The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-09-04
Hints on House Furnishing.

Women like to make pretty things.
They have kind of birthright to this,
as inalienable as their right to life, hber-
ty and the pursuit of a career; and now
that women are coming to take hold of
household design, we shall have rooms
that mean something. lis not the cost,
but the taste that determines the results.
A room may be made just as artistically
beautiful for $500 as for $4,000. The
same shades, designs and general har-
monies of effect can be observed, and
the room be as attractive as if in richer
material.
In papers now the Eastlake patterns
have the preference, as their somewhat
sOmber effect makes q rich, dark back
ground that throws out pictures well.
The dado is only suitable for dining
rooms and halls, and both this and the
border should repeat the colors of the
hangings in deeper shades. For draw
ing-rooms and library the ornamental
ton 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 of the prevailing tint of the room,
under which are the gilt rods for picture
hanging. One looks naturally at frieze
and ceiling, but an Introduction of color
or form on that part of the walls partly
concealed by furniture, makes II want OF
harmony and fatigues the eye.
The carpet is prettiest chosen about
two-thirds the size of the room, leaving
the space to be completed by Il 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 moss shades, as a ground OF rich
brown with sprays of fern and here and
there a scarlet autumn leaf; or for Ii
brary there is shown a ground OF moss
green with sprays of golden red and
tint of cardinal here and there.
In hangings, for those who can no
afford to bar out Heavens sunlight a
rate of $3.50 per window in draperies o
silk and jute and Machrame lace, ther'
are other ways. The material is of lit
tie moment, the form is every thing
Choose a plain color always, as figures
on drapery are, to say the least, fatigu
inc. ANY soft, all wool goods, that fail
i'm graceful lines, of a color harmonlou
with the general tone of the room, vii
give a tasteful effect in curtains. LIE
them move freely by means OF rings ON
rod at the cornice, as this will affor'
means for good light on pictures. Th
old fashion of fastening curtains at tn
top and parting them in the middle is a
obsolete as the lost arts.
The Machrame lace is very prett
when some solid color, as scarlet, oil.
gold OF blue, is placed under the head
mo of the lace, especially on mantel
and brackets. 4 'halfveiled glow Q
color is thus introduced. A lovely tabl
can be made of one of these little dol
al tables by covering the top with
piece of Kensington work, with Mach
rame lace over heading OF intens
color around the edge.
Table-linen is now embroidered, pu
not elaborately. The ends only OF tn
table-cloth should be ornamented, a
any work in the center is quite out 9
. place when china, silver and crysts
ware are placed over it. Napkins ma
have a border all around, with some dc
SIGN or with initials in the corner.
, Monocrams are obsolete.-Ctnetnna
, Commercial.