Show HOUSES FOR HOMES In frame houses there is unluckily an almost infinite variety of colored paints When one passes between the rows of small and cheaply ornamented frame houses which disfigure our suburbs sub-urbs and the many parks which run for miles beside all our railroads one could almost wish that paints had I never been invented Are our carpenters carpen-ters and contractors and the buyers of their wares all born color blind that I they can endure without suffering the 1 varied patches of hideous coloring that rush past our aching eyes Red blue green yellow and sometimes aU four or even more on one luckless house But the fault in not altogether in the colors A red house may be even beautiful if the tint be dark and soft like that of the sumac berries and half hidden in masses of green But it is an affront to the eyes when I spread over the boards in a highly I and much beangled house broiling on a sand bank by an unfinished roadway road-way without even a brush to shelter i The once much derided white house with green blinds seems now to be regaining favor and it has at least the advantage of making no pretensions preten-sions to aught but neatness cheer and comfort With plenty of green about it it also is even beautiful Besides the white and the deep soft red in suitable situations there is a good combination of cream color real cream not made with chrome yellow but by mixing a little yellow ochre with a good deal of white lead with white trimmings and there are a few tints of gray or brown which may be used to advantage but only in two or at most in three shades and always al-ways of the same color using the lightest for the body of the house and the darker for the trimmings and window win-dow blinds All attempts at striping or paneling are odious Even after one has done ones best to secure soft ness and unobtrusiveness of color one is impatient for vines to grow and with their cool greens in summer or changing hues in autumn or by the delicate tracery of their denuded stems in winter to soften all crudities of out i line or tnt Harpers Bazar |