The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-10-30
orb PRINTS IN cRs1r DEMANB.


Their Are Used for Decorating Lamp Shades,
shopping RaEs, 80.
Old prints show out IN new and popular guiss
this season, and have develoDed q value apart
from their soft tones and apt illustration. Old
time Paris and London journals with frontis-
| pieces and fashion plates worth having are
bought mp eagerly by the Importers agents.
especially those issues that were current as long
aEb as 1903 and thereabouts. The prints are
cut out and let In on silk and satin surfaces TO
be used FOR decorative fancy work. or else are
framed In burnt wood or stueco work frames.
and nuns singly or in medallion groups
Of three and five. for walls and cabinet
adornInont. Screens are made Of them,
each panel composed Of illustrations Of a cer-
tain era. and one or two old prints are certain
to be a main feature of the latest type OF lamp
shade. Amateur workers. who have deft fingers
aud the wit and eXactnoss to carry out their
own designs make use OF tho prints in such
novel ways as please them best. but the ma
jority get together the requisite number OF
prints and carry them 70 some shade or screen
maker who can introduce them In the right
position and set them of with appropriate
surroundings.
New York shopkeebers who are suspected OF
having an accumulation OF old-time books and
journals on hand are besleRed these days by
an onset OF old-print seekers. and chests and
| stowaway trunks are ransacked for the espe-
cial sporting pictures or gay-tinted %frontis-
piece that some member of the family may re-
| member to have seen during q former search
of effects. The early number OF the first
| American fashion sheets and illustrated quar-
| tories and monthlies are also being unearthed
| from long packed boxes and their most availa-
BILE treasures made use OF. but stray fragments
Of La Belle Assemble. the Dublin Monthly Mt
seam and Ackeynan's Repository, IL pos
sessed of q print or two, 60 like
hot cakes, while the purchasers eagerly
| pick out the pages they want and throw
the rest away. Old brocades and rare
pieces oftapestry figured conspicuously in f6te
day gifts last season. and this year the prints
have favor. For work boxes. the stlff silk
panels OF framed opera bags and shopping
neutral tint arc used. framed in with minute
spangled or corded guimpe, or. q fine outlining
Of pbroid,ory that finishes the ssdge, OF the
attract too much notice from the print itself.
These prints are the lkenesses of noted bellies
eiaborately coiffed hair and bejewelied arms
and fingers; n mantle. tippet, or fan gives
fhniiCieagth likeness. the grand danes deli
cately sandalled foot peeps out from skirts
linn or skinny or bonounced. according to the
which Is six sided. has two such old prints let
I III VII oDIDSliO UhlltlN dIll Iduicu "lbA y
darker tinting.. Fringe a finger deep Of twisted
gold thread finishes the edge, Another, lamp
shade seSTsss eI inc s a ne sn ns eon n5e olq Ro op1e1s i St st hs9s
dress. The groundwork OF the lamp shade Is
delicate ivory and there Is an eyeletting OF dark
day eyes these fashionable danes of q century
ago look much as though they had walked
jnmas. but their hair, is no elaborate. and
their hats and parasols 50 bedizzened as
o S9 a Deh1Se d fMs f meant for A moansins ee on = Sffip Pe
scnrfs round about their. bare shoulders. me
dallions hanging from girdles that define the
very short waist, and headdresses that sugges
berufhed ,nightcaps with, q noseEay on the
frill. All of these prints have been colored by
hand. In pretty blues. ,lavenders and green's
srsms s II nd STlsnT: sl yeps ~o sSSw o,t nnac ana rae e5.
that trail in front and behind. and have to be
held up to admit 81 the wearer's movements.
Spirited old prints. representing fishermen
bibbcrs are used for decorating menE access
sories. BY far the oldest prints are those de-
plotting fat old friars land ho1nely peasants en-.
gagged at some religious observance, and those
showing the women OF conventional life water.
maybe sitting idle in stiff-stilted attitude. with
a poll parrot nearby or. a very woodeny look
ing, night-capped baby in n cradle beside theil
seem. to have neglected no phase of, life. ant
eheo esei from. eWNiii"uSi makins their W fancy ye Sifti
and belongings they can have something t.
and the sentimontally inclined.
Certain of these old book frontispieces. nov
destined for practical uses. have brought prices
uuite out of proportion to their size and oriRi
nal value. as is usual with anything that comes
to be a fad. Those who have these very OLE
periodicals In their possession can readily re-
alize on them. for the prop sietors Of the Rif
shops and, knickknaGk and embroidery store:
old-time portrait silhouette is being put t.
service in the. same way. Some of these
bought from old house collections sell for az
much as SIS and SO. They are used in silvel
gray surfaces and outlined with black and Rolt
guimpe interspersed with spangles. By the
form. as large as q dime or one-cent piece, anC
Of expensive quality. are, set into the ,patterI
OF tapestry covered and embroidered coucl
cushions. They glitter and look handsome
but do away entirely with the idea Of soothing
and comfort that is the primary reason for
pillows existence.