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Show SOME PROBLEMS IN WALL PAPER Matter Seeming to Call for Serious Reflection. In selecting wall paper great car should be exercised. Look at the sample which meets your fancy and then, bringing all of your powers of concentration to bear, Imagine that you are papering a room and continue con-tinue this train of thought until the room Is complete. When that ha9 been done you can determine whether wheth-er the wall paper will look as well In wholesale quantities as in a single sin-gle sample. Next Imagine that it Is a dull, dark day and see how the wall pa- per stm;es you wane you are in tiiai mood. Repeat the process for a bright, sunshiny day. Estimate the amount of fading the wall paper Is likely to do In a couple of years' time and make up your mind whether wheth-er you prefer to have too Intense a color for the next year or so and a wall paper that Is just right for a few years after that, or whether , you had rather have It Just right at the start and as good as nothing the rest of the time. Consider, if you select this particular par-ticular wall paper, how many rugs, pillows and draperies will have to be changed to conform with It and how many chairs will have to be re-upholstered. re-upholstered. Imagine that you have Just come into the room and found that somebody has splashed Ink on the wall or that somebody has run his fingers over it just after he ha been eating strawberry Jam and decide de-cide whether you ought not Instead to get a wall paper with fir trees or other foliage in which ink spots or finger prints could De more reaany concealed. When this has been done and th wall paper virtually selected, go carefully ccr the three or four hundred hun-dred other samples the wall paper man has brought along with hlra just to make sure there Is nothing else you would prefer. If you are the sort of person who generally regrets re-grets a choice, It might be advisable not to flop with one wall papever, but go to two or three more. After this It Is relatively safe to make a definite choice. But don't be surprised if, when the paper Is on the wall, you look at It and say to yourself "can this possibly be th wall paper I selected?" Baltlmor Evening Sun. |