St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-28
THE WOMAN'S GLOBE.
Draperies, Furniture, Screens, and Other
Things Of Beauty for Summer
Comfort.
fashionable Designs From the Orient and
the --latest Fancies in Ladies'
Costumes.
Household Conveniences-.a Batch of
Good Recefpts--HealthH ints--
Lunches.
How to Make Beautiful Houses
Children's Ha1r-- Interest
ing Notes.
Fashionable Decorations.

EAHhlOuaDl0 D6COEhbkOMSs
Summer work for piazzas and lettering
places is mostly linen cushions and toilet
services, as cooler to handle than cunbrous
wool and cloth. Slip-covers for furniture,
OF twilled linen OF holland, rapidly worked
in washing cotton or crewel, are admired as
less undress than striped coverings, and
making an agreeable variety in the air OF a
house. Pretty bedspreads in HOlbein pat
terms on half bleached wide holland are SER
viceable in hot weather, when sight and
touch ought to suggest GOODNESS. The fasci-
mating ribbon work in it's wild rose, myrtle
and daisy patterns grows in favor with ar
tistic needlewomen. 1t is recognized that
the backs of chairs and sofas not ranged
stiffly against the wall is the place for
decoration, and delicate needlewOrk is af-
fixed there, with twofold benefit. not suf-
fering beautiful work to be defaced by sit
ting on it, or leaving the backs OF seats ull-
adorned cOnsplcuously in view.
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Pleasant draperies are matters of course
now that canvas curtains with stripes of
drawn work are only 1914 cents yard in
full widths. These airy, pretty cottages
have refined touch added by narrow rib
bons run through the open stripes, OF wide
strips of silk sewed behind them, showing
the color through the meshes. Elegant cur
tains for boudoir windows are Chinese silk
in pale yellow, daffodil OF blOod-red, with
linen canvas edged by deep Florentine lace
on them. The pair are drawn to show the
colored silk just below the lace.
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Tourists from California bring home the
Japanese portrait screens fashionable in
San Francisco, an example of how quickly
Orientel art seizes the tastes of its Gus
toners. The panel of the screen has the
full-length figure OF a lady in Japanese
dress of gorgeous colOrs. with accessories of
chrysanthemums, hydrangeas and almond
blossoms, fans and lattice work, the head
dressed in lacquered bow knots, skewered
with long hairpins in the style of YeddO,
the face being an accurate likeness of the
lady owner or favorite friend of hers, put
in cleverly by the imported artists. A
screen of this description can be had for
from $50 to $50.
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Shopping in San Francisco is the most
delightful of anywhere in America. The
shops have the variety Of boulevard bazaar,
them a peculiarly Oriental quality. Of a
cool, bracing July morning there is never
failing amusement in studying long shops,
rich in Asiatic wares, metal work of Cash
mere and BenaEes, softest shawls, filigree
muslins, brilliant feather work and enamels,
with the wonderful worries, brOnzes and in
layings: and nameless Eastern bric-a-brac,
presided over by suave, serious HindOO
trapers, OF plump Chinese merchants, smil-
ing and affable in quilted pongee and bro
eade blOuses, or dextrOuS, quick-witted
Japanese, the French of the Pacific. There
you find necklaces of tigers CLAWS polished
like amber with Calcutta settings of native
gold, sea-green jade, cat's-eyes and rose
coral, grapes Of marrowy silk, repousse in
embroidery, deep collars of the beautiful,
odd Chinese crochet, cabinets of old lacquer
whose inlayings are bas-reliefs of purest
pearl, coral, and gold and silver bronzeS,
filigree carving in ivory, sandal and cedar,
with myriad inexpensive wares each with
the grace and spirit which make Japanese
objects delightful.
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Among unique fancies which deserve to
become popular is the shoulder cape,
crocheted of wool to match the color of the
dress, making a pretty addition for breezy
afternoon village wear. Hats, white as
chip, are knit of thread in crochet, stifened
with isinglass and pressed in the high
shapes fashionable.
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The killing bonnet for sweet in her teens
is yellow straw 'fShWife," with pink
roses matted on the top, crown velled in
full scarf of beige lisse tied In a huge bow
under the chin with airy witchery. How
every eye is tangled in the meshes of these
cobweb-colored scarfs. But sometimes one
is tied round throat too much its own
shade of sallowness, and the result is the
lady looks as if she had not washed her
neck for week.
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Returning to the topic of furniture, sit
ting-room suites are serviceable without
marked heaviness of shape. Mahogany is
still preferred, with some of the choicer
woods which follow its richness, like rose
wood, kingwood (often taken for the
former) amaranth and amboyne. Mahog-
any is given rich purplish hue by staining,
and all pieces are darkened in finishing.
Wide polished panels, with carved straight
headings, take the place of much carving.
Quaint graceful vases and Spindles, and
harpwork sometimes, are the heading to a
sideboard, bookcase Oh bedstead. Such
pieces often have suggestion of a classic
Empire style, with the lighter grace of to-
day.
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The chamber suites for rich houses are
comparatively plain, solid and ample.
Modern styles, with straight headings carved
in leaves and flowers, are most pleasing;
still there is charm about the English old
fashioned adaptations, the panelled head
boards with unshaped finals, brass knobs
on the posts, wide oval and circular mirrors
of thickest beveled glass, which frame Wig
nettes of the well-furnished room, chairs of
singularly simple pattern, charmingly COM
Portable, and general absence of quick
and mannerism delightful to live with.
Such mirrors, chairs and bedsteads we see
in the engravings of Miss EdgewOrth's now
els, and they consort with the Queen AIDE
gracious lady of taste. They are Dutch and
Oriental fancies which have passed through
French hands, shells and festoons, tulips
and gillidowers, in varied colors, modest in
size and of subdued gayety one can't help
liking.
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In fine upholsteries, Louis K ~. bro
cades have sumptuous effect, in flower
knots and bows of bright colors on light
blue OF cream satin ground, the figures
richly embossed in satin with cut and uncut
velvet reliefs. Chairs covered with this
delicate flowing fabric are too elegant to sit
in and look only fit to be kept as curiosi-
ties like embroidered scarfs and panels.
Next priced are the woven tapestries, and
then come the needle tapestries in small
foliage and treillage of branches, thick set
with flowers of subdued color, like the pur-
pie crocus, celandine and pimpernel, which
blend so softly with their dull leaves, and
which the quick sense of old designers
made the effects of their patterns, which
modern fancy copies. It's in esteem to
have at least single high-backed antique