The Lake County star., 1877-05-17

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Jennie June writes: The fashion of
their dress has found rival with wo-
men In the fashion Of their furniture
and the style OF their house .decora-
ticn, and 90 rapidly doejone ida III.
low another that IL q sOn,eWhat di6l.
cult TO follow them all audtO keep MP
with the varied forms IN which s'af
tistlc' Ideas Are Gxpreoeed. <.
"A few ysan 80; noutral tinks. ANAL
patterna, 3 look Of harmony and some
what Of the uniformity which grows.
into niOnot0ny WAS the very height of
good taste. Hut then arose Morris and
Rosetti. and nothing would do but rues,
and dfuggets3 doors were swung of
the hinges, and curtains were swung
by brass rIngp on brass knobs In their
place. Nothing must be regular or
methodical or in its place. No two Of
anything must be, alike. Even the
time-honored China vases. which al
ways shone, stood one at each end of
the mantel or shelf, or whatever were
displaced, and a tall lslender something,
and short chubby something, elected
to filI their place., Elegant carpets,
which had been mxde abroad at-mer-
cy knows at what expense-tO fit
floors, were taken up and woolen
carpet laid down, which left o checker
board border around the room beyond
the edge Of the $500 India rug. Mar.
BILE mantel pieces made In, Italy, and
showing q graining like the inside OF q
pearl shell, were taken and square
wooden ones put In their place, in
which painted china tiles were insert
ed-the older and more cracked, the
better. And instead Of the handsome
modern CRATES, the interior was left
bare, and secondhand furniture shops.
were scoured for brass and-irons upon
which sticks could be made to blaze
the real warmth coming from the
modern furnace down In the cellar. i
If q friends house was burned down
you could not tell whether IL was q
subject for congratulation or condo
lence, for Il was quite as likely to be
one as the other. "Only to think, my
dear" said one enthusiastic lady,
whose home (which she had tastefully
and elegantly completed and furnished
three years before) had been burned
to the ground-"Only to think, instead
of the conservatory at the back, which
looks SO stupid nowadays, we shall
have q new house out Of the insurance
money, with library at the back,
DOOk-caSe Will u btaS ucuu over IL,
and wide English fireplace filled In
with Dutch tiles, where blazing fire
will greet peoples eyes on opening the
dOor!"
But time must not be lost or some
thing will come up to take the place of
the tiles and the rags and the and
irons, and the authors of the Widge-
wood China. Already there Is ten
dency observable to supersede the Me-
dleval with Moriatibaux designs Of
Japanese origin. We must use gilded
paper mats instead Of the skins Of
grizzly bears and tack the finest of
these on the walls instead of pictures
or brackets for china. Then we must
have Chinese screens and Chinese Ian
terms, and chow-chow bowls, and chop
sticks, and where 1t will all end no
one knows. In the meantime 1t Is sad
to think how many dear little women
who are worrying themselves to death
to get lambrequins," once the ne plus
ultra of gentility, will find out just as
they have achieved them that they are
"stiff and inartistic," not the thing at
all, in fact. such thing is heart
breaking when you have been want
ing lambiequins for long time, have
only Just secured them, and haven't
many sources of housewifely pride and
satisfaction. it. ni4 iy'