The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-13
for 1Molnen

Was she in clover? says Dorothy Mad
dox in the Philadelphia "Inquirer.s Wen
l confess l thought SO the first time !
crossed the threshold Of the prettiest fem
mime nuggery I nave ever been in.
A Clover bedroom. Now, hasn't that
a fascinating sound? Two %colors, green
and white. and blended together in a maze
of harmonies as only green and white can
be-
Net a cold, dead white, blu one as
creamy as the waxen petal of a magnolia.
When the room was first thought of. the
question was where to find somebody who
could tint the walls and scatter them with
clover leaves.
The right man was found. He can al
ways be found, bless you. If one has money
enough to search for him. Nothing could
have been more ideal than the background
he gave the ~clovers, a pale lemony tone in
oil and a whirlwind of clover leaves, the
painter a~rtfully dropping here and there a
four leaf clover.
Great was the fun afforded by these
lucky leaves. Never a woman passed the
portals of the clover bed room that she
did not insist upon finding at least one
-four leaf before she took her departure.
When the floor came to be considered
pale green denim was selected. What
should we nave done without this same
denim? 1t may not be wearable, but 1t is
aetheticism personifed, and that is what
is needed in color scheming.
Silky haired Angoras were scattered be-
tween a few rare ~orientals. The floor,
when completed, was a perfect picture. 1t
must have been a lark to have gotten to-
gether the furnishings. Take the bed, for
instance. Any woman with a grain OF ar
tistic perception would have gloated over
1t.
It was just a plain affair in the begin
ming, but when its white paint had dis
appeared beneath a coat of green enamel.
the great brass knobs had been FURNISHED
and it's fripperies were in place, the bed
was a poem.
There was a spread, a fat bolster, a head
canopy of white muslin and some needle
woman had ~sprinkled clover leaves over
spread and canopy and bolster case. The
case was tied into great rufus at each end,
with green satin ribbons and ribbons in
bow knots and streamers adorned the
canopy All the ruffles were lace edged,
and under the muslin cleaned the satiny
lustre of some fabric, a delicate apple
green.
A low broad dresser, very quaint of
shape, a little slipper rest, a desk and a
tiny rocker were in birds eye maple, each
article being finished in brasses.
And gay in sagey green velvet cushions
and sagey satin ribbons and a fine cover
ing of enamel were bits of furniture that
were once upon a time d~isreputable look
ing as the shabbiest of wicker.
Some women are SO lucky. They never
plan for anything that people do not bob
up on all sides and offer to help them cut.
This was the case with the girl who de-
termined to have a clover BEDROOM. She
moi only had nimble fingers to decorate
her bed draperies, but somebody else con-
tributed covers of finest linen, clover
splashed for dresser and table.
When l came to the windows I ex-
claimed:
who on earth was angelic enough to
fix your sash curtains?'"
Think of it'll Misty Grapes of bolton
cloth and a perfect shower of cioverleaves
scattered over them. 1 nave only, in my
long acquaintance with sash curtains, seen
one other pair like these, the flowers used
being wisteria.
Let me see. Long curtains swept the
floor OF each side of the windows, cur
tains in cream white with broad stripes
of pale green satin, there were the oldest
casts in green pottery, too. lots of it. the
levliest palms, foreign trinkets on the
dresser, and-there 1 might go on indefn-
ftely.
Perhaps some day you or I may try fei
such a room, and if we do let US hope that
we shall be able to find as many persons
interested in US and our scheme as the
Girl in Clover"
A most bewildering display of silk is ex-
hibited, says Harper,,s Bazaar" 1t is evil
dent that foulard silks are to be more
fashionable than the t~affetas. The dark
ground foulards with the white figures
nave been worn for several years. and yet
the same idea is repeated, and with such
variations as to make them seem
quite new. The Liberty foulards are
perhaps the newest. They first came
out from Paris last year in the
imported gowns, but they were seen
enough over here to make them too
popular. This Liberty foulard is a very
soft material, and yet has considerable
body. 1t is a much cooler fabric for mid
summer wear than taffeta, and some of
the new shades and designs are exquisite.
1lt ia 4dodlOACd puma " VI WIN Ou
the dark ground is going to be immensely
fashionable, but the very fine dots are the
smartest, and there is one new and very
smart design-a light ground with a dark
dot in the centre of which is a light dot.
Among the ready made oular gowns
the circular skirts are the most noticeable,
and these are trimmed with bands of lace
insertion from three to four inches wide.
The principal note in spring and summer
millinery is the excessive use of tulle and
chiffon, but tulle is used much more than
chiffon. Very few of the spring hats are
made entirely of straw. They almost all
have the brims of these two materials.
When the tulle is used it is put on in soft
folds, one fold owe rthe other. The chif-
fon is sewed into myraids of tiny tucks or
puffings. This looks very soft against the
straw crown, and, as a rule, is becoming
The shapes are mostly of the toque and
turban variety-nothing very exaggerated,
and the colorings quite subdued. Every
shade conceivable of light gray and tan.
white. Among all these neutral tints stand
out very sharply the purple. green, and
blue hats, very smart in design; worn
with gowns to correspond, they viii look
far better thar they do in the show case
Oddly enough, some tulae hats are in
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