The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-09-12
for dMo1nem.

Whether the attachment for our old
homes be sincere or affected, we are
sufficiently intelligent to Welcome an In
~uovation. which is possible without a
hearing out of doors and walls, and q
general invasion of plasterers, carpenters
and painters. There is nothing SO easily
and neatly adjusted as grille work, and in
proportion to the effects it is capable of
producing, and it's durability and the
thousand and one modes of its turning
and design, it is safe to say that nothing
is SO cheap.
Is a doorway too high and wide for the
prevailing styles, or out of harmony with
the general furnishings of the room, what
so eficaciously obliterates the fault and
supplies the want as grille? Do you desire
to nav everything OF one particular style
or period, the Introduction of character.
istic grille will further enhance all other
efforts. No style of ornamentation for
the interiors of our homes may be or
dered in detail or selected from a greater
variety of styles than this frail laee-work
of wood, cane, bamboo, willow or what
not, and in quality and coloring the pur-
chaser has unlimited sway.
There is, verify, mo end" of varieties
in grilles, from the delicate handmade
fret work of the clever japanese, to the
rugs and loops of our own manufacture.
In a choice collection of Japanese work
manship it may be SEEN, and If looked
into, the study of their fret work is not
less interesting than the other painstak-
ing labors of that nation. Tt is of ex-
quisitely fine patterns, and is usually
made of feat wood, very light i'll weight
and color, and is often used without
stain or varnish. The Japs also use will
low and bamboo, cane and other polished
surface material. A handsome, over
door piece Is in light notified effect, COM
bined with cane, stained black. The
pattern was in rings and bars, and was
very open and clearly defined.
A side doorway or very large window is
the best place for the introduction of
grille, for here is a greater flow of light
than at other places, and this requisite
Is one of the best attendants for success.
One of unusual width, even for alcoye
openings, is seen between the music and
drawing room of one of New York's
mansions. The net work is in a small
checked design. each line in small. round
bars, with a space of about one and a half
inches between. Over one-half the en-
trance this droops rather low in the form
of a huge crescent, with scalloped edges.
each tiny point finished by a ball. The
other half of the entrance is partially
yelled by the grille which comes down in
small pillars, placed between in the same
close design. Midway in this latter sec
ton is an open space of about one by
four feet, topped by a semi-circle similar
to the crescent over the entrance way
this. also, is finished by scallops. At the
lower part of the opening a small shelf
is placed, supporting a tall, slender vase
of rare workmanship. A Venetian scarf
is artfstically drawn through and allowed
to trail several inches over the floor at
the left of the opening.
All kinds and lines of wood are utilized
for grilles. They may be enameled white
and gold for French drawing rooms, dark
mahogany or cherry for dining rooms and
libraries, oak for halls, or colored to suit
any taste or caprice for the boudoir.
In a wide hall in an o~fd-fashioned house,
one corner was divided eff by means of
grille and lattice n converted into a
most artistic spot. The hall had thereto-
fore been so wide that the rooms thanking
either side shrark into fnsignificance. An
ingenious brain cleverly devised a means
of dividing over half its width into a
most exquisite anteroom. The openings
in the grille are but partially yelled, and
the remaining passage way in the hall is
thus left in half view. A partition of
grille extends out INTO the hall, leaving
ample room for a passage way to the foot
of the steps from the front. and access
on all sides from the ~anafnfnp partiopS
of the house. The inclosure measures 9
by u feet and is given very little NOV
able furniture. The grilles are finished
in a dull, greenish bronze, after the Yer
mis- Martin style. Here and there are por-
there's of ruddy gold, lending contrast to
the darker surfaces. The polished floor
IS almost covered by an old Oriental rug
with the soft commingling of co1ors Pc
culiarly its own. A corner divsn covered
with Oriental curtains and hangings in
a neutral blending of old rose, copper
and dull green, a hanging Moorish lamp,
and some foreign bric-a-brac ado the fin
ishirg touches. A room, or a corner of a
room like this, will soon become the
place of chief resort in ones home, and
can be added to in the way of ornamen-
tation and bric-a-brac until it is a verit-
able treasure-trove.
But supposing we haven't a hall big
enough to divide, or a room we can so
cut out; say, for example, we are what
as called everyday people, there are still
doorways and windows to be beautifed.
A library was a fair exponent for the
utility of graceful fretwork. A large win
dow, which Just too fortunately ran
up to a Gothic point, but unfortunately
mad large panes of glass, was overlaid
by narrow strips of wood IN Gothic de-
signs to initiate the old-time windows of
that people. The doors, reminding one of
the present in their obIong severity. had
1aner ftments of grille, supplying the de-
sired peaks and points. Some old tapes
try as panels, wrought iron freplaces and
an inlaid floor with small, dull-colored
rugs added to the general old-time air.
-Imperial Magazine.
A discussion in some European papers
OF the question as to whether widows
snould marry again has brought ont the
statistician with some more or less inter-
esting figures.
According to M. Morselli, who is an
authority on the subject, out of 35 men
who committed suicide in Italy, 100 were
married, 1S were bachelors and 157 were