The times., 1897-11-21

white, pearl, pink, or ash gray ground.
WITH bonunets OF flaming tiger lilies,
peonies, scarlet Roses, double daffollls aud
hibiscus or pelargOniunls. The parer is
fan plated, dropped over a tent-shaped wire
frame and edged with bead fringe or
ribbon quilting. These are not expensive
aud they are very lovely.
The most costly OF the new shades are
made from pieces OF rich old hrocaded
silk, scraps of priests vestments or rem
nants of ancestral coats and petticoats
They are either fan plated and edged
with rich bullion fringe, or faced with
white silk ana stretched over d circular
Of yellow, century old lace fron coat
sleeves or Revolutionary lady's pointed
silk bodice It il no secret that these
special shades fetch prices as high as SO
t. Sl50.
Between these costly pieces 1f bric a
brac the flower lamps, worth frem SIS
to 500. and the wall paper shades that
any deftfingered woman can make her
self at an outlay of 81 or So, or buy at
that price in the shops, there are the
stilpoPuIar and Iovel Y silk screened lamps
Electric light, it has been found, must be
to give il the tender becoming glow Of
wax candles and it is Important for wom-
Ell who use electric bulbs in place of OIL
iR their lamps TO know how 20 modulate
the drawIng-room light. The best effect
is had by covering d wire frame first with
| a fall of pure nite chiffon; over this mast
| go u cover of pale green liberty silk, aud
! ON top OF that yellow china silk. Ey
| pinking the edges Of all three materials
and outlinsing on the yellow silk butter
| flies 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 for building shades
on, almost 20 the exclusion OF the empire
| shape, and silver dra wing-room and dinner
| table lamps still wear silk and tulle petit
| coats. The prettiest novelty in these
| new fabrics is a shade made al OF pink
| tulle frlls, fastened on ballshaped frame
| ieiuh wredths OF yariegated cnnvOlulus,
or smiisx, or honeysuckle. falling through
the thickness Of tulIe down on the white
table cloth below.
Another cluse-fitting shade, built on d
bah frame. Is made of mauve and gray
green silk 70 exactly simulate a big Scotch
thistle growing close about the long white
! glass chimney. Every ohc of these designs
is, of course, copied in miniature for ap-
pncation as candle shades, while pretty
oddity III the shape OF a candle screen, is d
big pink wild rose, its broad silk petals
drawn back 70 enclose the yellow heart
in which a fat gold and brown bee is busy
at his 'abors.
Nothing has yet been found as perfect
substitute for candies on a dinner table
thoEgh the little twilight lamps are al
ways largely patronizedin their place, and
many rich women have their broad mahog-
ani-s punctured and wired 10 allow OF fan
cifui schemes in electric lighting Col
oFed wax candles IN silver sticks, however
iHaintaE their prestige for elegance ant
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 be
fore dinner, and she should, moreover, tl.J
the new wax candles that have three per
foratiuns down their entire length By
this device a. the hest uleIts the wax the
not fIIid, instead of running down the out
side, falls in and drips through the perfo
rationS, AMI saves the candleStick and dam
ask from clot6ed grease, 50 difficult to re
move.