Morning journal and courier., 1882-10-02
Gossip About Hou,e Decoration.


 A new and very handsome style of art needle-work is coming into vogue. The raised designs upon Indian scarfs and Per sian wraps are cut out and applequied on to plush or velvet to serve as screens, portieres, &c. The effect is really beautiful, the de. signs themselves are so fanciful and form most graceful combinations, looking even better upon the deep tones of the plush or velvet backgrounds than they do on the lighter eastern fabrics
 It is no longer the fashion to light up large rooms with central chandeliers on the contrary, light is now provided from the cor ners of ths room by means of upright pillars with extending branches from which gas lights gleam brilliantly The electric light has not yet made much headway in private houses.
 Economy prevails to such an extent in Swiss households that the outside leaves of oabbages and the shells of peas are never thrown away. The former gre chopped up and stewed until tender, then eaten with vinegar, while the latter are used for soup. After many hours boiling they are rubbed through sieve into weak stock and with the addition of chopped onions and a little mint make dish which is much approved by the thrifty housekeeper.
 Painting upon mirrors is brought to great perfection by lady artists, and is much used now in decoration. In the London residence of the artist Boughton beautiful calla lily seems to spring from the frame across the glass. It was ingeniously painted there by the artist himself to conceal flaw in the glass.
 mothers exc. cised much ingenuity is the subject of revival, or, we ought rather to say, of new departure. This novel patch work is made by cutting foundation squares of lnuslin, all the same size, and arranging upon thGSa odds and ends of silks or ribbon, H. basting them in position and then joining them together with feather stitch in gold colored fileselle. The squares when comp1et- ed are joined together in the same way, and the result is harmonious confusion of co.ors which has quite an eastern effect. Tidies, those misnamed articles of drawing room adornment, are to be abolished; in their stead small squares of lace or muslin or even of darker material are fitted into the backs of chairs and securely fastened in Eosi- tion.
 A very strange material has been pressed into service for chair coverings, being noth ing less than the saddle bags used by travel CTS in crossing the great desert The rougt woolen material which forms the outside covers the front of the chair, while that which is the lining of the saddle bag pro- vides material for the back of the furniture In appearance they are very quaint and hand some.
 
 | been used for book bindings and slippers, is now the time for ladies' reticules and hand bags. It is handsome in appearance, but al ! it takes very few colors there is possibility l of much decoration the exercise of taste | in trimming, &c. But If not particularly l striking, bags made of this material are sx I tremely durable, and will last until their ow ners are tired of them.
 l Fashions in every department of industr, ! change so rapidly now that, even in carpets l what is the thing one season is old fashioned 1 before the next comes round. Formerly | design, if it was fashionably received, has ru, ] in the factories for eight or nine years 1 whereas now new one IS substituted for ! in almost as many weeks.
 A Japanese lambrequin is great success 1 It is made of the fancy squares sold in Jap anese stores which are cut into sharp dia mond-shaped pieces, one point in each bein l attached to 8 corresponding point in another while. in the interstises between, small star l of colored cloths, are inserted and caught t the two upper and lower points. Each 0 the lower points is finished off with a oolore tassel and the effect is very good indeed. new work upon "Woman's History i Christianity has just been published in Pa, is. The writer, in speaking of the industrie open to women, asserts that in France fe male operatives receive only third of tn wages given to the men, although the wor they accomplish is equal in every respect that turned out by the male hands. Ther is likely to be a revolution in china-ware if new process recently patented is successful This IS for printing designs in colors upo chira and glass, and it will lessen the e1 pense of decorating china very considerabl, The principle is the same as that of printin upon other materials, but hitherto paintin l upon china has been all done by hand, an has needed trained colorers as we'll as d, l signers. By the new method the most elabt rate designs can be printed off by young gir and number can be produced in fac-sim