, 1885-09-16
A WINDOW AarIsr,s WORK.


HOW bccpratlNe traps Are Ltlu 20 eaton
the unwary Dry Good, Pureh ,ser
re- Paul Pioneer Pressl
SO thoroughly is window decoration
recognized as one of the necessary
methods III advertising that every largo
dry goods establishment employs a pro-
fessional window dresser, and experts
earn from 81, 500 to $1,000 per year for
this work. A Kansas City window
dresser is regularlg paid the latter sum
and New York dreSsers average from
$ 900 to SO. 900. The northwest has q
yeritablo artist ono Of the born-not-
made kind in this popular branch OF
decoration, in a gentleman ha ing
the good fortune at an early
period Of his career to be the possessor
OF a grandmother who devoted
herself to the cultivation Of a flower
garden and his il sthetic taste in the
III tier Of colors at n and the same
time, so both by inheritance and in.
strlotiol he camo into a per. option OF
the re ned beauties of color combina
tlon which is the basis OF his skill in
decor ton
ne Of his earlier exhibitions of this
gift was during the y S OF the lizard
party. when, teing gi.en carte blanche
by his employer. he nut A. ont SEQ, 900
worth of the richest fabrics -plushes
that cost Si2 per yard an | laces worth
81 per yard into q triple window dis
play thnt opened tn c es of the visitors
v.rs wide indeed, and gave them in
ere ise1 respect for a eomnun " able to
en- oirige such ! wish eyprn liture on
its account During a subsequent visit
to faris and other European capitals
he made n special study Of win
dow decoration as an art. There was
n mo lis,e S window in the Boulevard
Hausminn." he ii "whers the displays
were changed every day. and | have
spent hours b fore it. studying color
harmon es that seemed little short OF in
SEPARATION"
This artist thinks that the secret OF
the art is congruity. There must be
not only a harmony of colors and pro
portion OF part0 but, as well, accord in
the nature and uses of the articles dis
played and relation to the season OIL
special occasion. Tor instance. in the
spring he would make his windows airy
and light with the dainty fal ri, to be
ON IN warm weather. summer silks,
cambrics. percales. and the trimmings
to he used Herewith. but with the adj
vent of frosty DAYS he greets the eve
with the comfortable woolens and
darker colors THERETO suitable. while
mid winter finds his displa warmed
into luxurious richness with furs. heavy
silks and hrocades, cut velvet, plushes,
etc. 1t harrows up his sthetic soul to
be forced TO put in iuxtaposition arti-
cles which could not he worn together
or not in some way related.
Those embroideries and laces scream
at each other" he said, pointing to the
airy festooned canopy over one of his
displays. but | didn't have enough
laces OF the right width" lie has a
IN tod of his own to make these fes-
toons of lace hang right. rolling them
up in a bundle and tacking his strips at
either end in an ingenious way. " lille
these canopies are hardly consciously
noted by the average window gazer,
they have an elect in giving a finish
an | setting OIL the main display not
otherwise obtainable. VERY artist
knows that the accessories are OF almost
as much | portance as the central ng-
ures in his picture. Asked how no
went about doing a window, the
Gentleman declared that he honestly
couldn't tell he ust went in and began
moving things around, aud by the
time he had his material well In hand
the design had begun to work itself
out.