St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-24

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eAgw "a r gyrof upsetting.
ne .Sfp q A friend Of mine
a with a wife who
insisted upon wicker rockers with
dainty head rests, and small tables with
blue china. and who had frequently to
rise at dead of night to look after the
baby, one morning after a nights
cropping for the match box, which his
spouse assured him had only been filed
the day before, but which was, as
usual, empty, went out and brought
home pot of phosporesce paint, which
he dabbed on all corners, points and
edges of those darling little rockers
and sweet tables. decorating the match
box, the bed posts, the gas bracket and
door knobs, determined upon avoiding
the shoals and Wreckages of the mid
night cruise. And now at night the
room looks like the ghost scene from
1.-THE Flying Dutchman." The phos-.
phorescence gathers light all day ana
LET'S it loose all night: but there are no
more black and blue spots and the toe
romps fearless of the vicious chair leg
I give here sketch of what you
might call patchwork glass. Through
the edges of fragments of colored glass,
holes have been bored and the pieces
strung together in sort OF fretwork
valance to go at the top of a window or
doorway. Beads are frequently used
for the same purpose; large DeadS
strung together, crossed and recroSSed
as substitute for expensive stained
glass. 1t 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
nh "a
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 mex
pensiveness, but to lending a distinct
i've character to the work. L had
something in a previous letter TO
yabout bedsteads to assure you that
the brass did not tarnish; that it 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 retailers told me ne sold
more brass and metal bedsteads during
the last five months than during the last
fiue 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
white. Now. when the demand is all
for black and yellow-the Spanish eff
| fect-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 Gus
tom and three-quarterS OF the faSnion-
able boudoirs have them. The latest
Ia 10 m haua the paOOnV rim I'M
from the inside OF the bed instead of the
head. and to have the draperies of the
bed of the same material as the lace
/ curtain. se.t, t1ro1 Je..A SC 6 s.sfk
ssSets'' are now furnished in all sorts
| of lace curtain goods. whether OF
Nottingham, Cluny, Tambour, Arabe
or other stuffs. You buy the curtains
and inside sash hangings, bed canopy,
bureau scarfs, tides and bed covers to
match. They all give finish to bed
room that is delightful.
Not one woman in ten, given the priv
ilege Of selecting the chairs for house,
will make a sensible purchase. Did
you ever see woman get seat in
horse car? She trips in with a bored
| look on her face and almost invariably
stops in the doorway, her lips set firmly,
lunches her shoulders and settles her
self resignedly against the sharp
angle Of the entrance. There are three
or four seats up in front, but she never
sees them. She gazes away Off, with
sort of how-we-poor-w omen-do-suffer
| kind of look and forthwith some
restless male spirit gets mp and
offers his seat. Then faint beam of
qualification appears and she says,
| T'DOn't RISE" but sacrificing man rises
| Just the same and promptly strides up
front and spreads himself over yard
| of unoccupied seating. 1t is the same
way in house. Watch man enter
| a room and nine times out of ten he'll
scant it IN jiffy and pick out COM
| Portable chair, if it's there, but
woman never! The first thing at hand
| she drops on, and there's an end OF 1t.
A man wants a place to put hlmself,
and plenty of it. Over 800 patents have
been got out on reclining chairs, ana
| yet a woman everlastingly buys a spin
dle-legged rocker.
The old-time gimp loops for lace
curtains are passed. They are seldom
seen any more, the curtain being caught
| back by bows instead, or, in fact, in any
| graceful way, as long as you avoid that
conventional gimp
Were YOU never disguised by the
tawdry display of window shades along
the street? Take your own block. for
instance. It is brick row, and yet at
| one house are green shades, at another
yellow, the next blue. and so on till the
effect of it all is simply horrible. Ii all
| the houses would adopt some neutral
tint that would harmonic with the eX-
| teriors, the appearance would be I'M
| proved. AS it is, however, an entire
| neighborhood is made to look common
by the window shades at one or two
! houses. One neighbor across the street,
| when asked why she had brown shades
at her down stairs windows and terra
Gotta up stairs. replied. resentfully, 10
harmonic with my furnishings
| But it makes your house look so
4 badly from the outside, and then the
| neighborhood-"
r. But the poor dear ignorant creatures!
| / don't suppose one woman In nun
| dred-no, not one in 500--is aware that
| there are such things as double-faced
| lshades-that have one color on one side
and another on the reverse. Take
brown stone row of houses. What a
Charming refined appearance they
| would have if all were furnished with
I Shades showing from the streets natu-
| raj holland or cream tint. Inside, OF
course, have your reverse colors any
thing you please for your red room
and Blue for your blue. 'Ah, but"
you say, II never knew there were such
| Shades.n Well, you know now. The
reverse kind shouldn't cost but trifie
/ more than the common one-color affair.
| Last month dealer in Union square.
| New York, said that in 1887 he made
narlor curtains for one of the early
fashionable residences down by Bond
street. which became the talk of those
| old-fashioned four hundred-they were
T so aesthetic. They were made OF ordi-
nary turkey-red. and cost about rs cents
a yard. This was in 1887, remember.
To-day" continued my informant. Il
sold lot of rose-colored brocade to a
descendant of that same family, and
will charge over $4,000 for just the
| coverings of her ball room walls.
| We in this country make wall papers
very creditably, but it is only nf-!ate
| wears that the American manufacturers
| have attempted anything in the grand