The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-08

| from two five-inch strips of brocaded
satin ribbon with entredeueX and
edges of duchess lace. The candles
in the silver sticks are rose-co1ored
with ciel-blue shades, matching the
colors in the brocade cover.
| On the brocade are laid out all the
| toilet silver so dear to the heart of
+! the latter-day woman.
1t is strange that this one small per-
son should require thirty-flve toilet ar
ticIes to assist her in making her ap-
pearanc before the world, but so it
seems. I think she possesses every
| thing that can be devised of silver to
suit a separate need.
But it is the toilet table of an ultra
fashionable woman, one who has a
| separate bank note to cover each sep
arate caprice.
There are hosts of women who have
discovered that to possess a fin de
steele toilet table they need not spend
much money. For these latest fancieS
in furniture can be duplicated in many
a heritage from a fair woman's grand
mother. Stored away in old New York
attics, covered by dust and scratches,
were dressing tables that are now the
envy of many rich women without
| grandmotherS.
But let no one suppose that these
ancient tables are restored in an anna
teur fashion. Only dealer who thor
oughly understands the treatment of
woods is trusted to polish them up.
| AT the outset of the craze a large
number of tables, perfect in shape,
were ruined by ignorant polishing.
The French styles are never draped.
As a usual thing the wood is so ex-
quisitely inlaid that one would not
wish to hide the design.
Next in mode to this extreme of
fashion is the use of some old chest
of drawers in handsome wood These
are more often obtainable than the
French dresser, for few are the houses
that do not posses an old mahogany
set of drawers, more or less elegant.
| Such chests, with a mirror hung above
are furnishing many smart woman's
apartments.
! If the chest is devoid of ornament,
brass handles are bought and attached.
! The large mirror to hang above can
be either square or long. A lining of
satin is put in all the drawers, LAYER
OF cotton batting underneath. sprinkled
with Satchet powder. When lavender
is used the old time effect is complete.
The ordinary square glass marble
topped bureau of five years ago seems
| to be obsolete.
The brass dresser, too is another
style. that is rapidly going out
ordinary tables are used as dressers
! u, a main
work table prettily covered, with an
Ioak-tramed mirror hanging above. is
considered correct taste These two
! pieces can be got together for S6
whereas the ordinary pine bureau costs
DIV Inc handsomest toilet articles are
not considered out of place on if,
rms plain solid clean style of dresser
has taken the place of the home Nd 49,
muslin win
Inc latter while pretty, should never
nave been advised, for it was diff
cut matter to keep it clean The lea Ct
/ DUST ruined its daintiness. MANY girls
hau these muslin toilet tables in their
aoolts as e1ective furnishings but sa
cleuly guarded them from all use.
Che OF the novel devices for a dressa,
which / saw lately was owned b1, :
young decorator of high standing in
A mirrored door that had been IN.
swung from a china closet in an oid
+ lashloheu mouse, was placed across ?
corner IN the sleeping room, its hinges
pelng removed. Against it was SET 2
low chest of brass-handled drawers
heavy yellow satin cover was aid 60 :,
the TOP OF the chest, and the tall doc,
was draped with an old fishine nst
The toilet articles were of hrrnt
ivory. ~
rms arrangement correspondent wifi
the window draping, which was of vel.
low silk, with fish net thrown care.
lessly over the pole.
4 DRAPING MATERIALS
Mirrors are sometimes draped. hr-
not all with silk
White silk muslin in double width IS
considered a good draping material
The edges are finished with a four-incI
accordion pleating Of the same. The