Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-04

Furnishing Summer COttages-Venetian
Linen Sha5jes-Tapestry.
How to Remove FreckIes, Warts and Moles.
The Toilet Mask-HeaIth Recipes.
Good Work-Berlin Stoves.
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paper still seen, well preserved in old
farm houses, the next step was the buff
Holland. now sacred TO kitchen premises,
then the gray linen, and the dazzling
white roller blind which stir puts the
eyes out with its high hight, in glaTing
noon. Next fashion in the metropolis
took a daring flight and, red parlor blinds
shone down Fifth avenue for
season and vanished TO quarters
impossible to polite acquaintance. They
suited too well the tastes of gambling
dens and fOrtUne-telleTs. The sober ele-
gance Of the soft natural Holland en-
broidered in Byzantine cOlOTs on the lower
border was the best style, and always
will be good. This year the striped
linen blinds reflect foreign taste, and are
very pretty for country houses In the leaf
green and fax stripe, the cool bright
blue and white or crimson and mixed
white. beside the twilled tape stripes IN
unbleached gray and white. The color
stripes give a subdued liveliness to a
long, dim summer sitting room,
or as housekeepers say, they fur
nish a room well Instead of hemming
the sides, a narrow silk binding is stitched
on and pressed very fat, which adds a
finish and runs better on the roller.
Plain hens for the lower edge are pre-
ferTed to fringe, which curls and looks
shabby. These heavy linen blinds are
not supposed to need washing or re-
newal under eight or ten years. A pair
Of unbleached linen which had been
hanging in windows for five years,
showed no need of refresh
ing. Practically, with the at
tentive care due good furnishings
they never call for renOvating. A soiled
curtain OF char or broken furniture is a
witness against the breeding of a family.
In English country houses suits of furni-
tuTe 300 years old are shown in good
keeping, and pieces exhibited at the cen
TepRiaI festival, quite as old, were in bet
ter case, than modern sets after six years
use. Perhaps when we can afford things
in really good finish and design, we will
peTfOrce learn to preserve them.
The taste for tapestry and luxurious
wall hangings is upon this country eX-
travagant and UnsanitarY and unsatis-
factory as such things are. In one of
those artist dens Of the bric-a-b rac shops
which educate people into this sort Of
bastard luxury, l heard an ambitious
lad looking at the yelvet-lined walls,
say to his mother, '"Why can t we have
our house like tms?'' Why, indeed,
can t people on twenty-five hundred to
five thousand year cover their walls
with green or purple velvet at Sl3 a yard?
What should they want II for
if they could afford It? House
decorators do not recommend fab
RIGS of any kind for walls on any ground
except that of expense and show Vel
vet and tapestry haTbOT no end of dust
and dust invites insects. Heavy fabric
Geadens sound so that il is next to i'm
possible to have good music IN these
padded rooms and it makes the air stuffy
dead and depressing. Common houses
are well nigh intOleTable with their tur-
conan curtains and portieres which hold
stale air of yesterday in their folds and
forbid the free passage of fresh breath
hangs its walls with panels of Bohemian
tapestry, woven of dyed cotton in the
panels of old designs, hawking parties,
battles or court scenes, very well repre-
sented in rich dark coloring which would
drive assensitive person to suicide with
its sOmber effect, however, alter our
cheerful home surroundings. The cotton
tapestry Is not prey to moths, does not
cost over $50 a panel, or require man to
watch it all summer for fear of injury by
mold or buffalo bug, as wool or velvet
does
In the large houses of New York trusty
men from MCGibbOn 5, the upholsteTeT,
20 the rounds every week, open the rugs, |
curtains and tapestry and lift the chair |
covers to brush and beat for moth. Your |
butler at $40 a weak and hOIsGkeeper at |
$50 can t be expected TO look after such (
matters or see that any of the twenty |
house suTvants do it.
The new artistic sense rejects these |
,umbrous follies for simple homes |
Tapestry would do for facing coarse |
brick and mortar walls in times when |
people of degree did not mind being |
)verTun with veTmin under their mag
lTfcenCe. Modern taste fills its panels |
With printed tapestry, which closely re- |
,embles the woven, and is free from its
disabilities The demand is for washable |
on walls, If not lincrusta with |
IS Sprawly decorations, then the tile fin
shed paper which washes with a sponge or
painted plaster in delicate, cheerful |
IapanesGUe designs Of fruit blossoms,
'eeds and flying birds, or at least wall !
paper of quality which viii bear a coat of |
White shellac varnish, like eggshel |
most lasting is given by white of egg, in
which the Italian masters painted their
treat frescoeS, and found their own eggs,
yhen paper and princes were too stingy
O pay for them. The summer cottages
ire falling out with the tesselated
lard wood carpets, a they are
allied. In our dry, hot air the blocks
brink, warp, and in dog days swell
gain tin they are out of place. Then
treatment does not agree with
wood, and the general antique effect of
-rimy oak and butternut is depressing,
nj il is not always easy TO get & man
rom town to do the floors every week
10 moderate, sagacious folk fail back on
-eIl laid painted floors in oak browh,
hestnut, VaHdyke brown or terra Gotta,
one in oil, with a coating Of thin
hellac after the last of paint, for glo
his gives a floor which VIII wear and
ook as well as a waxed floor, unless
pecial pains are taken with the latter
lie check mating in tea colors and
ezra Gotta or olive check, are favored
ather than the large figured mattiugS,
nj bamboo, rattan and splint or rush
urnituTe supeTcedes all other for sum-
ler, though people acquire a liking for
hese Springy, clean, light chairs and
OUNCES through the year The gay
'iennese tables and cabinets, III light
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