Show THE PAPERING OF WALLS 11 hotrod of demorat 1 iff Ilo naci papers were little used in en before tle eighteenth couture cou tury hoir cli they had boford that to house decoration by chi bicsi those t nat fai st arcs in the vest were adaptations of acain aiom italian and at arst they were used in en E n ble manner juat as cf tho male rial were employed famoly co fill spaces between obvious structural truc tural lines and so applied no ob action could be mada to their use on he contrary the invention brought it the means of almost every to fill blank wall spaces rith agreeable tracery and harmonious olor tho coroice coro frieze and dado remained intact were protected with bolding or plaster work and the innate might mig ht feel that he was living in a built room and not in a bandbox ant gradually tho wall features disappeared paper crept over everything ox ept window and door openings even nto the very angles of abo walls and it is nothing uncommon now on entering a saloon of pretension and proportions to find tho walls closely covered with paper from floor to coiling save a narrow board to protect tho plaster from the housemaids house maids broom and a cornice reduced to a meager molding |