The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-17
FEMININE FANCIES.
IDEAS IN FURNISHING
HOUSES.
Miss Grace Dodge Stocks Her Home
With BfbIes-ElIen Tcrry's Fond
ness For Her Photographs-Mrs.
SUtro's Shrine.

The home of Miss Grace Dodge, phi
lanthropist. is chiefly remarkable for
it's Bibles It is a comfortable big
house on Madison avenue, kept UP in
good enough style but very ugly in its
heavy furnishings and bad, very bad,
anonymous oil paintings. But it is
rich in Bibles. There is one on an
onyx stand in the reception room, and
Miss Dodge's own rooms overflow with
them OF assorted sizes and sorts. BIZ
bles and writing desks are her notable
fads in furnishing.
Miss Terry's Popularity.
room she occupies twenty-four hours,
is a case of family photographs. 1t is
leather and it folds UP, and it unfolds
also to a great size and reveals all her
l1ith and kin. She is very fond of pho
togra phs and of being photogra phed,
though she says with her own inimita-
BILE frankness that she doesn't care to
expose herself to the deadly camera as
freely as she did when she was
younger. She takes it out now in hav-
ing her daughter pictured and differ
ent preSentment of Miss HilSa Craig
appears in her mothers travelling case
every few weeks. Miss Craig" she
is to the public but the young actress
IS always called Eide in the home
circle.
a Picture Lover.
Edith Thomas has fancy for decor
ating her own most private den with
the rustic handiWork she knew in her
early Ohio home. She braided a rug
for herself last year Then she paints,
and though she does not take much In
terest in her poetry she is devoted to
her pictures, and hangs her walls with
oil sketches of scenes she has known
and loved.
A Rich Poet.
Mrs. Edith Wharton is the one
American poet and romancer who is
rich enough to carry out in actual ma
terial any dream of beauty she mag
ines. and yet she says her fads in fur
nishing are light as air. In her New
port home Qt is the last house on the
Cliff wallO her tea room is her pet
pride. 1t is enclosed altogether in
glass, and your hostess points out to
you that when you turn your face sea-
ward there is nothing except possibly
a ship between you and Ireland. Mrs.
Wlharton's drawing room is pure
eighteenth century, and she was a
year getting together real eighteenth
century hinges for the doors.
Very Feminine Apartments.
Mrs Lille Deveraux Blake has fiat
furnished in a manner remarkable for
it's pristine innocence of aesthetic re-
form. 1t is a highly comfortable place,
but the drawing room makes a sensl-
tive eve vince. 1t is as full of varied
brilliant colors as a Christmas tree,
thanks to innumerable tides and
bows and fancy table covers and
worked footstools. 1t looks as far
from strong-minded as milllners
window, and Mrs. Blake's pride in its
chief work of art adds to the general
impression of prevailing womanhness.
This masterpiece is a portrait OF the
lady in her girlhood, and it is undenl-
ably beautiful.
Miss Thanet's Taste.
Octave Thanet Miss Alice french!
is a very cultivated Bostonese KIND OF
a house furnisher. Her Arkansas nome
is gotten UP m style TO provoke tne
admiration of artists. Fine photo
graphs, plaster casts, engrav1ngs, are
the forms of the art she most IN
dulges in. Bayres and Tanagra fgur-
ines are especially prominent.
Rich women in New York indulge in
singularlv few personal idiosyncrasies
IN their rooms. Their apartments are
ant to show little except the notions Of
the professional decorator. There is
nobody left who is as individual in this
field as was the late Mrs. Hicks-Lord-
Her bedroom was of a Spartan sim
plicaty that would have suited the
Duke of Wellington. small iron bed
stead, wicker chairs, white mating,
a~a, scrim window curtains We're its
main features, and not piece OF femi-
nine f1unmery disturbed the ascetic
atmosphere Mrs. Theodore Lutro in
dulges in but one of poetic fancy of
her own. She keeps candles burning