The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-23
THE FANCIES OF WOMEN FOLK.
A Bunch of Novelties for Divers Uses
-Women's DoipgS

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-Women's Doings.
New YORK, April 21.--It is almost time
for the annual adjournment to the country,
and preparations for the fitting abound on
every hand A novelty for the summer cot
tage is furniture in a combination of BAN
boo and maple highly polished i'll the nat
ural colorings. Most of it is imported and
it is newer, though perhaps not prettier,
than summer furniture all of bamboo.
Another summer fancy is portiere hang
ing of ball fringe, meant to supplant the
reed and rattan hangings. 1t is made of
silk or worsted cords wound perhaps with
tlnSel, different cords being of different
lengths, and all being terminated by silk
and tlnsel balls. Summer window hangings
come in several new materials and in novel
designs. There are thin gauze-like grena
dimes, which yet drape prettily, and which
show the green and brown, gobelin blue and
gold, terra Gotta and olive combinations
which are the seasons color crazes. Some
what more substantial is Moorish drapery
in a cotton canvas figured in dull blues and
pink. There are soft crepe clothes special
summer weaves in lace-like patterns of
Madras goods. and Tenitian silk curtains
which are costly enough and delicate enough
for use all the year round.
For the summer cottage parlor the music
rack consists of forked sticks of bamboo
with portfolio of rough sheets of birch
bark. The summer calendar for the cot
tage wall is a square of bristol board paint
ed with clover heads and grasses. From it
hang three, inch wide grass green ribbons,
painted with tue names of the months, days
of the week, and days of the month respec-
lively, which are so adjusted with respect
to one another as to keep track of the fly
ing vacation days. The summer screen is a
length of mating, painted with flowers or
with a seaside scene, with fringe of fresh
ravelled rope, and hanging by rope knots
from its stand. The summer tidy for the
presumably non-upholstered - cottage
chair consists of two fiat cushions of wash
silk in some sea blue or pale green tint, en-
broidered in outline stitch with sea MOSES
and shells, and connected with each other
by narrow interlacing ribbons. One cush-
ion comes over the top of the
chair, the other falls down be-
hind. The slu1nber cushions have pine
cones, etc., ON them just as they did last year,
and the satin toilet cushions are painted
with rocks and sea gulls.
For table service at the seashore comes
an oddity in the water pitcher line. Its base
is sustained by four turtles which are crawl
ing up against it. Its handle is the writh-
ing form of horned fish Its brim is
shaped from a pink scallop shell and half
way up the side, clings a crab. Finger
bowl napkins for the seaside are tiny
square films of wash silk embroidered with
shells and moss. There are special country
china sets in pretty color chinas in which
every piece takes the shape of natural
object. One fishes ones potatoes out of
big china cabbage head and eats ones
strawberries from delicately turned up oak
leaf
The summer girls parasol has bulls eye
watch set in its handle to tell her when to
have the boats head turned homeward or
when the moonlight stroll must positively
come to an end.
No parlor is complete just now without a
) o'clock tea stand. A slender upright of
wought iron curves over the top and hangs
a small copper teakettle, FURNISHED and
mounted in silver or gilt, just above an
alcohol lamp fitted in the same style and
set in an iron ring projecting from the
side. The tea stand is driving out the
samovar My lady who dispenses the
fragrant beverage takes good deal of sat-
isfaction in the ingenious little contrivance
at her elbow.
1t is goblets now. Tumblers are out
They began to decline year ago, and have
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time. The goblet is of the best crystal the
housewife can afford, plain, etched or en-
graved. The engraved goblets, which range
from those content with a monogram TO
elaborate flower designs, may be made to
cost as much as $50 dozen.
Colored glass for table use is not gone nor
rapidly going, but it has a strong rival in
crystal, the use of which among people who
prefer quiet elegance TO more brilliant
effect is gaining ground every day. When
crystal is used the table is set with fat mir
rors for table mats which reflect the delicate
shapes. Dealers say that any new thing in
colored glass takes amazingly but that in
default of an especial novelty white glass is
beginning to outsell it.
The piano lamp has become a work Of
art. In its newest form it is small table
of deliberately wrought cut steel. Above
this rises the lamp standard, the conspicu-
oul feature of which is its flower shade
Rose shades have been used for some little
time, but the newer ones are masses of deep
tinted Fart" roses, full blown and with
sprays of rose foliage hanging down here
and there. Dark red roses crowded to-
gether and exact copies of nature make
very effective shades. Another fancy is to
have the shade of porcelain, but to place on
one side an immense yellow ''art" rose with
a trail of half blown roses and buds hang
ing to the table below. A third whim is a
feather shade of pale yellow cocks plumes
with birds fastened on it here and there.
The most unique of all is a parasol shape,
life size, in ruby silk with founces of chan
tilly lace.
The newest flower to be reproduced in the
enamelled jewelry is the morning glory.
Particular people have their pins copied in
miniature for tiny flower pins to fasten lace
anywhere about the dress, or for the bon
NET. The hat pin should have large gold
ball for head this summer. The pin for
the hair should be of she'll with twist of
gold for the top.
''Its not a very common trade for a
woman, know, but the business was left
on my hands and have to carry it on"
The sign on the front of the establish
ment on one of the principal streets of
Brooklyn says: MRS -, Undertaken
and Embalmer" The windows do not dis
play the usual mortuary emblems but are
full Of Towering plants instead. The round,