The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-15
for dMomen


Now that summer ~sojourners are re-
turning to town and plans for the winter
planned, house furnishing and burnish-
ing become topics of the times.
Yesterday, with this fact in mind, /
had q little talk with a professional dec
orator on the subject Of wall papers ana
papering. His Ideas contained some ex-
cellent hints which Woman's Page read
ers who have work Of this kind on hand
will md of real service
at is. remarkable he said, how few
women understand the art of choosing
wall paper. Or. rather, how many wom-
en- rush into il without the most slender
preparation. What sins are committed IN
the name of house furnishingi In nine
homes out of ten the walls are marvels
of a Judgment and poor taste
For papering or painting your wall
he continued, ''consider first of all the
size, the light, the outlook and the weak
points of your apartment. A room OF
many windows can stand a paper OF
darker tone than your room which is
inclined to darkness. A marrow apart
ment needs paper or paint which Will
make its walls seem further apart. Very
high rooms will look better for wide
friezes. In those with lower ceilings the
frieze should be narrow to produce effect
of height.
Color will modify your apartment. rake
note of this point. Red is the sole color
which does not materially change the APP
parent size. but keeps your room looking
the length, breadth and height which be-
long to it in reality. Pink. terra Gotta
and other shades derived from red have
much the same effect, and produce little
modification.
yellow tints of all kinds are apt to
make your walls seem nearer together.
The more vivid the tint, the closer, OF
course, the appearance.
For distance, to lengshen your rooms,
choose blues and blush tints. Greens and
grays in a lesser degree Will suggest the
same.
AS to the style of your papering: Diff
ferent rooms must be treated in different
style. What will serve charmingly in
your corridors and dining rooms will be
out of place and i'll looking in sleeping
apartments and nurseries. Choose your
pattern and color according to the light
of the room, as well as to its size. Draw
ing rooms and libraries should be bright
and warm. Large rooms should be treat
ed boldly. Sleeping rooms should be
dainty and restfuI.
The papers without design, the effective
terra cottas and blues and grays with
friezes are more used each year for large
rooms. If the rooms are communicating
1 often paper the lower wall entire in
terra Gotta, or in blue. When the fold
ing doors are thrown open the effect is
new and artistic.
For bedrooms 1 am fond of using dainty
papers-dainty in color and in pattern.
Bold figures, geometrical designs, ara
besques are to be avoided. Floral and
other graceful patterns are much more
in keeping
Have those good hints in mind when
you choose the furnishings for your
home.
The real novelty in yokes, however,
is an irregular effect, where one side
differs from the other in pattern and
length. These yokes are in jet, colored
beads in brilliant red, green and violet
tints, delicate evening colors such as
coral and crystal, turquoise enameled in
gold. black and so on indefinitely. Nous
seine grounds and burned-out grounds
are equally handsome, and there is a
brilliant, silvered, four-sided bead called
the lament
For the lower grade of jackets and
NANTES the fashion is turning to plain
Innings, mostly marveilleux, rhadames,
serges and satins in piece-dyed goods,
while a very fair demand exists also for
yarn-dyed satins. The craze for bright
colored Innings is falling off, and the de-
mand for black is increasing, and as a
novelty, tan is being asked for. The finer
mantles still require fancy Innings in all
silk.
, For millinery velvet seems to have
been taken up principally as velours
miroir and velours soleil, in which form
it will be used extensively for ladies'
hats. This is shown by the early Paris
models. Regarding the fashionable shade
in this article. a change seems to have
taken place. While red is falling off con-
siderably, and light greens and bluets
remain in favor, there is an unexpected
demand for biege, tan, castor and grays,
which, however, can only be obtained in
small quantities. Fancy velvets will
make their appearance again this sea-
son.
The prevailing style in bodices is a
loose banded blouse, which opens in the
front to show a vest. This fashion has
been very generally approved of, but the
very newest is a bodice cut up on either
side. discovering a silk underbodiee, and
united by gold buttons Avery pretty
white one was thus mingled with blue
and had a horizontal band on the skirt,
the sleeves being tucked at intervals all
the way down. Many blue drills are
made in this style, and many more take
the form of a full blouse opening down
the side and middle.
An innovation in the employment OF
white silk is all important. Until of late
white satin and white silk were not at
ali considered suitable for morning wear.
but this is nc. longer the case. The para
soils are made to match, generally unlined.
but all the dresses are lined, or have dis
tinet Innings, and generally Of a color. The
yokes of the white gowns are often
deliberately embroidered with cord or 90
cred with guipure. Black lace over white
silk is very much ia favor. Chantilly
being the most popular lace for the pur-
pose. and sash scarfs Of soft silk or black
ribbon are worn with such costumes.
Now that summer is on the wane and
we must look for cool days alternating
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