Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-27
DESKS FOR M
New Designs with Pretty Fittings I
Delight the Eye

New Designs with Pretty Fittings to
Delight the Eye.
Desks for women's rooms and family sit
ting rooms are superseded Tor the time In
popular fancy by the low writing table,
small enough to be moved about in accord
ance with the light and the writer's con
venience. Stout, all-over blotters of suit
able size and handsomely mounted in old
French brocade edged with gilt gimp or with
silk and worsted tapestry are used as porta-
BILE tops, and all the usual desk appliances
are fitted up to match. The paper and en-
velope holder, portfolio, memorandum book,
pen rack, stamp and pencil case and small,
UNDER ock-and-key casket, all framed in
oividually in the ivory tinted stuff outlined
in gilt, form an especially planned outfit
that looks more feminine than the regulation
either-sex desk and has a Marie Antoinette
suggestion that accords we'll with light
tinted curtains and beribboned summer-day
1ummeries.
A generous sized blotter and kindred
equipments SO mounted and all ready for
packing away and taking to the country
costs $25. The patterns Of tapestry used are
in small figures or flowers of Louis XVI
design, subdued rose color, shades of ochre,
ecru and a very sparse intersprinkling of
pale blues, chocolate browns and tea colors.
For very costly bindings real cloth Of gold
is used, and for people with aesthetic lean
ings the old linen taffetas. admirable set
tings for silverttopped hand blotter or seal
ing wax holder. No woman's writing outfit
is regarded as complete without a photo
graph holder or one OF those 4x5-inch
triplex easel frames made to hold three OIL
more likenesses. A man may be supposed
successfully to conduct correspondence
without the counterfeit image of his near.
est or dearest friend looking at him in the
act, but every woman is believed to need
such inspiration, and these new tapestry
desk fittings provide amply for it.
Certain householders able to crafty theiI
liking for something new in library fittings
have had the whole top of their library cen.
ter table covered with a white
blotter. bordered heavily in the rare. old
world tapestry, and the effect is unique ant
tasteful.
Another novelty in summer house decora.
tion is to have a group of celebrated English
and French beauties mounted On medallion.
shaped frames OF old linen taffeta. TIL,
frames are padded and contrived In q dainty
oval that sets off the old print likeness and
patterns suitable to the subject are chosen
Frames of this sort have a value all thei
own and are admirably suited to a bee
hambe fitted up with French chintz dra'
peries or furnished in the light willow and
bamboo cane furniture 30 popular for coun.
try houses. They are rare and ornate
enough. however. to chime in even with
choice drawing room furniture, and, OWNS
to the variety Of the patterns and the golt
and silver threads employed in the texture
are by no means inexpensive. The fashion.
able woman who likes to affect fancy worl
for an hour or two OF a morning on a sum
mer hotel piazza now has a work bag mad,
Of old-tSme linen tafeta or costly brocade
The music enthusiast has her portfolio cast
made of the dainty obsolete-looking stuff
and tied with variegated ribbon to match tn,