The Jersey City news., 1902-08-29

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than a comfortably furnised corner OF
the veranda. When conditions will per-
nit it is a simply arranged indoor apart
ment ssConditions" may be translated
sufficient space. Many suburban famil-
les own rustic summer-house, tent Oh
marquee, and this they use during the
hot weather for a general lounging-room
Only furniture of the simplest and most
durable qualities should be selected for
outdoors. and to secure pieces that COM
bine serviceability with pieturesqueness
is a more difficult matter than might be
supposed, says the Washington Star.
Wicker or willov chairs have long
been favored, for they are open enough
to allow the air to circulate freely about
the body, sufficiently pliable to be shaped
to fit the figure and strong enough TO
bear very considerable strain. Ex-
posure to inclement weather Goes not in
lure willow furniture. which IS something
which cannot be said even for the bark
covered. rough hewn rustic sets. When
woven chairs are dnpresentable they may
be stained or enamelled to look almost 9s
nice as new ones.
Green and red, the popular colors Of
the season, may be easily applied to an
old set of furniture. The colors can be
selected from the card of any dealer IN
household paints. No special skill is re-
ouired in using stains or enamels. Cane.
chairs are now a fad. They are made
of the split withes of rattan or bamboo
which are woven basket fashion or laid
in rows to form compact cover for a
slender wooden frame. Cane chairs are
q craze which we owe to our cousins, the
Britains. English country families first
made them the fashion, and certain
American women who lately basked in
English hospitality have taken up the
cane furniture with great enthusiasm.
The closely woven cane furniture has
colored vertical and horizontal stripes,
which gives its surface startling plaid
ed appearance. Dark brown and ochre
is one combination of colors, red and
green another, light and dark green a
third. Mating rugs are laid over the
floor Of the room in which the cane chairs
are arranged, strictly neutral shade
being required to harmonize with their
striking Surfaces. Curtains of Indian
stuffs combine well with the tints of
cane and of mating. The fabrics may
be purchased in almost every dull shade
from ecru to red. The summer sitting
room should be furnished with the utmost
simplicity. Especially must this be SO
when bright colored cane is adopted, for
it will otherwise jar refined taste.
The light cane chairs, finished in one
shade and supplied with open seats and
open backs are very cool and pretty.
Most of these are armed affairs, although
very effective designs are shown in low
individual patterns having scroll-iike
open work support for the back.
Closely woven fine cane with interlaeed
withes Of large sizes is worked into arm
chairs. Most of their frames are modelled
on the styles of a century, ago. They
make a quaint appearance and have the
advantage of being much more comfort
able than many more modern designs.
The fact is that cane chairs are not
really new. Furniture made of woven
rushes was common in England long ago..
Before carpets were used even in palaces
rushes were strewn over floors as a pro-
lection for the poorly shod feet. 1t was
not remarkable, therefore, that the thrift
ty peasants should learn to plait and
weave the flexible rushes into covers for
stools and chairs. Rush bottomed chairs
were found in almost all Kitchens a cen
fury ago.
Nothing betrays the careless woman
sooner than her nails, and nothing shows
refinement better than the same posses
sion, says the "Mail and Express"
Hands with beautiful nails always please
and the eye dwells on them with a pc
culiar satisfaction, for in sense nails
are veritable jewels which decorate the
fingers while performing nails great
office-that of protection. Don't cut
your nails. If they are rounded off with
file every day they will not need to be
cut with the scissors, which is injurious.
In order to keep the crescent at the base
well formed the skin should be pushed
back from the nail with the towel. or, if
necessary, with blunt orange stick every
Time the ududS are YaS1eu. Line OfduSe
stick is excellent also for cleaning the
finger nails after they have been soaked
for few minutes in warm water con
tanning little lemon juice.
If the nails show tendency to brit
tleness, an occasional rubbing with warm
olive oil after removing them from the
lemon water and an application Of cold
cream at night will prove beneficial.
Polish with a bit of chamois leather;
neither paste or powder should be used.
Powder makes the nails brittle, and
paste gives an undesirable high coioring.
After using the file to round the finger
nails in shape it is well to use emery
paper to remove any roughness that re-
mains.
Nails are really kind Of skin. hey
are skin formations, being merely an al
tered kind Of cuticle, small half moons
at ends of the nails where the skin prop
er leaves off and the horny protection be-
gins These white curves are by some.
called new nails. They are, in fact the
earliest portion Of nail growth, being the
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