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Ever So Humble F2 Shop Talk F2 Handyman On Call F3 Deaths F6-7 Ja H1 THE BOSTON GLOBE THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1998 A subtle treasure Reproducing 19th-century wallpaper discovered in la Norwood attic 4 fe'fti mitw'ii n'fiii--i nmt mr.mr il- irituwiir mi 'V -ihiiHiii i flr iM'i -f MM f1fcl" By Cynthia Stanton GLOBE STAFF During a recent restoration of pioneer photographer Fred Holland Day's home in Norwood, project workers came across quite a find: original rolls of 1890s wallpapers, stored by a curator in the attic decades ago. i William Pudsey, then president of the Norwood Historical Society, which has owned the 17-room F. Holland Day House since 1934, recalls that it was cold in the house the day the discovery was made. John Burrows, owner of J. R.

Burrows which supplies reproduction fabrics, wallpaper, and carpets, posed a simple question: Were there, he wondered, any rolls of wallpaper anywhere in the house? The question triggered Pudsey's 'ZtM-iwtewv''! memory, i XiJ'f think there's a box in the at- Ik tie" ne sad- Sure enough, inside a cardboard container marked "Wallpaper -PAPER, Page F4 1 is' i i' Details from two of the English Arts and Crafts patterns found in the Day house: "Peruvian Lily" (top and bottom) and (center). Dreamer world When your child marches to a different drummer By Barbara F.Meltz GLOBE STAFF adult who is an original thinker is often admired and valued. If she seems a little spacey or eccentric, sometimes off in her own world, we say she marche, to a different drummer, call her a nonconformist, and marvel at her creativity. In a child, these traits are more problematic. Parents worry if a child is forgetful, disorganized, and easily sidetracked.

If she's creative in ways unfamiliar to us, we're somehow uncomfortable. If she memoiizes books or spends hours at the computer writing stories but can't sit still for homework and brings home school papers that are messy and full of "didn't follow directions" notations, we wonder if there's a learning disability or at-1 tention deficit disorder. 1 Perhaps, instead, this child is a dreamer, someone professionals call a "divergent" learner: The way she takes in material is out of the ordinary. Not what we expect, not what we're used to. As a result, we may not know what to do with her.

"We're talking about a child who's CHILD CORING, Page F4 i 0 3 A furniture importer brings ethnic glamour and a community of craftsmanship to Boston Vll cabinets from Tibet and China. Accessories abound, the decorative as well as the curious: A Japanese farmer's net and straw raincoat seems destined for prominent wall display. Luxury bed linens are imported from Egypt, Lithuania, Italy, and deepest darkest Brookline. Some of the furniture is old, even antique, but most is not, having been painted or woven yesterday in foreign climes but to the American taste. About that, Mohr McPherson's cofounder Kevin McPherson is unapologetic.

His stuff is real but, as he says, "generic." From his own experience he knows "the colors they love in In dia look terrible when you get them home." And from his own experience as a retailer, BAZAAR, Page F5 Oversize chaise longue covered in a Russian kihm rug. XT try a A Japanese tansu cabinet from the late-19th-century Meiji period has a price tag of $2,900. By Margo Miller GLOBE STAFF People walking or driving along Boston's Arlington Street toward the South End already know the good news. The long-vacant ground floor of the old Paine's Furniture store is now fully tenanted. Joining Laura Ashley Home, domain of chintzes, and First Impressions, a gallery for art school students, is a furniture bazaar called Mohr McPherson.

Here are rugs from Turkey, the Caucasus, and Afghanistan. Here are settees from Indonesia, chandeliers from France, lanterns from Morocco, 1 Chloe Sachs, Mohr McPherson's textile designer and manager, is flanked by partners Kevin McPherson (right) and Peter Fenn in the new Back Bay store..