Show r HANGING OF PICTURES how to arrange them effectively in a nursery or childs room pictures should be hung about on the general eye level and this rule must be remembered and adapted to the eye ere level of a child when hanging pictures in ID a chi lils room or in a nursery says lues lucy abbott throop in the womans comans houle companion the pictures will not be noticed at all if i hung too high pictures should be grouped according to the simple rule of balance taking a central vertical sits ails on a wall pictures of 0 equal size and general similarity ot of tone and tolor color value will balance at equal distances from it or oue one large picture will balance two pictures of half its size at equal distances from the center it if one has one fairly large picture to balance with several smaller ones the heavy hen vy one Is to lie be nearer the center and this will keep the feeling of balance if you watch children on a seesaw it will explain this if a heavy boy 1 Is on one end he moves nearer the center aud add several smaller aller boys may be needed to make the bat bal ance perfect large picture Is usual ly most effective effert lve when placed alone in a space with its center coinciding wit will b the center of the space two large pictures one on eich each side of a mantel piece for instance give a feeling of restfulness aud and dignity by their perfect balance pictures should be grouped to in such away a way that they have a relation to each other are balanced on a center and in this way are made to tell as a whole it Is a useful rule to remember bat things become disconnected when they are divided by a space apace exceeding the width or length of the objects themselves for instance two pictures each I 1 by 2 feet when hanging banging one above the other must not be more than one foot apart and not more than two feet apart when side bide by side pictures should be hung from two hooks books and there should never be a triangle formed by the wire and the top ot of the picture frame the construction lines ot of the room are straight aud and the picture wires should also be straight it is better not to have the support of small pictures show as it makes too great a complexity of wires tacks lacks or small picture nails kiy may be used according to the size and weight at f the picture |