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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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Walls
have
always
offered
tempting
spaces
for
decoration.
Our
ancestors
hung
their
walls
with
trophies.
Our
pioneer
of
to-day
may
live
in
an
adobe
hut,
but
he
hangs
his
walls
with
things
that
suggest
beauty
and
color
to
him,
calendars,
and
trophies
and
gaudy
chromos.
The
rest
of
his
hut
he
uses
for
the
hard
business
of
living,
but
his
walls
are
his
theater,
his
literature,
his
recreation.
The
wolf
skin
will
one
day
give
place
to
a
painting
of
the
chase,
the
gaudy
calendars
to
better
things,
when
prosperity
comes.
But
now
these
crude
things
speak
for
the
pioneer
period
of
the
man,
and
therefore
they
are
the
right
things
for
the
moment.
How
absurd
would
be
the
refined
etching
and
the
delicate
water-color
on
these
clay
walls,
even
were
they
within
his
grasp!
The
first
impulse
of
all
of
us
is
to
hang
the
things
we
admire
on
our
walls.
Unfortunately,
we
do
not
always
select
papers
and
fabrics
and
pictures
we
will
continue
to
admire.
Who
doesn't
know
the
woman
who
goes
to
a
shop
and
selects
wall
papers
as
she
would
select
her
gowns,
because
they
are
"new"
and
"different"
and
"pretty"?
She
selects
a
"rich"
paper
for
her
hall
and
an
"elegant"
paper
for
her
drawing-room--the
chances
are
it
is
a
nile
green
moire
paper!
For
her
library
she
thinks
a
paper
imitating
an
Oriental
fabric
is
the
proper
thing,
and
as
likely
as
not
she
buys
gold
paper
for
her
dining-room.
She
finds
so
many
charming
bedroom
papers
that
she
has
no
trouble
in
selecting
a
dozen
of
them
for
insipid
blue
rooms
and
pink
rooms
and
lilac
rooms.
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