Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-08-02
IDEALS FOR SUMNER.
fads and Fancies in Finishings and
Furnishings.
TRUE HARMONY DESIRED,
ferm and C01OP-How % FIT Out Your
HORSE After IL IL BUilt-suEgestions
Oh Wholesome Tasteful Furnishings
and How to Arrange Them.
Written for TEE EVENING" srAn.

| Written for TIE EVENING STAR.
n AsHIONS in the oolors Of houses, outside
| iFas well as in, vary yearly, though such
}lSE change ofttimes is anything but good
Ill taste or artistic. A house is something
| permanent, and its form and hue should
be studied to please lastingly. Every one to
his taste is a risky and expensive rule unless
the taste IL right simple and true in the first
choosing. The art which paints German toy
villages must preside over the Long Branch
and Jersey cottages this year for they glare in
amber and terra cotta-the ground story red,
the upper one amber or brilliant pumpkin
yellow with brown trimmings enhanced by
vivid green Venetian shades, and green mat
tings drawn as roofs and enclosures for out
door balconies. The discord of the three
oolors among the cool shades Of grass and clus-
tering boughs is fifty closed by ranks of scarlet
and pink geraniums on the lawn-scarlet and
pink at which sensitive eye shrinks.
HOUSE ONE NEVER TIRES OF.
II you wish to have the new summer cottage
or the old one remodeled approve itself year
after year to the artistic eye, as letters patent
Of the owners good sense and cultivated taste,
| choose a dark, sti ong color and paint it all
| over alike. Dark red, tho old Venetian red,
| with little lumber or lampblack to deepen it,
wears longer than any color in the painter .
list and has all the good qualities being warm,
| substantial and giving richness to the land
scape. harmonizing with the greens of summer,
and having comfortable glow Of tone in the
! gray autumn days. Deep bronze green is
another artists color for houses, a green too
somber not to be distinct from the foliage about
it, yet blending with them red-browp is
good and a russell or deep brownish yellow;
| these the list sufices to choose FROM But fol
| low one law that wooden house needs no
trimmings, either in gingerbread art work or
In color, which lessen its apparent size and
| real dignity.
Ornamental work cheapens a wooden house
or cottage, which should depend on the SYM
| metry OF its lines. the slope Of it's roof the
proportion of its gables and porches for its at
Effectiveness. The best architects are discard
| ing the steep gables and twisted roofs of the
Queen Anne style and the ridiculous pepper
box towers copied from the French chateau
| The Lorillards and Miss Catharine Wolfe and
the Astors have led in taste among people of
wealth in this country, and their Newport
laid out are simplicity itself beside the quirks
| and board fligree Of the Jersey houses costing
$4,000 or $4,000 and under.
| There Is hardly lovelier country house in
America than Mr: Louis Lorillard's Newport
| cottage "Vinland," designed and built for Miss
Wolfe and there is not stroke of ornamental
work outside the friendly, ample, becomingly
| grouped walls.
| OPEN BALCONIES.
The gay touches, the relief to your wide
gables, are the square or broad-railed bal
comics without roof, which are preferred in
the latest studies to the deep-hooded porch
and verandas. For people make homes OF
| their country places and live later in them
year by year, not making them merely foot
hold for the torrid weather when the sun is
| dreaded
Tho open balcony allows the sun when IL is
grateful, Is shaded by the pull of a cord, and il
much airier than the deep-roofed porch when
the sun is of and all delight in the afternoon
shadow. The broad-striped awnings-and those
need to be broad, bold and effective in color
are made in the Venetian way, without sides
and arc much pleasanter to sit under and to
take care of. For screening these outdoor sit.
ting rooms when the life of the summer
goes on chiefly all sorts Of native
mattings are in use-thin-split bamboo
| willow, fine rattan, green rush and ma.
Mia or csparto in Spanish dyes, besides the
new venetians, whose thin green stats culver
| delightfully."- in the GOODNESS. Verandas have
their own suits Of furniture. in palm and rat
tan, cushioned with Madagascar mating, fine
| as any jute fabric, with gay barbara stripes oil
crimson and tea-colorsd rush. The uneasy rat
tan tables with basket tops are sensibly re.
placed by wood tops with rattan frames anG
the heavy round basket frames for sofa and
chairs give way to something lighter in looks
| One does not want q basket chair for summer
to suggest a footman every time there IL need
OF moving il.
SUGGESTIONS AS TO FURNITURE.
The best lounges are those of rattan, with
closely woven seat, costing from s1O to e13
and 80 light they can be carried all over the
house. pair OF these, any number Of small
rockers and easy chairs, large rattan table
for newspapers aud tea, with several of the low
Arabic tables, elbow high, as one sits in the
lowest of low chairs or Tolls on the Japanese
bed mats, furnish a veranda prettily. Beside
| these wicker screens and rice curtains partition
off corners for writing or doing and big Eas,
| Indian seats Of woven rush. coarse as work in
corn husks, look well with the huge green pots
| OF palm or acacia, which add to the GOODNESS
when kept well sprinkled as they ought to be.
or course veranda boxes all around full OF
| flowers are the final decoration. but pray lie,
US have something in them beside the usual as
sortment Of German ivy, blue lobelia and mas
turtiums. Try the effect of hardy white les.
samine. with starry, sweet scented flowers, and
| the delicate, luxurious mansandya, like min
| nature ivy in leaf. blooming endlessly in rose
| white and purple bells. snap dragons in their
| velyets, richer in cOloring than any flower
grown. saving the salpiglossis streaked in its
jcwelry-fowers which bloom into the frost
and seem anxious to crowd as much brilliance
az possible into their lives. Give them liquid
| fertilizer at the roots twice a week, soaking
the soil we'll, and turn tho sprinkler on the
foliage three and four times a day, when the
| sun 10 on, IN not weather. Florists have tC
sprinkle their plants almost hourly on hot
days to keep them fresh and thriving.
| PROPER CARE OF FLOWER VASES
The plants in hot urns and vases and window
boxes in town appeal to gardeners instinct
as one sees them willing and struggling for life
Out of devotion to plants take the oppOrtu.
nifty of telling restaurateurs and hotel keeper.
that to make thoir outdoor vases anything bu,
a grief of hower-growing, fiower-knOwing per
sons in summer the soil should be stirred week.,
among the plants, chemical fertilizer given
that comes in 10-cent boxes, which last a sea
son, and soil and roots covered an inch deer
with cocoa fiber, florists moss or fine cut grass
which keeps the vase from drying out III the
hot sun aud keeps the roots moist and cool
Given plenty of strong liquid to feed the
plants water generously on the leaves ant
mulch on the roots, window and terrace plant.
will surprise one with their freshness and luxu
rance in torrid weather. The fashion Of
placing growing plants in halls and drawing
n rooms is a very wise one; that they literally
cool tho air by Transportation from their leave,
is too well known in science TO need more thar
mention. But no palm soft wood plan
should be left in room more than n month
without giving it a rest and refreshment out
doors or in a green house. The soil absorbs
bad air from the house or grows sour for lacl
OF sun and pure air, whence arises the idea Of
the unhealthiness OF plants in rooms.
WHERE FANCY HAS ROOM For PLAY.
Indoors the furnishing summer or countr,
house gives play to picturesque fancy. The new
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