Show A PANELED RECEPTION ROOM Slow to Furnish an Apartment Tastefully and Quietly A recent number of The Boston Budget gave a very helpful description of a quiet artistic ar-tistic apartment under the title of a Paneled i I Reception Hoom Some of the cuts and the j more esicntial portion of the letter press are hero reproduced THE ROOlt The floor is covered with a carpet of a deep rich orange red in plain tone Over this Oriental rugs of many dull soft colors aro strewn in great profusion These afford a pleasing variety and richness of coloring The walls are paneled to the height of about five feet They are of dark polished mahogany ma-hogany and are enriched by heavy plain moldings Above this tho mural decoration consists of I wall paper in an inconspicuous deg of a conventional whirlin dark green and deep yellow tones Tho doors opening from this room are heavily paneled with bronze hinges of good workmanship The fireplace is nn imposing im-posing feature It is broad low and arched aDd it i surrounded by unglazed un-glazed tiles of a deep warm r1 Abe the runs a band of rich carvings carv-ings in a renaissance renais-sance scroll pattern It pat-tern On each sido oft h e fireplace panels of different sizes ara arranged while above this r carved band a row of small panel is set Tho broad CV3CK polished shelf overhangs these panels and has on either sido two columns of el sate proportions pro-portions Thesis in turn hold the boa cornice cor-nice which i further supported by rows of paneling on the sides and across the to About half between the shelf and Allut way btwen cornice cor-nice two small shelves are inserted between the columns Tho tiles of the hearth are of a dark olive gray highly polished For a room like the one shown in this illustration illus-tration red should be deep orange r hangings soud b used with sash curtains of white with palo yellow figures pe c you have not abroad a-broad ledge to you window you may substitute something tt it some-thing equally pretty I C pret-ty and appropriate I i the way of a long 1 t box fitting the curve of the w 179 dow and handsomely t d handsome-ly upholstered I a blue to match th I blue of the portiere You may object to the blue and red as colors unmanageable unman-ageable in point pP f f of harmony but Ib you need make no B t T mistakes if mistake i you study carefully the CLOISSOXNE JAIl many examples offered of-fered by tho Japanese in their ceramic decorations In the corner by the fireplace a tall vase will make an effective spot of color The cloissonne jar Is a very beautiful specimen of this branch of Japanese industry This perhaps per-haps is of Cliiucsa manufacture however1 and a it may b of some little interest for u to decide from whose hands It originally came let us examine closely It i of a pale blue at the top with a spray of conventionally treated flowers in light greens and pinks on the bide Tho surface i broken unevenly into spots thy background of which is in some instances white again of the pals blue Iud at the very base of a deep rich blue covered by an allover over design The wire which traces tho pattern pat-tern i about onesixth of an inch in width which alone would show it to b after all the product of Chiucso labor The Japanese vases are almost invariably of a rich dark green Indian red and deep blue The patterns are arrangements of geometrical forms irregularly irregu-larly disposed upon the surface while the wire shows as a tiny line There is one thing which you owe to society and to feminine society particularly and that isn clock in your reception room Every woman wishes of course tJ to make her ceremonious cere-monious call exactly exact-ly ten minutes in duration I she is clover and has taken ad vantage of long experienceshe wiliboablesoto wi b s to arrange tho topics of conversation that they will come SCREEN t the proper climax SCRN max just tis tho olloted time is expiring To tho woman however who is not endowed with this gift for it certainly is a talent a clock is an absolute bon It should be s attractive at-tractive and lovely in appearance that when tier eyes fall upon it she w think as much of its i beauty as of its utility To choose 1 clock i indeed a difficult matter they are to bo found in such variety of stylo and material tonal There are clockssupporting I bronze figure or group there are clocks all gilt and clocks all porcelain and there are the light onyx ones made to represent Grecian basilicas basil-icas with gilt columns and ornaments The ono shown is both elegant and dainty The face i of gilt with the figures in white enamel and with black and gold hands This I framed in Lunevlllo porcelain with I white ground on which are strewn garlands and wreaths of flowers in light and varied chintz colors Every room which contains I fireplace should also hold a screen This may b of wood to match the wood work of the room or of almost any material which tho fancy may suggest It may bo toll and folding or Email and swinging Tho one shown in io sketch has a light gilt frame work with a fairy like design of a wreath and leaves across the top In this frame i stretched apiece a-piece of heavy silk of a deep yellow shade on which is worked in leaves and whih i worke a design leve ad scrolls In the center of th pattern the pound work i of a hcbt galen Itrowo shot with light re |