Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20


stories Of the noted homes of Washington
| are as well furnished as their dining rooms,
and the bedrooms of many of our bellies
have all the luxuries of modern invention
shaped into curious forms BY the in
dividuality of the tastes of their
owners The room above spoken of is
a sample. It is an irregular room
with deep fireplace and two or three al
coves. At the right, on entering, is the
couch. and instead OF being tucked and hud-
died into a corner, as in former days, 1t
stands we'll out in the room with almost an
equal space on either side. The frame is
formed of slender white poles, tipped with
gold, and from them hangs pendent the
feeciest of blue Canton crepe, the part
against the wall being quilted. The cover
let is of white lace over blue crepe. and the
long roll, which is used instead of pillows,
is stuffed with softest down. The sheets
have the maiden's name embroidered in the
right corner, and have woven hens, each
sheet being a complete web. There are no
blankets on the bed, but two downy blue
comforters, which pile up as weightless as
snow.
THE OTHER FURNISHINGS.
On one side of the bed is a door leading
into the bathroom and on the other side is
girls pretty gowns are hung. Across the
room from tine bed is a wide divan covered
with French cretonne of white and blue. 1t
stands diagonally in the room and is piled
up with cushions. The bureau is of white
and gold, the handles being entirely gilded.
1t Is a low affair with swinging egg-shaped
mirror. On it are perfume and jewel cases
of solid silver and in the low dresser which
is just opposite, the rage for silver articles is
further illustrated, for there are dozens of
pieces, brushes, combs, nail files, powder
boxes, button hooks and hand mirrors, all
finished in solid silver. The dresser has
deep valance of blue chintz.
Beyond it is writing desk of white and
gold, with silver candle-stick, Ink tankard
and boxes of tiny note paper with the
owners monogram, which shows her to be
Just up to the fad, for the lettering is an
inch long and leaves hardly space for two
lines of letter. The rug is all in one
color, deep violet, and the wall dado has
the same color, the ceiling being blue with
silver cob-webs wrought in it. A buhl
table in the center of the room has prettily
bound copies of Undine, Rasselas, Picciola
and other harmless volumes. There are not
more than six pictures in the room, of which
two are Madonnas and the others water
color landscapes. They are all framed in
white and gold,
MISS LETTERS BoUDoIR IN OLD GOLD.
The heiress, Marie Letter, has dove cote
worthy of her loyeliDess. It is on the Sec
ond floor of the red brick mansion which
James G. Blaine built ten years ago, and in
which he liyed but short time, preferring
modest quarters and the SIC, ,000renta which
the Chicago merchant pays for it. Every
window and the plate glass doors have the
initials ~. G. B." cut into them, and lead
ing up to the boudoir of the daughter of
the house is a stairway which Blaine him.
self designed and above it the rarest bit of
stained glass in any house in Washington.
The fair maid Evangeline is the device, and
though passing it dozen times day one
would still involuntarily bow the knee be-
fore the lovely thing.
The room Is just beyond the broad land
ing in the rear of the house and from its
windows old Georgetown, with its college,
its quaint churches and narrow, Holland
like houses can be seen. There is an effect
of depth and size to the room which is in-
creased by the almost tintless granting of
the walls and the deep alcove opening upon
a Juliet-like balcony. Miss Letter is
belle bruno and instead of mawkish blue
her surroundings are daring yellow, not
pale as primrose, but deep as daffodil. The
polished floor has perfect riot of rugs in
which the wonderful tone of yellow pre-
dominates. The couch is in a white and
gold frame uncanopied and with a coverlet
of white lace which fits above the soft roll
and almost touches the floor on either side
The posts are high and slender and on each
hallway up is gigantic yellow bow.
MIRRORS FOR AN HEIREss.
A Mexican onyx table of the kind which
the Germans call "little night table" stands
at the right, bearing upon the marble slab,
which is barely a foot and half from the
ground, silver lamp; the standard slim and
graceful, and the shade of pale yellow.
Mirrors on dressers and bureaus are no
longer a la mode. They are still there, but
are made wholly for ornament, most of them
being odd affairs, shaped like an egg, and so
high up that little Miss Muffet couldn't see
the tip of her nose in them. Instead, the
fashionable woman uses a long cheval,
swung in frame, and in which she can see
everything from the butterfly in her hair TO
the buckle on her slim foot. Miss Letters
cheval glass must be eight feet high and
three feet broad. It is swung in a gold
frame, and is so adjusted that it mirrors
nearly all of the lovely room. On either
side of it. hung by gold chains, are small
lamps, such as one sees in Roman Catholic
churches on the Continent, and which are
called "eternal lamps"
The dresser is richly fitted with silver ap-
pointments, and is canopied in white lace
caught back by yellow bows as big as a
child's sash bow. A white and gold chair
stands before it, where the young girl sits to
have her hair dressed in the chaste Ophelia
fashion which she has adopted. One Of the
daintiest things in the room is the secre-
taire, at which are written all the pretty
notes of invitation and acceptance. Near it
is a small table, where bowls of flowers and
low dishes of bonbons are kept, and where
at night after ball or dinner the mistress of
the room always finds glass of rich milk
which she drinks to refresh her before Sleep
ing.
A PIANO IN THE ALCovE.
Miss Letter is music lover, and she has
an upright piano in the alcove of her room
which is always Uttered with favorite opera
scores, for she practices singing as indefa-
tigably as if she meant one day to make her
fortune by her voice. There is private
bath room for the apartment, and in it are
two or three affairs which look like hat racks
but which are really for hanging ball dress
es, so that they will neither be crushed
against the wall or crumpled BY packing in
boxes. They are all shrouded in cases made
for the purpose. A little ante.chamber con-