The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-06-02
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SN~upaiits OF q room or old housekeepers,
VINO have not at one time or another
been sorely puzzled about the arrange
nent OF windows, or maybe a single win
dow. There are some rooms whose win
lows seems an absolute impossibility to
arrange with any degree of prettiness or
even passable taste: others again are
unobstructive and scarcely present them
selves on entering the room they VEN
tiiate or light.
Ii a window looks upon a bit of garden
or greenery. or, being ap stairs, presents
a wide rift through which sunlight pours
its management presents less difficulty.
Draped in light, lacy curtains, and filled
with a bit of green, q palm or fern, or
stand of growing plants, it forms a bit
of brightness very cheerful and home
like.
But the question of curtains when it
comes to be considered in detail is one
that has many difficulties to the woman
OF artistic taste who must find satisfac-
tory drapery for many windows with a
limited amount of money.
The design for variously shaped win
dows are limited to very few artistic or
desirable ones. The much -hackneyed
hour-glass fashion of lacking a glass
curtain at top and bottom of the sash
and tying with a bow or sash of rib
bon half way down is not a desirable
or new way, and has little to recommend
it. especially In summer when a slight
screen is needed.
The very old style of holland shades
next the glass is now almost entirely
abolished by beauty-loving housekeepers,
,,p1arc II he ;p q uvin6k.U whore a shade
is an absolute necessity. Barring the in
artistic, the choice is limited, unless the
busy mind of woman can evolve for her
self something entirely novel. as one
woman did who loves beauty in her
home surroundings and who must per-
force practice simplicity.
The window question being the only
one in a small room, she desired to make
as much of 1t as possible, both as a dec
orative spot and as a medium of hgting.
A holland shade On a strong spring roll
er was placed close to the glass, then
a neat box, ten inches deep and as long
as the window was wide, was put On
brackets even with the sill.
This was filled with rich soil and plant
ed with the common vine known as the
Wandering Jew. Strings were woven
across in a network sufficiently close. and
as the plants grew they were trained
among the strings until a lacy green cur
tain covered the entire window
A few common geraniums bloomed in
the box to form a thicker screen across
the lower glass. and outside all, on a
light c~ornice, projecting well out from
the casing. a thin lace curtain fell, its
fullness looped back by broad bands of
leaf green satin ribbons. The living
green against the glass through which
the sunlight filtered produced a cheerful
and pretty effect. and the plant, being
hardy, throve without trouble, being un-
injured by gas or dust. and being pro-
tected from severe cold by he holland
shade.
The fashion of using glass curtains of
only one piece is a very pretty and desir-
able one If the real squares can be had
sufficiently cheap But the idea is new
and the curtain bordered around both
sides and across bottom and top is By
0 means within the reach of all.
Teither are they pretty if they do not fit
he window without any fullness or
lrinkle.
IA very good substitute for this costly
ort of curtain can be made with little
9.ouble, and will look very well. Get a
I'll of a nice quality of obine or mos
tuito netting. Cut 1t on the lengthwise
End of a width to fit the sash smoothly.
EN- all round with a tiny hem and then
with very coarse cotton thread and a
piece of lawn use your own ingenuity in
finishing.
Cut from the lawn artistic shapes, pin
where desired and with the coarse cotton
applique them to the net. A fieur-de-lis
design, or slender geometrical or flower
arrangement IL desired. II a flower or
: foliage pattern is used graceful tendrils
may be added that improve the design.
When finished press the work with a
warm iron and tao in place. pulling I'M
til perfectly straight.
This style of curtain is pretty, especially
where the outlook is uninviting, or where
into a room.
When a fuil-b1ooded Hoopa girl attains
the age of young womanhood it is the
custom of the tribe to celebrate the event
by a ceremony lasting ten days, called
the flower dance. This is CON
Quoted by the women ana medlc1ne folks,
and is attended at the beginning by only
a few other Indians. But the interest in
creases from day to day. and by the end
of the tenth day the whole population
has swarmed to the scene of the dance.
Each morning about sunrise the girl
rises from her couch, and modestly
hanging her head because of the specta-
tors. she runs down to a point where a
shallow margin of the river laps over a
bar of pebbles. She is clad in a bark
skirt hanging from her waist to her
knees. Her breast and shoulders are
striped with red paint. She takes up wa
ter In her palms and dashes it upon her
shoulders. She then heaps up a small
mound of powders as a kim of tally of
the number Of times she goes to the wa
ter. after which she runs back to her
lodge. During the rest of the time she
stays indoors, keeping her head covered
with a shawl or blanket. She is attended
day and night by old women, who Groom
a song and keep up a constant tclatter
with the long slender prongs of painted
dance sticks, to keep away thoughts OF
sickness or death or other evil fortune
Whatever evil she thinks of now Will fol
low her footsteps and curse her through
life D1rinp the ten lays she must NOT