The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-16
LUXURIOUS LoUNG1NG.
There is No End to the Beauty, Cost
and Variety of the New Sofa Pill
lows.

In every home there should be one
room in whose furnishing comfort has
been the chief aim, where the members
Of the family may do as they please
without reference to tides, thrown on
berfbboned furniture, and in such
room there will be wide and springy
couch with not more than three pill
lows. These will differ in size. and
softness, in order to be adaptable to
eVeryone's head and shoulders; the
smallest one so yielding in pressure
that the person using it will be almost
unconcious of its presence, while the
other larger ones will serve as a sup
port; perhaps the covers will be of
China silk, f1ne-chintz, blue jeans; or
possibly they will be simple slips of
brown linen.
For the drawing room you cannot
have too many cushions. One society
woman boosted recently of having
sixty, and she Immediately became the
object Of envy of every woman of her
acquaintance. Frequently hundreds of
dollars are represented in the pillows
which one sees in every corner of an
elegant home, in the wicker chairs, on
the broad window seats, on the floor
in oriental profusion.
Seven is said to be the conventional
number Of cushions for an artistic
d1Van But they must vary as much
as possible in shape, size and coloring.
Pillows a. yard square with a deep
ruffie seem to be in general use and
so are very fat ones whose four corners
are pushed in and covered with ros-
cites. A sort of round bolster at each
end Of a couch gives a good effect, par
t1cularly when covered with black
santin which provides a sympathetic
background for gayer cushions; the
ends are finished with rosettes and
| often wide satin ribbon is passed ar
ound the middle and tied in a large
bow. A round cushion made of nine
! teen scraps of brick-red surah was ex-
| ceedingly pretty. The silk was fulled
! on to the plain bottom piece all the
way around, and then was gathered
in to a big rosette in the center Of the
top, the folds being so close together
that the numerous seams were not Wis
ible.
One of the most beautiful cushions
in New York belongs to the wife
of man whose purse is filled
to overlooking with the receipt
OF a great express company.
In looking over her wardrobe last au-
tumn, she found an old crepe de chine
dress, dotted with bow knots embroid-
cred in white silk, and with an eIabo-
rate border worked in the same de-
sign. She took two breadths to the
associated artists and had the white
knots re-embroidered in dull blue and
outlined with gold. Blue, pink and
gold were put into the border, and
then large down cushion was covered
| Wi
having been arranged to go around
the four sides of the square. A full
| ruft1e Of point d'esprit lace was added
| and from an old gown regal cushion
was made at cost of not less than
fifty dollars.
suitable materials for the covers of
pillows are legion. Pieces of a last
summers thin silk can be used and
Tor a hearth cushion there is nothing
| better than the front of one of those
| tea-goWn patterns which were used a.
| rev years ago, and which were en-
! broidered in Persian designs and col-
! orings. AT any japanese store can he
found variety of printed cotton
| crepes, Of odd silks, or Of elaboratelv
embroidered oriental scarfs. ranging
form twenty-five cents a yard to anv
amount you may be willing to nav
A new material is chiffon, a ridged
cotton goods, woven of threads of diff
ferent shades of the same color. If
is thirty-six inches wide but seventy
five cents a yard, two and one-half
yards making the cover and ruffie
for large pillow. At several shops
they are already made up in greens.
dull pinks and blues, or yellows.
Sofa pillows need not necessarily be
stuffed with elder down. Many house
keepers have already discovered that
pillow case of soft ticking or of
closely woven muslin. when lightly
stuffed with ordinary goose feathers.
is not easily distinguished from the
more expensive ones of down. So if
you are lucky enough to have an old
feather mattress or some extra bed
pillows, you need not hesitate to use
them. A word here. to the novice who
has never changed feathers, may keep
her from filling her whole house with
the little white plumes which, once es-
capped, can never be brought back to
bounds. Sew up the new case with
the exception of about four inches.
then gently rip the old case for the
same space, sew the two openings to-
| gether firmly and shake the feathers
of the old pillow down into the new.