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Title: The world's opportunities and how to use them
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Guernsey, Alfred H. (Alfred Hudson), 1824-1902
Subjects: Industries
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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hief attractions ? Marble findsits proper place in the interior architecture of churches andpalaces, where, fashioned by the sculptors hand, it fulfils trueartistic conceptions. W^ooden mantels satisfy the eye far bet-ter. Any one of our native hard-woods is appropriate: ash,maple, chestnut, or oak. A room otherwise in good taste isoften spoiled by a mantel of white or black or variegated mar-ble, or by some marbleized imitation, worse even than an im-itation mahogany or rosewood door. Carpets are the prevailing weakness of an American house-wife. Whatever a woman may confess herself unable to do, it isnot easy to find one who will endure even the hint that she cannotselect a carpet. Possibly she may be qualified to do this, so faras quality is concerned; but the carpet is essentially for deco-ration, or rather it is the foundation upon which the other dec-oration rests. The carpet is part of the floor; it is to be trod-den upon, and it should never suggest any unfitness for this use.
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HOUSEHOLD DECORATION AND FURNITURE. 391 This precludes all direct representations of fruits and flowers,of birds and beasts, of vases and medallions. A carpet of verylight color is out of place and always unpleasing. The tone ofcolor should be at least as dark as that of the darkest part ofthe walls, nor should there be any mass of color so decidedas to force itself upon the eye. Perhaps the highest praisewhich could be accorded to a carpet would be that it was so ex-actly adapted to its place that one did not consciously look atit at all. For many reasons, and especially for sanitary ones, it is tobe wished that carpets were much less used than they are. Forall situations, as halls and staircases, where there is much tread-ing within a small space, they are out of place. At the bestthey hold dust, and are not easily kept clean, so that they aredecidedly objectionable in bedrooms. It would be far better,instead of a carpet nailed fast and covering the whole floor, tohave movable strip

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