The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-18

With the opening up of opportunities for
women to take part in the professions.
there is no movement more interesting in
lis development than the gradual increase
of disposition on the part of educated and
refined women to engage in the work of
what lis called interior decoration, but
which is less imposing and disqueting
when spoken of as home decoration, says
the Philadelphia Times.
The mural treatment and designing of
furniture for public buildings will prop
erlv remain in the hands of really compe-
tent architects of taste, who may with
right claim that nothing shall be added to
their structures which tend to interfere
with their original conception of the fin
ished effect but as it is not a secret that
the decoration and furnishing of the most
successfully completed great houses of
recent construction have been absolutely
dictated and supervised by the women
most interested, there seems no reason
why the woman decorator has not come
to stay
She is dotted in pairs of girl bachelors
among the larger cities of the country,
and though the firm is apt to dissolve aft
er a more or less brief existence, it is not
due 10 lack of business, but rather to the
quick opportunity which seems to offer
for the formation of permanent partner
ships under a consolidated firm name.
There are those, too, to whom reverses
of fortune have forced to use their taste
and talents in the most womanly of occu-
pations, and these, having once found the
pleasures of self-help and independence,
are the pillars of the profession.
When questioned on the subject of the
''woman Decorator" Joseph P. McHugh,
the authority on everything in the line of
house decorations, said:
Just why women, with their quick ap-
probation of what is good, their intuitive
sense of color and grasp Of detail, should
not have discovered long before this that
men were unrightfully occupying their
places does not seem quite clear, but it
is certain that their superior faculty Of
economical selection has brought forward
more things of combined utility and beau
ty than could have been thought possible
in the brief space of time since their opin-
ions have been asked for and compensat-
ed.
1T is particularly at this season of the
year, when the country house claims at
4 tention, that the stuffs of homely origin
4 and the furniture of simple fashion show
81 the influence of woman's direction.
The cotton fabrics appear in artistic
Colorings and patterns, showing the
Teaves of denim, once used only for
81 Forl1ing clothes, and Cluny canvas, for
nerly thought only good enough for cof-
be sacking and bed ticking, turns up in
he daintiest possible striped and flower
d effects, not unlike the chintzes and
Entities of France.
Wall papers designed by women pre-
ent flowers and foliage in forms and col
rings so natural that the result of out
.oor study is apparent, while in the more
onventional and ornamental patterns the
gOmans love of color has quite overcome
he faint half-tones of the aesthetic art
llt
In furniture the old English and Colo
hal reproductions bear witness to the in
nstry and good taste of women in collect
1g the pieces which point to the times
then simplicity and directness of con-
truction gave distinction to the art of the
abinet maker, before the use of machin-
lous detail without gain to the comfort
beauty of the piece.
M Chairs and tables of graceful and slen-
er parts, but strong and good withal
de-boards fair to the eye without and
sNing manifest proof of their contents,
sainscoting and mantelpieces of dignifed
md classic proportions these are among
ne things which women will have in pref
Hence to the gorgeousness Of modern
arriving and varnish as accessories in their
ehemes and plans for the making of the
iouse beautiful and fortunate are
lhe men whose tastes and ideas are in
hne with the new dispensation."
Love Lives On
took from their hiding place last night
Your letters, sweetheart, and read;
and their passion thrilled in the waning
light.
Though 1 said, MY love is dead"
But tears came back to my world-worn
eyes
As | thought Of golden June
Ahd lovers who sang Love never dies
While boats drift under the moon"
For white wings come. and white sails
go,
Drifting out into the dawn;
Put memory come with refiuent flow,
ana IL s true as ever IL was, know,
That love lives on and on.
u comes with the touch Of the clasp of
the hand,
4 OF ,ne glance Of a strangers eye,
kindly act In a foreign land,
! IT 'ne CLEAN Of a starry sky.
drifting boat on a silver lake,
~ Ut lily you touch with your oar,
VT the sound Of the winds and waves that
break
IN melody on the shore.
Sut as long as white wings come and
20.
v Ut drift In the rosy dawn.
Wmle memory comes with reauent
How u"'
~ ms rs true az ever II was, I know.
Ahal love lives on and on.
Emma Playter Seabury.
mia ~. y Always some new amusement IN
mon "o,ia worth living for. THAT "a the
Ices ,,,, we women, who are as busy as
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