Some people are worried by the sight of pictures which are slightly askew, and if they are visitors in a room Where any picture is not strictly level they often attempt surreptitously to adjust it when the hostess is not looking. Unfortunately pictures which are suspended from a single point have a way of falling awry of their own accord. A good method of preventing this is to suspend them from two points and for those who have an acute sense of the horizontal it is worth the extra trouble. In order to avoid the owk ward forward tilt which spoils the effect of so many pictures and to ensure that the frame will hang flat against the wall the screw hangers should be fixed fairly near to the top of the frame.
Picture cords and chains when too much in evidence give the walls an untidy appearance. For large pictures they are à necessity, but in case of smaller and lighter ones, such s water colours or etchings, the cord or wire should be concealed behind the frame. Small patent hangers make almost invisible holes in the wall, and their design renders them capable of supporting any light frame of moderate size,
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