The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-21

and edged with bead fringe or rib
bon quilting These are not expensive
and they are very lovely.
The most costly of the new shades
are made from pieces OF rich old bro
caded silk, scraps of priests vestments
or remnants of ancestral coats and
petticoats They are either fan-plaited
and edged with rich bullion fringe, or
faced with white silk and stretched
over a circular wire frame of empire
shape, with frill of yellow, century
old lace from coat sleeves or a revolu
tionary lady's pointed silk bodice. 1t
is no secret that these special shades
fetch prices as high as SIS to $3.50.
Between these costly pieces Of bric-a-
brac; the flower lamps worth from SIS
to $50. and the wall paper shades that
any deft-tingered woman can make
herself at an outlay of 81 or 81, or buy
at that price in the shops, there are
the still popular and lovely silk
screened lamps. Electric lights, it has
been found, must be filtered through
three thicknesses of silk, to give it
the tender, becoming glow of wax can
dies, and it is important for women
who use electric bulbs in place of oil
in their lamps, to know how to modu-
late the drawing room light. The best
effect is had by covering wire frame
first with fall of pure white chiffon;
over this must go a cover of pale
green liberty silk, and on top of that
yellow China silk. By pinking the edges
of all three materials and outlining.
on the yellow silk, butterflies and
flower sprays, in silver spangles, the
newest dinner table lamp shades are
made.
The tent, pagoda and parasol frames
are the forms now USED tor bmld4ng
shades on, almost to the exclusion of
the empire shape, and silver drawing
room and dinner table lamps still wear
silk and tulle petticoats. The prettiest
novelty in these new fabrics is a shade
made all Of pink tulle frills, fastened
on a bell-shaped frame with Wreaths
of variegated convolvulus, or smilax, or
honeysuckle, falling through the thick
ness of tulle down on the white table
cloth below.
Another close-fitting shade, built on
a ball frame. is made of mauVe and
gray green silk to exactly simulate 81
big Scotch thistle growing close about
the long white glass chimney. Every
one of these designs are, of course,
copied in miniature for application as
candle shades, while a pretty oddly
in the shape of a candle screen, is a
big pink wild rose, its broad silk petals
drawn back to enclose the yellow heart,
in which fat gold and brown bee is
busy at his labors.
Nothing has yet been found as per-
feet substitute for candles on q dinner
table, though the little twilight lamps
are always largely patronized in their
place, and many rich women have their
broad mahoganies punctured and wired
to allow of fanciful schemes in electric
lighting. Colored wax candles in silver
sticks, however, maintain their pres
tige for elegance and beauty, but she
who buys the true wax for her table
should lay her candles in the ice box to
harden for four or five hours before
dinner, and she should, moreover, buy
the new wax candles that have three
perforations down their entire length.
By this device, as the heat melts the
wax, the hot fluid, instead of running
down the outside, falls in and drlps
through the perforations and saves the
candlestick and damask from clotted
grease, so difficult to remove.
MILLICENT ARROWPOINT.