Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-09-14
WHAT TO BUY FOR THE HOUSE.
New Things In Home Furnishings OF.
fered this Fall in Washington.


fered this Fall in Washington.
| ALL SORTS OF NOVEL WONDERS TO TEMPT THE
FASHIONABLE MATRoN-rRENoH PARLoR FUR
NITURE AND ANTIQUE BED ROOM sErs-wARp-
ROBES AND cHrFFoNIERs-wINpow LANDINGS.
This is the time of year when the fashionable
dwelling in Westinghouse swept aud garnished
| in cheerful preparation for the approaching
winter. There are all sorts OF new things to
buy and rig up in the way of furniture and
decorations, and the housewife who enjoys the
blessing of wealth gads abous-uness she pre-
! fers the rather shoddy method of hiring an ex-
| pert to equip her house for her-in search of
luxurious novelties in ameublement. There
are so many rich people here who have use for
costly house-furnshings that in this line of
trade the Shops of the capital are most salts
factory. In fact, this kind of business has
grown to enormous proportions locally within
the last few years. To furnish your palace
| from top to bottom, by contract SO that
! 1t will be entirely ready for com
| Portable occupancy, at short notice, is not
much OF an affair for any one of half dozen
establishments on single street to undertake.
| But, or course. as was implied the matron
who has taste and money wherewith to crafty
| 1t, delights to go poking about herself after
| beautiful carpets and hangings and what not,
| keeping always an especial eye wide open for
| whatever is fresh and not seen before For
there is great satisfaction in being original
and In having other people copy your posses
| sions instead Of being compelled to follow the
examples in aesthetics set by them.
! FOR BOTH RICH AND POOR.
| Now, ii is altogether probable that no season
ere this has ever offered so many novelties in
house furnishings de luxe as are to be found in
| the shops at present. Never before have SO
| m of Tor, Nsa1 |, n
purchaser. Art wields the joiner's plane and
| hammer in these days, and directs the shuttle
| through the weayer's loom. The rich man
! need not complain when he can spend 81 900
| on chamber set of three pieces. while the
poor mans few dollars, judiciously expended.
will show that the beautiful is not always costly.
AT the same time, 1t is ust as well when you
are buying. to know what is going to be the cor
rect and irreproachable style
| FRENCH FURNITURE.
For instance, this French furniture-the
chairs sofas and tete-a-tetes of slender gilded
wood, with seats of parti-colored rushes-will
be tremendously 1.-THE cheese" as vulgar folks
would say, this winter They are fragile-look-
ing affairs, but SO excellently made as to be
| quite durable though possibly 1t might be sug-
gested to visitors who weigh over 800 pounds
that they try the more massive seats. II you
buy them, better pay a tritie more for the real
ones from Paris, If only for the reason that
the latter are made to resemble gold by
| merchandising preparation which the Ameri-
can manufacturers have tried in vain to repro
duce. Nothing could be prettier than these
falry-lke contraptlons.
| THE LATEST IN CHAIRS.
| And yet the very latest thing of all in the
way of chairs is the parlor suite made out of
|real Wilton rugs much stuffed, or French
tapestry may be employed for the covering in
stead. Plush you know, has quite gone out of
rs for SIrrh1 ~ tahl
with three more shelves, inconcevably
| light are a novelty; the shelves are shaped
like shells in section and the legs take apart
like fishlng rods. French cabinets, too-you
| see, the Partisan is in favor at present-will be
all the rage. Some Of thsm are astonishingy
elaborate, with gold plate. brass-inlaid veneer
| ing and hand-painted paneling.
BED ROOM APPURTENANcEs.
In no branch has art furnishing made greater
advances during the last few years than in that
which pertains to bed room appurtenances
Paradoxically enough, too. the styles have re-
yerted to those which had the go two or three
centuries back. The fashionable bed room
| furniture OF today must be as old fashioned as
possible. The models OF such things, popular
now. were in use in European palaces and
baronlal halls 200 or 300 years ago. The very
newest thing III this way Is the sixteenth Gen.
fury finish" which is daubed on in a peculiar
| manner 30 as to produce the effect OF old oak
worn by long use until the original varnish has
come off i'll spots. 1t Is not particularly pretty
nor Is it certain that it will wear well, but what
Is the odds SO you are in the fashion. Another
| novelty is the seventeenth century finish"
which gives to green oak with varnish, polish
ing and stain, the effect of the same wood
700 years older.
! ELABORATE CARVINGS.
Above all bed room set must be deliberately
carved. Whether constructed of oak or
mahogany-either one Of these materials is
proper-all the wood that is exposed to view
| when the bed has been made up should be a
mass Of such ornamentation, in complicated
conventional designs. 1t is best to have these
designs Of actual sixteenth century patterns, if
that style OF construction be adopted, so as to
| carry out the notion completely. Nor, in this
case, will the effect be injured by cast-iron
corner pieces on the foot board, in imitation of
the antique. Mahogany is used either I'M
stained or rendered antique by artitce. The
newest and handsomest pattern of bed in the
| market has its foot board and head board con-
| vex OR concaye, instead of straight up and
| down.
INLAID WITH BRASS.
Chiefly for the sake, apparently of making
| it expensive, another style of mahogany bed IL
| inlaId with $500 or SO worth of brass, And
that is a reminder of the fact that brass beds
are becoming steadily moro swell Most of
| them come from abroad, but they are begin
ming to be manufactured largely in this coun-
try also, at a cheaper rate and Just as good
| Even the old canopy beds, 80 oft condemned
for ventilatons sake, are making an effort to
come in again on the strength Of their an
| tquity.
| THE NEW PATTERNS IN DRESSING TABLES
are simply beautiful. They are all Of them
very old, too. The favorite type has long
mirror like cheval glass that you can see
| yourself at full length in, with the table be-
| meath SO low as'to hold but a single long
drawer. At one side it runs up SO high as to
| contain big bonnet box, beside several toilet
| drawers. The most interesting novelty Of all
| Is what is called "gentleman's costumer" and
| its reason for being is found in the curious un-
willingness exhibited by the average man to
| hang up his clothes when he goes to bed
at night, instead Of throwing them in a mass
| on q chair. But with a little pole with
| hooks on it close by the couch, wherein he
| seeks slumber he will not find it q bore at all
| to thus preserve his garments from unseemly
| and premature wrinkles. This is the latest
| development Of the old ''hall-tree," which in
| its original FORM was merely a real tree sawed
| Off q yard or SO from the roots and with the
| remaining branches Topped. This primitive
| continuance was placed in the hall to hang hats
| and coats upon, and from 1t was finally
| evolved-through the medium of post with
pegs-the modern hatrack. And now it ap-
pears in the shape of the "gentleman's cos
| tuner"