The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-05

II there is no pier glass e screen may
be made by covering a light clothes
horse with loosely woven wire netting
and making it a mass of greenery, set
with groups of yellow or white daisies,
or both of these, as intimated. before
working out design. While white yell
low and green have been chosen as the
color scheme, asters and chrysanthe-
mum may be preferred. The common
purple iron weed. which grows in great
clusters, lends itself handsomely to
decoration, mingled with yellow dali
sizes or black-eyed Susans, as more i'm
aginative people prefer to call them
But here. as in all other decorations
to be noticed, keep the colors we'll
nlassed, so that the result shall not be
spotty.
As a focus for this room. nothing is
better than a well decorated mantel
shelf. Drape gracefully over it a
white silk scarf, on which is a sprink-
ling of gilt. Make the entire wall back
of this shelf a mass of green. of trail
ing vines and delicate ferns. On the
shelf proper place jugs of cut glass
or those in which white is the prevail
ing tint, and in them fill to overhowing
white asters or white yellow chrysan-
themumS
If by luck there should be an open
a mass of green. in which golden rod
and OK eyed daisies are massed, Civ
ing also to the broad hearth veritable
sNard of leaves of every shade
If the mantel is one in which there
are a series of shelves, then the struc-
tural lines can be traced out with vines,
and on the shelves or in the recepta-
Giles vases of white and yellow flowers
The chandelier should be twined with
green, and from the top white satin
ribbon four inches wide carried to the
four corners of the ceiling, gracefully
tWined with a single vine of smilaX
Use green lavishly at every point, as
bouquets, baskets and charming bits of
loose foliage and blossoms for tables,
hanging shelves and the like.
Over doors that are poled and cur
tanned, or windows that are draped,
big branches are exceedingly decorat-
i've, particularly those of the young
silver leaf maple. which if ahundantly
used is exceedingly ornamental. Cor
ners of rooms are often novel feature,
made so by the grouping of sweet s1neI-
ling shrubs. corn stalks. cedar branches
or ferns of a coarser growth This is
particularly applicable to the halls.
These green effects should reach the
ceiling, being nassed at the bottom
and growing lighter in character as
they approach the top. The big hall
with the stairway offer possibilities if
it is one of any size. Branches of any
sort of green can be used. however
small the space. In many country
homes there is generally an ungainly
stove for the winter use, which for
reasons is left there at all seasons of
the year. To make this a presentable
object. around this black body can be
given some trailing vines like those of
the woodbine or Japanese ivy, whose
leaves are big and of dark shade in
green. AT the bottom the same leaves
will do duty il only well massed to-
gethar If this receptacle can boast of
fiat top then a jug of gray pottery,
large in size, viii prove a, splendid bit
of ornamentation. if filed with wild
flowers of every kind, the idea being
that combination of tones are neces-
sary to make this unsightly object q
charm.
AS for the stairway. nothing is more
decorative than ferns of the larger and
coarsar growth. These can be well
grouped on the newell post and balus-
trade, so as to cover entirely the wood.
by the aid Of a thin cord the color of
the baluster. On the wide landing can
be a setting of India rubber plants,
fan-like ferns, Towering shrubs, o.
flowers in ornamental jardinierss,
which. of course. adds to this interest
ing scheme.
Perhaps of all rooms that figure at a
wedding function, the collation. is often
the one more observed, and so greater
pains is taken to make it novel and
attractive. especially if there are given
two tables. that of the bride and
bridesmaid forming the center.
The brides table should stand direct
Iy in the middle of the room. To the
clever hostess, who is always on hand
with we'll equipped linen, the danask
for this scheme should be a plain cen
ter. the design lying chiefly in the Dor
der decoration For the center there
may be spread a wide lace CT Hontton
make, which can run the entire length
of the tablecIoth. or else a large xauare
of fine linen, worked deliberately in