Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-03-09
What the Shops Show in New
Furnishings.
A CRETO NNE ROOM DESCRIBED
Where Ingenuity and Taste Find
Ample Expression.
GOOD RESULTS ACHIEVED


mer dresses for windows and furniture
The same general trend of decoration
usually prevails for both, and wall papers
may be likewise included-that is, when
large designs are the favorites in one of
these branches it goes without saying that
popular taste will demand similar en-
bellishment for the others. He who runs
may read that large designs are what the
wonenkind of 1901 will prefer in their silk
and cotton gowns for the summer cam
paign, and one may be equally sure, even
If the occasion is not yet forced upon our
attention, that the real designs in Gre
tonne and chintz are not the ones that
fashion will call for when she goes a-shop-
ping later for her summer home in town
or country. If, therefore, there are new
rooms to be fitted or old ones to be refur-
nlshed one may be sure that a large-pat-
termed fabric will be chosen, no matter If
ones privatespredilection is for just the op-
poslte, for one does not like to be behind
the times in worldly gear" whether for
he" person or her house.
The pastel shades, or those which border
on them, are shown in some of the new Gre
tonnes and even In the inexpensive ones,
100 Indeed, the same fact is noticeable
In these cotton furniture coverings as in
wall papers, that some of the prettiest de-
signs come in the cheap grades while the
coloring is usually good though some
tunes little more crude, and that time
will chasten.
Sash Draperies.
Ioday have seen large assortment of
sash goods, many charming to look at, and
the prices from 8 to Is cents per yard.
There Is certainly no excuse but the frank
one of lack of taste for rooms not looking
cool and pretty this coming summer, when
offered from which to select. The large de-
signs prevail, with the higher-priced
goods, and many have Morris patterns-or
what are classed as those-and equally at
tractlve: yellow and green and green and
duil pink are often combined In these An
extremely dainty piece was of pale yellow
and pastel blue, in so-caIed English design.
and a bed room or sitting room furnished
with 1t could be made delightful as to
looks. OF the very large figures, one of
great pink roses on dull gray blue with
some white flowers relieving the pink was
especially good.
Good Example.
The same coloring, and much the same
pattern, in more expensive goods have
been used in a large bed room in a West
End house in town, where couch, easy
chairs and rockers have frilled covers. and
are extremely pretty. If one wants an old
fashioned room, blue and brown cretonne
in most antique design will help to give the
desired result, and the cost will be 6 cents
for each yard. 1t is not always that such
pretty goods can be found at these very
low prices, but these advance spring goods
seem to promise them for this season at
least. Blue in some shade enters into MANY
or most of the prettiest, in spite of the fact
that green Is so much used. but some of
them with yellow or pink combine well
with green.
HOme-Made Covers.
IL is surprising how well ,,,,, 1>a
covered at home by any one who has some
idea of fitting. The goods can be pinned on
and cut out on the chair ITSELF then a
French seam made and it Is done, for such
covers are preferably loose ones, as in such
cheap material one would not wish to pay
FOR regular upholsterng. Box-plaited friIls.
either narrow, set on a deep gathered
nounce, or wide, stitched on the wrong side
and turned over without heading make the
best finish for these loose covers.
The Bed Dressing.
About bed the chintz may be managed
in several ways. A valance may be made
reaching to the floor, and a white spread
hung over it edged with lace, fringe or ruff
f1e. The French chintz spreads with ruffie
of wavy plain dimity, or the Allendale, with
the lace or fringe, make the simplest and
most easily Numbered OF any spreads.
If more color is liked about bed, then the
spread may be Of cretOnne either hanging
over valance of the same or, reversing the
former combination, the valance may be of
white. Even with bed, when the spread
is tucked in on either side the cretonne ia
good, but to most eyes the effect Is prettier
II the pillows are In white cases rather than
matching the cretOnne.
For Pleasant Dreams.
1 have lately seen very old mahogany
bed in empire style, with cover of Gre
tonne in very broad stripes put on SO they
go across the bed, with pink, crimson and
green in the large flower design, and white
pillows and scarf. the combination being
very agreeable to the eye. Whenever there
is space in a room a couch should he sim,
flarly covered, and if that cannot be man
aged. a window seat or ottoman should
be used, for in nothing is cretonne more
effective than in such mass of color as
these give. ...
Old-fashioned shapes In chairs are most
desirable also, and at auctions one some
times can find them. the winged, sleepy
hollow or Boston rocker. any of which re-
stored to polite life by a fresh. CAV cover
Is charming In bed room or summer cot
tage living room-for parlors do not exist
in summer existence at least.
Handy Box Shelf.
Sometimes in a bed room there is no good
place for a bookcase and no table space to
be spared then an odd shelf or two across
utilized for nothing else can be most at
tractive as well as most useful These can
be covered with cretonne to match the
room and really be made feature of its
decoration. The more unusual the place for
books the more enticing they seem at times.
and even several can be used in one room
II there are odd hooks to accommodate
them.
Little Odds and Ends.
A pretty conceit for bed rooms is the
waste basket made Of pasteboard, covered
with cretonne, which folds up compactly.
and is thus easy to paste If desired. Any
odd one looks well in room, but If covered
to match the other furnishing is much
prettier Of course. These can be ordered
where such work Is done, and if you take
some OF your own goods it may be used.
all these little touches are what make the
success OF any room, and to have a Gre
tonne room at it's best a quantity of the
goods must be taken. Used sparingly II is
much less effective than when everything
possible is covered with 1T.
Use Plenty OF STUFF.
This was recently impressed upon me by
seeing room half finished, with only part
of the covers and hangings In place, and
later when that amount was almost doubled