Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-17

that one never can get q pin out of. They
make pen wipers, with pretty remarks on
them, that man would be brutal to mutt
late, but they do not throw the whole force Of
their delightful character into anything as
they do into interior decorations.
To those fair enthusiasts, who are prone to
the purchase Of trifes would say: Avoid
too many chairs in room. Avoid rockers
that get in the way and raise the temper
and Jumps on your shins. Avoid small
tables-which are so "cnte"-those affairs
that take up 30 much room and hold a
compile of books or vase that is in constant
danger Of upsetting. A friend of mine with
wife who insisted upon wicker rockers
with dainty head rests, and small tables
with blue china, and who frequently had to
get up nights for the paregoric, went out
one morning after nights cropping for the
matchbox, which his spouse assured him had
only been filled the day before. but which
was, as usual, empty and as full Of barren
ness as the air was full of brimstone-went
out, as I said, and brought home a pot Of
phosphorescent paint, which he dabbed on
all corners, points and edges of those darling
little rockers and sweet tables, decorating
the matchbox, the bedposts, the gasbrackets
and door knobs, determined upon avoiding
the shoals and wreckages of the midnight
cruise. And now, at night, the room looks
like the ghost scene from ''The Flying Dutch
man." The phosphorescence gathers light
all day and lets it loose all night; but
there's no more black and blue spots and
the toe romps fearless of the vicious chair
leg.
I show in one Of the illustrations sketch
Of what you might call patch work glass.
Through the edges Of fragments of colored
glass holes have been bored, and the pieces
strung together in sort OF fretwork valance
to 90 at the top of window or doorway.
Beads are frequently used for the same pur-
pose-large beads strung together crossed
and recrossed as substitute for expensive
stained glass. It Is an excellent idea. ALL
bead transoms are expensive, and by intro
ducing bits Of bamboo, which you can buy
in lengths, like fish poles, and cut up and
string on with the beads, you can cheaper the
work very much. The bamboo lends itself
to this sort of work very nicely, because you
can color it all either white or gold or some
other hue, and thus contribute not only to
inexpensiveness, but to lending distinctive
character to the work.
had something in previous letter to
say about bedsteads to assure you that the
brass did not tarnish; that il did not scratch
any more than wood or as much; that it did
not get rusty. and was not difficult to keep
clean. Last week one Of the largest retailers
told me he had sold more brass and metal
bedsteads during the last five months than
during the last five years. For hospital
uses they are almost universally used, and
whenever the crib is discarded and Miss
Four Years reaches the dignity of bed,
mamma now always thinks of either
enamel or brass. For the white and
gold craze, decorators merely touched up
here and there some parts Of the brass, " hite.
Now when the demand is all Tor black and
yellow-the Spanish efect-they merely
touch up the brass here and there black.
The club men use them, the hotels are
putting them in, in conformity with the
English custom and three-quarters OF the
fashionable boudoirs have them. The
latest wrinkle is to have the canopy run up
from the side OF the bed instead of the head
and to have the draperies Of the bed Of the
same material az the lace curtain.
"Sets" are now furnishe In all sorts OF
lace curtain goods-whether of Noting
ham, Cluny, Tambour, ARABIC or other
ssuffs. You buy the curtains and inside
sash hangings, bed canopy. bureau scarfs,
tides and bed covers to match. It all gives
a finish to bedroom that is delightful.
Not one woman in ten, given the privi-
lege of selecting the chairs for house, will
make sensible purchase. Did you ever
see woman get seat in horse car? She
trips in with bored look on her face, and
almost Invariably stops in the doorway, sets
firmly her lips, lunches her shoulders and
settles herself reslgnedly against the sharp
angle OF the entrance. There are three or
four seats up front, but she never sees them.
She gazes away off with sort Of how-we-
oor-women-do-suffer kind Of look and
forthwith some restless male spirit gets up
and offers his seat. Then faint beam OF
qualification appears and she says, Don't
rise" but the sacrificing fellow does rise
Just the same and promptly strides up front
and spreads himself all over a yard of un-
pied seating. It's the same way in
house. Watch man enter room and nine
times out of ten he'll scan 1t in jify and
pick out q comfortable chair, if it's there,
but q woman, neverl The first thing ct
hand she drops on and there's an end OF 1t.
A man wants o place TO put himself-and
plenty of it Over 800 patents have been
got out upon reclining chairs and yet
woman evsrlastingly buys spindle legged
rocker. :.