Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-09-27
Written for TIE EVENING sTAn.

&bring two separate and distinct duties
81 which are paramount to the feminine por-
"" ton Of the community. In the fresh
spriugtime it 10 the adornment Of the person
and the preparations for the summer hegira
which are the principal and absorbing occu-
pations. In the autumn, when one comes back
from an invigorating season in cooler regions,
! ones recuperated energies are all bent on the
renovation and adornment Of the home. Cool
ness and baroness are the only interior effects
sought after here during hot weather, and now
the reaction is intense and every one 10 full Of
ideas for identifying the house a. . whole and
| many hooks in particular.
INTERIOR DECORATIONS
One has only to attempt improvements which
require outside aid to realize that every one
else is considering the same subjects she is.
All kinds of interior decorators are reaping
their harvest now, and annoying delays are
sure to follow the solemn assurances that all
promised work will move on to swift compile
ton. The first things to be considered in max
ing house ready for winter are, generally,
the walls. There is almost always little
papering or painting or both to be attended to.
In selecting wall paper people look in differ
ent ways. To some it is q perfect bore, to
others u perfect puzzle and to others still real
| enjoyment Personally l confess it to be q
fascinating thing, and the papers now are SO
| artistic that would like to choose for whole
house every season, find so many to please
me. This year the variety is almost infinite,
and in the favorite light effects are such ex-
quisite colorings, as well as forms, that it is Q
pleasure to inspect them. have had occasion
TO hunt for special style lately, and incident
| ally have seem many to admire. One French
paper l saw was SO charming that imme diately
had to construct in my fancy an apartment
where that should cover the walls, and the
furnishings should bo planned to set it off.
The paper was peary white ground and on it
are roses, big and OF lovely pink shadings,
mingled with other flowers in pink tones
mostly, and while natural in form are slightly
conventionaliZed by the colors and arrange
ment. 1t is extremely striking and yet SO re-
fined.
AN IDEAL GUEST ROOM.
The way should like to see this used is to
have ail the walls and ceiling covered alike
with it. 1t would not make good background
at all Cor pictures. being q picture-a flower
study-in itself. Therefore 1 should prefer it
In small guest room, for in family rooms
each one wants their own collection of favor
lite pictures. Say. then, a rather small guest
room for there might be such thing rs getting
too much OF even this prettiness. The furn-
ture should have enameed in the lovely soft
pink which is now to be bought in such
shades as to be quito irresistible. The bed
should be plain, with rather low headboard,
and the beds pread should be India silk of pink
SIOutlu ana Win roses III the pattern. Ibis
should be made with tounce on the sides of
the same, sixteen inches deep, put on with q
little half-inch ruifle for heading. In this par
ticular ROOM too. would sanct,o the spread
coming up over the pillows, thus having moth
ing white showing about it in any way. A
chiaonier in pink, not too large, would BIO set
of with Is white embroidered scarf and the Or
naments usually collected there. swinging
glass should be in pink frame, the supports
twisted pillars. A dressing table in pink wood,
with swinging mirror also. would be for the
toilet articles. The washstand should be pink,
with shlrred curtain at the back of pale pink
India silk, and the toilet set could be either
lowered or white and gold. With such de-
clded hover paper one must use the same Idea
but sparingly in the decoration and for that
reason should have plain pink silk panels in
the washstand screen, which must have pink
framework, like the rest OF tho furniture. For
the same reason should have plain pink vo-
lour tor the chair and lounge covering and
the articles themselves should be pearly white
wicker. and the woodwork of the room should
be also this TINT to correspond with the
groundwork of the wall paper and to avoid tho
monotonous effect Of having everything pink.
DAINTY ADDITIONS.
II possible should add one of the DELIGHTFUL
little writing desks which are SO dainty in PINK.
and which would cause my guests to rise up
and call me blessed as a hostess, for comfort
able provision mot to 60 beyond that for writ
u
greatest of Injuries. For curtains should
have tamboured white muslin sash curtains
and plain, white muslin over those, crossed ut
the top and drawn off and loopod very high,
with WIDE pink ribbon in qaite long loops and
ends. fril five inches deep and nut on 40
full as to fall IL jabot Or cascade should be
on the front edge and across the bottom, which
should little more than escape the noor
India mating with just dash Of color here
and there should cover the entire floor with
| In,
cOloring OF the walls, and several white ones in
fur. As pictures are tabooed Oh the walls
should have protusion of photographs on
tables (either white or pink small tables may
abound), chiffonier and dresser. Personal pic
lures, II sufficiently artistic to interest the
stranger; foreign pictures Of scenery or COPIES
of the treasures OF galleries should be in stand
ing frames everywhere and much pretty
china for toilet use as may be possible. OF
course 1t Is scarcely necessary to add that only
an appreciative specimen OF womanliind should
ever be invited to inhabit this dainty retreat.
and / should have fitted up also a room in
plain, dark colors, with lounging chair, cigar
| stand and bootjack as ornaments for the way.
farer OF the male species.
FOR PLATTER PocKETpooK.
This room in which have let my fancy rove
can all be attained as 1 have proposed. for
have seen all the articles described therein
| and as q scheme OF dec Grafton is not over OK.
pcusiNcs w Ao-Rcs. AoNCFeT, tuat
mission is to.the impecnnious, and WILL try and
| remodel the room until it shall come within
| the scope OF some young GIRL perhaps, who
| may fancy she would like such gay little
| abode for her own sweet self. We will suppose.
| therefore. that she already has something in
| the way OF furniture In the room she now &C.
| cupies, which can still be used to some extent
II 1t is cherry she might have terra Gotta and
salmon pink to prevail in the coioring-if her
old furniture is black walnut, cream color, vel.
| Low in apft fapa nd hrnw l.
we'll with it, or il she does not have to use old.
painted white, with brass trimmings, which
she can do for from sl2 to s15 On this she
could put q bedspresd just like the other in
| can buy from II cents to II cents yard. She
| q roll, which, although it has not the lovely
| coloring OF the French roses, will be of the
| same general style and very pretty on the
walls. Her washstand may be . table painted
| white and arranged like our illustration some
time ago in Attractive Homes" with shirred
curtains Of silkoline like her bsdspreads. A
small table aud chair she can paint white her.
| self and upholster in pink velour, for this il
not expensive when its width is taken into con-
| sideratiou, and II will take only q little for
| cushions. Her screen she can get up herself
by painting clothes bars and shirring on silko.
line. Instead Of the regular dresser of
pink wood with swinging glass she can
make . charming one of q table or box
draped with silkoline. Al her furniture will be
white the lowered silkoline can be used with
pink ground or white either as one chooses. II
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