these are all you have, into an interesting cover or cushion. Nothing
in the world gives such a note of distinction to a room as the use of
rare, old silks, properly placed.

The fashion for cretonne and chintz has led to their indiscriminate
use by professionals as well as amateurs, and this craze has caused a
prejudice against them. Chintz used with judgment can be most
attractive. In America the term chintz includes cretonne and stamped
linen. If you are planning for them, put together, for consideration,
all your bright coloured chintz, and in quite another part of your
room, or decorator's shop, the chintz of dull, faded colours, as they
require different treatment. A general rule for this material--bright
or dull--is that if you would have your chintz _decorate_, be careful
not to use it too lavishly. If it is intended for curtains, then cover
only one chair with it and cover the rest in a solid colour. If you
want chintz for all of your chairs and sofa, make your curtains, sofa
cushions and lamp shades of a solid colour, and be sure that you take
one of the leading colours in the chintz. Next indicate your intention
at harmony, by "bringing together" the plain curtains or chairs, and
your chintz, with a narrow fringe or border of still another colour,
which figures in the chintz. Let us suppose chintz to be black with a
design in greens, mulberry and buff. Make your curtains plain
mulberry, edged with narrow pale green fringe with black and buff
in it, or should your chintz be grey with a design in faded blues and
violets and a touch of black, make curtains of the chintz, and cover
one large chair, keeping the sofa and the remaining chairs grey, with
the bordering fringe, or gimp, in one or two of the other shades, sofa
cushions and the lamp shades in blues and violets (lining lamp shades
with thin pink silk), and use a little black in the bordering fringe.