The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-21
SUMMER FURNIsHINGG.


 Ponpadour Designs Prevail Through
 out the House This Year.
 There is fashion in summer furnish ings just a smuch as there is a fashion in clothes. It is not that one just takes down draperies and takes up rugs. There are actually different sorts of summer furniture and different light, cool cotton curtains and washable sofa pillow covers and washable floor rugs, and ferns and palms Instead of pictures. l This year the fad for summer furnish ings is in Pompadour effects-white en- ameled chairs, tables. dressers and beds painted with huge flowers roses, daffo- dis or wistaria; and draperies In white and tinted ground with huge flowers in Pornpadour designs, violet orchids, five. l or six inches in diameter, or roses the size of fair time cabbage; in punches, 1 in tall vase tied with ribbon lovers knots; in panels. Watteau fashion, and 1 in clusters.
 These Pompadour designs are seen all l through a fashionable summer home Their will be daffodil room, baohe- 1 lor's button dining room, deliciously coo and clean looking; a pink and white bedroom, and possibly, wistaria guest room.
 | The new idea of paintings gsenamended furniture is bit expensive, and so will be somewhat limited to use in bed- rooms. But the Pompadour effect in draperies, curtains, sofa pillows, etc., will be lavishly used everywhere. 1 Various kinds of cotton materials are used for upholstery brocade, cre- enamel cloth. Mcny of the heaviest cottons are mercerized, and have the effect of rich old damask.
 l All the freshly done over summer bedrooms are white; that Is, principal ly white. The furniture is straight and simple in style; all white or ivory ena- mel. The important pieces are the marrow, four-posted bed, the low dress ling table, made of a box, perhaps; a flew spindle back chairs, an arm chair
 of rush and window seat. The walls have white paper, with flower vine, 1.-the ceiling is ivory white, the floor is natural wood and few rugs Of in- grain filling in dull hues, yet in harmo- ny with the flowers in the draperies. l Perhaps 1t Is a daffodil room--the draperies ivory, with background of jreps with a pale green trellis, and then huge daffodils scattered apparently without pattern. The rush chair has a ldaffodil rep cushion, the window seat lis upholstered with the reps, and the pillows are pale green and daffodil l linen. The door has Japanese green linen curtain and the dressing table is
 done in the reps. A box three feet wide by two and a quarter feet deep is about the thing for a foundation, the mirror side being open for shoes, etc. There is deep frill of reps from the top ridge of the box, and the top is lowered with daffodil linen, and then a lwhite Swiss scarf.
 And there must be a canopy With a framework of sticks running up from
 the side, one stick projecting out over
 the table, and with reps laid over like
 a cradle canopy. your dressing table is }perfect, with no expense except for lreps.
 Even for a single season curtains and lbedspreads and pillow covers will not lremain fresh with summer dust and
 constant use. It Is therefore wise to make spreads unlined, pillow slips to button on and dressing table drapery Adjustable; then the frequent cleaning can be done without much time stolen from outdoor life-New York Tribune.