The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1900-11-02
WINDOW DRAPERIES.
Graceful and Easy Ways of Dress
ing the Windows for the
Winter.

NO room lacks in charm if its win
are the adequate and inexpensive ma
terials suitable for winter draperies
that woman is hardly to be forgiven
if she fails to expend wisely all funds
she purposes to lay out on fresh cur
tains. If the allowance for autumn
renovation is not very generous and
the householder yearns after a gen
uine artistic effect she must refuse
even to consider any of the cheap
cotton-flled damasks and imitation
oriental stuffs that blaze with crude
colors, but go back to the simple and
cheap denim, cheese cloth, soft dull
colored India silk and dotted cream
white Madras.
For IS cents yard one can buy
really lovely limitations of French and
English cretonnes and chintz, denim
in solid, rich reds. blues and greens
or relieved by stripes and figures and
a durable and agreeably figured cot
ton goods known as upholsterer's lin
ing. This last is printed with pat
terms of big white empire wreaths,
or small diamond design, on
ground of forest green. Pompadour
red or mandarin yellow and if, with
these stores to draw from, window
cannot be dressed charmingly for the
output of $1.20 per window then the
dresser thereof has no right to feel
herself an astute or successful person.
Simple, graceful lines of drapery
and good color is what sets a window
off to the greatest advantage, and
four suggestions are sketched in or
der to give anyone of an engineering
mind some ideas as to which is attain
able with inexpensive upholstery fab
RIGS. One of the pictures shows
how in a room that boasts four sun
admitting windows the curtains can
be arrayed to temper the glare and
convey to the interior of the room
most delightful air of inviting cozi-
ness, says the st. Louis Republic.
This fashion of hanging a window
is properly called cottage drapery"
and warm red denim is one of the
best goods for the purpose. A single
width of the heavy fabric is enough
for the straight fall at right and left
edges at the sides and necessitates
hens only at tops and bottom of the
three-yard lengths. The hem at the
bottom should be about three inches
deep and at the top it is merely a
casing through which to run slen-
der brass rod on which the curtains
are gathered and from which they
hang. A founce of denim from IA to
Is inches in depth is then made,
strung by small brass rings to larg-
er rod than the first and fastened to
fall in a fiounce lambrequin over the
top of the curtains proper. The ends
of the flounce rod should be finished |
off with small brass balls, and If a |
touch of extra oFnamentation is de-
sired the founce may be made of req
denim that is striped or figured.
Exactly the same effect as this can
be gained by using single-faced velours
and lining the plain surface with red
and this season a good use is
made of dull red or green burlaps.
Both of these materials cost more,
however, than the denim.
Now for room where curtains are
necessary, but from which no light
can wisely be excluded, charming
of drapery is possible
with cream Madras, cheese cloth or
even snowflake that is striped in good
colors. This scarf decoration, while
It gives a window an deliberately gar
nished appearance, is too transparent
to shut off any desired daylight.
liberal amount of material is required
In the make of the full-crossed scarfs,
edged with a coarse cream point de
Paris lace that costs nine cents
yard Two widths of wide goods is
necessary to give a graceful ampli-
tude to every side of the high looped
yarniture, and small brass rods are
again most fittingly employed here.