Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-10
THE HANDY HOUSEWIFE.
Home-Made Japauese Umbrella stand
Artistic Decorating with Fans.


Artistic Decorating with Fans
In these days Of artistic furnishing
every article in the house must b.
Leautiful as we'll as useful. The Japan
tse umbrella stands which are so much
admired can be initiated at home at q
tIifliDg cost. Get piece OF stOvepipe
about two and a half feet high, and
after washing it thoroughly apply on
the outside number OF small pictures,
birds, flowers, etc, placing them very
close together; put on coat OF varnish
and paint the inside of the pipe as far
as you can reach with black paint. Get
a wooden stand q foot square and orna-
ment it in the same way. Fasteu on
the pipe with rivets and row OF brass
headed nails and you will have q very
handsome umbrella stand. It should
be placed in the hallway, in the right
hand corner as you come in. Ii pre-
ferred the pipe could be painted bril-
liant crimson and the pictures then put
on; but black looks better and is not so
much trouble.
4 tall, slim terra-cotta jar may be
turned into an umbrelia-srand, and
made to look very artistic. One can be
purchased for from seventy-tive cents
to one dollar. On it paint in water
cUlOrS q bird and few cattails, num-
Der OF butterflies or similar design,
and fasten q large bow of ribbons on
one side; either deep crimson color or
a pae blue will look best.
\ fantastic stand may be made out o.
a large vase of any kind with several
different paints put on it and mixed,
CDe into another. The whole when
Vanished has quite an Oriental appear
ate.
Fans form all important feature in the
decoration of all rooms, Palmleaf aud
japanese are the most popular, and very
pretty ones of the latter kind can be
purchased for three and five cents apiece.
\ wall-pocket for grasses or merely for
ornament may be made out Of q good
sized Japanese fan. Choose one with
cOlors to match the furnishings of tue
room, and fssten it to the'wall with
small invisible tscks. A corner is the
test place to put it, taking care to bring
the edges inside. A bow OF ribbon is
placed at the bottom and 1t may be fur
mr. Ornamented by a few peacock
feathers caught in the bow.
4 dining room or bed room msntel
u ay be Ornamented with japanese fans
v i'm excellent effect. Open them wide
abd tack them about the clock or centre
vase i'll q half circle, or, ii preferred,
place in Il circle higher up on the wall,
bringing the ends y the centre, and or
uamenL with q bow or ribbon. The
top of a bureau, book case or sideb)ard
would look well ornamenled with fans.
The Fat japanese fans which sell for
two and three cents apiece are also very
effective for decorating. A Brooklyn
lady has her dining room handsomely
fitted up in Persian colOrings, and
about lie top of the wainscotlng Is q
bordering Of these fans, all pointing the
same way.
The palm-leaf fans may be turned
into dainty handscreens which are both
ornamental aud useful. There are sew
eral ways OF making these screens. One
of the simplest ways Is to cover both
sides OF the fan with light silk in pleats
AL d ornament the handle with q bow OF
ribbon. A more fanciful one is made
by covering one side OF the fan with
either silk or velvet, and the other with
silesia. Over the silesia paste peacock
feathers in rows, all pointing the same
way, aid placed about the edge SD as to
rOver il. a ribbon of peacock blue
satin with long ends should ornament
the har die. To secure the feathers well,
sew IS well as paste, but the former
should be done before the silk covering
Is put On. IL the fan is hand painted
with birds or flowers it makes suth.
GENTLY pretty screen without other Or
. uxIn5 L taIion.