Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-13
POINTERS FOR WOMEN
Some Valuable Hints as to Home Decora-
ton and Styles
The Use of Mirrors and Flowers-Sux.
gestfons as to Color Combfna-
lions I'm Costumes.
Written Exclusively for The Evening Star.

rooms with mirrors. The effect of a wide
mirror at the I'D of a room, particularly
II 1t reaches > the fioor,is to give IT greater
depth, anc a A. irror the side wall of a
narrow room will broaden it wonderfully
by rejecting what is opposite IT. The re-
markedly rich effect may be studied by the
uninitiated, in shop windows, where the
rich treasures of art are cunningly dupli-
Gated many times over by the adjustment
u mirrors. A good place for a full-length
mirror is between two windows. Pictures
hung in such place get a bad light, but q
mirror is not open to such objection. IL
there are three windows on one side of a
room. two ful-iength mirrors will make the
apartment seem twice as wide. In such
case the mirrors should be set perfectly nat,
ana the curtain draperies should be arrang-
cd TO cover the edges. If frames are intro
duced' they should be of gilt
social function without flowers would he
| as pad as Christmas without Santa Claus.
put tnere are some things about flowers
that some people do not know. The matter
Vi decoration is usually left with the florist
with simple instruction as TO color and
an norists are not artists. A very excellent
olnner can be made an irretrievable failure
py the use on highly odorous flowers Hya-
cinths, tube rose and Easter lilies are AN
| odo uinner Mowers. Their sweetish, ianguor-
Gus perfume is overpowering at any time.
anu Mnen mixed with fish and roast mutton,
cnicken salad and olives, becomes fairly
sickening. know a society woman who
can stay In room where yiolets are mart
Vi tne decoration. IL roast beef is on the
menu, ana another woman will faint AZ
ophged to remain where carnation minis
are aisplayed. Flowers without perfume
are IKE people OF negative virtues good TO
nsefu a. o, ana 20 MI up inches. but not very
SseLui otnerwise because they have no In
oiViouahty. But the odorless flower could
| M iong-felt want in a dining room or
banquet hall. and please the eye without
1 ha
SILK Is very fashionable again. and the
careless woman is making hers shiny by
brushing with a whisk. silk should be
brushed with a velvet cloth or a velvet nit
ten made for the purpose
II you have two dress skirts that will
| narmonize in combination, make an upper
SKIRT OF the lighter material, letting N come
10 the knee. The lower half may be of the
darker material. set on to the upper half
| with piping of contrasting color a band
on gimp. or sewed in a seam and stitched
no trimming should be put at the foot un-
| less the same kind is applied where the
Two materials join at the knee. The waist
may De OF silk with a bolero jacket of one
OF tne materials of which the skirt is COM
material.
Toques and turbans are slightly larrar
| Snan at the beginning of the season but
| shey are sur SO small thar the woman who
| nv vail 10 nave peeled onion look
must wear her hair in very fuzzy style.
Inc bang is necessity with them.
a favorite fancy is to make up ombre and
IaiuooW striped silks under black lace A
very pretty trimming device was applied 10
an old black silk recently Three-inch
VIDE CHERRY satin ribbon was placed in three
rows on the skirt over the ribbon a fine
chantilly lace insertion was laid. ana AT
eacn edge was placed a quilting of inch
wide black ribbon. The effect was rich
The fact that women like to be comforta-
pie ana will be, IL possible. is demonstrated
oy the unhagging popularity of the blouse
Or spencer waist 1t gets mixed up in al
most every kind of gown except the tailor
made. Even ball gowns present symptoms
| or the craze, and low-necked waists made ~
accoraeon plated lisse. mouselaine de sole
ana thln silks are quite commonly worn
The thin girl can stand that style but the
stout one should shun it
| Inc ooiero Jacket appears In fact or sim
| ulation on almost everything With the
nun Spencer waist. a slashed and much en-
| proidered bolero is always fetching IL las
swS QUANTITIES to make IT popular: BY dis
makes a thick waist look slighter. and I'm
| the same way il gives an impression OF
s sm TO the thin girl. because she can
| NIL up the front OF her waist with a lot of
ruffies and silken cascades. over which the
| launty bolero sets out in true Hogarth
beauty lines. The Elton jacket holds its
/
The genesis of the ulster overcoat. that
very popuar topcoat for men, is rather in
| teresting. 1t derives its name from the
| province of Ulster. I'm Ireland. where II was
hrst worn. 1t was seen in Belfast as long
ago as 1880, though IL was not until 1865
mat the Prince of Wales set the seal of
| fashion upon IL by wearing a borrowed one
In St James street, London.
Unless one can have a hat for every
m.
| chapeaux shall match the toilet with
which they are worn. If not of the same
color they must at least have a touch OF
| the same colors in the trimming Women
| OF moderate means would ind half a dozen
\ hats matter of serious expense but thew
get around ii in a novel manner. II there
| are two or three girls in the family one of
| them spends a week in the spring and one
in the fall in one of the big millinery houses.
where they learn all the tricks of twisting
| ribbons and velvet and adjusting of feath-
| ers and flowers. The raw material is not
as expensive as the know how to put il
| together, so IL is much cheaper to pay SO
| for a weeks lessons. which will enable one
to construct hats for half dozen for a
whole season at a trifiing cost. than TO pay
out SO for each hat and have the supply
limited.
At dinner given in honor Of a lady
| friend last week the hostess had for a CEN
| ter piece a handsome round mirror set in
MOWERS, a decoration that the late President
| Arthur was fond of. At the end of the din
ner she presented the mirror TO her friend
as souvenir Of the very pleasant occasion
| and IL was then discovered that the mono
gram Of the guest of honor was engraved
1 in the center and at the edge was the
date of the dinner giving.
Unless floors intended for rugs are Of
hard wood they do not look well oiled and
an oiled floor is always open TO the objec-
ton of showing every footprint The new
est notion is to paint the floor with yellow
ochre mixed with a little white This color
does not show dust and the warm color
makes the floor look less bare.
At a swell New York wedding last week
the bride carried an ivory-backed prayer
book in which the marriage certificate had
| been bound. At another wedding the
| bridesmaids carried prayerbooks bound I'm
| snake skin, presents from the bride. Was
| there a suggestion in this that every Eden
has its serpent?
| A girl whose brush does charming exc
cution did a piece of work last week that
does credit to her inventive genius In more
ways than one. In some way one OF the
elegant mantel mirrors got an unsightly
crack across the upper left hand corner.
1t was too low down to admit OF enectuai
draping and the disguised man OF the house
had decided that IL must be replaced by