Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1901 — To Decorate a Girl's Den. [ARTICLE]

To Decorate a Girl's Den.

An original girl who has an eye for the artistic has been collecting for some time engravii . >. which In reality are frontispieces cut l. >m high class magazines, pretty little water sketches and Gibson’s famous pen cud ink studies of ids American girls, and wished to utilize her collection in decorating her "don” In some way. Taking the various studies all together, they were hardly worth the expense of framing; so, setting her wits together, she bought some sheets of blue blotting paper, also some gray [taper such as art students use for crayon work and which can lie had for a few cents each. Cutting the blotting paper larger than the, pictures she selected, In order to leave a margin, she fastened each water color on Its blue mat by a drop of scarlet sealing wax about the size of a 50 cent piece and stamped it while soft with her monogram seal used on her letters. The pen and ink sketches she placed In the same iqpnuer on gray mats, only using huge black seals, varying the number of seals and their positions as much ns possible, sometimes using one at each corner, at but two corners, qr only one at the top of a picture. These she arranged on a _panel at one end of her little den. and every visitor she had declared she would "go straight, and do likewise.”