St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-17
SCREENS ARE FOR USE.
II Not Of Service They Are Not a la
Mode.
ART IN PAPER MAcHE.
limitations Of All Kinds of Decorations
Made Of H---Treating Side
~, III Walls.

Ejsj walls.
nSBA ECORATIV E
~ screens are giving
MA, 81 lH place to screens
i-XISSN> W Id Of utility. The
fLfz&ESsStN s6*Re3 demands of the
ygzz04SES m o ern WOm-
%TSkSSAm an are more eX-
~ ELEM EfNIT acting than those
/ 3>51v1lEM FL NpM9Ul IT her sisters of
tW/GAHAE WI IN 500 years ago. who
| llH/NaskExN KSV, only thought of
| YTI5aEHM H/,y screens when the
| ,ZIzM%lyz1Ig jE0PA heat of the man.
4 EH75ffLA as / moth hearth made
Nv EHYEEIA - red her face; for
~ E0 ENzEMb-H hen, as now, WOm-
<esEsss5S44s&dkllH IAN was ever
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NEZA MSaEEIlH@ thoughtful Of her
y nil M9H1IHtE1e complexion. But
~ Msl MERAtI of late y ears
,lrA lIhi<YH/HG screens have been
loll1yINSMl diverted + II IN
eIuU/jIII/TlHt heir Old-time
tGlMIrWA ~ hearthstone utili-
l1Jl ~ tartan purpose to
occupy a decora-
tive field. To be sure they have oc-
casionaly concealed the clothes basket
or shabby corner, but that's all. Now
they are certainly useful adJuncts to
any room.
Those newly evolved screens come in
three varieties-for parlor, study and
sewing room. For parior one side is
decorated, but the other is all business
crossed and recrossed with bands of
silk, serving to hold an endless number
of photographs. visiting cards, dance
orders, the favors of the winter germans
or any other graceful and pretty SOU
venirs. For the study the same rib
boned or tapped rack holds CORE
spondence. with a place for pipe and
hook for tobacco pouch. For sew
ing room pockets are seWed on to
hold knitting; slips are arranged for the
scissors; huge cushion is suspended
on one panel and rag bag on another
in short, all the appurtenances OF
thrifty housewife are ready at hand, "a
place for everything and everything i'll
its place." Frequently these screens
are furnished with candelabra top.
Frequently apertures six inches wide
and foot tall are cut completely
through panel, like the letter U up
side down, and shelf fitted across the
bottom Of it; upon this bit of bric-a-
brac rests and gives novel appearance
to the structure.
This is productive age. l went into
& house the other day and sat on a hall
chair upholstered-Ven style-in
what appeared to he grand old Italian
leather. 1t wasn't, it was stamped
paper. At the windows hung
Shades in what looked like Holland
linen, but it wasn't, it was paper. The
wall things were in the friable hard
baked, ceramic sort that seemed as
though transferred fl m COrd0van cot
tage. Paper again. At the windows
soft sacerdotal light stole in through
what was apparently stained glass. but
it. wasn't. it was colored Oil paper.
The ceiling was in heavy cross
ers. Again paper. On the walls hung
| a'breastpIate, crossed with arms, which
| spoke of the days of heraldry and
| romance. But they, like the rest, were
only -papier-mache, ought to
say, for it is in this pulpy condition
| that paper is first worked to mould it to
| the hundred and one purposes it now
serves. A bronze plaque, foot and
| half of surface diameter, the head of
| Shakespeare. Or any other subject, in
| relief, is worth about 500. But the
| other day we saw one of the most per-
| feet reproductions Imaginable in this
| papier-mache for 81. Besides plaques,
/ armOr is made of this papier-mache,
shields, breastplates, sstatuary and any
| thing of this sort. with prices in the
above proportions. s.
Did a dealer ever take you into his
confidence and explain the origin of
some of his Oriental decorations?
Listen! This valance of Hungarian
embroidery came5off a peasants apron.
| This sofa-back was from the sides of a
| Turkish saddle-bag; this floss work
from the trousers of Persian woman:
this screen panel from the back piece
of mandarin's coat; this table scarf is
| part of an Indian deryish robe. Few
! of the Oriental enbIOideries which
come now to this country were ever in
piled to. They are from second
hand stores, old clothes shops,
private families and the mosques.
| For among all classes, rich
! and poor, unlearned and learned. en-
| broidering is second nature. One day.
| about two years ago, was looking over
lot of ipbroide rieS in the store room
| of an import dealer. In rummaging
through a lot of odds and ends, Ipricked
| my finger on a half-tied package. l
drew out the offending parcel. and to
my surprise discovered petticOat al
most complete, beautifully embroidered,
but with the needle and an unused
thread still hanging. How in the world
week the buyer, who had taken an in
terest in the incident, and fol-
lowed it up, explained: 1.-The
bundle," he said, chad come from
Komiah, in Turkey in Asia. from
a mosque. The people of this district
in obtaining the spiritual consolation of
their priesthood, INDUCED in custom
| of sending the church money or gifts,
and among the very poor these contribu-
tons were usually examples of their
handicraft. The unfinished petticoat."
said my informant, belonged to
| girl near Komiah, who died. She had
| no money. and on sending her body to
| burial the unfinished shirt, with its
dainty embroidery, just as her fingers
| had left it, was sent with her as an
humble tender for some prayer to rest
her spirit"
The bottom band of that skirt now
borders the mantle valance of a WASH
ington beauty, but little she knows, l
| fancy, that it ever had bong bit the re-
| pose of a soul.
The side walls of room are almost
invariably neglected or abused. Either
you take the advice of the dealer and
paste profusely ornamented paper all
over everything or you ruin neat. eff
fective paper by hanging picture frames.
regardless of character or color. Look
around the room you are in and see if 1t
isn't so. And why? Simply. the old eX-
cuse, ''You never thought" The pict-
ures are the features of wall, and
no one with grain of sense will
detract in any way from them
by a frame conspicuously ornate.
The wall paper is in turn a
background for the picture frame and
should be quite simple. | saw bed
room the other day the walls of which
illustrated my idea very nicely. There
were about a dozen clever etchings. ten
| byssix inches in size, surrounded by
pearl eolored mats and very wide frames
of natural unvarnished cedar of the
peculiar purplish red color, perfectly
; simple and so shallow and fiat that the
q 81. IL, 70 fha cnrfa