Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-11-08
To Dress n window.


In the new rage for colored light in
rooms, the effect may be bad any one of
several ways. 1t may be by the expen-
sive stained glass. in regular designs,
set in lead frames. which frqmes are
not considered TO interfere with the pat
tern. Indeed, they are sometimes used
to make the pattern against perfectly
plain, one-stain glass, forming trellis-
work, or lattice-work, upon the color,
and very good in effect. The plain col
ored glass, in small pane'. IN which no
picture is attempted, but simply gives
the varied arrangement of color against
the light, is also much IL favor, and ex-
tremely cheap. Upper sashes are be-
ing removed to make way for the small,
latuce-Iike square panes, which, in
themselves, give the effect of shade in
the window.
But he skilful housekeeper can get
at many of these effects by her window
haingings alone. The pretty colOred
figured Madras, suspended across the
lower sash, makes rs good an effect as
of stained glass were used. There is a
great variety in these patterns, chief
In the old soft coiors, old blue, old
rouge, dull saffrons and brownish
greens, all giving in their fabric and
clear ground of the material clear
and good medium for the daylight.
There are some other prints, rich fur
niture prints, cretonnes, or even dress
calicoes and furniture covering., thin
and cheap, which give the same effect
precisely in short curtain. only you
must choose them by holding them up
to the light, not by their locks on the
counter. None of these mediums,
either the stained glass, the Madras
or the cotton, have much regard to the
outside Of the window. Their effect Is
for the inside only. When only the
outside is looked to, the black ground
curtains of madras or game. some OF
them as cheap as thirty cents, make
very effective and beautiful hangings,
but they are apt to throw the iuslde OF
the room into funeral tone, precisely
as gauze wire screen does.
| For effect that is equally good with
out and within, the short draperies o
Florence silk, hung by rings on ROD
or cord, are very beautiful. These may
be used either across the upper orlowel
sash. a white ''Madras" sprigged, ol
clear muslin, or short lace curtain being
hung above or below. Sometimes ;
rose colored or blue Florence, or til,
wider Marcelline silk, all thin and dia
phonous stuffs, is simply swung across
the lower pane, while all above will b'
lace hanging in full folds. Or the colo
NAV be draped across the upper sash
inst suspended on rod-amber, Nit
green, honey-color, strawberry or dam
son while simple fulled-in muslin
curtain covers the lower sash. Any
material that lets the light through ant
tints it is available, nuns yeiling a
good as any, if the silk does not give
the needed tone. III there be any virtue
in colored lights, We are likely to ge
it this winter in many of the newly
fitted house; not blue glass any more
but all the tints of the rainbow-or th'
coal-tar dyes, in more variety stlil-ar'
going to be cast upon complexions ant
constitutions. The yellow room, th'
the blue. pink or brown, can he experi
mented upon, and by the end o
the season somebody will, like enough
be ready to prove that the blu
rooms calms the nerves, the pink raliie'
the depressed creature into hvelines
and excitement, and the yellow keep
up cheerful family, the browna sedat
and sober going disposition.