The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-22
Aluminium the Metal
 For the Up-to-Date Kitchen

Reproductions of antique patterns are very familiar in the silverware of the day and especially that intended for table use. Old English, French, German and Ital- ian designs are utilized for sugar bowls. pitchers, tea pots and other articles, and most recent of all are reproductions of old Irish patterns, one example of which is seen in the sterling silver sugar bowl which is ornate and attractive enough t, suit the most exacting of modern chate- laines.
 new idea in the pincushion line is in the shape of brownish doll with ears. about four or five inches high, wrapped m a SKY blue kimono. on the wadded hips or which are stuck long military pins. ris- ing on either side of the little brown sh face. In front. a black square apron made of a piece of cardboard covered with silk stands as a flat pincushion. round which shine pins heads, while in the center the housewife pocket Is filled with basket of needles, a few buttons studs, etc. A thimble or reel of cotton is slipped in a miniature nun suspended from the neck by black ribbon and sery ing also as cushion.
 Another pleasing notion introduced as a novelty, but in reality revival of a fa- vorite style, is q dolls head, fair or dark. set on with some uncommon Directoire hat. and stuck up in the center of a square and somewhat fiat cushion, intend- ed for sticking the pins. several of which are occasionally arranged as a beaded cord glittering along the huge brims of hats. wreath of petals in the same silk as the cushion encircles the neck of the heads. giving the impression of a calyx inclosing a delicate flower.
 There are new styles in bedsteads as in everything else in the furniture way and the most recent addition to the list Is of dark oak. the head and foot boards al- most of one height divided into three panels. The central panel is railed like d chair back and the other panels are draped with fancy cretonne shirred top and bottom and corresponding to the gen eral color scheme of the room. The con- tract between the dark wood and the gay toned panels is decidedly effective and in an apartment where dark furniture Is used and the hangings are of cretonne or chintz such a bedstead fits In admirably.
 Clusters of ragged chrysanthemums and branches of yellow to red tinted Japanese maple foliage arranged in large, odd shaped jugs or vases of brown or green ware are very SulIaDlo LdDie ucCOEdllOnS for this time of year. Likewise dahlias, which were never more attractive or fashionable than this season, and varie- gated foliage.
 For polishing furniture and rubbing hard wood floors old stockings will be found very useful.
 The feeling which evidences itself so strongly in the home decorations of to- day for plain, or at any rate self-colored wall papers. expresses itself also in the steadily growing favor with which plain colored fabrocs for curtains and hanRinRs are regarded. Powered chintzes and taf- fetas. printed llnenes and tapestries of softly or brilliantly inter- woven colorings as the case may be, hold their own. but when 1t comes to the question of curtains of richer texture, it will be found in prob ably the majority of cases that the deco rator Of the present day relies for his emect on broadly massed color relieved with ts'rderings of some carefully thought out design. Restraint in ornament is a