Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1914 — TO DECORATE DINING ROOM [ARTICLE]

TO DECORATE DINING ROOM

Pottery and Chinaware Should Be Selected With a Good Deal of Taste and Discretion. —: — i If you have a blue dining room and have some really good Japanese or Chinese porcelain, or china in blue and white, use it, and use nothing else, unless It be some interesting lit; tie Japanese or Chinese knicknacks in brass —a gong or a tiny idol perhaps. Wedgwood is a beautiful plate-rail decoration if It is used alone; but unfortunately, there are few who possess enough .of it to furnish a whole plate rail. If modem pottery Is used, It is well to choose the whole furnishing of the plate rail at once. There is a certain brown and cream colored ware in thq market now that could be used effectively in the room where yellow or brown predominates. The ware is decorated with peasant scenes. There are many good designs In royal doulton of various sorts that can be chosen. Only they should be selected with a definite idea In mind of the other pieces with which they are to rank and of the room they are to decorate.