The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-04
DRESSING SUMNER HOMES.
SOME TIPS UPON HOW 70 FURNISH
SEASIDE COTTAGES.
Fancies in Mating and Window Cur
tains-Pretty Notions in Bric-a-Brac
and Trimmings for ParIors-How to
Make the Country House BeautifuI.


Any number of furnished cottages
to let for the season can now be found
in every summer resort of any pre-
tension. Many of them are owned by
the natives, who gradually add stories
and wings to their houses, and each
year hope to get a little more rent.
Many of these cottage owners live
the rest of the year on the summer
rental.
In Asbury Park, and in many other
places as well, the inhabitants have
struck a particularly frugal idea. The
lots are quite deep, and they build on
the real a second cottage, which the
family inhabits during the summer.
Many of these places are taken by
boarding house keepers. The rest
are occupied during the summer
months by people from all over the
United States, who are not partial to
boarding, and do not care to own a
country house. AT Newport they ex-
pect to find everything in the house
that they could possibly desire, but at
less fashionable resorts there is not SO
much in the cottages. Ladies very
often clear out everything in the par
lof when they arrive, distribute 1T
around the rest of the cottage, and fix
up one room comfortably buying
such articles as will be useful when
they return to their city homes.
POINTS ABOUT MATT1NG. ql
Mating has been considerably re-
duced in price in the last year or two.
The prettiest of it, with the zig-zag
pattern as large as a persons hand, in
blue or red, on a plain ground, Is now
$15 and $16 per roll of forty odd
yards, and it formerly cost from SIS
to $50. i8fes
Ladies' are partial to this pattern,
g specially when the room is small, as
it looks well we'll surrounded by a
breadth of plain red when they take
it home.
There is never anything very new
in this line; what is called the ingram
pattern is as much so as anything.
This has at intervals three or four diff
ferent small figures in colofs, ON a
white groind. 1T is about forty cents
q yard, ala the objection to it is thati it
! can only be used on IA side. For from
twenty-five to thirty cents a yard mat
ting of very good quality can now be
purchased in several designs. Some
of these have white, with bars of
blue or red at distances of two or
three inches, or with a blue or red
ground. Blue to fade.
Many people take rugs away with
them in the summer, especially fur
rugs, as it is an easy way OF taking
care of them.
WINDOW CURTAIN FANCIES.
White, thin window curtains are
much more used than they were a few
years ago, as people understand more
about having things arranged with a
view to health than they did and do
not care to keep all the light and sun
shine out of their rooms.
In buying these the color of the
window shades at home must be taken
in consideration. II they are OF white
linen the curtains should be white;
and the ~unbIeached curtains should
be bought when the shades are yell
low.
The styles in fashion now are called
the Brussels" and the Russian"
Both have a plain centre and a wide
lowered border. In the Russian the
plain part is like a thin net muslin,
while the Brussels is like net lace.
Large flowers, palm leaves and other
designs make the borders very SNOWY.
These curtains cost from 81 to So a
pair. They are apt to be too long for
country windows, but no one thinks
of cutting them off. The fullness of
the curtain is now usually confined to
the unfigured part, the border being
left plain.
Summer resort folk, when they ar
range their houses to let, think that
the parlor is all right when they pnr-
chase a cheap brown rep parlor set.
They are particularly hideous, and
break down at the slightest provoca-
ton, beside bullying out underneath
in a distressing manner.
If there are large folding doors in
the room Bagdad rugs are as fashion
able and effective as anything ,andthey
have been reduced to $0 from $10lately.
The tops OF these should be left hang
ing inside. One OF, them should be al
lowed to hang plain, and the other
must be draped about the middle with
one of the narrow silk braids with
tassels on the ends, so much used now. |
Only one Of the curtains should be
draped, and that looks better when it
is done quite high, near the top.
PRETTY KNICKNACKs.
Japanese banners, fans and umbrei-
las all cost but little and help make a
room hook pretty.
Mantle lambrequins Of light ma
terials are the fancy this summer.
Some of the latest are of white China
silk, with yellow flowers. They have
yellow silk tassels sewed at intervals
on the hem. This is slightly draped
in one or two spots, and rosettes of the
same silk are placed around the edge
of the mantle at short distances.
A handsome pincushion recently
made was of white satin, with
an outer covering of white silk
muslin that had embroidered on
it in yeilowish brown wash silk
several rather large-sized fieur de lis.
The lace on the edge vas arranged in
the jabot fashion and caught here and
there with silk rassels of the same
shade.
A sort of thin mummy cloth that
comes now with regular Chinese tea
box figures in gilt stamped all over
it, is the rage, and is used for making
all sorts of pretty things. OF course
there is no way of telling what all
+baca fanciful RUpraS mean Thay |