Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-03
NEW DELICACY REIGNS
DAINTY FEMININITY ALTERS
ROOM FURNISHINGS.
Ribbon Embroidery and Spangles Deck
Everything From Pin Rolls
to Cushions.

Written for The Evening Star.
AS the strenuous trend Of the feminine
mind since the dawn of the new woman has
been symbolized by the severity and pract1-
cability of her surroundings, so woman's
return to the gentler sphere of beauty and
loneliness is presaged by the exquisite
daintiness of her new boudoir fittings. Not
only the furnishings for her dressing table.
but the equipment for the desk, the table
and the workbox, and the embellishments
for the walls and chairs and couch, are all
built of the softest of silks and ribbons in
the most delicate and bewitching colors. An
entire boudoir set shows but one funda-
mental shade, relieved by the blending pas
tel tints Of the Louis embroidery or the
gold bullion work of Marie Antoinette: or
a set may be built entirely of pompadOur
ribbon or of ribbon in Dresden design, with
wee rosebuds embroidered in harmonizing
tones.
For the dressing table are displayed re-
ceptacles in every possible shape and size
needed to hold the numberless small access
series of a woman's toilet-a large roll for
wells, a smaller one for different length
pins from hat pin to lawn cuff fasteners,
and still smaller roll for needles; boxes
in every conceivable form. diamond-shaped
for jewels. heart-shaped for buttons, semi
circular for linen neckwear, square for
handkerchief and deep oblong for gloves;
also fiat, puffy cases for these articles.
Each and every piece of the entire set Is
covered with the same shade of durable
bengaline silk, lined with soft China silk
in the same tone and bound with narrow
satin-edged surah ribbon.
In similar manner the fiat and circular
blotter frames the letter holders and the
picture and calendar frames address, tele-
phone and memorandum books-all the fur
nishings for desk have the coverings of
silk.
Dainty and Rich.
Charming is the one word that describes
these outfits, so dainty and elegant are they
and yet so simple One complete set in
shrimp pink has on each piece a cluster of
wee roses in ribbon embroidery, showing
the pastel shades of green, lavender and
blue. Another in lavender has star flowers
in green, blue and lavender. Still another
in white watered silk is bound with baby
blue ribbon, and has the tiny roses in pink
and blue, with green stems and leaves. The
pastel shades of the Louis embroidery re-
lieve the one color of the background and
blend into each other so exquisitely that
they are most restful to the eye. Following
a Marie Antoinette design is boudoir of
mauve watered silk covered with lattice
work in fine gold bullion, and embroidered
in the center of each article is a long
handled basket filed with the tiniest of
flowers in rose pink, porcelain blue and
olive green. The brush and comb tray has
its embroidered face protected by piece of
beveled plate glass.
In the larger furnishings for the boudoir
such as couch pillows, scarfs for the dress
ing table and stand, cases for night gowns
or bags for laundry, the flowers are en-
broidered in natural size by the use of
crinkly split silk ribbon. One scarf for the
dressing table shows an oblong of watered
silk in shrimp pink, with simulated hem
Of satin in the same tone, four inches in
depth. On either end Of the scarf are two
water lilies done in pink, lavender and
green, and beside them stalks of cat-tails
in harmonizing brown ribbon, with stems
of green. Any one article in set, from a
needle roll, with it's tiny rosebuds, to
sofa pillow, with its decoration of orchids
or peoples, makes choice and most ac-
ceptable Christmas gift.