The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-19
MAKING HOME BEAUTIFUL
DECOR1TITE FANCIES OF MODERN
s HOUSEWIVES.

Pretty Cloths and Hangings Cover the
Furniture and Walls of Summer Cot
tages-A Rage for Tapestry Painting
To have a taste for decorating a
home is a very pleasant thing; every
n likes to see a pretty place. me
idea now is to cover the walls entirely
with something, whether it be elegant
material that is used for its wi sake
or cheaper hangings that are meant
TO cover bare walls. Furniture. too,
unless it be old and magnificent, must
be fitted with some pretty covering.
Here are a number of suggestions
Bolten cloth embroidered bureau
covers are very delicate and pretty.
A favorite design is a number OF large
open work wheels embroidered with
white and yellow silk.
Almost every one who has aUottage
has some mantelpiece draped with the
imitation japanese silk.
The arched ceilings often seen now
in the new cottages make much pref.
tier rooms than the plain fashions.
A few cat tails, grouped, make as
pretty a design as any for the EN-
broidered backs of rocking chairs.
Crimped tissue paper Japanese
lamp shades, which are 80 easily
made, are used this season for the
covers of flower pots when they are
wanted indoors.
Young women with artistic tastes
just now are devoting their spare time
to tapestry painting. Some pretty,
inexpensive curtains, recently put up
in a cottage at Long Branch, were OF
rediCanton flannel fringed with a gold
tinselled lsprig. To the bottom of
these were sewn strips of plain. red
felt, a quarter of a yard deep, which
had been cut UP into fringe.
Anew fad in scarfs is to trim beth
ends with a number of flat shells SUR
rounded with feather stitching.
The Japanese COSY baskets VIII be
quite an Institution at the fashionable
picnics this summer. The teapots ia
them are filled and keep hot for hours.
The large butterflies of open work
embroidery sold are carefully sewed
on to pieces of linen; the material is
cut out around them, and the edges
are finished with drawn work. For a
bureau cover one should be put on
each side, leaving the centre plain for
the cushion.
One of the additions now to the
dressing-table topis an Isctian basket
filed with wool with the top covered
with a crocheted worstedpiece covered
with loops. In this are stuck the
fancy hairpins of metal or:shen.
The latest menu card lis a. leaf with
an orchid at the stem.
yellow is still the craze for all ar
ticleS for household decoration.
The Duchess of Edinburgh, the only
daughter of the late Emperor OF Rus
STA. is said to be more particular than
any other lady living in England
about her bed and bedding, a great
point being made of having the fine
linen sheeting very tightly stretched
over the mattress. 4
Bead portieres are becoming more
and more popular all the time. There
is all the difference in them, however, 4
varying between those that are all
sticks to the elegant affairs entirely of
beads. 1t is preferred to have each
door or window arranged with them
in different colors and designs. Beads
appear to have been in use as long as
any known article of adjournment, as
they are found in the most
ancient of Egyptian tombs. It
is said that ever since the fourteenth
century the manufacture of glass
beads has been chiefly monopohZed by
the Venetians, and that the glass
manufacturersof Murano still produce
fully nine-tenths of all the beads
made.
The Goodyear gold triumphal car. a
gorgeous affair, is the fayorite dinner
table decoration now with rich people
i'm England. 1t is freighted with
aEIlms and roses, with a yoke of doves,
one of them driving. The doves, one
on foot, the other on the wing, are
harnessed with gold coiored ribbon,
and the driver dove holds al end in
his beak.
Many ladies are amusing themselves
just ROW making up the straw dress
heaters into most elaborate work
baskets. The beaters are painted
white, with the end OF the handle
gilded. Four of these are fastened
firmly together, crossing each other,
leaving the handles for legs. The
basket thus formed is lined with white
tinselled cloth which shows on the
outside through the open work. The
inside is lined with yellow silk and
finished with several bag pockets and
ornamented with satin ribbon bows.
Bows are also secured to the legs
where they cross each other.