The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-06
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this season a young matron's turn TO
thoughts of bright touches for the
house.
She would do well to learn a lesson
from the Japanese, and not overload every
nook and corner and shelf with tribes in
metal, glass. wood or porcelain. A few
really beautiful articles are far more ar
tistic than a miscellaneous tumble of in
ferior specimens.
Florentine bra:ds and gimps make very
effective trimming for many bits of fur
nishing. These pleasing decorations are
somewhat expensive, but, perhaps, not
more 50 than many other ornamental
tons that do not prove SO pleasing and
durable.
In furnishing dining roome. artistic
housewives nowadays depart from the
old fashioned idea OF grave dignity. and
replace dark oak panelling by panellins
in light enameled wood, either in ivory
white or pale colors, such as are seen in
enameled furniture. Bright pictures and
colored wall papers. with deep. highly
decorated ~frfezes, are innovations i'm dim
ing rooms. In old fashioned rooms where
there is a quantity of woodwork. the walls
and the woodwork may be prettily decor
ated by stencfling thereon designs in
enamel paints. The English enamel, rec
commended for this work. needs to be
thinned for this purpose. and then can be
brushed on with a large stiff brush. Stem
ell patterns may be purchased at large
paint stores; and the art of stenciling is
very easily learned.
Artistic table decorations are arranged
with baskets of willow plat, silvered over
and filed with glasses of cut flowers or
pots of growing ferns. One basket only
is used in the ordinary way. but when the
table is large enough to admit of it, small
baskets are placed On each side at inter-
walls. TIL beautiful fringes of pendant
cords and tassels hanging from handsome
headings, are remarkable for variety; they
form friezes for curtains and portieres,
and will prove a welcome help to house
wives who know the difficulty of apply
ing frieze embroideries with exactitude
to these hangings.
Exquisite work is now done in model
ing in clay and casting in plaster; the
plaster being given different finishes ae-
cording to taste and the subject. Medal
lions in bronze effect are very decorative.
Silvered plaster is also effective. which
is lovely in summer houses.
Many rooms are made picturesque by
over-door cabinets, or rather shelves,
pleasingly treated with groups of fans
and large vases. Some quaint designs
in over-window shelves, and prettily rail
ed shelves in front of the sashes to hold
plants, also add their quota of beauty to
a room. These shelves are ebonized or
stained in Fnahoranr uthco rrcal uz;tl,
dark furnishings. and are painted in
white or delicate ~enaneling in connec-
ton with the light furniture and decor
ations.
One of the most pleasing bits of fire.
place furnishing .where.a house is steam
heated or heated by a furnace. and fire
is only occasionally needed in the fire.
place, is a tail peacock-blue hearth jar
filled with peacock feathers, standing in /
front of a huge yellow Japanese fam.
Tapestry and leather are still the fav-
orite upholsterings for libraries and din
ing rooms. Olives, maroons and deep
rich blues are the colors for these apart
rnents. II dining rooms rich colorings
are allowable. but in Libraries only the
soft and subdued tones are now consid-
cred artistic
An ente~prising little housewife. with
more time than money for expending on
fresh decorations, recently made a hand
some table slip by taking a number of
squares of guipure netting, and strips of
loose weaved linen. The linen strips
were hemmed round. then embroidered
in cross and outline stitch with bright
coiors. and scanned together. as well as
to the Melted squares.
For studio decoration, and in rooms
where odd effects are desired. fine weave
mattings are employed as wall coverings.
They are secured to the wall by narrow
wooden mouldings nailed to the upper
edges and dividing the mating into pam
els; in such rooms the dado will be COM
posed perhaps of a figured mating. and
the wall of a lighter. single colored mat
ting. Rooms thus treated have me+7a
floors. and rather thin oriental curtains,
and are delightfully."- cool in effect.
Painted tapestry friezes are REVEALS of
an old form Of decoration for walls;
hand-wrought tapestries were formerly
used for this purpose. and now the paint
ed friezes. if done in soft time-worn col
ors, closely resemble them.
Ordinary burlaps painted in some soft
rich colors and decorated with japanese
disks and ornamental figures in low-tone
bronzes. make an odd frieze for a room
finished in Japanese effects, and blue and
White Japanese cotton crepe makes.
charming window curtains and for cur
tanning glass doors in these rooms. This
Japanese crepe is also used for vestibuIe
curtains.
There are two features OF the coming
seasons fashions which are particularly
to the artist. SIT is too
bad says the lover of beautiful curves,
ito cover the prettiest part of the face
with those abominable hats hi are
worse than the bangs that we nave only
just got rid of; and then, those coats
hide the line of beauty at the waist
why viii women never learn to make
the most of what charms they have?,
That is the artists view Of the case.
this is the society girls view, as
gathered from her advice to a girl friend
who was not quite sure of herself
You simply must have one of those
nose hats" she said. Everybody is
wearing them; / look ike a guy in them
but then it is the style. and that
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