The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-14
ALL SORTS OF PAPER THINGS.
Crepe Paper Turned to Use in Count
less Knicknacks.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
SIS that paper?' exclaimed the shopper
as the salesman unro1led length of pill
ant, lustrous stuff for her inspection.
at is a new design this year." said the
clerk. "See this" and he unfurled a piece.
ivory tinted. with half garlands of roses
sprinkled over it.
"Broeaded! Why, 1t looks like a
piece of French damask. How do they
contrive to give it that soft sheen? Then
the colors are so good
''They are making it that way this
year" was the answer. This brocaded
paper was not made at all, even abroad,
until within the last two years. 1t was
brought out in plain, all-over colors, very
prettily tinted but 1t was never lowered
or figured All this scalloped-edged and
Persian bordered paper is also new wrin-
kle They put a bloom on crepe paper
now that makes 1t twice as rich and effec
tive. A woman could make up one of
these brocade papers into ball gown, fit
ting il on good lining stuff, and I doubt
if It could be told from silk unless it was
touched.
'Here are some curtains Just made as
a sample, of course but what would you
take them for?'
sDimity; pretty, fine dimity. And are
those glove boxes and vases of paper,
too?"
Eyes. and there is a table cover in imr-
tation of a Dresden pattern. year ago
no factory turned out anything like that,
as regards blending of colors, or border
ing, or width. Twenty inches was as wide
as the crepe paper was ever made up to
few months ago. The Jennings always
looked awkward. Now the paper comes
double width"
Those on the inside of the crepe paper
trade say that quick-wtted American
girl is the original source of all these i'm
provements In width, tinthg and texture.
She took up the making of lamp shades,
hand screens, cotillon favors and the like
for a livelihood. The crepe paper, as it
was then made, did not meet her needs,
and she proceeded to vary and improve it
according to her own ides These ideas
the manufacturers Immediately adopted
'"The plain one-color papers gave my
things such sameness," said this wide
awake business woman, that after search
ing high and low for varegated samples
put water-color figures and flowers over
the surface. Six months later when
went to buy my new stock of papers, l
found that the mills were printing the
crepe paper already figured only not of
the beautiful texture that they are turn
ing out now. My sister and I made garden
hats Tor taVOrS, ana IdIlS anu pdfdsOls,
and all that sort of stuff out of the bro
caded paper, until we were weary of il
and looked about for something new. This
we got by cutting up the edges of plain
surfaced paper in points and scallops, and
painting in border of a deeper color, or
some contrasting shade. 1t did not take
that idea any time to spread, and now the
Persian -bordered papers, with the soft
tones relieving the cream or dull blue sur
faces, can be got at moderate price. The
fact of the matter is that for purely dec
oratlve purposes paper Is Infinitely more
effective than woven material. 1t has a
stiffness that does not appear really stiff
because of the crepe surface, and 1t is
plant and manageable. II will stay where
you put Il, and yet not look ungraceful.
when want heliotrope paper, l get Il
from a certain firm and the yellow shades
have to get from another firm and the
rose tlnts from third. No single manu-
facturer seems to make all the tints equal
ly we'll If he makes one color just right,
the others are below the average.
The manufacturers are evolving new
ideas every day. though in this matter Of