The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-05-31

and now see what has entirely dis
placed them. A round roll has made
the old pillow hide in some forgotten
closet, while lace spread lined with
satin of some preferred color covers Che
bed. This lace cover is not very strong
and is everlastingly being sewed up,
but 1t Is the style. When one has q
country house rooms are furnished
with hangings of cretonne or chintz,
and the bedspread and pillow roll and
the cushions, bureau covers and dress
ing table covers-in fact, everything
which in times gone iy was furnished
with other fancies is now made to
match with beruffied and lace edged
chintz or whatever the material is.
Each room is done in one tone. and 70
assist in carrying out this color scheme
there are handsome fiber rugs of the
different hues. Red and white, blue
and white, green and, in fact, all the
coiors are represented. Table covers
are shown to match the rugs
In bedrooms, parlors, dining rooms
and libraries there are from two to
half dozen jardinieres, some on small
tables and some on their own stands.
There is less effort made to cultivate
flowers around country houses than
heretofore, so plants are set in these to
lend their grace and freshness to the
rooms. do not know but this Is
good plan for some reasons, but-weIl.
I love to fuss around flowers too well
to be a dispassionate counselor.
There is a new thing in jardinieres
and such things made Of pottery. They
are now oxidized with a silver finish
and are particularly cool looking and
pleasing when flied with green things.
Ferns, which are set close and SO plant
ed that they hang over the outer edge
a little, make beautiful ornaments for
the table, the dark silver harmonizing
admirably with the tender green Of
the ferns. The jardinieres are made in
many sizes, SO that they may be filled
with any preferred plant. They may
be left outside also without injury.
Some of the jardinieres are so large
that, with the pedestal, they can al
most make a shade-with the proper
plant, that is-and thus they are just
what women have been wanting for
porches. Some are brorzed, others are
painted and still others are glazed.
There is something for every one. But
all are marked by soft and har.noni-
GUS colors.
1t is improbable to speak OF the
china for these luncheons. for each
woman has her own, but | may say i
word about the unusual amount Of
glassware that is added to all coiss,;c'r
services, to say nothing of the Cit, re-
quirements. Glassware has had t"'D
drawbacks-the cut glass is so very
dear and, unfortunately, so fr".t.:"
and the pressed glass has been -
clumsy and ugly. There is new
process of annealing and working "a"
glass, so that now the pressed gla&$ il
as handsome as the finest cut glass
and has tougher quality. which
makes 1t desirable from every point Of
view, and some Of it Is quite az Gle
CANT and artistic as cut glass. lik' tall
vases for cut roses, great lemc3I'le
bowls and SO many other things that
I cannot mention them. But it seems
to me a move in the right direction
that fashionable women have taken to
the general use Of this glassware in
view of the fact that it is so superior
from the hygienic view point Glass
cups and other vessels do not crack
like china to admit the dreaded mi
crobes. Clear glass is beautiful 70 SGT
out a luncheon, tea or dinner table.
but colored side dishes for small mat
tiers are too pretty to leave aside
There are fan. strawberry. chrysan-
theuum and thistle designs in anneal-
ed pressed glass, besides spoon trays,
puneh cups. coffee mugs quite new
these, naples and drinking glassos
of every kind. and as they cost little
in comparison with the cut ~''s~ -"
can see why women have S,s.:,. ;
them for country use.
HENRIETTE RGiH5.,'.