The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-08-04
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PANELS AND TAsSELS.
Glassine Is a Very New Thing In
deed---Artificial Insects from
the Paris show---Tiger Lilies
and Stuffed Kittens.

economical and decorate dishes much
better than linen napkins.
The newest thing in work baskets
is a Japanese lantern.
A pretty design in oxidized silver
salt dishes is a tiny Cupid driving
wheelbarrow.
Mexican onyx tables, with oxidized
silver mountipgs, are considered very
decorative in drawing rooms.
Some of the new notepapers comes
with an embossed leaf. in the upper
left hand corner for the initials or
monogram. Cream, gray or pearl are
the favorite tints.
Among the materials being made up
now in the fancy Christmas novelties
is one called glassine, flexible, with
highly glazed surface. This is painted
in floral design, and will be used for
the tops of boxes, or to hold letters.
Very large worsted or silk tassels,
made in the colors of the curtain, are
seen sometimes now set close together
to form valance.
The little rallied shelves resembling
tiny balconies over the doors are very
popular. These are usually painted
or gilded by the ladies themselves, and
are very effective when filed with
bric-a-b rac.
| Every one that goes to the Paris Ex-
| position comes away with some of the
| little boxes sold in it, containing an as
sortment of artificial insects, perfect
enough to be real. These include
katydids, grasshoppers, butterflies
and all sorts of small horrors
A few who are fortunate enough to
have specimens of the beautifully en-
broidered East Indian umbrellas, SUR
rounded with deep fringes of vari0x
colored beads, use them for inter-
| decoration.
Tiger lilies, which have been fashSS
| ionable for some time now, will become
still more SO for decorative purposes,
| as they were used to relieve the palms
| and ferns that lined the massive stair
way of Marlborough House at the re-
cent royal wedding.
/ The half circle yellow or orange
sweet grass fiat baskets, with handles,
sold by the half breeds at the summer
resorts, are being put away to ill with
grasses and decorate city homes.
| Golden brown and terra Gotta are
| the favorite colf 3r interior decora-
ton.
The ceiling OF George w. Childs
beautiful dining room is frescOed in
cream and gray, and the walls hung
with Japanese paper sparkling with
birds of paradise and fruit on a
ground of dead gold.
Panels of mating finished with tas-
sells of fringed rope, and hung on bars
by loops of the same, very nicely
printed with flowers or figures, are
very popular wall ornaments this sea-
son in country cottages.
In country house furnishing French
designs and light colors are in favor.
w. X. Vanderbilt's billiard room is
supposed to surpass all others. 1t is
designed from the ALEXANDRIA. The
mantel and the fire facings of the
horseshoe arch are of Mexican onyx,
and O series of onyx columns above
the mantel breasts make inches where
the cues are kept.
Not more than one or two kinds of
flowers are used at once to decorate Al
lunch or dinner table.
The fancy for stufiing tiny kittens
that were once alive has been revived
in Paris, and they are used to decorate
the handles OF work and waste
baskets
Bowls are much more in vogue now.
4 for flowers than vases, and the irnita-
ton cut glass articles in the hobnail
4 pattern that do not cost more than
sixty cents decorate many cotta3e
homes.
i The latest Improvement to the large
balls of gayly colored tissue paper forl
shaving purposes is the substitution
of stems made of wire bound With
green paper, and a few paper flowers
to hang them by instead of ribbons.
Bessie French, the daughter OF the
wealthy New York banker, is sup-
posed to be the possessor of the most
beautiful boudoir in the city. The
walls are entirely hung with Nile
green faille covered with point lace.
The dressing table is draped with tho
same lace over the silk and is covered
with the most deliberately designed
silver toilet articles. The upright
piano is of white enamel with silver
recommendations.
! One of the prettiest things in Mr.
Joseph Chamberlain's new Lond
house is the manner in which
electric light is fitted. ALI the. lights
and burners have been desia ID in
bronze and copper refiectors, 81 are
placed either in the ceiling or along
/ The cornice of the rooms.
| Washing is made very simple now
in many families who have adopted
the custom of having all of the larger
pieces put directly in the boiler, with
some shaved soap and a tablespoonful
or more of kerosene; thorough rinsing
is required.
| Velveteen and leather bound books
have the four corners tipped with Ger
man silver.
| The beautifully painted menu cards
used at the feast which followed the
recent royal Russian wedding had
on them the flags of Russia and
Greece, with the Acropolis of Athens,
and the palace of the Grand Duke
Paul beneath.
Lord Bute's elegant residence near
Rothsay, England, cost over s., 000.-
600, and is the largest and costliest
private establishment in the world.
The halls are entirely of marble and
alabaster, the rooms are finished in
rosewood mahogany and walnut, and
the fire places are all carved marbles
of antique designs. "a
Expensive bedroom screens az
made MP by purchasing the fran&
work and having 1t covered with c0E