Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-07-03
HOUSE FURNISHING.
Decorative Fabrics In orientnI Cobra md Design Arc Now Largely
 in Demand.

There are those who always are ready to buy a thing that is represented as Imported : They live in the reeollec tion of the lessons their fathers and grandfathers taught them. Women will buy English cut glass that is repre-. sented as imported, and English carpets and German cutlery, and so on ad in- finitum, because their granddaddies did so. They do not realize that we have grown, and that there hardly is any. thing made abroad that is not equally we'll made in this country, says the Upholsserer. We make trash, 10 be sure, but for those who will pay for it the American market affords also the best qualities. The bill at Albany pre- vides for the regulation of advertising of fictitious fire and clearance sales, and for the hundred and one other misrep- resentations, but, over and above it all, it prohibits the merchant from selling American-made gods under the repre- sentation that they are imported. Ne are manufacturing the best cut glass in the world. We are manufacturing silks, dress goods, knit goods. carpets, cotton, cutlery and innumerable other commoditiessin quality of the best, and if this fact was clearly and honestly ex- pressed, that the goods are American, and not imported, so frequently is rep. resented over the counter, the public would soon realize the value of Amer ican manufactures, and the home fac tories would benefit accordingly; for in many instances The good qualities of the American-made articles sold as i'm ported have simply helped to boom the foreign manufacturers, aud the buyer. in the belief that what he or she may have bought is imported. being pleased with the purchase, insists upon sub sequent occasions upon also buying nothing but the imported.1
 There is continued call for some. thing in oriental decorations, and up. holsterv manufacturers have been for tunate in finding so fertile field for these fabrics Many choice effects have been brought out at moderate prices that have stimulated the demand and worked up the trade to great propor tions. The new productions fer fall will see greater variety of oriental fab rics than ever before, ranging all the way from fvesdollar silks to fYe-eentI eottone.
 It is stated that an impermeable fabric is made in Brussels. and that the fabric really is what it's name implies impermeable or impervious-aRa can be sponged off with cold water like a piece of crockery, and come out un- changed. The fabric is made first in very wide mesh, which then is filled in with chrome gelatine, which then is ren. dered insoluble by exposure to the light. The next process is the coating of the fabrics on both sides, boilea with linseed oil or fat varnish. this process being often repeated. The fabric is ther printed in ornamental designs. and is put upon the marker for portieres, win dow shades, cloaks, etc.
 Rugs are the floor covering of the future. Carpets which entirely cover the floor are all very well to that degree that they furnish warmth and softness to the tread, but they are usually a hin- drance rather than a contributing fac tor in the decorative treatment of room.-Buffalo Express.