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292 paperhanger will take care to fold his paper several times after it has been pasted, he should find no difficulty in handling it. It must be folded in such a manner as to be unfolded piece by piece as required to go up in its proper position.

Borders and Friezes. Sometimes in the country, and even in well-built houses, rooms are found finished entirely without cornices. In such cases it is almost impossible to produce a finished effect unless a border or frieze is used. The borders should be almost always used in rooms large and small, with the exception, perhaps, of the servants' bedrooms. They cost very little, and if a comparison is made between a room finished without a frieze and another in which a good design is employed, the difference will be at once apparent.

Now that plain papers are so much in vogue, the frieze becomes an important part of the design, and drawing and dining-rooms from which a frieze is omitted is usually considered spoiled.

Hanging Ceiling Papers. Papered ceilings are used at present to a very much greater extent than they were formerly; in fact, in the better class of houses they are now used almost invariably. A papered ceiling with a papered wall gives an appearance of finish and completeness which is not apparent when the walls are papered and the ceiling is distempered. Distempered walls and distempered ceilings give the best possible appearance in interior decoration, but papered walls must always be used to a very considerable extent, and then the apartment is not finished unless paper is used on the ceiling also. Those who crave for white ceilings can get them in paper, or, rather, they can purchase many designs at very moderate prices in which the pattern is so delicate and faintly defined that it can only be discerned in certain lights. For a drawing-room a very pretty paper is one having a cream or nearly white ground, with a pattern printed in talc or some