The morning call., 1891-03-08

ono cprtains would 90 into store and buy
either Brussels, Nottingham. a IaIno9ur
or ANTIQUE. That was the variety. io-uas
the fashions change as in dress goous;
novelty in muslins is in old gold tlnts
with different colored embroidery; the effect
ia very swell White muslin Win enc ittle
fgnreS i'm eolors is catchy too, ana the ehi-
broidered hemstitch border Is another Nc"
feature. ,,tira,v new
The Irish point jour is an entireiy new
effect in a lace curtain, the porgcl -; o1 ,
hemstitched with wlde uayh s"'
stitch between the lace and hem. ,o.
q new feature in muslin curtains IS w5as
is called the "Hoi" effect, which adus
largely to the appearance of these sooas,
Muslins with space or siitS ieIt tnioo5
the border design for ribbon to run tiirous IN
ought TO become popular. Inc Color oi .ne
ribbon can harmonic with the other ueeo-
rations of Il room and produce very pretty
effect 80
One of the most Elusive. fairy-like bits
of texture is n white crete, printed in what,
for want of a better term, we will say rain
bow coloringS, of pale plnks, Diues anu
yellows. You see the fabric from distance
of eight or ten feet, and you instlnctlVely
look back of you or above for a stained
glass window. for the eolorings are OF
that vague, gentle character produced by
the reflection of light through coiored glass.
The colors are of the softrst character
imaginable, aud they run and merge Tue
one into the other.
Since the demand for sheraton furniture
with its inlaid or marguerite workman
| quetrie 50 effects" have been worked up Oy
manufacturers, and the success that these
''effects" have met With Illustrate very
plainly that "all is not gold that Cutters,
and all is not marguerite that looks IKE IL.
Here are pieces that are painted, tnen var
nished, and nine out OF ten would thlnk II
marouetrie-it has The effect, a7d is applicu
TO furniture in the shapes and designs
which prevailed when marguerite was the
! rage.
Here is a sheraton, half7circle folding
side-table, hand-decorated, and IN reproduc-
ton of a Paris model that cost $40. IL IS
sold for a quarter of the price.
The strictly empire style is done in gold
chair, white tapestry, Manipulated seat
A clever window-chair is shown In this
style also.
A three-cornered card-table with unfold,
ing leaves, becomes round when opened
out and much larger. lt has been repro
duced from London novelty and Is very
fetching.
An oak-leaf, followed out of the wood, is
clever novely for tabletop
A shell is the shape of an odd and COM
Portable seat to a revolving piano STOOL.
We read the other day IN some OF the
Jennie Dean" or Mary Ann" letters from
New York to the country press that soft
lolling lounges had been introduced IN New
York upperdom dining-roomS and the stif-
backed chair had been banished. While we
do not believe that anything OF the kind has
ever been undertaken in this country, we do
think that in the course OF another ten
years we will find the prim dining-chair
thing of the profound past. Thus far we
have had high back chairs and low-back
chairs, chairs with arms and chairs without
arms and chairs that got in the way and
were menace to waiter aud spilled soup
and otherwise misbehaved. They. have all
of them been prim, and while such furniture
is all right when the raw kidding is being tJl-
tored in the art of keeping the elbows down
and eating from the spocn-slde there are
reasons for protesting against this school
room rgidity when the youngster is big
enough to do the hOn0rs at carving ana re-
spond to a toast, The dinipg-room is DAY
by day and year by year becoming more
place for entertainment and less feeding
station, and why there cannot be more COM
fort in the furniture is matter that has
perpleXed the many.
For years and years past hyglenlc cranKs
have periodically leveled their sharp ar
rows of attack at house-furnishings as
dissemination of disease. But recent IN
vestigations show that the germ microbe OF
diphtheria, scarlet fever. typhoid fever and
small p0X clings no more to the carpet or
| curtain than the to bare WOODWORK in a
room. Disease organism is not visible to the
naked eye, and professional disinfector, w.
| G. Lacey of London "a man looked upon as
| an authority asserts that where conta-
! gious disease has prevailed it cannot be ex-
terminated by removing clothing and fab
rics, but every square inch of the wood
work must be treated with disinfectants
| also.
The arsenic scare is another big bug-a-
boo. The Boston Homeopathic Society is
out with a proclamation that green wall
paper is full of arsenic. likewise green every
thing-that the color depends on arsenicaI
properties. The Philadelphia Upholsterer
has interviewed every leading buyer in the
upholstery trade and they all emphati~ally
! deny this. They say that arsenic is too ex-
pensive in the first place to use so Literally.
and in the next place that where it is used,
it is withdrawn by chemical process to be
used again, thus leaving nothing of the poi
sonous character behind. Ten years ago it
was necessary to use arsenic but that was
before aniline eo0rs were discovered. AMI
line cOlOrs are made from coal tar. They
are beautiful and cheap. and it is not destra-
BILE to use expensive arsenical color when
just as good tints can be made for less
money. There is not an upholstery manu-
facturer in this country to-day using arsenic.