Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-11-01
TO Dress q Window.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.


In the new rage for colored light in rooms,
the effect may be had any one of several WAYS.
1t may be by the expensive stained glass. in
regular designs, set in lead frames, which
frames are not considered to interfere with the
pattern. Indeed, they are sometimes used to
make the pattern against perfectly plain. one
stain glass, forming d trellis-work, or lattice
work. upon the color, and very good in effect.
The plain cOlored glass; in small pa:les. in which
no picture is attempted, but simply gives the
varied arrangement of color against the light.
is also much in favor. ana extremely CHEAP.
Upper sashes are being removed to make way
for the small lattcc-like square panes, which, in
themselves, give the effect of shade in the win
dow.
But the skilful housekeeper can get at many
of these effects by her window hangings alone.
The pretty colored figured Madras" suspended
across the lower sash, makes as good an effect
as If stained glass were used. There is great
variety in these patterns. chiefly in the old soft
cOlors, old. blue, old rouge, dull saffrons and
brownsh greens, all giving in their fabric and
clear ground Of the material clear and good
medium for the daylights There are some other
prints, rich furniture prints, cretOnnes or even
dress calicoes and furniture coverings 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 looks
on the counter. None OF these mediums, either
the stained glass. the Madras or the cottons.
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 cur
talns OF Madras or gauZe, some of them as cheap
as thirty CENTS make very effective and beauti-
full hangings, but they are apt Ito throw the in
side OF the room into funerattone, precisely as
gauZe wire screen does.
For effect that is equally good without and
within, the short draperies Of Florence silk.
hung by rings on q rod or cord, are very beauti-
ful. These may be used either across the upper
or lower sash, q white Madras sprigged, or
clear muslin, or short lace curtain being hung
above or below. Sometimes a rose-coIored or
blue Florence, or the wider Marcelline silk. all
thin and diaphonOus stuffs, Is simply swung
across the lower pane while all above will be
lace hanging in full folds. Or the color may be
draped across the upper sash, just suspended on
rod-amber, Nile green, honey-color, straw
berry or damson-while a simple fulled-in mus
lin curtain covers the lower sash. Any mate
rial that let's the light through and tints
1t is available, nuns yelling as good as any, If
the silk does not give the needed tone. If there
De any virtue in colored lights, we are likely to get
II this winter in many of the newly fitted houses;
NOT blue glass any more, but all the tints Of the
ralnDow-Or the coal-tar dyes, In more variety
still-aregoing to be cast upon compilations and
constitutions. The yellow room, the blue, pink
or brown can be experimental upon, and By the
end OF the season somebody viii, like enough
DC ready to prove that the blue room Gains the
nerves, the pink rallies the depressed creature
into uVelineas and excitement and thu ve1ovv
keeps up cheerful family. the brown s selste
ana sober going dieposit3on. IS