The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-01-27

HOUSE PURNISHERS
4 Business Adapted to Wo-
men and Found Re-
numerative.
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The Groom the Home Maker-ln-
cidents of a Starring Tour
potatoe Pancakes.
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Housefurnishing was never a greater
delight than at present era of fashion,
says the Philadelphia Press. There are
little unexpected surprises to the aesthe-
t~icJsense, little ~unlooked-for qualifications
OF a taste for color and contrast that by
gone interiors could never cause. Why?
Because the old-fashiohed way of buying
sets of things with every piece matching
is quietly stealing away, and now the
proper thing is to have no two pieces of
furniture alike. This allows al~delightful
range of selection for a woman of TASTE,
END even q very small purse can make
a telling show when in the hands eff such
a spendef and chooser. Such a woman
picks up odd pieces of furniture from
here and there, keeping always in mind
inc character of the room for which they
are destined-its hooks and corners, its
windows, and other features. A divan is
sure to be in the sitting room, and two
or three big Turkish chairs, those that
are upholstered all over and are regular
Sleepy Hollows, of delightful ease. So
much for comfort, then the fancy can
have its swing in tables and single chairs.
There is quite a craze now for those
highbaclH English chairs, which show no
weod work. They are very stiff in APP
pearance, but are extremely comfortable
and are in many sitting rooms.
Great Is the desire to nave unique and
characteristic interiors. Many women do
not depend upon their own unguided eff
forts, and this has been the cause in re-
cent years of al added industry for wo-
mantle profession of housefurnishing.
The profession is several years old in Eng
land, where for a long while it has been
the work of women specially trained to
either take charge of an entire house and
furnish it from top to bottom, or to act
IN consultation with patrons and guide
them to the best results.
OF recent years women in Boston and
New York have taken up the work with
distinguished success, and now two
Philadelphia women artists nave branched
out in that line.
dIaese two women have established a
crowded buildings. They design and SUI
perlntend the complete interior mural de-
eoration OF residences, hotels, churches,
etc, in town and country, and select the
furnlture, even to china, linen and kit
chen things when desired. During the
hours Of consultation they give advice as
ment. In a word, they furnish the ideas.
when the actual work is not required.
Cne MEMBER OF the firm is a Phiiadel-
phla. girl, who is known in many cities
FOR her exquisite work in stained glass
and mural decoration. The other me-
Der, an Englishwoman, who has had ex-
perlence as decorator in England, was
telling a Press reporter of the differing
conditions in the two countries, which
lave some effect on the work.
In England" she said, nit is not the
custom for a girl who is to be married to
see her new home until she goes there as
a bride. That arrangement of the home
deyolves entirely upon the man. Men us
,pally rely on their women relatives to
help them out. The professional home
furnisher came as a great relief to this
class. The grooin-to-be could give her
his limit of expenditure, she would put
herself in communication with the br de-
to-be,. and follow her tastes as far as pos
sible in her arrangements and selections.
The custom is a little different here.
Women delight in themselves arranging
their future homes, but still many Of
them consult US; and, too, there is al
ways a wealthy class who are continue
ally adding to and rearranging interiors,
and that gives us a wild field.
although we do not by any means
confne ourselves to one class, as we have
within the last few months made some
very pretty rooms for people who could
expend only small sums OF money. The
art is not SO much in spending as in Sc
lecting and arranging"