Secret of Color
Scheme Shown
hy Simple Rule
Application of Knowledge Re
garding Relation of Differ
ent Colors Insures Har
monious Effects.
The teacher of a grade school and
p a group of pupils, hoys and girls of
and 10 years, were going through
rne galleries of the Chicago Art In
stitute. They stopped before Jules
Breton’s “Song of the Lark," the well
-known picture In which a French
peasant girl stands looking upward
toward the sky as the blood-red sun
i ises behind a patch of verdure.
Everybody knows it.
“You see the red sun and the
green,” she said. "Can one of you
tell me why the red and the green
harmonize so well?”
No answer.
“Now t£ll me the primary colors
that all other colors are made from."
"Red, blue and yellow," came in
chorus.
"Now, what is the green made
from?”
“Blue and yellow,’’ came the an
swer from two or three.
“That’s right,” said the teacher.
“When a color Is made from two
other colors—primary colors, we call
them—it harmonizes with either of
the others and with their mixture.
Here’s the secret of why the red and
the green go so well together. The
^f red likes the green. Not every shade
^ of green, but the dark green in the
picture.”
“The red likes the green.”
Color Secret.
Right In thoset five words the
teacher told the secret of color com
binations. It’s ridiculously simple,
isn’t it, and still it's the principle
that all artists and decorators work
■ on—from designing a gift card to the
W beautifying of a great building. Let
us take a look into their plan and
, perhaps we can work ont a rule for
any1 homemaker to go by in working
out a color scheme for her rooms.
It isn’t often that the primary
odors, red, tilue and yellow are used
pure in home decoration. They are
too strong—too intense.
But if we make a diagram of the
primary and the secondary colors that
are made by mixing the primaries, and
then follow up the rules used by art
ists and decorators in combining
them, we may get at a plan for home
makers to form their own judgments
by, as to what is right In color. Pri
maries are marked P and secondary 8.
Violet—8
Red—P Blue—P
Orange—8 Yellow—P Green—S
Between the primaries are the
secondary colors that they produce—
orange from red and yellow; green
fiom blue and yellow, end violet from
red and blue. Now we have the basis
to work on.
The pure secondary colors are made
from equal combinations. If more of
one color Is used than of the other,
i he resulting shade is “grayed” and
“graying” Is one of the tricks in color
combinations. Another is by “keying.”
“Keying” Colors.
By “keying” colors we bring them ■
nto harmony by mixing with some
other color that they "like.” Red and
yellow are not harmonious in their
The Writing Desk
Writing desks are always useful pieces of furniture and in almost
every room there, is a place for such a delightful one as this.
Restful Dining Room
The above illustration shown the dignified effect of restraint In furnish
ing the dining room.
pure state, but by mixing them with
blue, a complementary color, we get
violet and green, which make a ^>od
combination.
Then by following the same process
from the secondary colors through to
the Intermediates, which are not prop
erly colors, Jiut shades, we get the
same results. If we put green and
orange side by side, we find they
are not harmonious. But if we mix
them, in varying proportions, we get
olive of different intensities, for in
olive we have the red and yellow of
the orange and the blue and yellow of
the green. It's like chooelng roads
which lead to a common center. If
we mix green and violet we get slate.
which Contains the red and blue of
the violet and the blue and yellow of
the green. In the same way, violet
and orange make maroon. By mak
ing a sort of a map, as It were, of the
colors and their derivatives and visu
alizing them with colored samples,
the homemaker may check up on the
advice given by the painter or wall
paper salesman. Or she may make
combinations for herself with a case
of water colors, always keeping In
mind the shades which ‘'like" one
another—that Is, shades which hpve
primaries in common. If she will fol
low color combinations found in plant*
she will not go far wrong
(Copyright, 1111)
Mr. E. B. Williams
Is Omaha’s Pioneer
Washing Machine
Dealer.
Years of time and
study devoted to the
Electrical Washing
Machine business
has won for him the
enviable reputation
of America’s fore
most exclusive Elec
trical Washing Ma
chine Man.
To Mr. Williams,
the initial sale is
simply an introduc
tion—a chance, if
you please, to prove
the value of Wil
li a m ’ s Perpetual
Washer Service.
See Our “Easy” Electric
Washer and
“Simplex” Ironer
at the
✓
Better Homes Show
—You will be delighted with this won
derful electric washer and ironer—•
it will appeal to you instantly as a reve- »
lation in electrical equipment to make
your wash and ironing day a real
pleasure.
—But the sale of this equipment does
not end our service to you—on the other
hand it simply starts with the sale be
cause our complete ‘washer’ service is
‘your service’ to use during the life of
the equipment.
—Don’t be satisfied with ‘just ordinary’
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disappointments that come when the
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--See our “Easy” Electric Washer and
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E. B. Williams
“The Washer Man99
1905 Farnam St. Atlantic 1011
Wall Furniture
Is Easy to Find
Cabinets Offer Points of Ad
vantage in Setting Off In
terior of Home.
Finding wall furniture is not diffi
cult, for the American mind runs in
the same channel, and big furniture,
such as davenports and long tables,
are two of its fetishes. Therefore,
one will find them, anyway, or the
: less usual soft, daybed, settee and '
settle.
When It comes to cabinet book
j cases, or ft big variety in decorative
cabinets, the choice Is limited. So
j lnany homes have huilt-in bookcases
1 and the cabinet Is an uncommon
treatment, becoming more known now,
however, because of its adaptation
for the phonograph. Particularly
would 1 advise cabinets. Utility, mys
tery, charm, individuality, beauty
they offer. They are Chinese, Japa
nese and period pieces. When the
lacquer, brilliant red, or Snappy black
and gold, if usable at alt In one’s
scheme, they fairly sing.
Commodes Desirable.
Equally as desirable are com
modes, big consolelike pieces, purely
decorative and not to be confused
with the purely decorative and not to
be confused with the purely utilitar
ian piece of the same name, now rele
gated to the limbo of things past in
the march of progress and of plumb
ing. The commode of Heppelwhite,
Adam or Sheraton design Is a thing
to make one almbst willing to for
swear food, if one Is an artist, for it
is the essence of beauty in color, de
sign and proportion! Like the flower,
its reason for being is beauty, but
like the perfume of flowers It, too,
may serve madam's beauty. A mir
ror placed above it may be its excuse
for being, if excuse one desires. As
a place for crystal candlesticks, It1
may also serve, but one must beware
of gilding the lily.
Similar to it In top surface of
straight lineat the back and curved
front is the console. The latter,
however, is tablelike rather than
solid. It, too, may have a mirror
above It In the tiny hall, or hold
vase, bowl or candlesticks. Its most
unique use Is in pairs.
I.nve Seat Useful.
Of the rarer variety of wall fur
niture Is the high, flat-backed love
seat, the double seat, that Is, for
lovers, but single for dowager-Uke j
ladies.
There are flat hacked chairs meant
for against the wall or In line with It.
(Copyright. 1553.)
Good Furniture Means
Better Furnished Homes
"It takes a heap o’llvlng In a house
to make it a home,” write* Eddie
Quest, the Detroit author. And It
takes only a little common sense In
the selection of furniture to make
that home better furniehed according
to the American scale. Sentiment
surrounds the furniture In the home
as well as It centers on some partic
ular spot or locality In which that
home was built. In fact, sympathy
for good furniture means better fur
nished home* and the treatment of
that furniture.
Buy On
Payments
Supply your every
furniture need now
and enjoy it while
you are making the
payments.
Sixteenth and Howard Streets
^k V
This Great
FORCED-TO-VACATE SALE
i
Affords Omahans a rare opportunity to econo
mize in fulfilling the aims and thought of
Better Homes
With the thoughts of more beautiful Home Furnishings foremost in the minds of all Omaha, this remark*
able sale will have a double appeal. Because it permits the choosing of magnificent Furniture and Furnish
ings at money savings that under normal conditions would be absolutely impossible to give.
Thousands Upon Thousands of Dollars Worth of Super
Quality Furniture Must Be Disposed of by July 1st
That is the task that is before us, we must meet the situation, we must sell down to the last article, and
that’s why you can now furnish two or three rooms for what it would ordinarily cost you to furnish one.
Beautify Your Home—Do It Now—Take the
Fullest Advantage of This Marvelous Sale—
Everything Goes—Not a Single Article Reserved From
the Contents of This Store or Our
Two Enormous Warehouses
Bedroom Suites, Library Sets, Living Room Suites, Sun Room Furniture. Breakfast Room Suites,
Rugs, Linoleum, Stoves, Chairs, Curtains, Tapestry, Drapes, Bedding, Floor and Table Lamps, Pic
tures, Grafonolas and Records, Sewing Machines. Refrigerators, Kitchen Tables, Porch Furniture,
Baby Carriages, Ferneries, Baby Cribs. Cedar Chests. Mirrors. ltric-a-Brac, Bookcases and Hundreds
of Other Articles That Lend Toward the Beauty and Practicability of the Home.
Payments to Suit
Your Convenience
Just because you lack the ready
cash is no reason to deny yourself
the advantages of this great sale
We’ll arrange the payments tn
suit your needs.
BOWEN SHALL CON- l
TINUE IN THE FURNL (ImanA
TURE BUSINESS IN
New Location Now Under Consideration
Although forced from our present store,
we shall in the very near future announce
our future location. Negotiations are now
under wav.
• i r hi
Landlord Demands
Possession of Building
by July 1st
We must vacate, and to vacate
we must close out every article
regardless of loss. This is your
one greatest furniture buying
opportunity.
Exchange Your
Old Furniture on
a New Outfit and
Enjoy These Low
Sale Price*.
FREE FREE
Monday, April 30
At 8 P. M.
We will irive away ab
aolutely free*an Eight
Piete D i n i a | Room
Suit# and 42 other use
ful household article*.
Bowens
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