The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-08-27

ners, and the ladies' bower was defended
from the rude gaze of the mailed retainers
by tall screens, paneled into compart-
ments, enriched with carving and en-
blazoned with shields and armorial bear
! ings. Or near the roaring fire of great
logs they stood, hung with purple and
gold cloth, deeply fringed and en-
broidered with gay cclors. Or, in the
great dining hall, where, at each end and
on both sides of the table, stood lofty
screens with carved feet, and from whose
corners branched numberless lights to
enliven the banquet.
The screen has always held conspicu-
GUS place in literature, and the drama
abounds IN situations, where the plot is
discovered by the hero behind its shelter.
1t is also behind the screen that the con-
lessor receives the outpouriIgs of the
| penitent heart, and could the hospital
screen tell the sad sights it has witnessed
it would move all hearers with pity.
But the uses of the screen in modern
furnishing are more practical. 1t was
once trouble to get enough furniture to
| fill the different rooms; now our furni-
ture is abundant and our rooms small,
and it is the province of the screen to con-
ceal the uses Of the one and enlarge the
resources of the other.
! There are many kinds of screens as
i there are notions in the mind of the house
decorator, from the costly, imported affair
to the one made of q clothes rack, COW
cred with unbleached muslin, and en-
bellished with gay cards and advertise
ments, the delight of the small boy and
girl.
One of the most beautiful Japanese
screens was seen recently in large and
elegant parlor. It stands little over six
feet high, is three paneled, each panel
one yard in width. One side is covered
| with black satin and the decoration
shows branching pine tree with an eagle
sitting in its branches and two smaller
| birds sailing the sky. The work is done
| in gold thread and is very brilliant, as
each pine needle and the feathers of the
birds shine out with wonderful effect.
ALI around the bottom of the three panels,
which are SO carefully fitted as to seem
| but one long picture, is border of gold
cord. The back of the screen is of can
vas, and on it is painted one of the pecu-
| liar Japanese landscapes, like nothing
else under the sun. Its frame of of black
lacquer work and bronze.
A French screen, lately imported, is
three paueled, six feet high, black satin
on one side and on the other each panel
of different shade of satin. This screen
is entirely embroidered in the most ex-
quisite flower patterns. On the black
satin side the flowers are done in their
natural colors-Chrysanthe daisies
and nasturtiums-and on the other side
are flowers done in low tones of olive,
pink, brown and yellow.
A screen for dining room has on one
side canvas, showing in the three COM
partmsnts branches of trees, among
which fit kingfshers and other birds; q
river, on which are seen groups of ducks,
and q blue sky, through which fly gay
birds of various kinds. On the reverse
are three separate fruit pictures, one on
each panel. The frame work of this
screen is polished cherry.
Among novelties in screens are those of
carved wood, lovely effects being pro-
duced by dark and rich-colored wood. A
novelty Tor the nursery is a three-leayed
screen, each painted to illustrate a
Mother Goose rhyme, and on the reverse
the rhymes themselves painted in large
letters. Leather is often used for library
screens and great deal of gliding is COM
| bined with sombre color.
Bamboo is very popular, sometimes for
the whole screen, but generally for the