Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-04-25

pany are on the road with my Son" The
willamsons have been drawing good houses
at the Globe, and they are followed, next
week, by Modiesla Mr. Fechter is just clos
ing four weeks engagement at the Howard.
The new Park, with Lolita as the attraction,
opened on Monday. The popularity of the
actress, and the curiosity TO see the house,
has filed the theatre every night 1t is an
elegant little theatre coy and bright about
the size Of the Gaiety, and with most attrac
tive entrances. It somehow seems to invite
one to come in with n most hospitable air. 1t
is very safe too, having four generous modes
Of cgress, aud eau be emptied in a very few
minutes.
This new theatre is carpeted by John II.
Pray Sons & Co., who do more public work
than any other firm in the country. I saw
the other day, a carpet which had been order
cd by them for some Government buildings
Il was one of the most artistic carpets / have
seen this season, and wishing to find the
name Of it, asked what they called it, and
was informed that it was "1Ol3." Then |
| learned what never had known before that
all carpets, instead of being named from the
design, are numbered, and each one is known
among dealers by the number. This is some
thing quite worth knowing, and If when you
buy carpet you get your dealer TO give you
its number, you can at any time order more
without the trouble of going yourself TO match
it. But about the ''lOl3" over which / lost
my heart it was in the low tones which are
nov considered so elegant, with small Per
sian figures copied from the rugs there was
! just enough color introduced, by thread
here and there, to relieve the monotony of
the low tints
While we are on the subject Of carpets l
have little more TO say The lower the tone
OF a carpet, the more artistic it is; the most
highly cultivated persons will not look at any
thing which has not the rug effect, and is not
! in the Aubdued colors which time alone is
supposed to impart. When colors are used,
the red is Pompeiian, the greens take yell
low tingc, the blue approaches green, and
the yellow is the genuine mustard color A.:
bright aniline dyes stamp vulgarity upon
them at once Wide borders are decidedly
the mode no narrow borders are made with
the new designs; they follow the carpet very
closely in color and design, but they arc
brighter rs II rule the color which is only
limited at in the carpet, becomes Il fixed fact
in the border. The japanese designs still
hold their popularity bat | am divided in
my opinion regarding them. Sometimes l
think like Them then | think / don't 1
KIN Nv | shouldn't buy one for myself unless
for a chamber which was TO be fitted up in
! japanese style but in that differ from fully
ouo-haf the American world The pretticst
one have seen il known as "222O" and has
that soft, peculiarly Japane ,-colorcd ground
which one sees in the famous Kiota ware, a
color not unlike chamois in tint it had odd
japanese figures in red, yellow and blue, and
shnd, d. dark lines on the ground work, which
strongly susge,ted the "crackle' in the pot
terry. Another carpet, marked "9ss," had
the same coioring, but the popularity is that
it has the shadow Of pracock's feather at
short intervals this carpet has had and is
still having large sale Ny heart went out
to a low toned Wilton, which | was informed
was the most HIGH toHed in the establishment
1t was in the Persian effect. and is known as
'499j.' An ingram which is out-selling any
pAlti tAlh hthNtll - u lOLAAtNtFlbl SORT VI III
affair introducing little Eastlake. a touch
of the conventional, and n tint Of Japanese
Had been ca lled,upon to name that carpet
l should instantly have said. ''the cosmopoli-
tam il is certainly more expressive than
"Gs9." All this learned at the old, reliable
house Of Pray, Sons q Co., where if they tell
you that a carpet is a Lowell, you know it is
and if they tell you it is English, you feel
sure it was not made this side of the waters
One thing, however, English carpets are ev-
erywhere in the minority
The Carnival of Authors is to be repeated
ON the afternoon and evening of May g. Or
rather some of the booth scenes, which were
comparatively lost, are to be given on the
stage at Music Hall There viii be no booths
and the seats will not be removed from the
Hall. II will be very pretty entertainment
and already a large number of tickets have
been disposed Of SALLIE JOY WHITE