The Negro world., 1892-09-03
PILLOWS Foa SUMMER USE.
Articles of Ease and Comfort for the warm
Season.


Articles of Ease and Comfort for the Warm
Season.
One can hardly have too many pillows
TO suit the prevailing taste. Good taste
would suggest. however. that they be
not too numerous. They are intended
for use, and their charm lies in suggest
ing comfort and ease, but when a room
is 50 overloaded with them as to seem
''stuffy." all sense of comfort fespe-
cially summer comfort) is banished.
For divans, make two large pillows,
about twenty-seyen inches square, 10
lean against the wall and form a rest
for the back Fill them with feathers
or hair. somewhat more compactlv than
for other pillows, so that they will
make firm support for the back; and
cover them with the same material
that Is used in upholstering the divan,
or with china silk or sateen in
some harmonious shade. or even
cretonne. Square ones are good foI
general purposes. and may be made
anywhere from one to two feet square.
Oblong ones are convenient for stu fling
into corners and filling up vacant
H1tHtA dTDuuA OUt SuOuAuETt anu
waist. aud the round pillows often fill
a want that nothing else will For an
occasional novelty aLeart-shaped pillow
Is very pretty, and 1t is particularly so
just now while everything in heart
shape is fashionable.
For soft pillow down is the best
filing; but unless one can secure
good quality Of elder down, which is
expensive, IL is better 10 use good
feathers. II several pillows are used
on divan IL is pleasant to have one
filled with hair, which is firmer ami
cooler than feathers or down; and a
little one filed with balsam leaves is
agreeable on account of It's spicy odor.
The small pillows for divans may be
covered with plain or figured china silk,
or with almost any light material, care
being taken not 10 have the color too
delicate nor the material too rich.
Anything that is smooth and cool is APP
propriate, and any rough trimming,
such as braids or anything wooden.
should be avoided. Silkoline makes
cool and inexpensive covering. 1t is as
pretty as silk. and comes in patterns
very much like the figured china silks.
A pretty and simple way TO finish a
pillow covered with silk or sill<oline Is
10 set rnfiie about three inches wide
into the seam all the way around
A ruffie OF this or any other sheer
material Is better IL made double than
II hemmed; and this also makes the pill
low alike on both sides, which is, at
least. a convenience.
Some of the coolest effects may be
obtained from linen covers White
butchers linen. worked with white or
colored silk floss In some dainty design,
is very attractive, and so also is brown
linen worked with yellow or dark
brown silk floss. Sateen also makes a
pleasant covering, and the pretty
striped drillings one can find now are
appropriate for this purpose. A pillow
covered with Turkey-red calico and
edged with white lace is very effective
with rattan or light-colored wood furni
ture.
When washable materials are used,
make the covering So that II can be re-
moved and Numbered. This can be
done by placing a tiny row Of fancy
buttons along one edge, or by lacing
the cover with a silk cord, or By tying
the edges together with ribbona A
silk cord Is also very pretty hhish
around the edge of any pillow
Pillows for hammoeks and veraudas
should be in shapes and sizes not differ
ent from pillows for the house. Their
uses are the same: One is for rest and
comfort indoors. and the other for rest
and comfort out-of-doors The covering
for the outdoor pillows should always
be made Of some material that can be
laundred, linen and cotton goods being
more used than silks. though there are
some quantities OF wash silks that ,an
be done up as well as cotton goods. A
nice linen towel can be made into
a very pretty pillow-covering, with the
fringe used across two ends Of it. II the
pattern in which II is woven happens
To be fruit. or flowers. or vines. outline
II with long stitch of colored floss of
an appropriate color. The effect Is ex-
tremely pretty. Awning goods is also
an excellent covering for hammock pill
lows The filling for outdoor pillows
may be down feathers or hair; or, II an
inexpensive pillow be desired which is
not intended to last long, paper cut in
strips and curled with the scissors
makes a very comfortable filling. but
soon mats. Fcot.pillows for veranda
use may be made with the covering of
leather, and pretty pattern of table
oileloth makes a good one, which can
be used on damp grass.-Farm and
Home
--Huckleberries are retailed by New
York fruit dealers In small boxes and
baskets, but the great blue huckleber-
ries of the Delaware swamps still come