Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-01
HOUSE DECORATION.

Raw silk in cross stripes figures
prominently in the most fashionable
portieres.
A GUEST chamber should always be
furnished with hand-glass, button
hook, pins, hairpins, brush and comb,
clothes-brush, and also needles, thread
and scissors.
A PRETTY idea for small screens for
tables is to cut small head from any
fashion-plate and stick it to the silk of
the screen, and work the dress, hair,
ETC., in bright-colored floselle
HALF worn blankets may be nicely
utilized for curtains and portieres or
for carriage rugs. Have them dyed
some dark, rich color, and embroider in
coarse stitch sunfowers or any design
preferred.
Mosaic embroidery is very effective
for mantel Grapes, piano covers, and
screens, and is quite easily made. Take
whatever material is chosen for the
ground work and sew on to it with some
fancy stitch odd patterns cut from yari-
GUS colored pushes
A PRETTY hall corner is easily made
by the help of a carpenter. Corner
shelves may be fitted into either side
opposite the entrance, and serve to hold
an ornament pot with creeping plant
or bowl with goldfish. Such niche,
if prettily draped, could be very
great help in frightening up the hall
way, which is apt in small houses to be
gloomy and depressing in effect.
A LOVELY sofa pillow is made of
square of pale-blue satin embroidered
or painted. Use this for the center of
the pillow, and at the top and bottom
put bands Of terra-cotta plush and at
the side old-gold plush. Sew all the
seams together on the wrong side, and
on the right side finish in herring-bone
stitch with colored embroidery silk;
edge with a short silk fringe. Cover
the under side of the pillow with pale
blue Saline, and then put on the top
covering.
To MAKE an inexpensive table cover
go to some store where you can buy
remnants of cretonne-not the furni-
ture cretonne, but much less expen-
sive fabric, though similar in figure
and style. These remnants you can OBJ
faint for few cents each. Make such
selections as will harmonic pleasantly,
OF contrast agreeably -harmony is bet
ter than contrast. Cut these into tri-
angular pieces about foot across Set
these together, with contrast of har-
monizing color of dress braid, feather
stitched on with worsted or silk. Fin
ish with fringe as heavy and rich as
your means will allow.
A PRETTY hair-pin box is made by
taking four of the small Japanese, fans,
which are about four Or five inches
across. Tie the handles together close
to where they join the fans These
handles make four little legs for the
box to stand on. Catch the fans to-
gether with few stitches of black
thread, and you have delicate but
very pretty ornament for the dressing
table. IF you use fans a trife larger
than those mentioned here, a small
pasteboard box can be set within, and
so it can be used to put small articles
of jewelry in.
THOSE whose taste for color has not
been properly developed, will find that
at first steady hold of delicate, per-
haps for time they may think dull
colors, will afford comparative security;
a kind of Quaker uniformity the very
reverse of vulgarity. When knowl-
edge gives strength, fancy may venture
on holder flights, always remembering
that in the choice of the decoration for
hving-room walls we must be strongly
guided by various circumstances. Are
there many pictures to be hung? Are
there many ornaments to be placed? In
either case the colors Of paint, the pat
terms of paper, or other decorations
must be soft and subservient, or they
will impair the effect of the beauty of
form and tint in pictures and pottery.
Is the room in question too low? A
perpendicular treatment will relieve
the eye. Is height the objection? The
line of surbase will srrbase will sug-
gest length and detract from height.
-Art amateur.