The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-02-26
PRETTY nOuSgnOLp DECORATIONS.

A shell is the shape OF an odd ant
comfortable seat to revolving piano
stool.
Exquisite arahiaus are being shown in
small patterns for sash and vestibule use
the same designs are in full size, on
larger scale, in the genuine arabian
tints.
A raw silk thin texture 10 offered in
plain Colors, no design, specially adapted
TO drapery purpose. The Colors are not
ordinary, but strike one by their oddly
of shade.
In hall.stands tho full.length plate
mirror is being introduced, reaching to
within twelve inches Of tho floor. This
will add largely to the popularity OF this
article Of furniture.
The irish point jour is an entirely
new effect in lace curtain, the border
being hemstitched with a wide "day-
light" stitch between the lace and hem
which shows up nicely.
Combination over stuffed and skeleton
frame conversational chair forms nov
city. One arm and back is richly up
holstered and draped, and the other
shows the bare gold frame.
Fine Arsbisn handmade sash cur,
tains are being shown with single Dor.
der. This style has been in demand
over here, although the double borders
have been generally used IN Europe.
Mullins with space OF itsleft through
the border design for ribbon TO be run
through ought to become popular. The
color OF the ribbon can harmonic with
the decorations and produce a very
pretty effect.
Japanese fretwork Is now relieved OF
it's monotony by introductions OF bam-
boo squares and psrallelogram shapes.
Some network is also made entirely OF
bamboo, in sizes tapering down like q
carriage whip and bent into quirks and
whirlagees, something new, never before
seen by US.
A rich and brilliant effect Is obtained
in walls intended TO be decorated by
mixing au equal quantity ofmarble dust
with the lime used in making the plaster.
This gives softness Of tint which can.
not he obtained with ordinary plaster.
In Italy it has long been the custom to
give final coating OF marble dust to the
walls intended to be treated by the wet
process.
Kanko crete for curtains is fabric
done in patterns Of the Japanese order,
stenciled or printed in part, and pat oil
the design brought oul by embroidery
stitches. Itis, in fact compromise
between plain printed crete and EN-,
broidery. Industrious women will find
charm in filing in the printed portions
OF the fabric, with stitches in copy OF
that embroidered on the work.
A new effect in color in wall decora.
ton has been Devised by Mr.. Whistler,
in the painting Of a small London room.
The walls were first painted pure black,
and were then afterwards overlaid with
coat CT semi-transparent yellow. The
effect WAS tho apparent humiliation OF
the walls and tue production Of the
impression OF living in petrilied noe.
turne, an endless London fog, but the
small room no longer looked small.
One of the most illusive fairy.like bits
Of texture for window decoration 10 u
white crete, printed in rainbow color
ipgs, Of pale pinke, blues and yellows::
You see the fabric from q distance OF
eight or ten feet, and you instinctively
look back OF you or above for a stained
glass window; for the coloriugs are Of
that vague, gentle character, produced
by the re faction Of light through colored
glass. The colors arc Of the softest char:
acter imaginable, and they run and
merge the one into the other.