Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-05
ATTRACTIVE HOMES.
The Love Of Novelty Must Be Al
ways Catered To.
A CHRYsANTHEMUM ROOM,
How Guest Chamber Can BE Made Attract
I've by the Japanese Flower as a Basis of
Observation-Disclosures Wood Work Gaining
Ground-An English Fancy.
Written for The Evening Star.


Written for The Evening Star
ME LOVE OF NOVELTY MUST ALWAYS
L and regularly be catered to. for to many
people newness has the greatest charm. Things
and ideas that have been proved are what other
temperaments are best suited with. 1t is diff
cult often for people to display enough imagi-
nation to realize what untried effects viii re-
suit in, and for such a precedent must have
been established and something tangible must
be followed. Something which has passed the
experimental stage in other hands is what the
majority of people find safest as guides. and
thus to zee or hear descriptions of what other
women have done is more interesting to most
women than to hear OF untried ideas which to
enthusiastic minds may seem feasible, but
~nlch lack the seal of approved success.
CHRYsASTHEMuM BED ROOM.
A description of a chrysanthemum bed room,
which is a charming certainty, may be inspir-
ing to some readers who have the task, at once
pleasant and discouraging of fitting up Sleep
ing room and whose ideas may be more vague
on the subject than is desirable. A large airy
guest chamber is the room in question with
light wood work in natural finish. The steep
pitch OF the roof in this third story makes a
Siopo W INC Ouler Walls AZ the celilngS. which
gives little irregularity in the rooms. swell
bay window. shallow and wide has no opening
In the middle, and here the dressing bureau is
set. while low, broad windows at each side and
a third one on another side of the room make
1t light even on dull days. Under one window
OF the bay Is window seat. not solid 10 the
floor, but supported by legs of light wood and
SNAPPED in an original way for the greater COM
Tort of the sitter. At each end il is wide. but
curves IN until quite narrow at the center so
thaf
much so as If two low chairs were drawn near
together before the window. A thick tufted
cushion. shaped like the seat sof.ens it, and the
color OF the deep old pink harmonizes with the
lghter pink OF the short silk curtains which
hang from small brass rod inside the window
frames, which are nearly square In shape.
DECORATION OF THE WALLS
The walls are covered with paper. in which
Japanese chrysanthemums of several tones of
pink up to dark red are massed on a light pink
background. 1 say massed, and still the effect
Is not at all heavy, rather the contrary, being
the impression received from the charming de-
sign. The slope inward of the wall is Just deep
enough for the frieze which is hand work. a
flower design in pale shades on a pink ground,
the same idea being delicately carried out on
the ceiling. The floor. perhaps as a variety
from the other rooms where rugs abound has
carpet all over it. The ground is dark red
lace, and the light colors which prevail in the
furnishings are in relief against it. number
OF pretty water colors adorn the walls showing
well on the chrysanthemum paper. The furni-
ture Is very pretty Of bird's-eye maple. hand
some In design and plain in finish. The low
broad dressing table with round mirror stands
In the center Of the bay with a window on each
side Tor daylight and gas fixture likewise on
each side for evening, SO that an excellent light
Ior dressing purposes is at command at all
n fact xyh hxfut
comfort In guest rooms is not always attaiaa-
BILE. Aparticularly pretty small bedside table
Is among the belongings Of the ROOM and "a big
soft easy chair with a Powered pink covering is
very inviting. By daylight the room is pretty,
put In the evening the gas seems to intensity
the coloring everywhere, enhancing the rosy
tones and making it still prettie-.
WHITE WOOD WORK GAINING GROUND.
White wood work In houses is gaining rather
than losing ground; not only in the enamel fin
ish for drawing rooms. where the white and gold
has already reigned some time, but the fiat
white, with no gloss, is much used and with
good effect in other and more minor rooms of a
house. When an old house is to be renovated and
the wood work of a room is to be made white
II the floor is unsightly, border of white NAV
also be applied TO it as margin for a large
rug. and it gives clean, inviting look, which
can easily be removed. A pretty mantel in a
small room is of ivory white wood with the
favorite festoon designs in relief beneath the
shelf and pale pink marble facing. Above the
shelf the wall Is papered like the rest of the
room In delicate stripes OF pink and white. with
flowers III punches over them, like brocade in
style. Set fat against the WAL and resting on
the mantel. thus seeming part Of il, are three
oval picture frames, the center one the largest
coming nearly to the frieZe in height, and the
three all bu. fitting the width of the chimney
breast In these frames arc the water-color
porfraifS n the n rec rbiljrnp of no bf,ca
about two-thirds life SIZE merely the heads
and shoulders Of each. At the top of each
frame, which is white and touched with gold is
a bow knot. From this ornament in the center
of the middle frame festoons in white and gilt
droop, reaching to the knots in the center of
each smaller frame on the side connecting the
three, and all, as said, making part of the
mantel itself.
The children's faces are lovely, the drawings
we'll done and the whole idea is charming as
thus carried out.
AN ENGLISH FANCY.
Among English fancies is that of photographs
in quantities about the drawing room, mostly
in standard frames SO as to set on tables and
cabinets. Friends, people distinguished for
beauty or brains in the world. are all repre-
scented and the effect gives homelike look to q
room and is a good idea to initiate.
HANDSOME SOFA PILLOW.
handsome sofa pillow has been made of
terra Gotta plush and moleskin. The shape is
rectangular, instead of the usual square,
and half Of the front is of plush and
half of the moleskin, the division being across
the longest way of the pillow. On the mole
skin, which is very soft, almost like undressed
kid, and much duller in tone than the plush. is
a handsome scroll design of silk cord sewed on
invisibly. At intervals and forming part of the
pattern large crocheted rings filled with lace
stitch are set. The plush is left undecorated
and its rich texture sets off the lusteress mole
skin, which also forms the plain lining of the
pillow. heavy cord is the finish on the edge
all around
NETrED LAMP SHADES
For those who have the old-fashioned accom-
plishment Of netting is an opportunity of dis
playing it in Melted lamp shades of silk, with
deep fringe tied in, and these put over a silk
fringe of the same or contrasting color, with
full pinked ruche as heading and a pinked
ruffie under the fringe. White or cream net
ting over palest green silk is pretty. White
over white is pretty and pale pink over rose
color or maize over yellow. Lamps multiply
all the time and the shades are as large and
fanciful as ever. Here in town ono can have
shapes made or altered by workers in wire, SO
that any effect can be gotten which is wanted,
q fact that every one may not know. and which
is great satisfaction when one cannot find