forty cents to several dollars a roll, but the choice is large and attractive between one and three dollars a roll, and there are also excellent ones for eighty-five cents.  It is almost impossible, however, to give a satisfactory list of prices as they vary in different parts of the country.  The reproductions of old scenic papers of which I have spoken are expensive, costing about one hundred dollars a set, but they may go down again now that the war is over.  The difference in expense between paint and paper is not very great, in fact, with the average paper at a dollar or a dollar and a half a roll, paint is about the same, or perhaps a bit cheaper if the walls are in fairly good condition.  It is a mistake to use inferior paper, and there should never be more than a lining paper and the paper itself on the wall.  In some cases where there is only one paper of soft color on the wall, with no lining paper, this paper may be used as a lining paper if it is absolutely tight and firm.  The risk is that the new paste may loosen the old a bit and so let all come down.  Old paper must be entirely removed if there are any marred places as they will show through the new and ruin the effect.