Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-09
OLD STYLE SCREENS
SAMPLES ARE NOW BEING
USED.
Novel and Useful Articles for
Sewing Rooms and
Nursery.

To have touch Of the antique about the
parlor is the correct thing nowadays. Old
samples are brought out and mounted har-
moniousiy on screens. Cretonnes the pat
terms of which are good or old-fashioned
are more modish than the modern designs,
and these, too, are brought into requisition
for the screen.
The lower part of the screen should be
covered with striped cretonne drawn per-
fectly smooth and tackled into position with
fancy brass-headed nails, which are driven
through an ornamental braid. Embroidered
panels. worked in linen, in colors to har-
monte with the lower part of the screen,
are sometimes tackled above. In other
cases stamped panels take their place.
Screens decorated with colored prints
etchings or photographs, which are inserted
in frames at the top of each screen panel,
may be had at reasonable prices. Glass
covers the pictures, which vary in size.
Screens filled with the photogra phs-the
amateurs best efforts-are suitable for a
sitting room or library, but are scarcely in
place in a formal parlor. The screens for
picture mounting must be fiat ones, rib
bons crossed and interviewer forming the
supports for the cards.
One of the modern ideas in screen build
ing Is the use of panes of glass in the upper
half of the frame. In this way the light is
allowed to pass through, while the glass
forms an effectual barrier against draughts.
The upper part of the screen is made much
like window frame, the glass being of an
especially fine quality. Rose color, or a
combination of orange and blue, green and
orange, or violet and orange, are some of
the color combinations adopted. Frosted
or even stained glass may be had for the
purpose.
i A pleasing screen has an arched Gothic
top, to the glass of which paper used in i'm
itating stained glass is applied. The wood
en- panels below and the frame are in an
tique finish with weathered oak stain. This
screen stands before side window that
has an unpleasant outlook, and when the
sun shines through the glass it floods the
room with rainbow tintS
A Sewing Corner.
There is a useful arrangement which is
called a sewing screen, and which is a
necessary adjunct to a sewing room. 1t is
a substantial three or four paneled affair,
and is used not only because it is hand
some, but to shut off the sewing machine
and work in the corner. On the back are
pockets of all sorts for scraps of cloth.
drawing materials. needle cases. thread
rack. and all the accessories needed by
the seamstress
Another useful screen, which is low, has
small shelves attached. These are for the
accommodation of books, pots or vases of
net screen and comes in many styles. 1t is
convenient for the afternoon tea cup, the
empty ice cream dish or the punch glass.
Some attractive nursery screens are COW
cred merely with wall paper. They are
the kind that illustrate the various nursery
rhymes. Each panel bears different sub
ject, so that, counting both Sides there are
six different rhymes illustrated.
Figures cut out of chintz. cretonne or
silk, and appliqued on denim, enliven other
juvenile screens. third style bears pic
lures embroidered canvas in cross
stitch. One screen represents a menagerie,
and the animals are such specimens as
Alice might have been expected to find In
Wonderland. These screens are useful to
shut off the children's bed from the rest
of the nursery, or to encircle the baby's
crib when he Is taking his nap In room
occupied by other persons.