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Show DECORATIVE PLAN HANGS ON YOUR DRAPES t r lr4 1 -- 4i I in mi --- 1 1 1 ii iinn r ii - - i By MARIAN YOUNG NEW YORK Important Interior decorators agree that If th rug and curtains In a room are absolutely right, th business of finishing Itgetting slip-covers, lamps and other accessorlea Is not too difficult They even go a itep further, admitting that ths right curtains and smartly chosen slip-covers can make up for lack of beauty to a rug which you don't Ilka but simply can't replace at th moment -If th rug Is figured, draperies must be plain. Too many patterned fabric make for a confusing effect If th walla ar plain, consider figured draperies. But If you have flowered wallpaper,, th plainer th curtains, th better: Generally speaking, over-curtains should b lined and weighted. Plain inexpensive ss,teen In a neutral shade, I most popular for lining. Class curtain need no lining, of course, arid only th draw varieties are weighted. Th greatest slngl mistake you can make is to hav skimpy draperies at a window. Use material no less than 40 Inches wide at 36-Inch windows. Fifty-Inch material Is even better. In formal rooms, bottoms of over-curtains may touch the floor. Or they may be from three to ten Inches longer thai necessary and allowed to lie on the rug in soft folds. In th average room, however, over-curtains Just miss touching th floor. They should be no mors than on Inch from It, however. , Glass curtains, whether of the draw, tie-back or straight-hanging straight-hanging varieties, also must be full enough and long enough. It Is advisable to use materials which 'ar guaranteed not to shrink mora than one per cent In washing. Practically all over-curtains ar pinch-pleated at th top. ' So are many glass cm tains. They antra Id be a carefully mad- aC fin lingerie with as llttl as possible of machin stitching showing. Fixtures, whether ilmpl poles or mora elaborate cornices, should be of first quality. Cheap poles, haphazardly put up, have a tendency to sag In the middle. When they do, th entire room take on a don't-carc-nobody-lives-here-anyway air. Seldom are glass curtains and over-curtains put on th same rod. For the former, simple poles are fastened across th top of the glass inside the window. The latter may hang from pole above the window, from underneath a cornice made of wood, glass or mirror, or may be tacked to a special wood fixture. The wood fixture to which modern over-curtains or pleated or i" U valances may be tacked usually Is a board, three-quarters three-quarters of an Inch thick and four or six Inches wide. On edge Is nailed to the wall above th window. Over-curtains are tacked to the outer edge. This make them pro trod a few Inches and achieve a graceful effect Graceful, lacquered cornicM concaal th tops of fht straight-hanging, straight-hanging, printed drsperi. of th typ tily available in horn furnishings departments during midwinter tales. A two-inch band of fringe -varicolored to harmonii with th ihadai in th drsperi i it used on Inside dgt end at th bottom. |