River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-12-12
STYLISH STATIONERY.
What Kinds of Paper Are Considered Il
Re. the al nrrccf Thinnr.ts

BE the ssCorrect Thing"
Those delicate effects of most delicate
patterns which appear on the surface of
Partisan note-sheets have not attained
the popularity in this country that they
have among Partisan consumers. Why
this should be is undoubtedly due to the
fact that the modern society devotee
uses only such things as may be proper
in England. II is on the indistinct sug-
gestivencss of these designs that the
appeals to taste depend the most deli
cate conceivable tints fading away al
most invisibly, being used as though
produced during the matchmaking of
the paper. 1t will doubtless be but
question of time when such goods be-
come popularized with the refined
American belle, as they are now with
fashions votaries in France and many
parts of the continent.
The demand for the handmade paper
has made it permanent in the circles of
high-class users, and considerable guam
titles are now made in this country,
whereas formerly the matesial could be
obtained only abroad. The colors of
delicate heliotrope or pure white are,
perhaps. the most popular hues with the
fastidious, and, while expensive, both
in its production and the materials used
in its manufacture, il is undoubtedly oc-
cupying too strong a place in the high
artistic taste of the people to lose the
hold it has gained upon them.
The monogram, with its indefinite geo.
metrical impossibilities, which no one
read and few appreciated, is losing caste
as proper thing in polite correspon-
dence, and no longer appears in tho
forms of past seasons. 1t is entirely
proper to adorn the upper left corner or
centers of note sheets with coats-of-
arms and crests, but the best of taste
would seem to confine itself to the ini-
tial, unless an indisputed right TO the
armorial bearing can be shown.
Many beautiful tints are appearing in
correspondence stationery, which are,
however, no improvement upon those
already seen, but the titles of which are
extremely puzzling to remember. A vast
variety of tints, each bearing an indi-
vidual title, are practically inexhausti-
BILE, and such hues as celestial blue,
caledonian gray, nectarine, primrose and
flesh tints are still used.
The general tendency is undoubtedly
toward handsome but plain styles, very
ornate designs being entirely matter of
the past. Those dealers who cater to
the higher-priced trade deal almost ex-
clusively in plain, unornamented paper,
elegant simplicity being the standard
aimed at by those fashionable people
who have passed the shoddy period and
discarded the loud and ornate styles of
stationery.
Menu and name cards are not permits
sible unless hand-painted or etched and
tinted by hand, while those Partisan
designs with French scenes are very
popular.
A novel manner Of designing the
names of guests at table is by ribbons,
which, extending from a center-piece of
flowers, and of length sufficient to
reach each guests plate, bearing pretty
little hand-painted designs. This style
could furnish an idea to stationers for
menu design. Menus, at present, do not
exhibit the variety and beauty of those
which appeared last season, excepting,
perhaps, in those just from Paris, where
richness and elegance, with an absence
of loud colOrs, appear in exquisite de-
signs and unique subjects on handmade
board. either etched or etched and tint
cd by hand in an inimitable manner
Art Stationer.