St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-22
are tied to give a decorative appear
ance. here and there may be gilded or
painted, and, with taste. some charming
effects are thus produced.

Some three or four years ago what
were termed Liberty silks and China
silks were brought over to this country
and sold for something like S1.25 yard,
thirty-Six inches wide. They were used
for summer drapingS, easel ScarfS or
purposes of that sort. To-day the same
effect can be had in cotton at fifteen
cents yard finished with silken lus-
land at short distance you can't tell
them from the genuine silk. Curtains
of this stuff are made without any
trouble by merely cutting off six or
eight feet of the piece goods and sew
ing upon the inner side and bottom a
little cotton-ball fringe. If your fabric
is, for instance, terra Gotta with
white designs, have your ball fringe
Gotta. A good way of securing val
ance top, as it is called, is by making
the curtain about foot and half
longer than usual, and by adding the
fringe along this top, as we'll as sides
and bottom; then, by throwing the top
over the pole, allowing it to hang down
over the curtain for foot or so, you
have a valance. Ask for cotton drapery
prints. There are many different names
for this sort of thing, but the above
term covers them all. Ready-made cur
tains, fringe and all, can be bought for
50 pair. Nothing cheap-lOoking about
them, but highly artistic and soft, deli
cate, fady cOlOrS.
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In lace Curtains 1 saw the other day
an absolute Observation-Disclosures made
in colors, pink Nottinghams, blue Not
tinghams and all other shades. saw
Nottinghams, too, that were made IN
absolute imitation of Brussels style and
pattern; so much so that a SIS Noting
ham at distance of five feet you could
rot tell from $50 Brussels. A few years
ago the housewife wanting a lace cur
tain had only to choose between
Brussels, Swiss and Nottingham.
Now there are endless varie-
ties muslin curtains, @s beautiful
things for $3.50 to Sc pair, that can be
washed and done up like linen skirt;
Casabane curtains made of appliqued
corded designs upon an ecru Melted
background, big floral patterns; Irish
point curtains and Irish point imita-
lions, with patterns in cotton, cut out
and appliqued on to plain Swiss net
background with cord edging. l saw
last week a genuine Brussels for 81.
Think of this, We who used to pay 5000
pair for your best Brussels and $50 for
something cheap"
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People have asked me before now If
the rugs which you buy in the auction
stores ore really Turkish rugs. They
most certainly are, and they are gen.
orally quite as good examples as you
can find anywhere else, but l regret to
say that the colorings in all these goods
which now come from the Orient are de-
teriorating. Up to about nine years
ago, the colOrs that were used were
native colors, but as demand increased it
stimulated investment of English capt.
tai, and the erection of British
factory enterprises, both in India.
Turkey and Persia. Then English
dyes were used, and many of the goods
which now come to this country are in
very perishable colors. Some of the cot
ton portieres fade like dish cloth. and
it is always well to insist upon it that
the colors are guaranteed. Beware of
the philanthropic dealer, the man or
woman who repres ents that their goods
are gathered by the Association of ORR
entail PhiIanthroplsts" or the Society
for the Elevation of the Unfortunate
Turk" There are lots of those people
now roaming around who tell charming
stories of the suffering of their women
and the tireless labors of the embroider-
ers. They win sympathies by their