The times., 1898-06-19
FOR COTTAGE LAMPS.
Cartridge Paper With Magazine
Pictures Used for Shades.

Fashions in lamp shades vary with al
most as graceful rapitfity as the modes of
a woman's wardrobe. The smart Sum
mer cottage is now noted for is severely
simple but none the less charming. cart
ridge paper shades that the mistress has
manufactured herself, at an outlay of
about 30 cents each. or purchased for 50
or SO apiece. Just the simple paper used
as wall covering is utilized for dressing
the lamps but the thinnest quality is de-
voted to this purpose and the five colors
in which the shades are wrought are old
rose. oak yellow, stone brown, sage green
and regimental gray. A lamp flame
screened behind any one of these tints of
light weight cartridge paper sheds forth
the dim religious light that women love
and that is a blessing and balm 10 tired
eyes.
Now, when she wants a cheap, pretty
shade, the resourcefuI woman merely
buys at the paper hangers a yard and
a quarter of the material above mention
cd, cuts out wide strip on the bias, half
circle. folds this about q wire Empire
frame and pastes up the one seam neatly
To make perfect job, she binds top and
bottom of shade with a narrow strip of
thin, smooth paper, in a darker or lighter
tone than the cartridge, adjusting the
binding with paste.
This is the sort of shade that is TO be
had for 30 cents. Something more troub-
lesome and decorative, but scarcely more
expensive. is the laying down of the bias
piece of cartridge paper quite fiat and
carefully cutting out square or oblong
pieces and then filing in these holes with
one of Gibson's, Phil Mays. Nicholson $
or Abbeys black and white drawings
| One woman, whose husband treasures
| the sayings of the author of Soldiers
Three, made in one afternoon, from sage
| green paper and a proof of Nicholson s
| clever portrait, handsome Kipling shade
| for the lamp on the study table of her
| better half Inspired by the compliments
| this shade received, she followed it up by
| cutting out the portraits of four of our
most prominent naval commanders from
| a newspaper supplement, and setting
| them into a regimental blue shade for the
| nursery lamp.
| So much for the cheap shade Lamps
| in parlor and library get no more expen-
| sive type of paper and are mounted on
| the Empire frames, but the thing to use
| in their ornamentation are fine old colored
| prints. woman who has the right SORT
| of knowledge about prints, and enthusi-
| asm over her lamp shade, will haunt the
| bric-a-brac shops and not finch at any
| price the dealer asks
| AS high as $S5 a zealot will go for g
scrap of colored paper to glorify he1
| drawdrawing-room shade and call it g
| bargain at that. These treasures she
| gives usually to a professional shade
maker for proper setting in its proper
| frame, and when the shade, after a sea
! sons use, grows faded and dingy, she
| cuts out the precious print and has il
| set in a new lamp covering.
Map shades are really no novelty. but
brown wrapping paper shade, with ge
| ographical view of Cuba on one side an(
| the Philippines on the other, cut out
| square from the cheap maps sold on tht
| streets are among the new dresses fol
lamps that amateurs make. Heavy orowr
| wrapping paper can be charmingly utiliz
| ed for candle shades landifdecorated only
with elaborate coats of. arms, done in wa
ter coors and gliding or in colored inks
These are cut out, pastedIUp and placed
| on wire Empire frames. as directed fol
1.-The lamps. while in nthe shops where
frames are for sale they also sell tiny
clasps. in the form Of feur De lis. that holt
10 ''qht paper cylinder firmly to the wir
frame.