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

wind enough to allow trees to grow on the
leeward side, as the Scotch borticulturists
found years ago in their gardens swept BY
Atlantic gales.
WALL PAPER AND CURTAINS
A new and exquisite fancy in wall paper
does away with frieze or BORDERING This
example was cartridge paper in soft sky
blue, verging to the grayish tinge of snu..
mer, with q graceful, natural beading on
the length of roses dropping in long fringes
as they might hang over a wall, with pink
petals falling below them in airy blending
with the tone of the paper. 1t was an
artIsts finest fancy, worthy any of the
famous French decorators. 1t was not
economical-costing 60 cents d length. the
pattern repeated twice in a single roll-but
1t was cheap loveliness. One cannot approve
cartridge paper for sanitary reasons, as it
absorbs damp and odors distressingly, but
there is dull enamel paper which in these
slight irescoes would be charming.
To go with such paper the French ere
tonne in cream or ecru grounds, with rose
clusters and borders, or the English dimity
with pale dink or blue stripes, is the ideal
curtain, as either can be laundried as often
as desired with ease. Pretty summer cur
tains, new this season, are of clear washing
net with slight tambour tendrils and dots.
like thread lace, and these are made up
with frills Of lace to correspond, very light
and refined, while inexpensive.
The choice patterns of India silks for
draPery come in silk-fnished eottons, like
soft Jaconet, and to my thinking more de-
sirable than the silk for use. Although IL
goes by the name of washing silk, it is in
tended to be washed as little as possible. and
II never improves in the process But the
prettlest novelty is the French cotton for
curtains, fine satin jeans, that does not
lose its freshness by washing like satin, but
with its clear white or cream ground. and
roses or hlacs in cluster, defes sun and
service to mar its freshness lastingly.
ANTIQUE FURNITURE OUT OF STYLE.
1t Is in deyout thankfulness one records
that furniture in antique" oak and butter
nut is out OF fashion, as it always was out
oil grace; for it pretended to be something it
was not, and the. CRIME of centuries, none
too desirable if real, was copied in SCOT and
grease we'll rubbed in. Woods in the nat
ural color are preferred, for the light and
cneerful interior prevails over the formal
gloomy one, which gives eye doctors ana
nerve specialists so much to do. Another
present style deserves apprehension, which
carves beautiful light wood into semblance
OF bamboo and basket work. Makers NAV
one material by another are rejected by all
good taste and surely became unstable,
while things in true taste are desirable az
long as they hold together. 1t is style and
very good style now to have the furniture
and wood work of private rooms correspond.
For floors in summer houses or sleeping
rooms at any season carpets are discarded
wholly as we'll as heavy portieres, lutte,
turcoman or chenille to velvet. The close
ness they give to rooms, their power of alb
sorbing smells and giving them out again
are intolerable to persons of susceptible
senses. The floor in brown paint and shellac
polish, when hardwood cannot be laid, is
Infinitely preferable for bedrooms, with a
neat mat at the bedside small enough to be
shaken and sometimes washed. For sitting
rooms the japanese rugs in shades of Indigo
from light to dark mere sketches of color
on pale gray or cream grounds, are beauti-
fully cool looking. SHIRLEY DARE.