Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-03

means OF fans and hydraulic pressure, gers
draught through spiral hose with a nozz,
shaped at its terminus like the trouble enc
of . trombone. He starts up grand racket
on the carpet till the dust flies, then turns
on this blizzard machine and a condensed
cyclone is Immediately precipitated. He
moves his hose end round like the snout OF
Jersey hog, and wherever the cloud Of
dust arises the suction OF his mechanism
draws it, and it Immediately goes "up the
spout" so to speak. The idea is all right;
the only difficulty which stands in the way
is the possibility of his getting too big a
draught on and shooting in stray leaves
from the family text book, odd socks or
sisters bangs.
This idea, which is chronicled as an in
vention in the Patent Office at Washington,
is on a par with the rocking chair, which
came out eight months ago. The inventor
arranged under the rockers pair of bellows
attached to series of pipes running up the
chairback to about where your neck would
rest. AS you rocked the chair the bellows
worked, and you were given hysterical
breezes. 1t worked all right for the man
who could stand shower baths. but it cost
one furniture dealer I know OF three good
customers by neuralgia, pneumonia and
Group. In another case the customer tried
it and had to run block to catch his wig.
It's good idea though, but like all those
things, you have to get someone to think so.
As for myself, think the sweeping scheme
would be better employed shooting coal
into cellar, and the man with the bellows
rocker would make fortune if he worked
it up around the caves of a roof and blow
the snow into the next county instead OF
down the back of the neignbor who always
gets under the roof at the wrong time.
For the last five weeks the big American
importers have been quietly receiving their
foreign goods; but, like all careful players,
they have been averse to showing their
hands for fear of giving their opponents
cue. The last week or two, however, has
compelled them to display their goods. AS
a result in almost every case, faded colors
in pronounced shades are the rule. "Faded
colors in pronounced shades" may be lit
tie paradoxical, but if you think for a mo-
ment you will understand what mean. A
good color, no matter how good it is, will
always fade to certain extent. 1t will
soften. But sill its character is pronounced.
On the other hand, poor color, made OF
cheap dyes, will, when it once starts to fade,
rapidly run into the where-is-it. The color.
ings that are being shown to-day are copies
of antiques. The blues which were made
200 years ago, and which are still found in
charming Flemish, French and German
tapestries, are still blue, softened only by
time. The primitiveness is matured.
The fantasque curtain is novelty among
lace goods. Irish points will be popular
with the middle classes, particularly. Not
tinghams will sell more than ever. simply
because they are shown in such superior
STYLES. Renaissance lace will undoubtedly
be taken in large quantities. Clunya and
arabes will hold their old-time prominence.
and with those goods sash curtains to hang
snugly to the windows inside OF the regular
lace curtains will be almost universally
used. People who never thought of buying
these goods in addition to their regular lace
curtain will buy them now, inasmuch as they
are shown lat low prices and the style is a
graceful one. Chenille curtains will be
shown in tinsel designs, either in all tinsel,
or in designs In which tinsel comes out con-
spicuously. This tinsel work or chenille
curtains is an absolute novelty, An.
pliqued embroidery work on plain plush
will also be much in vogue next winter and
we will see great deal in yellow and black
and rose pink and dead green. Sharp. In
dian colorings are not so popular as thew
have been for the last three or four seasons
The front window is a source Of incalcula-
BILE anxiety as to how to keep it we'll
dressed and at the same time useful ON a
Sunday afternoon when the "back room"
loses its charm and sight of the beglit-
tered and fashionable worshIpers, is as
good as street parade, and gathers a house.
hold at the window like flies ut the transom
light, II your curtains are caught at the
top, OF course you can't throw them at will
back out of the way. What you should do
is to use really two rods caught at each end
Of the easement on hinges, SO that by throw
ing both ends out on the hinges you can