The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-03-20
sPRINGTIME FURNIsHINGS.


Household Decorations.
Brass or nickel rings for knobs are pre-
ferred 10 wood.
Any bedStead later than Oueen Anna,s
time isn't thought fashionable.
Separate chairs for the piazza or for rooms
htted up with cretonne, are Sc or So apiece.
Gentlemea's shaving stands have more
shelves and drawers than formerly. and
cost $50.
The fancy foy figured wood Roors strevn
with Persian mats increases in the homes of
the rich.
French Moqueste carpets retain the forzr
designs peculiar TO them, and aze in most
delicate colors.
Instead of side tables for fruits and des-
serts, sets OF shelves, making piece half the
size OF the sideboarj, are au fait
Pillows for day uss are about twentv-eiehe
inches square; holsters have pieces set in the
sides, making them more square than round.
In buying ingrains, it is best to get the
Scotch all wool carpets that cost about 81 a
yard; the prices range from ninety cents to.
e1.1O.
- cabinet with closed doors and some.
shelves fer pottery is favorite piece of
furniture for small rooms, but adds much to-
the expense.
Dressing eases with long mirror and side
drawers are liked by sorae, but most ladies'
prefer bureaus with the broad, square mir
ror in French style.
Loose covers for protecting furniture N
the summer are made of the striped Jacouerd,
linens, gray with blue, crimson or green.
sold at 50 cents yard.
Libraries OF plain houses-are usually COM
bined with the sitting room and are fur
nished with low, dwarfed book cases In three
compartments, and with a fat top for busts.
Japanese folding toilet glass is the latest
device; when placed upon dressing bureau.
ladies are able to get front, back and side
view Of their heads, without changing their
position.
Hall tables have a big Il, back, and some
times extra shelves, and are ornamented
with tiles. or with marQuetry. Hall chairs
are of wood, with high Elizabethan backs
and boz seats.
Tables for bed rooms may be neatly cover
ed with the stuff used for covering the sofas.
and fringed around, or else they have Turk
lsh cloth table cover, or ara slightly inlaid
with maFquetry and not covered
a pretty new design for salt cups is in the
shape OS an egg shell, the rough edge of the
OIOhSu Suell DSlHB an especially I'M
itation. The shells are gold lined, as are
the dainty little spoons which accompany
them.
For balls are square frames with brass
pegs for hat racks. Some of these are beau
tifully made, and cost from SO to $40.
Standing hat racks are tall with high square
framed mirrors, brass pegs and drawer for
brushes; price, SIS.
People of moderate incomes, who formerly
bought hair cloth furnitare Low select terry
reps of two contrasting colors, or else the
figured wool reps, or perhaps the popular
mixed damasks of Gotten ana wool that are
sold by the yard at s.
Swiss muslin curtains. 'paneled" or bor-
dered with fine guipure insertion and edged
with lace, are still costly costing about S25
| window. White bunting curtains have
| just been introduced; they are edged with
yak or Ciuny lace, and cost $40 window.
Sprigged muslin curtains at chamber or
| basement windows are fastened back by
| bands and long looped bows of blue or rose
| colored ribbon, leaving the opening between
IN point or diamond shaped, of the arched
| curves housewives used to arrange so care
| fully.
Chairs for the dining room are in the
straight, square shapes, upholstered with
creased leather, studded with brass nails, or
else merely with cane seats; the latter are
| from So to So arm chairs for the head and
| foot of the table are Sc each. Leather COW
cred chairs are about SO each.
Creamy white muslin and ecru Flanders
| laces have been introduced but have too
much the appearance of soiled curtains to
become popular. Guipure lace curtains are
| very fashionable in stripes and square de-
| signs; they cost from So to SIS for each win
| dow.
| Library tables are square, cornered and
| covered with billiard cloth, or else left PLAIN
| and well polished. Pedestas for busts are
| high, and have two shelves below for use.
| Corner brackets have carved wood backs and
| the inevitable balustrade. Library lounges
covered with figured reps are from S25 to
$50.
Tapestry Brussels carpets are snowy look
| ing, but do not wear well. as the colors are
not woven through to the wrong side, as
they are In the excellent body Brussels The
body Brussels carpets 20 longer have large
panel designs nor are they strewn with
flowers as formerly. They have warm, rich
colors in artistic eastern designs, and have
broad borders as wide as a whole breadth of
the carpet.
White muslin curtains are far preferable
to Nottingham and other cheap lace curtains.
| For handsome rooms in city and country
| are muslin curtains with bread insertions of
| gulpure lace, or FLANDERS lace or the broad
laces now made by ladies. The latest fancy
4 is to have these insertions across the top and
bottom-and not down the sides-making
the English looking draperies called by
dealers panel curtains"
When whole. rooms are fitted up with
| cretonne, dealers advise that old furniture
be retained and recovered, as there is fancy
| for every thing DID, and, of course, this
lessons the expense. Indeed, some ingenious
housewives upholster the chairs and sofas
| themselves-an easy thing to do-wlth Gre
| tonne, as the pinked ruffies that are used as
borders cover up any mistakes made by the
inexperienced. The twilled crctonnes are
commended for durability; they are $1.25 a
yard.
UnseatiBg Hayes,
New York Express.1
| There is no doubt of the serious wish on