The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-12
FRESH DRAPERIES.
NEW AND INEXPENSIVE DRESS.
ING FOR COTTAGE WINDOWS.
Bead Curtains For Doors, Sash and
Fireplaces Are Distinctly Fash
ionable This Summer.

1onaDle This Summer.
1t is, perhaps, a sad fact, but non.
the less true, that if you would have
your home windows display, to a pas,
sing world, that you are an artistic
and modern housekeeper, all your sum
mer curtains of last season must be
cast aside. Almost every species oil
drapery put forth by the house deco
rators is an absolute novelty this
season.
OF course. handsome lace window
hangings. if they are genuine quality
and in good repair, are forever in style,
though it is no longer considered in
quite nice taste to use lace curtains in
summer. They are meant exclusively
for winter and the city. For the hot
weather and the country bead hang
ings, new tambour muslin, Dutch
madras, French Louis XVI lawn, Delhi
net and Persian gauze, are all or any
one entirely appropriate, if you have
not made up your mind to drape your
windows in chintz or muslin to exactly
match your new wall papers.
The last is a method very much in
vogue with the women who are revel-
ing in the joys of entire renovation Of
their summer homes and have taken a
hint from the decorators. 1t is a nice
idea If not repeated in too many rooms,
as then the house reflects a most
monotonous scheme of color. Yet it is
hard to resist falling into the enticing
trap. If room is to have its walls
covered in delicate mimosa Powered
paper, the mimosa sprayed French
Louis XVI muslin, that comes to ex-
actly match it, is an almost irresist-
ibe temptation There are exquisite
muslins besides to absolutely coincide,
in color and figuring, with the. papers
sprayed in morning glories of every
tint and solid toned ashes of roses,
robins egg blue and dove gray papers
sold with muslin hangings to CORES
pond.
OF course if you don't care to carry
out this plan in more than room or
two, there are the Delhi nets and new
tambour muslins to fall back on for
the other windows that may be crying
out for fresh dresses. The net referred
to is woven of an Indian grass in two
tones of green, or gray, with a strand
as large and mesh almost as coarse
as that employed in making Mexican
grass hammocks. The vast difference
is that Delhi net is exceedingly soft
and, interviewer with the vegetable
llDtl, dIc DIlSnl SINS VI COlOICQ DcdQS,
to give brilliancy and show, when the
material is stretched, that quaint ORR
entail figures are formed by the intro
duction of color. At windows or doors
the net must hang quite straight from
small brass rings, encircling a slender
brass pole. AT the bottom of every net
curtain is finishing frill of grass, or
silk fringe, or may be the big glass
beads are strung along the lower edge,
tinkling musically together whenever
the drapery is disturbed. This mention
of beads reminds me to assure the
owners of country homes that for sum-
mer use the bead draperies are abso- |
lutely usurping every doorway, shut
ting out the ugly view of the fireplace I
and hang very close against the sashes /
of windows, to take the place of hol- |
land shades. q
Decorators have come to employ /
them lavishly, first because a bead |
curtain is the coolest and cleanest of |
all hangings, they are not costly, they |
outlast any woven goods and as they /
are now manufactured are pretty be- /
yond words. One of the most delight
full possible effects to arrive at, in |
draping a back hall door, or a long |
French window, is to suspend there a |
portiere Of blue beads. Pale blue up
near the pole, but a rich dark blue
near the bottom, while across this
azure background a flight of swifts or
swallows wing their way. Such a por-
tiery is made of beads solidly, with no
Joints of bamboo introduced, and While
It shuts out view of the interior COM
oletely from a person outside the door
1r window, to one within it merely re
veals the road, street or garden
through blue mist
With few executions the bead cur
aims SO eagerly sought for, are not
strung to initiate oriental designs, hit
display in blue and white the very
most lovely delft views, giant palm
Ind fern leaves against a yellow back
sky of greenery. AT inter-
-als during the summer a soft cloth
passed over the beads cleanses them
thoroughly, while in many cases the
,eads are hung inside the window
asing and muslin is draped over them.
This is where linen shades are not in
Use.
Decorators, however, this season
ave rather given their whole allegi-
nee to the theory and practice of
raping windows in green. Green,
hey boldly assert, is the one and only
one to use for hangings intended to
hade one from the light, not only for
easons of beauty, but hygiene as well. :
therefore, we are having one of three
Kings done, by persons who can al
ord to follow what old fashioned folk
lay call a fad. The lower sashes of
ursery and bedroom windows are
eng glazed with green glass, or
raped in green persian gauZe, or hav-
lg fixed to them carved Indian win
ow screens of wood stained a shade
E dull soft green. =
Equally as high a point of taste and
is to have, as the sketch q
nows, window all in green. Here the
AIDED paneS are pale green, the
ounce curtains OF persian gauze, and
lie draDerY above of green dutch
ladras. Scarce a handsome house this
lmmer but WILL in the process of it's
BRING doing over, have a green win
DIV, turned toward the sea or the
arden, and will be the choice spot to
lad and sew and lounge in.
But whether a window be green or I
ot its pane curtains are very sure to (
: of persian gauZe, a seer silken ma
rial that must be made up perfectly
ain, with hem, and perhaps mar
Nv green ribbon border on every ,
'eadth, it is far more fashionable q
indow decoration, not to say vastly :
'ettier, than the white muslin ones in
,gue, and, like muslin, it shuts out
-ying eyes, but not the light. An
ldity sin window drapery, especially
hen the tambour muslin or madras is II
led, is the new portiere pole. 1t is
Their a white enameled rod, with brass
ngs and big brass spear heads at
Their end. or of glass, with brass
lgS.