St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-07
THE WOMAN'S GLOBE.
New Ideas For the Summer in Carpets
Curtains, Coverings, Woodwork
and Lamps.
Beautiful Materials and Artistic Ar
rangements for the House,
Fashion Fancies.
DR.. Hammond On Pants and Suspen-
ders For Women--Dangers of
Society Girls.
Hints For House Interiors.

Hints For House Interiors.
Foreigners complain bitterly of the
draughts of ill-built American houses; and
after catarrh has gained the name of the
national disease, we are learning the cOntlt
mental comfort of thick curtains and pOr-
there's. Pompeiian colorS are resigned to tile
and wall painting, where they belong, fol
they were never meant for fabrics, and there
is choice between the modern colOrS-nO
longer faded earthly reds and bilious yell
lows but subtle shades in peacock tlngeS,
the lovely blues of succory flowers, or of
pale mist, and messy, bronze and primrose
shades, golden olives and nut browns that
shade into marigold and tawny color.
These are found in supple Turcoman and
deep furry plush, which takes the light as
ii it held luminous quality. These rich
cOlors are best left to themselves, to show
their own sumptuous folds, unbroken by
trimming, with, perhaps fringed headings
OF Persian. Moorish OF tapestry design.
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With these should be used the large Per-
sian carpet, which covers the floor almost
entirely. or one Of the modern WiltOns, of
indefinite pattern, in color neither shading
into the walls nor contrasting, but with just
enough difference to relieve them in the
mass-brOnze, marine blue, and russell
shades. These art carpets are to be made
in rug fashion, enormous fringed squares
Just clearing the walls and not fitting to
projections. The pattern carpets in Viii
ton and fine Brussels are beautiful enough
to frame on the walls as tapestry, the soft,
superb colors rivaling flower painting.
For instance, parents wishing to furnish a
young ladyS room on her leaving school
might choose a carpet of large pale-blue
campanulas and pinky foX-gloves, strewn
ON light ground. without border, the walls
draped in mist blue tinge with wide
frieZe OF campanulaS and daisies, the por-
there of blue-gray turcOman or tapestry, door
hangingS being usually of heavier material
than other draperies, with curtains Of the
printed satin, or better of English cretonne,
which would repeat the blue-ben and fox
glove patterns, with tapestry headings
blending the same colors. The furniture
should be small, tufted easy chairs and
lounge in the same cretOnne and frlngeS,
or smooth cushions of cretOnne worked with
little gold thread. An older lady's room
might present the carpet and hangings in
the new and graver design Of nasturtiums
and blue convOlvulus, or the Frenchy look
ing fleur-de-lis and roses with tapestry
headings and lace under curtains Of the
sheer Swiss work or the cutwOrk muslin
drapery. Lambrequins are out of date, and
straight headings take their place.
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Expensive furnishings are not indispens-
able to house in thorough good style, for
the best designs are followed in ingram car
pets at 80 cents yard and 25-cent Gre
tonnes. The fine Bridgeport ingrains come
in the style of the high-priced English Kid
derminster, which bears the price of Wilton
in olive, maroon, and chestnut ShadingS of
inconspicuOus pattern, which harmonic
well with art furnishings and bric-a-brac.
One pattern OF primrOSes, and fern leaves
crowded on dull red ground, is specially
commended; also olive drab with darker
LEAKAGE, relieve by buds of faint salmon
pink and dull blue, in lovely design, or eli
mats leates in two shades of bronze green
Oh olive ground.
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Borders are furnished in excellent effect,
OF the ingram is made up rug fashion,
fringed deeply, and check mating laid as
border. A sitting-room is well furnished
with Bridgeport carpet in maroon, with
in warm crimson and maroon, the wall pa
touched with faint blue and pink flowers,
warm red frieze, mahoganized woodwork,
and draperies Of the colOred canvas. or
French muslin embroidered in red and blue
tambour. OF the less expensive of the Mad
ras curtains, under warm maroon headings
or the plain cOlored swansdown flannel
which ortictc hoUQ cn1ipI fnp Hnliphtf,, II
drapery. The awning cloths in foreign
stripes make very useful and artistic look
ing inside curtains, the bold bars of red,
yellow and brown On the gray ground Civ
ing vivid color to an interior, and hanging
well in straight folds drawn by curtain
rings, without looping. A sample packet of
these cloths, with their brilliant, broken
stripes, at once reveals their possibilities
in the way of fancy work and decoration.
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The woven tapestries, in wool, lutte. OF
heavy monte cOttonS, which hardly con-
vey that they are not needlework, even to
close handling, afford charming draperies
at modest price. giving the finest leaf and
flower patterns of the old crewel work in
blended hues. The cretonne in tapestry
pattern is curious and beautiful. French
cretonne borders, One-Quarter to one-half a
yard wide, are of close design and mellow
color; while curtain lengths recount the
story of Blue Beard or the Canterbury tales
in hueS rich as stained glaSS-SO artfully
controlled that the pattern is only made out
on close inspection, presenting soft con-
fusion of warm colors and leafy border
ings at little distance. Each carpet has
its curtains and upholstery to be found in
the general stock of good furnishing
house, and these bring each other out with
effects which no cost can supply in other
things.
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Carved hall and library screens, now
added to the furnishings of good houses.
offer new work for the chiSelS of Swiss and
home artisans. A screen with hunting
figures, surrounded with wide border of
oak and vine leaves in open work of dark
walnut is handsome for the wide hall of a
country house. Hinged gates of open
woodwork with light curtains of Chinese
silk above, screen the double doorways of
country houses, allowing free drafts of air
with entire fiuency. Another use for the
deXterOus chiSelS of art students is carving
the small dOwer-chestS to stand under the
windows in my lady's room. A pretty
specimen of natural or of light Renaissance
design can be had for $40 to $50. The top
is cushioned with scarlet or blue pillows
encased in Turkish muslin scarfs with en-
broidered ends and makes pretty loung-
ing seat by latticed window, with blue
china beaupots of wallflower. euphorbia
and carnatiOn on the broad ledge.
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The needle-work for the summer will be
strips of embroidery on canvas for COW
ering the long fender stools which offer
such effective seats for Agatha and Edith
just before the lamps are broughtin. For
lamps are to be burned, and what is more,
filled with good cotton seed oil, which gives
a clear, lovely flame, without the poison of
gas, or the pungency and risk of kerosene.