ANT that fe eve muy heart ne known another Mere UH thu amoke, ids afternoons of ive ud And ie that is grave and Stet'0m the air tke hells without And thought, itself, suspends remarking only How delicate the trees, how finely And here the dusk that gathers on the Take, ngs a spell of quiet to the Again ell lead the young moon in Ite wake And. it that moment 1 myself, shalt stand Uncharied {n moods and moons that have known counties thut T called my in fact, directions, and, moreover, there remains 'n suxegestion of the ire chen the straw is Lai flat upon any surface. Tu making the design, this quality of the straw is made the most of, and it can be seen how, with its curious mosaic, can produce the finest, sharpert effects.
Mand-made Wallpaper Walls, too, are now covered with, straw paper. This is in the natural and at a distance it looks fay though the walls were eonposod lof 1 number of short lines of paint the straw paper has peculiar glint and modellingtr which pertain to nothing: else, In this paper, plecee of straw of different short lengths are passed throazh a small machine which splits them and flattens them out, giving a strip about half an inch wide. These strips are then fastened to a backing of paper, which they cover in straight lines. The paper is the stuck to the wall in the usual way.
Straw is dyed in all sort of colours, and colour schemes of yellow and grey are interesting. 'As a rule the plain, natural surface is the most successful, Sometimes itis used horizontally with very good effect, sometimes in zigzag. Its chief effect depends, however, upon its being a natural' substance with a highly polished surface which from the gray in which it grows must be Cut up into comparatively small pieces. A straw oom is rather sunny in suggestion. Any decoration is generally struc tural and in contrast with the dedo or the door or in coloured pieces Tet -into the straw, as in th In & number of French houses
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