Show THE PAPERING OF WALLS an ancient method of De demorat lac i iff wall papers were little used in europe before the eighteenth eig century though they had been lon ion before that applied to house dc sr ati atson n by the chinese those tuat that w were re first aured in the west ivest were adaptations of design from italian brocaded brocades bro cades vades and at ilist they were used in an ve 1 I 0 o in manner amox just as iau hannings hangings hang bigings ings of the o rall material mats rial were empl employed r Dit dickely rely Kely to fili fil spaces between obvious ruc tural lines and so zip applied plied no ob jy t tion on could ts mada to ta their use 0 on a ti ga contrary ary tali bic invention brought it wit T it I 1 ilin the means of almost every liou ho upholder to fill blank wall spaces with ag agreeable tracery and harmonious color th the e cornice frieze and dado reina remained ined intact coiana were protected with molding or pla plaster iter wo work rk and the inmate ma te mi liht bt feel that he was living in in a built room and not in a bandbox but gradually Tra dually the wall features disappeared paper crept over everything ox ax ept window and door openings even into the very angles of tho the walls and it 11 is nothing uncommon now on enter ing h y a saloon of considerable pretension aud and proportions to find the walls walla closey ly with paper from floor boor to ceiling save a narrow film ting board to protect the plaster from broom ant an t u cornice reduced to a meager molding |