The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-26
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house. and the styles are as numerous AZ
the uses to which they are lnle2aep.
There is the tall, folding screen, oAte ohiy
to be had in japanese goods, asssui ~
dining room or morning room 70 cus ei
the fraueht of air from a delicate or
aged person, or to permit the room 10 pe
aired while the screen protected lhaiN-
idual is present. In winter time the iall
screen tends off the northeast blast that
somehow finds its way through the pay
window. in line with the open fireplale..
when the mercury ranges in the uineties
tbezsaue screen is folded around the easy
chair or lounge of the invalid, while the
raised windows and open doors permit
what air is current to travel from room
to room. SO improving the temperature OF
the apartment without any peril 10 Inc
valetudinarian.
The bedroom screen is desirable waen
more than one person occupies a roem- y
IS placed near the washstand ana IS par
ticularly welcome, when by the sudden az
vent of unexpected visitors the FANNY are
Obliged to double up While the doWh-
stairs screen is usually covered with
stamped leather, satin or the caarmihs
.Japanese panels on oiled silk or mus.in,
the bedroom screen is generally coNefsu
with cretonne or some cotton materisl
that accords with the wall paper and iur-
niture of the room.
Tapestry screens in elaborate needle
work are not much used. The ladies'
of the family have not so much spare
time to occupy in wool work as forinefis-
What was known as .-pick-up-work may
now be more correctly styled 'lay-down
work" The making of housewives
~
for the soldiers has driven other fancy
work for the nonce from the field
PAPER decorated screens are OCCASION
ally seen. Some leather screens rave
no decoration other than the stanpea
pattern and studding of brass-headea
nails.
Charming little porch or parlor screens
are of bamboo work with open spaces
filled in with panels of shirred SIX run
upon slender brass rods. "torest green
oak is fashionable just now Ihese
screens arc light and airy looking, al
though occasionally not quite substantial
enough to be steady in a blast OF san
air. How often on a hot day does one
wish to sit in the strong draught OF a
sea breeze or hill wind, yet find it i'm
possible to read or write or sew under the
circumstances. without having paper ana
pens. magazine. newspaper or reels OF
cotton blown out of place until regular
occupation becomes impossible Here IS
the province of the low screen. Stana
It about the table at which you work
and Won can proceed comfortably with
writing or sewing.
The -rush-paneled screen is a little
beauty. 1t aceords well with colonial
patterned, rush-bottomed, high-backed
chairs. The style has only two divisions
in the folding screen, just enough 10
make it a convenience stationed to wind
ward of your seat on the piazza.
The five o'clock tea screen has a frame
Of enarneled wood. fitted with rows OF
little brass hooks, on which to hang ones
teacups. The upper portion is paneled
with soft silk. Some screens have panels
of ,eolored glass let into them. These
sho4d be steady on their feet to be OF
any tsse. Indeed, s~teadiness is the most
important consideration in purchasing a
screen.
A London fancy is the picture screen
with panels left vacant for the introdue-
tion of pictures or colored prints. These
are suitable for the nursery or sitting
room. as our American phrase has it.
The photograph folding screen Is well
known in our parlor or sanctum. 1t is
often fashioned of pretty brocade or
English dimiity or cretonne by the young
girl who is clever with her needle toward
Christmas time. It has three. four or
five panels: one end is always higher than
the other by six or seven inches. The
frame is covered either with rows of shall
low pockets, covered with the same ere
tonne or brocade, or, an easier task. the
panels are strapped across with ribbons
or pretty bands of galloon, crossed dia-
mond-wise to hold any small photographs
which are thrust between.
Some girls collect photographs of noted
actors and actresses and completely fill
a photograph screen with the exhibit-a
"Star Ganlbols of celebrities.
1t would be an interesting idea to keep
a panel of your folding screen for pho
tographs of military and naval heroes
whose names are now on all our lips, and
call it the Hobson screen. We cannot look
too often on the visage of brave Admiral
Dewey. and the pictures of Sampson.
Schley, Lieutenant Blue and other nota-
n bANP A1oCA FC q nav LA tAAC ~
The photographs of the family, from
grandpa down to the newest baby, ae-
ceptably fill a family screen, with one
panel reserved for the bosom friends. The
new-fedged graduate of Old Penn,
Princeton, Bryn Mawr or Seminary fills
his or her screen with pictures of fellow
~collegians, capped and gowned reminders
of how such a one looked while deliver
ing his Grafton on Ideals of the Democ-
racy' or DESTINY of the Republic on
last commencement day
Put your picture screen in your trunk
and set it up in the summer quarters.
Now does the summer girl when she
arrives at seashore or mountain or coun-
try yearn for a coat of sunburn, and with
right good will set about to attain it.
And with so much ardor does she go
in its quest that she usually finds herself
at the end of three days with a com
plexion like unto scarlet flannel, and a
nose, to say the least. unbecomingiy rosy.
Then her pursuit for a remedy becomes
as eager as was her erstwhile zeal for
the disease, and in despair she fall back
upon a variety Of remedies, all more or
less ineficacious-
Here, then, are some simple recipes for
cooling lotions for the foolish virgins,
and with some one special formula which