Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-23
SUMMER CUSHIONS
Comfortable and Dainty Mod
els to Copy.
THE PORTRAIT PILLOWS
NoTABLEs AND THEIR SAYINGS
eEMBRoIDERED.
Fancy Work That Can Be Put on Some
and Simple Ways to Make
Others.

| Written for The Evening Star.
Comfort and cushions always seem to me
| synonymous terms What friend In need
are these cozy comforters! They bolster
! up and rest us and ask no troublesome
| questions the while, but silently admin
| lister just the kind of soothing our over
| strained and overworked nerves and bodies
| require. In their downy depths we can
| hide our faces and our pride if necessary
and weep into them tears of bitterness or
| of joy. On the other hand, when in a
| speculative mood and upon business
| thoughts intent the cushion is often the
| promoter of our most successful schemes
| and the skillful architect of those many
| castles whose home country is Spain
What, again, would tired natures sweet
restorer, blessed sleep, be without the as
sistance of cushion or pillow? So you
see, in the storm and stress of this strenu-
Gus life of ours we all need their support
mentally, morally and physically.
Women being the weaker sex, are sup
posed to be more addicted to the cushion
habit than the men. Still many lords OF
creation" plead guilty to their soft i'm
parchment.
That women are more tickle in their
tastes than men, or, rather have so many
more things over which to show fickleness,
is evidenced again in the fads which are
constantly coming up in the cushion: but,
after all, certain amount of fickleness
gives charm to living. If we were true
year in and year out to the same thing
how dull we should all become!
Nowadays we change our cushions with
the season. Winter dirt and dust from
fires play sad havoc with these perishable
adjuncts. and their renovation, although
often the last, is by no means the least
consideration of the spring cleaning.
What the effective little touches are to
toilet ones cushions are to the drawing
room or whatever place they adorn. Fresh
and dainty, they give touch of feminine
charm all their own. Crushed and faded,
they rob the general effect of half its
grace. In summer a crisp daintiness in
ones surroundings is half the battle we
daily fight with Old Sol, and it is easy and
pleasant just now to achieve these cooling
effects.
Homemade Styles.
The shops are full of the loveliest and
most inexpensive of materials which make
up beautifully into summer cushions, and
the made-up cushion cover removes all
shadow of an excuse for worn or crumpled
affairs Still the homemade production is
even more satisfactory.
There are modes in cushions as in every
thing else, and fashions latest decree on
the subject is that the frilled pillow or
brocade or tapestry is entirely out of date,
handsomely embroidered or richly woven
designs. Nine. La Mode is too sensible of
the prettiness of the frill on thin muslin
pillows to Danish them: consequently on
these materials the slip of net muslin
mains adorned with frillS, crisp or soft, as
the case may be-
very attractive summer cushion has
Marie Antoinette cover in handkerchief ap-
plique on net berdered with a soft lace.
trimmed fiounce and used over an underslip
of blue silk which shows charmingly
through the lace. If one considers the
making of this cushion too difficult a good
substitute for the hand-work could be
made with square of an old lace curtain
of this French variety.
A Rose-Wreathed Cover.
A dainty muslin cushion fit to adorn the
boudoir of a queen could be created of
white muslin embroidered in washing silks,
with trail of roses and leaves, from which
a few petals float lightly over the square
with suggestion of a blue ribbon in the
background. An original idea is that of
making thin foundation of a hemstitched
square of muslin fastened at the corners
with nattily tied bows of pink ribbon
Very attractive for a wooden settee is
pillow of striped silk in leaf green and sill
very white tones. This is one of the cases
where the cord is the only suitable finish
The newest of the new ideas in the pillow
| line Is the Becky Sharp affair, though Just
why it should be called after that fascinat-
| ing lady is not quite plain, unless it's round
| contour may have been a convenient mis-
| sle to throw at her too submissive spouse.
| The particular Becky 1 want to describe
| Is of a new shadowy tissue, the lovely,
| blurred effect of it's Powered pattern being
accentuated by narrow, plated frills OF
| pink mousseline de sole.
i For the girl whose heart is given to a
sailor the bands jolly tars wear on their
| caps with the ships name lettered in gold,
/ make pleasant reminder of the time when
| Jack will come home once more.
! Place the bands diagonally across a
| square of black satin. and when a star of
| white is embroidered in the center an orig
| inal pillow is the result.
With His Colors.
For the yachtsman nothing is nicer to
| tuck in the wicker chair on deck than a
! cushion of white duck carrying In wash
| silk the flag of the owners club Extreme
| " fetching on account of it's French chic is
| a cushion of damask so fine and glossy that
| it looks almost like satin. 1t is edged with
| a deep buttonhole worked in any desired
| color and has eyelet holes an inch from the
edge. Through these ribbon is run.
| The hammock and country porch claim
| their own in an inviting pillow made of
| green burlap decorated with n bunch of
| wheat tied with red ribbon embroidered in
| raffia Round the edge is plated braid If
| raffla in yellow, red and green colorings
The Portrait Tops.
1
| are called The face of a noted poet OF
| statesman looks up from a background of
| one of his own quotations. Upon one pill
| low are the face of Robert Louis Stevenson
! and the happy thought
| The world Is so full of a number of things
am sure we ought to be happy kings
| Tn the four corners are clusters of the
| red mulberries Of Samoa. On Roosevelt
pillow is seen the rugged countenance OF
| the President with his words 1.-THE only
man who meyer makes mistake is the man
| who never does anything
| Then there is the toast pillow, a fitting
adjunct for the bachelor den Pickwickian
gentlemen are brewing punch and offering
| this merry toast:s
| A long life and a merry one,
| true wife and a pretty One
| cold bottle and another one.
These pillows are artistically got up In
velours ORR leather, the designs being
| wrought in a combination of coloring and
| Photographic work
Miniature pillows, oblong in shape, COW
| cred with embroidered muslin, to be placed
| on top of larger cushions for luxurious ad-
| iustment toithe position of ones head arc
| TO- af,t1 nil