The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-07

Ulue Gue odSlGSG 10 1dll OH. DO you KNOW
the color of her state china! You must
choose a delicate brocade that will cor
respond with these, and you must be above
all things careful that the fragrance given
out shall be nothing more than soft, in
definable breath of which one becomes
conscious only gradually, and which be-
tween soup and coffee one scarcely tracks
home to the wee bags at the plates, in the
necks of which are tied fine flowers. If
your sachets are exactly right great will be
your triumph, but if your perfume vulgarly
obtrudes itself your failure will be dismal.
Y GU can add to the sachets, if you like, a
set of three brocade bags for ferns, and can
cause your friend to understand that she
should put a generous cluster of green
fronds into each bag, tie the bags about
with garlands of fine flowers, tilt them
against one another in the middle of her
table and rest assured she has attained to
that which is new.
Something which costs no money! Alack,
it is given to few of US to find it, but there
are things which are dainty and which
cost little but labor. There is, for example,
booklet for the register of visits. You
will need rough heavy white linen paper of
extra thickness for the cover, and on this,
if you paint, you can sketch in water
colors a stately dame in quaint old
costume offering with elaborate cour
tesy the hospitality of her parlor
| to a cavalier IN powdered hair and knee
| breeches Across the bottom in struggling
! picturesque letters must run the legend,
List of Calls Made and Received" Four
inches by six, or five by seven, that is,
| speaking generally, about the size of a
limo, makes pretty form. You can fill
your booklet with blank leaves of linen
paper or you can brighten it's pages with
| flower sprays or butterflies or tiny fans
and opera slippers or steaming teacups or
any souvenirs feminine. You will tie it up
with a ribbon and it will cost you two
hours or it will cost you month, it all
depends. Instead of the record of calls
you can substitute for the woman who be-
longs TO clubs and studies Ibsen, record
of books read, digested and turned into
conversation material. Two Kate
Greenaway children porting over a
volume big enough to eneulf them
will make the cover, and for motto
try 'Books are Constant JOY"
To talk of cushions is to talk of the Curl
osities of our friend Barnum. l know a
girl who shuts herself up for three hours
daily at this season in her own private
cushion mandatory. If she comes out
with hair dishevelled and ribbons flying
we know she has been seized with an in
spiration. Two or three morning ago
genius burned. This is what its flames il
lumined: The girl had traced on purple
velvet the shape of a great pansy. This
she had cut out and lined the petals and
deepened the shadows and frightened the
heart of the flower with gold Keeping
close to the posey form she had filed her
cushion in partially distinct segments,
taking delicate green silk for the under
parts, and making a big, soft, downy
heartsease to rest the tired head of a
mother of many children.
To offer TO a woman with divan that
calls for cushions as Oliver Twist for por
ridge is one thing that is big and square
and will stand against the wall. The cir
made it of gold-brown plush and stuffed i,
thick enough to give it a certain amount Of
dignity. On the face of it she put bold
conventional leaf and scroll pattern OF
applique in two shades of gold-brown satin
The girl processes to like applique because
the contouring in gold cord is done so rap
idly. But when she had contoured it she
veined her leaves and blossoms with gold
and silver threads and added gold stalk.
and tendrils. She put on straps of golG
and silver psssementerie to finish tue foul