Evening Star Newspaper, September 25, 1930, Page 58

-D-8 - . A— THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, b o A, 24 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 T970. MANTEL FITTINGS | REQUIRE THOUGHT Fireplace Group and Decora- tions Most Conspicuous Features of Room. © NOT let the mantel become an understudy to the what-not. Usually the fireplace group and the mantel decoration are '-h(1 most conspicuous features of the room, and for that reason should be given a great deal of thought. | Ot course, the mantel itself will de-| termine to a large extent the way lt‘1 is decorated. There are mantels and mantels—everything from the lovely ar-| rangements in stone and wood to the | bilious-looking little green tiles and L skimpy, unattractively finished or over- | ornate shelf. i Overcome Bad Features. Usually little change can be made in the mantel itself, and if it is not a de-| sirable one it must be put up with nnd' its difficulties overcome as much as pos- | sible by the decoration used with it.| Ties that are “just too terrible” | may be painted. Artists' tube paints will stick to anything and the oflend\nll tiles may be covered with this, Other objectionable features of the mantel must be counteracted by the right kind of ornaments, “Not too much” is the answer to all the questions regaiding what and how many to use on the mantel. Objects | placed on the mantel should number three, five or seven, to admit of correct balance and pleasing appearance. They ! should be selected with care, and if as many as seven are used they should be grouped %0 as not to give a cluttered T Here is seen a group of furniture that indicates restful comfort. The uphol- appearance. | stered chair, side table, nearby bookcase and bridge lamp all form & part of the Over-Mantel Pictures. The space above the mantel shelf ealls for treatment. It offers an excel- lent place for a picture—a portrait, & marine or a landscape—but it should | be a good picture. You will see it often, and if it is not & joy to look on you will grow very tired of it. A mirror of suitable proportions may be hung above the mantel. Sometimes a tapestry finds s place there. Whatever is used, it should be of quality and character. COLOR DISTRIBUTION AIDS BALANCED EFFECT Principal in Furnishings Should Dominate in Diffused and Not Startling Way. Tones pian, with the globe and draperies adding to the decorative note. 0 !SEVEN FAITHS EXIST ‘? IN BIBLICAL LEBANON World's Smallest and Asia’s Only | Christian State Has Only 5,421 | Protestants in Its Confessions. | financed by Frank G. Logan, 80-year- EXPEDITIONS SEEK OLD CIVILIZATIONS| Chicagoan, 80, Backs Stud- ies in Africa, New Mexico and North Dakota. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 25.—Three | archeological expeditions, probing the | beginnings of civilizations in Africa, New Mexico and North Dakota, are old dean of Chicago's grain trade. Mr. Logan’s African expedition is seeking the “cradle of civilization” on the fringe of the Sahara Desert. The expedition in New Mexico is uncover- ing & civilization that may carry North American history back at least to 1500 B. C., and antedates the Aztecs. An- other group is studying the last re- mains of the Mandan Indian tribes in North Dakota. All Hail From Beloit. All three expeditions hail from Beloit College, Beloit, Wis,, where Mr. Logan | founded a museum and a chair of anthropology. | ‘This trader-scientist came to Chicago from his birthplace in New York State room group. The hooked rugs, chest, four-poster bed, mirrors, table and lamp combine to give a pleasing effect. in 1870 when 19. In 1877 he founded the grain broker. age firm of F. G. Logan & Co. and be- came one of the ploneers of the great- | est grain_exchange in the world, the | Chicago Board of Trade. | By 1901 he had made a fortune, so ! HOOKED RUGS FEATURE SIMPLE BED ROOM GROUP Simplicity of line and an almost absence of ornamentation are outstanding characteristics of this colonial-style bed | he founded Togan & Bryan, a financial ‘cl] collection at the World Falr. It‘ house, and then retired at the 50 to entertain himself with sci especially anthropology. In 1893 he exhibited an anthropologl of | was one he had gathered as a_hobby. e, | He also gathered a collection of Lincoln | |and John Brown relics which he, pre- | | sented to the Tllinols Historical Soclety. | 1910 Rooms Just Happened Prince Leaves for London. LE BOURGET, France, September 25 (#).—The Prince of Wales, who has been spending a short vacation in Paris, left for London yesterday TOWN'S LEADING CITIZEN CRIPPLE |Paralyzed 20 Years, John Gibson Is Soon to Wed Old Sweetheart. By the Assoclated Press. SAVANNAH, Ohilo, September 25— Jack of all trades, king of most of them, and just at present, ace of hearts, is the story of John Gibson, 34, crippled since boyhood. Gibson directs much of the business life in this little village from a wheel chair, which he moves swiftly with deft twists of his wrist. He is postmaster, Clearcreck towne ship clerk, insurance agent, magazine | agent, town radio salesman, board of education clerk, Ohio Power Co. repre- sentative, trustee for several gas well ventures and notary public. | . Before long he will wed Esther Ever- | hart, a boyhood sweetheart. In the outskiits of this little village he is build- ing a home. Gibson is so much a part of Savan- nah that the names of the village | seldom is mentioned without the name | of the man. | At 16 he was stricken by paralysis. He had been helping to support his family, His father was dead. Citizens raised a purse to send him to a hospital. After two years he re- turned, still a cripple. But he has re- paid his friends by his enterprise, Occasionally the objects on the mantel shelfl are of suffiicent size and impor- tance to take the place of over-mantel decoration. % One especially attractive mantel has for its decoration two tall brass candle- sticks holding dark red candles. These fiank a picture framed in dull gold, of suitable size and shape, in which there is some red, hung on the wall above the mantel shelf. On either end of the mantel are Rookwood vases of dull browns, reds and orange. These vases are not so high as the candlesticks and behind them, leaning against the wall, are pottery plates in the same colors. By incorporating the picture above the mantel into the scheme of decoration of the mantel shelf, balance and sym- metry are introduced Into what would otherwise be an uninteresting group. Home Deporating Taste Comes From Study and Tests Lessons of Great Artists and Master Designers # Essential to Success. BY OSCAR 0. WIDMANN. ‘There are two impressions, both er- foneous, that the average layman holds regarding the decoration.and furnish- ing of & home. They are that the only requisite is good taste and that the elxnploymzxx:t of an lnur:nr decorator is ©of necessity an expensive proposition. Good taste, that intangible bgt gg:e the less very real quality, is, first of all, not an instinct, current opinion to the con- trary notwithstanding. It % In almost A most satisfactory arrangement for | By the Associated Press. a room may be secured by distrijuting| BEIRUT, Syria, September 25— the color throughout the room instead | Biblical Lebanon, Asia’s only Christian of massing it on one side or at one|State and the smallest one in the end. | world, has seven different confessions Using color in the draperies is one of | among lts 826,618 inhabitants, accord- the chief means of introducing it into | ing to the last census. the room, but if the windows are all| Despite mass emigration among peo- on one side or on just two sides, and Ple of their faith, Christains again if there is very little color elsewhere in | maintained their majority. The largest vill | group is the Maronites, with 214,313 S portiness ang ek of balance” "¢ |Sdnerents. In - addition, there are In so far as it is possible to have it | 20,448 emigrants of this faith in the 50, color should be used in equal pro-| United States who still pay taxes to portion on all sides of the room. This is especially true of bright colors, ‘The chief color or colors of the room should predominate in a diffusive way, which is more pleasing than having them startling. The use of plain-color walls, of & subdued shade of the dominant color of the room, will help to distribute it through the room, but care should be taken that the color is, while neutral, not monotonously dull. It requires more skill to furnish a room in which a fig- ured wall paper decorates the wall, but if the paper is wisely chosen and the colors repeated discreetly throughout the furnishings, a more artistic and varied room picture is the result., ‘Wallpaper Important. ‘Wallpaper possesses structural value as well as decorative qualities. Color and design, through proper use, may enlarge or diminish the size, and also remedy faults in construction, by pre- venting attention from being directed to them. Colonials “Best Sellers.” Oak is popular for the dining room and bed room. Maple is becoming more and more popular everywhere. Colonial styles appear to be the best seller all over town. every case the result of much study and comes only after considerable experi- ence. Taste in decoration is peculiarly de- g:ment on an intensive study of the | t that has been done by the great artists and master designers, coupled | with a first-hand experience achieved by the actual carrying out of certain schemes and an intelligent observation ©f the result. Freshness of View. Whereas the tendency of the best of | modern decoration is to eschew imper- | sonal period rooms and hackneyed ar- | rangements in favor of something less | obvious and stereotyped that achieves | & certain originality, yet an effect ined through a mere being different seldom one that has a lasting, pleas- ing quality, or one that will stand the test of certain analysis. Still, a certain | freshness of point of view is commend- sble, if not essential, to the distinguished | interior. It is just in this avoidance of the| slavish following of tradition that the | danger to the amateur lies. How far may one go without being bizarre, or, what is probably worse, plain, dull? In spite of all our emancipation from the | old conventions, there are some inde- finable rules that maintain. There are ! certain *designs, fabrics, even colors, | that fit certain periods and others that | are all wrong in the same environment. | With such & wrong start you can never | hope to capture the elusive quality we | call style and with certainty will ruin | the effect the architect has created in | his background. Proper Environment. It your love is for French furniture and vou have neglected to inform your architect of this fact you are doing him an injustice when you insist on filling the fine Georgian house he may have built for you with' Directoire, Regency or Louis XV pieces, no matter how fine in themselves; and, what much more | intimately concerns you, you have lost the chance to make your home a d!-‘ lightful and charming harmonious unit. You will learn to love fine eighteenth century English furniture in its proper environment, but you will never be pleased, provided, of course, you are not Just plain blind to such things, with an architectural and decorative misalliance. ‘There is no reason why some French pleces may not be mixed with English ones of about the same epoch to ad- - vantage and vice versa, but there are F some that do not agree at all. Why a Louis XVI canape in a room featuring Sheraton, Heppelwhite and Adam can be a delight and. on the other hand, an Empire armchair in a Chinese Chip- pendale melieu be an eyesore is a mat- ter for an expert to determine. Play Important Part. Colors, fabrics, textures all play an important part. There is a real reason why crimson, strong yel and rich blue are more suitable to early English furnishing or to the Italian and Span- ish sixteenth century interior than would be rose, peach or robin's-egg blue. Moreover, tapestries, damasks, brocades and brocatelles have their af- filiation, quite apart from their color or design. | Satin, taffeta, velvets or glazed chintz are more than mere covering for furni- | ture or a means to keep out the t0o | bright sun. To use them intelligently and to their best advantage, which means in the manner that gives the best, final result to the room, you have | to “HOME SWEET HOME” —and the 7 fur- nished rooms ready for your in- spection, F | the homeland. They form one of the | oldest Christian churches. Its history goes back as far as the fourth century, | Tetaining_ Aramaic as the church lan- | guage. Since the Middle Ages, the | Maronites have recognized the Pope, | although they have a patriarch of their own. | 'There are only 5421 Protestants in | the Lebanese republic. The ancient churches, such as the Syrian Jacobite |and the Assyro-Chaldean, claim the | majority of 11,000 churchgoers classed among the minorities. Next to the Maronites in strength are the Sunnite Moslems, with 136,404, and the Shiites, with 113536. CONTEST MINING CLAIMS PHOENIX, Ariz,, September 25 (F).— Stephen D. Pool, deputy registrar of the Pederal Land Office in Phoenix, | said today the Federal Government was contesting 200 mining locations at the Boulder Canyon Reservoir site. In 123 of the contests, he said, the Government charged the locations were of non-mineral character; that min- erals in sufficient quantities had not been discovered within the limits of the | claims to make them valid discoveries, or that they have been abandoned. They Wil revert to the Government in case 1t wins the contests. Famous screen star poses for this picture while resting on a comfortable bed | of distinctive design with draped headboard and rich style of top spread. THE HECHT CO. STREET AT SEVENTH is participating in “National Home Furnishings Style Show Week” September 26th to October 4th our furniture bedding de- partment-—Fourth floor. Homeware-—Third floor. Draperies, Upholsteries, Rugs, Sixth floor. Linen and Domestics, Fifth floor. ISIT N o Of Intriguing newness . . . an American porcelain dinner service for eight. The English bramble berry pattern on deep buff, with three sizes of square plates and the very new cream soups, $27.50. The newest window {reatment— rich damask drapes of an old French pattern, French pleated on a wrought iron rod, so they just clear the floor, $2.50 Yd. For portieres, plain stripe damask, $2.50 yd. 1920 Everything Had to Match 1930 Wood and Colors Harmonize An occasional group of comfort and beauty . . . English club chair, in tapestry, with web bottom and springfilled seat and back, $39.50 and a sturdy mahogany book trough end table for one’s favorite books. §13.95. This harmony of color and wood is the most important new decorative note in New York and European studios. It’'s a practical vogue and its influence affects every- thing in the home. In 1930 things don’t just happen, A most the much used don’t match exactly, but are just a part of a well planned Thirteen glass panes for the thirteen states, show that this is a genuine Winthrop desk, bury Windsor chair, $11.95 and a Priscilla Turner hooked rug from a Massachusetts farmhouse, $17.50. Gov. whole. Startling zigged and zagged draperies tone themselves down to sometimes a single color. China services shed their many colors for more subtle treatments —Rug 8 cease to be gaudy to fit in with the 1930 scheme. It is a season of rest- ful homes, and restful things for the home are now on display at Lansburgh’s, Fifth and Sixth Floors. $63.50 Dux- interesting spot for any living room—Tuxedo type sofa, with comforiable tappette covering in diamond pattein, $52.50, and pullup chair with tufted damask covering, $27.50. From the days of pillory posts and witch Phyfe trails, console comes this Duncan table of brown antique mahogany, with brass claw feet, $17.50. A mahogany ensemble, $8.95, You can build a whole room around the gorgeous colorings in this Kirman pattern Amer- fcan Oriental! Deep bronze and copper shades, with islands of blues and greens, beneath & magnificent ever changing sheen. Lovely floral groups and sprays are combined with gems and trellis work drawn from the Oriental imafination; 9x12 room size, $150. ANSBURGH & BR 7th, 8th and E Sts.—FAMOUS FOR QUALITY SINCE 1860—NAtional 9800 mirror Federal American completes the