The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-09

carved and enameled in colors on its frame
! A Young girls figure has fiuttering butter
/ q 'es on the wood about it. Pictures for
white and gold parlors are framed in doll
cate enamels or, less extensively, in painted
| woods. A sea view so treated Will have a
frame of pale whitish green where it abuts
on the picture, deepening to deep sea blue
| farther away. "Hope,n beautiful girl
gathering apple blooms, is framed in piuk
enamel. The branches of the tree are con-
tinued upon the frame, making that an in
| tegral part of the picture. The girls dress
also futters out of the water color and upon
| the frame. Around the inner frame is an
outer one also epameled, and so carved I'M
der the enamel as to represent frill of pink
satin tied with piak RIBBON bows. Faces OF
| girls and children are almost invariably
framed, as it were, In lace or ribbon. A
whim in framing partially covers the oak
or chestnut which incloses a rustic scene
with birch bark. The silvery tissue
is gathered just as it comes from the tree
and fastened irregularly, as fancy chooses,
making an inner frame as country-like as
the picture it surrounds.
When the holiday designer is at sore loss
which way to turn she invents new sachet
case. 1t would be cruel indeed to tell the
pretty maid that the dear man applies
the irreverent term jinks to all such dainty
inutilities, and so, for lack of warming, she
with which to bewilder him this Christmas.
One is for cravats, one for handkerchief,
one for gloves, and oue-I beg lis pardon,
this one hasn't any sachet powder in it-for
amateur photographs. These new cases are
of chamois skin, lined with the quilted satin
which one buys at the stores. They are
painted on the outside with as humorous de-
signs as the amateur brush is equal TO. The
dear man wrestling with his collar, fighting
with tight gloves, chased by a savage dog
when he thought to get fine shot with de
tective camera, these and such like subjects
enables the pretty maid to sharpen her wits
on the dear man.
Another court of last appeal when ones
brain goes wandering is the cushion. There
is fine field for cushions just now. The
foot cushion seems to be thought the correct
thing to stumble over in our half-lighted
parlors. Certainly it is less dangerous than
the ottoman. The foot cushion is big and
soft and puffy. It's covered with brocetelle
or lampas or old brocade. You may make it of
velvet if you like and embroider 1t. Another
chance for the cushion appears with the huge,
iron-bound oak chests which are people
falling into the way of having in their balls.
These have led to a quite development of
cushions, long cushions which you embroider
in sober colored, conventional patterns and
which you knot with fringe at both ends
A trihe which costs nothing and is pretty
is big, round cart wheel of blue silk pin
ball. 1t has ribbon bows on its fiat sides
and it is hung up by long loops of ribbon.
The pins are left standing in a projecting
circle about the edge, suggesting if you did
it in yellow, instead of blue, a sunhOwer. 1t
is meant to hang conveniently in ones
chamber.
And those bottles, those glass and crystal
bottles, which you have been so many years
swaddling in fringed silk baby clothes to
stand on bureas and dressing tables. Don't
do it any more If you must give some
body toilet set, paint ferns or forget-me-
nots or other posies on the glass itself and
then let it go bare.
Embroidered books are the latest of arts
tic trifies. Book embroidery is an old art
newly revived. Impatience with plain COW
ers for our library is one of the develope-
ments of the Pompadour craze. Velvet is
the material, velvet almost exclusively, and
the pattern chosen is spread upon it with
gold and silver thread. A monogram or
something as simple rs appropriate for
small volume, something more ambitious
for folio, The art is one requiring care
and nicely, but is not OF especial difficulty.
Two essentials are to work with perfect
smoothness and to leave sufficient margin
to make the binders task an easy one when
you send your cover to be fitted to the holi-
dav volume.
Pretty things to embroider are bands of
linen or velvet for the housekeeper to fas-
ten about her fine napery. These, also, are
given in sets, two bands for each of the
prised varieties In the linen drawer. And
so good luck to the Christmas shopping.
ELIZA PUTNAM HEAToN.