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October 24, 1913
The North Platte Semi Weekly Tribune
North Platte, Lincoln County, Nebraska
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Advice on selecting and using affordable, light-admitting silk or cotton draperies for windows to enhance plain rooms, harmonizing with color schemes, and buying by the yard to save money over pre-made curtains.
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DRAPERY FOR THE WINDOWS
Color Scheme Always the Most Important of Highly Essential Ornamentation.
Silk of a color that harmonizes with the room and is of a light quality makes a charming finish as side drapery on the windows, but is not essential, unless the room is very plain and hard looking, and the silk should not be extended over the window to exclude the light. The old style of having the drapery meet across the window at the top and held back half way down by loops is out of date. There are excellent designs also in a thin, silky madras that looks well in on the windows, and many other cotton draperies that are suitable and will not keep out too much light cost a great deal less than real silk. Bought by the yard these are far less expensive than when bought made up in curtain form, and, as the modern and very sensible fad is to have the curtains reach only to the sill of the window, you do not have to buy very many yards.
Color Scheme Always the Most Important of Highly Essential Ornamentation.
Silk of a color that harmonizes with the room and is of a light quality makes a charming finish as side drapery on the windows, but is not essential, unless the room is very plain and hard looking, and the silk should not be extended over the window to exclude the light. The old style of having the drapery meet across the window at the top and held back half way down by loops is out of date. There are excellent designs also in a thin, silky madras that looks well in on the windows, and many other cotton draperies that are suitable and will not keep out too much light cost a great deal less than real silk. Bought by the yard these are far less expensive than when bought made up in curtain form, and, as the modern and very sensible fad is to have the curtains reach only to the sill of the window, you do not have to buy very many yards.
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Interior Design Advice
Home Decoration
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Window Drapery
Silk Curtains
Cotton Madras
Room Harmonization
Light Admission
Cost Saving
Curtain Styles
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Advises using light-colored silk or thin silky madras and other cotton draperies that harmonize with room colors for window side drapery, avoiding exclusion of light and outdated styles; suggests buying by the yard for cost savings as modern curtains reach only to the sill.