The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-21
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better in the shape OF window curtains Of
the sash or drapery variety, or in any
place where a sheer white material is
needed for draperys
A quality of this material was used re-
Gently in evolving a Dresden china room.
Certainly the name seemed appropriate
for the effect the designer produced.
She wanted a room that would express
individuality n fresh daintiness, ana
thought that white was the best exponent
o. these qualities, But white alone being
too cold and charaeterless, the eombina-
ton Of some color or colers was suggest
ed. She began at the beginning. and her
room is entirely the work Of her own
hands. carrying out the conception Of
her own fancy.
The walls were covered with a creamy
white paper sparsely spr;nkled with rose
buds. The ceiling was, decorated with
struggling wreaths of the same flowers.
The dade of palest green was outlined
by a gilt picture moulding, which sup
ported four very unique pictures. two
square and two long ones. and it was
with the pictures tha the individuality
Of the room began.
The furniture was chosen for its quaint
shape in eut-of-the-way secondhand
shops. A low. old fashioned bed, q spia-
dle-legged dressing table. another small
table, a queer washstand, and an odd old
chair, all IN different degrees Of ~diiapida-
ton, were gotten together.
The services of an uDholsterer were en-
gagged, who glued and mended and then
scraped and s~andpapered each piece until
they were in excellent condition. TheE
many coats Of pure white lead was given
each piece, over and over again, until
every trace of The wood was hidden, then
a coat Of white enamel When this was
quite dry the decoration was applied,
wreaths of tiny pink roses tied with
streaming pale green ribbons.
Large wreaths ornamented the head
and footboard and tiny wreaths broke
the mcnotony Of the dressing table front,
which was further ornamented with new
brass handles in place Of the missing
knobs.
A canopy of pale pink china silk was
above the bed from which long curtain
Of the boiling cloth hung; not the drab
white of the unrelieved cloth but painted
with half wreath and single roses. and the
edges outlined witt gold thread in a
wavering scaliop. the whole making a
very royal looking and dainty resting
place Small curtains of the. pink silk
softeued the windows. and over them the
draperies Of boiling cloth were repeated.
a tall screen. its frame enameied white
with a faint gold tracery. had It's panels
also filled with the boiling cloth. and on
each panel the charming little pictures
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fayorite blossom, the pink rose of mid
sLmmsr.
The wide. low couch was also draped
IL the sheer material, but the painted
pillows. the pale pink, blue and green
oEes, the yellow and deeper orange OF
others. heaped thereon in luxurious COM
fort, dispelied any suggestion Of insipid-
tty the white might have suggested
The washstand service, the toilette ar
ttcies and namer were all in white
ard gold. A large Chinese rug in dull
blues; pale yellow and ~wood-browu, COW
cred the floor and redeemed any GOODNESS
of effect that might have beea suggested
by 50 liberal a use of the most trying Of
all Eshades-the dull livery white made
more striking by the dull accumulation of
a dead geld
In a resent magazine article Margaret
Sutton Briscoe makes some statements
which society women might we'll lay to
heart She says thar ar the very door of
a@hpuse a servant will unconsciously be-
tray the atmosphere of the home behind.
As the mistress is hespitahle or inhos-
pttabls. the servant will, by some subtle
law Of contagion, open the door TO a guest
~szaciously or ungrsciously. If the mis-
tress is to be excused it VIII be lone ac-
cording TO her spirit, regretfuliy, or with
that certain aggressiveness Il enjoy
ment of refusal which most Of US at one
time or another resented.
Through her servants is mercilessly be-
trsyed the candid viii of the householder
expressed with none of the pretty grace
ful veneer thar the drawing room would
etrord. The staff OF an untidy mistress
are all untidy. A mistress whose law is
system has a staff hat takes pattern af-
ter her.
Like mistress like maid is as true a
proverb as ever was written There are
many women who so fully realize the eff.
feet OF their minds on those who are about
them that when nervous or irritable they
shut themselves away from the outside
world. refusing to see anyone.
No man is a hero to his valet. but all
women might be heroines to their maids
did they possess the rule of strict self
control or strict retirement when nc
longer in condition to rule wisely. Right
eous anger may be q needed correeffye
but irritation never yet accomplished
anything more than rout n confusion
It is not only in sweeping lines of con-
duct that the mistress guides in general
things. and also in things particular and
varying from day TO day. The changing
moods of the head Of the house all FIND
their exaggerated expressions in the satel-
lites that revoiye about them.
II a woman at the coming of night lies
down with the thought in her heart that
something has been all wrong in the
household through the twelve hours, she
nay be fairly sure that self-examfnation
will show her how her own morning,
mood has set the fashion and opened the
ball.
There is no garment so becoming as an
easy. happy mind, and the house mother
df she be wise, Will don it on rising; or II
she be willy. and And only a garment a
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