The record-union., 1896-06-14

q position of so much importance IN
the eyes of the best decorators that
in houses of high cost many thousands
of dollars are sometimes spent In dec
Grating them. One school of decorators
look with great favor on painted tap
estries used as a series of beautlful
pictures, and often a series Of such
pictures, representing scenes historical,
NEUROLOGICAL, or legendary, are used for
the walls of one room In this case
the tapestries are used progressively,
and unfold an entire story from the
beginning to the end The subjects
chosen for these pictures that are al
ways to be before ones eyes should
suit the use of the room and be decora-
tive. They may represent a faVor1te
Bible story or poem or fairy story. Ger
tain subjects are suited TO the walls
of boudoir, or nursery, or sleeping
room, while others more stately or
calling for more magnificent Imagery
and color ng are suited to the richness
of certain halls, dining-rooms, and
drawing or bathrooms. For dainty
bedroom a well-known decorator used
the legend of THE Sleeping Beauty,
fer the walls of a boudoir the pretty
tale of cinderella and the Glass Slip
per-" for a nursery the eventful life of
'.Old Mother Hubbard" and for a
drawing room "Coquetries of Helen OF
Troy" This way of using tapestri'1
is really the only pleasing and salts
factory one, ana removes the prejudice
one naturally has against such work
when seen only in some single gorge
GUS panel hung as a picture upon the
wall in a room where it had no rela-
tion either to the color scheme or the
ideas expressed in the furnishings. The
colors may be as restful or as gay as
one chooses; and if in time one tires of
always being surrounded by the same
objects, as the tapestries are done in
oil colors, they may be painted out, and
the canvas used for a background for
another set of pictures
One who has made trial of canning
Strawberries, raSpberries, peaches and
grapes in large quantities, without los
Ing any of it through fermentation or
other causes, puts it in large earthen
Jars holding three or four gallons, and
covers it with cool water in which COM
pound extract salyx has been dissolved
when the water was boiling Two
ounces Of the extract to four gallons of
water was used, and the fresh fruit
after washing was simply put in the
jars and covered with the solution. The
fruit preserved in this way is said to
have a finer, more natural flavor than
when cooked
'The total depravity of inanimate
things" is never more fully realized
than when one has bureau drawers
that will stick, doors that insist on
squeaking, castors that drop out each
time a chair or table Is moved, or a
teakettle with a cover that will not fit,
but threatens to drop off and steam
one each time it is used. These tire
some and nagging things are most
wearing to the nerves of some delicate
women, and one wonders why they
often unwisely continue to be irritated
by them, when repairs Of that kind are
SO much cheaper and more comfortable
than nervous prostration.
Many dressmakers are using their in
fluence against coming gowns to be
made with paniers-a style we hear con-
sderably of and note among a few of
the advance Partisan styles for autumn
The panier is really an improvement
to at least two types of women-the ex-
tremely slim, straight, up-and-down
women lacking hips, and those over
blessed with them. The first are great
ly improved in appearance by paniers,
and the very broad woman can cover
this defect with these draperies. mod
flying the fashion to suit her own in
dividual requirements. If we wish an
example to predispoSe In favor of panier
effects, we have only to study the
dainty figures on Dresden china and the
Watteau devices charmingly painted
on costly fans; and what modern mode
in gowning shows us anything half so
attractive? Paniers are decidedly more
becoming than the now popular short.
bobby, frilly basque bodice, which looks
ridiculously abbreviated on a tall
woman, and IS disfiguring and absurd
on a short, stout one.
Some pretty new spoons are intended
TO take the place of a straw in absorb
ing lemonade They may be more ele-
giant, but seem less cleanly, than
straw for the purpose. The bowls Of
long and slender tube-like handles have
an opening at each end that is so smaS
Shat it would be difficult to keep them
6lean.
"A new occupation and fashion among
English women is that of drawing
room weaving upon light house-looms.
Upon these looms hand-woven table
1inen and towels, with and without bor-
tiers, are woven. Though the world
is not suffering for these hand-woven
products, they are thought by some to
have an artistic value that machine
woven fabrics have not; and as we
copy English fashions, sooner or later,
1T is predicted that ere long American
women, too. viii perhaps return to a
sbygone occupation, from which their
grandmothers were very thankful to
he free
Forest green, so fashionable in all
kinds of furniture, is also used for
painting piazza chairs; so that if yours
have grown shabby and need repaint-
ing, cover one or two with a coat of
enamel paint in forest green, which is a
dark green with blush cast. These
chairs look well with others Of white
or scarlet. Piazzas are sometimes fur
nished with a certain color scheme.
One piazza that is very pretty now,
hut will probably not look so well by
midsummer, has white hammock,