The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11

pillows of every size, upholstered in
/ oriental silks. Usually at one side of
the olvan, sits a stand and equipage
( Tor oriental coffee, at the other a
smoking outfit from India, while,
: strung on and twisted about the chains
are pieces of goId-striped gauze,
bangles for ankles and arms, tossed
among the pillows are scented feather
fans, and from the ceiling, at a point
! between the four chains, hangs a Ian
tern that sheds electricity through its
stained glass and beaten brass win
dows,swhile still below it hangs a spice
/ burner
{, The remainder Of the room has been
decorated in accurate accord with this
one piece of furniture, even TO the cell
ing, fretted in gold and white, to the
carved wood and stained glass screens,
where the glazed Sashes were, and here
the happy owner DresideS at her tea,
over her note writing, etc. A few woIn-
en- have fallen so deeply in love with
the Indian swinging divans that they
have had their sturdy carved four
posters or Vernis Martin bedsteads
taken from their rooms and substi-
tuted these big oriental hanging
couches. But this is an exaggeration
Of the craze In Mrs. George Gould's
home a truly enormous divan is to
hang in her studio. Six wrought bronze
Cil6lHS, the HcduS VI i0O-e'
will hold it in place, and over the
scarlet silk mattress is to be spread
wonderful cloth Of gold counterpart,
edged with bullion fringe to sweep the
floor.
MRS. ASTOR'S DIVAN.
This is to find a place between two
windows, so that the weary lounger
among the pillows can catch in sum-
mer every bit of breeze passing
through the close-latticed window. At
Mrs Astor's home on the Hudson river
swinging divan. quite as splendid,
but not so large as either of those
above described, is hung in a circular
portico that opens out of her bedroom,
and commands a magnificent water
view. The portico itself is nearly en-
closed in the most delicate lattice work,
the stone floor is strewn with Indian
rugs, lemon and rose crested cockatoos
occupy tall bamboo DercheS in sunny
corners, and here the mistress spends
her summer mornings, reading, writ
ing, with her secretary. and otherwise
putting her lovely open-air studio TO
practical uses.
Now. any woman of smaller means
and yet as Wanting ambitions as one
of the ladies above mentioned, can, OF
course, by careful study of the require
ments for a hanging divan, have one
built for her own studio or summer
balcony if she has mind to. And that
is lust what many a woman is now
ordering her cabinet maker TO do.
Satisfying herself with iron chains
heavily gilded, platform of plain
pine, stained and vanished, and up
holstering her mattress and pillows IN
art linens. Such swinging seats are
being ordered for the tea balconies OF
Newport cottages.
ANTnInCXC
Those who do not take kindly to
hanging divan, can fall into the ranks
of those equally beautiful and COM
FORTHCOMING sisters who are importing
or having made for their summer
homes, yet greater novelties in the
form of simla hammocks. Everybody
who reads Kipling knows where Slmla
is and there, in even the least preten-
tious homes, a hammock is synonym
Gus with ease. 1t usually occupies a
place between two windows in the
general sitting room. or decorates the
tea end of the wide veranda-when
drawn out to it's greatest width a. simia
hammock measures six or eight feet
across and nearly II feet long. Some
are woven of camel's hair, in splendid
colors and Persian arabesques with
heavy fringe along the edges and cost
at least $3.50. These are not suspended
between walls, out are dttdCLcu " wv
carved uprights, fastened TO the floor
and are held out by stretchers in the
form of light brass bows, to which are
attached rows of quaint little bells. AS
many as three persons can lie easily
at full length straight across such
hammock, their heads buried in downy
linen covered pillows and the bells
family tinkling out sort of eifland
music.
Less expensive hammocks are woven
of flax, but not in the wide mesh or
those we get from Mexico and the
great width of these simla cradles goes
to make of them a bed that fairly de-
fies wakefulness. One of these nam
mocks. brought over for country
house in the Berkshires, is to be hung
in the cool, dusky corner of a wlde
hallway, and over it, in true East IN
dian fashion, a great fan OF SILK j
stretched on a Bamboo frame, hung |
Then. on the hottest of days and when |
prone among the pillows, a weary lndl-
yidual. by grasping the silk cord hang
ing from the fan, viii be able to keep |
the hammock gently swaying, the bells
tinkling, the air above stirring, and all
with a minimum of effort
T(,LyNJT ARPOWPOINT.