Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-20
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rubber brush or the aerated rubber used
by draughtsmen for erasing lines.
Perfume of delicate aromatic sort is
almost indispensable with gloves. The
sachets of Spanish leather or vitivert are
suitable, though one woman l know hangs
her gloves in a lavender plant on her win
dow sill half days together to give them
pleasant scent. This is the place to speak
of the grateful devices for perfuming rooms
which are not only agreeable, but reviving.
The perfumed oil with which the large
piano lamps are fed, sold regularly by the
lamp dealers, ia perfumed COLA, or cotton
oil, which costs from 30 cents gallon up
ward. Perfumed ruby and amber liquids
in cut glass fagons with wicks and burners
fitted to the tops, consume slowly, sending a
faint odor of aromatics and citron through
the air. Paris and Berlin atomizers have
the large scent holder of crystal and gold,
Hungarian glass in rich colors, or in fine
porcelains and jeweled glass with silver
fittings, costing from S. to $15, and become
as indispensable to the drawing room table
as its lamp.
PERFUME THE AIR.
Spraying the air with small quantity OF
perfumed spirit not only scents but cools the
air, like the spray of fountain. Such re-
| freshment is very grateful to sick persons
and relieves even the dying. We do not
make enough of such aids to endurance.
| Bags of Italian orris in treble strength are
found to hang in closets, and mats of viii
vert, the root of the East Indian grass,
which perfumes cashmere shawls and keeps
them from the moth.
This root, which looks like fine rough
broomstraw, holds its refined and stimu-
| lating odor for years, and is. called the
1Q nlpQgantpSt
thing to put with woolen clothes, and it has
mora of a cedar-like, clean, penetrating
smell than a sweet perfume, and quite over
comes the odor of dye in cloths. Mats of
vItivert two feet long come to lay in trunks
and bureau drawers to perfume their con-
tents or are hung in windows to be sprinkled
with water to give freshness to rooms.
A POINT FROM PORTUGAL.
Besides these must be mentioned the
Portuguese water coolers, commended by
Minister George B. Loring, to do away with
the use of ice water, which is really I'M uri-
GUS to many persons. What advice cannot
do to bring about the use of naturally
cooled water, fashion and these picturesque
coolers will. The vases of pink or cream
clay in graceful shapes, decorated with vine
and tendril or Moorish ornament, swung by
a silken cord in the window, are too pictur-
esque not to Immediately take the eye of
artistic people. The clay being porous and
unglazed, the water soaks it slowly, cooling
the contents by evaporation till 1t is pleas
antly cold as we'll water just drawn. Cool
ers holding gallon are from S. to $40.
The great, squat Portuguese vases of SIM
plest form, with necks narrow for their size,
of glazed pottery in deep green or pinkish
stone colors, fresh looking for palm holders
in the corner of halls and porches, or more
prosaically tor umbrella stands, cost from
IS to S25. They are rather too expensive to
be kept for holding filtered water, which
was their original purpose. the cost of
these importations leads one to hope that
our own potteries will see the demand or
such things, and give us something really
artistic and inexpensive for household pur-
poses another season. Give us something
plain, shapeiy, with pleasing color and hints
of decoration, rather than any wrought out
prettiness to grow tired of. and receive the
profitable thanks of American households.
ARTISTIC FURNITURE.
Light cottage furniture in rattan is up
holstered in fiat cushions of deep red cot
ton, with pale blue and ecru striped ma
terial, diagonally crossing to show half or
more of the red. Decorative shops have the |
cheapest articles painted in light colors,
with enamel paint, and heads of homeiy |
flowers thrown across the surface. The |
wash bench is the latest article rechristened, |