Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-09-24
WALL PAPER LAMP SHADES.
A Pretty One Can BE Made for Thirty
Cents.

The smart cottage is now noted for its
severely simple, but none the less charm
ing, cartridge paper shades that the mis-
tress has manufactured herself, at an out
lay of about thirty cents each.
Just the simple paper used as wall COW
ering is utilized for dressing the lamps
but the thinnest quality is devoted to this
purpose, and the five colors in which the
shades are wrought are old rose, oak yell
low, stone brown, sage green and regimen
tai gray.
A lamp fame screened behind any one
or these tints of lightweight cartridge
paper sheds forth the dim religious light
that women love and that is blessing
and balm to tired eyes.
now when she wants a pretty, cheap
shade, the resourceful woman merely BUYS
at the paper hangers yard and a quar-
ter of the material above mentioned, cuts
out wide strip on the bias, half circle
folds this about wire empire frame and
pastes up the one seam neatly
To make a perfect job. she binds the TOP
and bottom of the shade with a narrow
strip of thin, smooth paper, in a darker
or lighter tone than the cartridge, adjust
ing the binding with paste.
This is the sort of shade that is to be
had for thirty cents Something more trou-
lleso and decorative but scarcely
of the bias piece of cartridge paper quite
fiat and carefully cutting out square or
oblong pieces and then filling in these lines
with one of Gibsons, Phil Mays or Alb
bey's black and white drawings.
One woman, whose husband treasures
the saying of the author of Soldiers
Three. made in one afternoon, from sage
green paper and a proof of Nicholson s
clever portrait, a handsome Kipling shade
for the lamp on the study table of her bet
ter half. Inspired by the compliments this
shade received, she followed it up by cut
ting out the portraits of four of our most
prominent naval commanders from a news
paper supplement and setting them into a
regimental blue shade for the nursery
lamp.
So much for the cheap shade. Lamps in
parlor or library get no more expensive
type of paper and are mounted on the en-
pire frames, but the things to use in their
ornamentation are fine old gold prints A
woman who has the right sort Of knowl-
edge about prints, and enthusiasm over her
lamp shade, will haunt the bric-a-brac
shops.
These treasures she gives usually to a
professional shade maker for proper set
ting in its proper frame, and when the
shade, after seasons use, grows faded
and dingy, she cuts out the precious print
and has 1t set in new lamp covering
Map shades are no novelty but q brown
wrapping paper shade, with a geographical
view of Cuba on one side and the Philip
pines on the other, cut out square from
the cheap maps sold on the streets, is
among the new dresses for lamps that
amateurs make.
Heavy brown wrapping paper can be
charmingly utilized for candle shades and
decorated only with elaborate coats of
In colored inks. These are cut out, pasted
up and placed on wire empire frames. as
directed for the lamps, while in the shops
where frames are for sale they also sell
tiny clasps. in the form of feur de lis, that
hold the light paper cylinder firmly to the
wire frame.