The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-03-17
NEW CARPET DESIGNS.
Geometry in the Minor Key and
Floral Patterns Popular.

L he new eIi6clS III cafpeLS Tor bile
season. as described by Decorator ana
Fuan5Sher, consist almost exclusively
of floral designs, with a small proper
ton OF geometrical patterns represent
ing Turkish and Persian rug designs.
In moquettes, there are light pat
terms where the motive blends almost
imperceptibly into the ground, and
light tinted patterns have holder eff
fects, the flowers and foliage being
strongly tinted, so that they stand
out in high relief on the carpet. Then
there are patterns with leaves of dark
smoke tints and London fog blend.
ings, with d touch of absinthe green
and yellow. These grounds are gener-
ally dark green, dark red and dark
brown.
There are some critics who object to
that form of establishment that re-
produces natural flowers and foliage
in carpets in particular, but the pub
lie seem to have settled down to the
idea that, nc matter how natural the
design of the flower appears, it is still
not a Hover by any means, and there
fore may be trainpled upon without
conjunction.
In body Brussels, the best grades of
floral designs are prominent, the pat
terms being, in all cases, in soft and
aesthetic colors. There are also floral
| scrolls in maroon, ecru, green, brown,
| olive and salmon red tints, on SINH
larly tinted grounds. Some patterns
have Turkish arabesques and rich
Japanese floral effects, but floral con-
traSts are most prominent.
We have seen. says the authority
already mentioned, a beautiful geran-
ium leaf pattern covering the ground
of the design, each leaf having q pris-
matte band in soft colors. The be-
gonia is a popular pattern this season.
the shading of the leaf producing
very fine effects. The Brussels car
pets have a fine and crisp surface
which gives an effect that is very diff
ferent from the smooth, soft pile of
the moquettes and Wiltons. Many
manufacturers produce each pattern
in ten different c~olorings. We have
seen some in yellow and brown scrolls
ON a solid marco ground that look
exceedingly handsome. The anne
pattern has the scrolls in green, yell
low and gold OIL an ecru ground,
while another has the scrolls in cream
and yellow on q dull red green.
In tapestry Brussels, as they are
termed, there are some notable effects.
One very fine and original pattern has
a repeat consisting of five groups of
sea shells in various tones Of reds and
pinks on an ecru ground. In these
also are japanese effects. As in gem
eral the designs in Brussels are very
largely produced in tapestries, there
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floral effects. One example consists
of an all over pattern of thickly clus-
tered chrysanthemums with neither
leaves nor branches visible.
In ingrains, the patterns exhibit
beautiful color effects, and there is a
decided advance both in design and
coioring. One nice pattern has a wine
| red lily with brown and olive leaves
| shown on slate, brown, blue and gray
grounds. The designs of ingrains are
very suggestive of tapestry and mo-
quette effects, such tints as slate,
brown, gray, yellow, blue and terra
Gotta predominating. The tints this
year incline to light artistic, cheerful
effects, and this obliges the manufac-
turer to use a superior grade of wool
in his three ply, extra supers and all
wool superine ingrains.
1t is now possible for a man of
limited means to cover the floors of
his apartments with ingram carpets
of the most artistic designs. There is
also an art square of ingram weave.
Fanciful Women.
There is a large class of women in
constant trouble about their health,
although the same amount of strength
in a cheerful woman would be taken
as healthiness. You fear to accost her
with, How are you today?" for that
would be the signal for a shower of
complaints. She is always getting a
lump on her side, an enlargement of
the heart or a curve in the spine. Ii
some of these disorders did not ac-
tually come, she would be sick all the
same-sick of disappointment. Ii
you should find her memorandum
book you would discover in it recipes
for the cure of all styles of diseases.
from softening of the brain in women
down to the bots in a horse. Her
bedroom shelf is IN apothecary-infan-
tum, where medicines of all kinds
may be found, from large bottles full
OF head-wash for diseased craniunls,
down to the smallest vial for the re-
moving OF corns from the feet. Thou
sands of women are being DESTROYED
by this constant suspicion of their
health.
Others settle down into a gloomy
state from forebodings OF trouble to
come. They do not know why it is,
but they are always expecting that
something will happen. They mag
inc about one presentiment q week.
A bird flies into the window, or a salt
cellar upsets on the table, or a cricket
chirps on the hearth, and they shiver
all over, and expect a messenger
speedily to come in hot haste to the
front door and rush in with evil It'd
ings.
Oh, do away with all forebodings as
to the future! Cheer up, diseonsolate
onesl Go forth among nature. Look
up toward the heavens, insufferably
bright by day, or at night when the
sky is merry with 10, 900 stars, joining
hands of light, with the earth in the
ring going round and round with
CLEAN and dance and song, making old
night feel young again. Go to the for
est, where the woodlands axe rings on
the trees, and the solitude is broken
by the call of the woodsparrow, and
the chewink starting up from among
the h~uckleberry bushes. Go to where