The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-09-25
LADIES COLUMN.
HARoLINE HAROLD, EDITOR.
Hints on House Furnishing.

Women like to make pretty
things. They have kind of birth
right to this, as alienable as their
right to life, liberty and the pursuit
Of a career; and now that women
are coming to take hold of house
hold design, we shall have beauti
full rooms. 1t is not the cost, but
the taste that determines the re
suits. A room may be made just
as artistically beautiful for 5000 as
for $4,000. The same shades, de-
signs and general harmonies of eff
tect can be observed, and the room
be as attractive as if in richer ma
terial.
In papers the Eastlake patterns
now have the preference, as their
somewhat somber effect makes a
rich, dark background that throws
out pictures well. The dado is
only suitable for dining rooms and
halls, and both this and the border
should repeat the color of the hang
ings in deeper shades. For draw
ing-rooms and Libraries an Orna
mentatiCn should always be at the
top of the room. The fringe should
emphasize the color and designs of
the paper, and richer elegance is
added by velvet edges to The pre-
vailiDg tint of the room, under
which are the gilt rods for picture
hanging. One looks naturally at
frieze and ceiling, but an introduce
ton of color on that part Of the
wall partly concealed by furniture,
makes a want of harmony and ia
tigues the eye.
The carpet is prettiest chosen
when about two thirds the size of
the room, leaving the space to be
completed by border that repeats
in deeper shades the colors of the
center. No glare of color is taste
full. The most elegant carpets are
in the most shades, as a ground of
rich brown with sprays of fern and
here and there a scarlet autumn
leaf; or for library there is shown
a ground of moss green with sprays
of golden red and tint of cardinal
red here and there.
In hangings. for those who can
not afford to bar out Heavens sun.
light at the rate of $3.50 per window
in draperies of silk and iute and !
lace, there are other
ways. The material is of little mo-
nent, the form is everything. |
Choose a plain color always, as fig
Ires on drapery are, to say the
east, fatigning. Any soft, ell wool
FOODS, that falls in graceful full
less, of a color inharmonious with
he general tone of the room, will
rive a tasteful effect to the cur
aims. Let them move freely by
means OF rings on a rod at the cor
lice, as this will afford means for a
God light on pictures. The style
f fastening curtains at the top
nd separating them in the middle
J obsolete as the lost arts.
The Machrame lace is very pref
Y when some solid color, as scarlet,
old or blue. is placed under the
eading of the lace, especially on
rackets and mantels. A half
eiled glow Of color is thus intro
uced. A lovely table can be made
f one of these little dollar tables
y covering the top with a piece of
-ensington work, with Machrame .
zee over a heading of intense color
round the edges.
Table linen is now embroidered,
ut not deliberately. The ends
My of the tablecloth should be or
amented, as any work in the cen
n is quite out of place when china,
liver and crystal ware are placed
yer it. Napkins may have a Dor y
er all around, with a design or
it'll initials in the corners. Mon
grams are obsolete.