Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1914 — USES FOR THE SCREEN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

USES FOR THE SCREEN

VALUABLE fiOTH AS ORNAMENT ANO FOR SERVICE. Probably at Its Best in the Bedroom ■■ Suggestion Shown In the Drawing la Well Worth Taking Note Of. While the screen is useful and appropriate in many rooms, I might say that in the bedroom it is at its best. Here there are so many uses to which it may be put, and its decorative value is in no way impaired, writes Ethel Davis Seal in the Washington Star. I have in mind a bedroom of one of my acquaintances. The single French bed is of ivory, with cane insets. The bed springs are upholstered in white grounded bird-of-paradise cretonne, and the bed is further fitted out with a daytime bedspread of the cretonne, and a cover for the bolster roll. The floor, is covered with an exquisite small figured blue-and-ivory Wilton rug, and the walls are papered in a pale robin’seye blue. The ivory-colored furniture is upholstered in chintz —the caneseated wall chairs having tie-on chintz cushions. And the screen, which is placed just at the head of the bed, is one of those attractive “window" affairs, with panes of glass inset at the top. The wooden frame is enameled in ivory and filled with the blrd-of-paradise cretonne. You can see that this; screen fits admirably into the scheme of things. And it is a lovely thought to be protected against the evening draft or the morning light by anything so beautiful. Such a screen may be seen in the drawing. It is shown in connection with a French stool. The wide middle panel is an especially pleasing feature. For a bedroom the ‘ lower panels could be filled with cretonne or some such material, while, If the screen were to be used in a room not quite so formal, such as a semi-recep-tion room, the filler might be of very heavy upholsterer’s silk ornamented with decorative basket designs in embroidery. For a boudoir, personal sitting room of semi-reception room, the screen should usually be more. handsome, a damask, brocade or silk filler being quite appropriate. Wonderful things can be done if you’ll only take your courage in your

hands and forge right through. And in the homes of the only moderately well-to-do have I seen the- most charmingly tasteful results. They depended not so much on their ability to spend money as on their innate love of beauty and their joy of contriving. They have not become mentally inert.