The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-14
Bed Furnishings Now
White and Simple
White Lawn Spreads Tucked and
White Dotted Swisses With
Flounces Are in High Favor.

F1ounces Are in High Favor.
Happy that woman who, on her re.
turn to town after a summer OUTING
discovers that she has a bedroom To
furnish. If she has been close to ma.
lures heart she will find a syrnpa.
thetic note in the new beds and their
fittings, for never have they been so
beautiful or artistically simple as this
year.
The vogue for bed furnishings of
gaily figured cretonne and of coarse
lace over vivid colors, in silesia or silk.
is practically dead. These two modes
of dressing a bed are used only to car
ry out complete scheme of furnishing
identified with some historic period.
The up-to-date bedroom is a marvel
of simplicity, with polished floors, SIM
pie rugs, plain, unfigured paper and
simple furniture.
The rage for the beds Of gaily paint
ed enamel, even of the pure white en-
amel, has given place to a distinct de-
mand for the plainest of brass beds,
To meet this demand, furniture max
ers are offering a good hollow brass
bedstead for ten dollars, and for one
hundred and fifty dollars can be bought
solid brass bedstead that is as ele-
CANT as the most fastidious could de-
mand.
Colonial styles in these brass beds
give them a general square effect, and
do away with all extraneous ornamen-
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is seldom seen, its place having been
usurped by the twin beds. Where a
room has only one occupant, the three
quarter or single bed is more desirable,
particularly in this day of fiat houses
and apartments.
There is an occasional call for the old
fastened carved mahogany bed, but it
is used only to carry out an ornate
furnishing design and is not for gen
eral use. Women who have been Wis
iting in the English country houses
have brought back fancy for single
beds. All of these are in wood and
look not unlike the mission furniture,
with square head and footboards built
from square railing and studded with
copper nailhaids.
Two-piece mattresses are used exclu-
sively and the old-fashioned ticking
has disappeared, in place of which ar
sateen, is used. The mattress protector
is also of quilted sateen to match the
covering. The new mattress is no less
than eight inches thick.
Pillows are much smaller, not only
because it is generally considered
healthier to lie on fiat pillow, but be-
cause the new, round bolster rolls open
in the back to admit small pillows dur
ing the day. If the bolster-rol is solid,
the pillows are kept in boxes covered
with cretonne and set on casters, to be
rolled under the bed during the day.
It is quite fad for the woman who
goes in for beauty sleep to own an indi-
vidIal down pillow, which travels
wherever she goes. This is "a little
larger than pillow supplied for an
infants outfit and Is covered with
white lawn over white silk, her mono
gram embroidered in the center and
the ruffle edged with the finest of VAL
enciennes.
Slumber robes of soft, white Japan
csc silk are made to fold at the foot
of the bed and to be drawn up when
the air turns chilly in the night. These
are thick with down, are not heavy and
are just large enough to cover the bed.
The Marseilles Counterpart, even in
white, is just now suffering an eclipse.
In it's stead have come lawn or linen
bed spreads. Many of these spreads
are tucked. For instance, a. row or
three or four tucks will outline the ex-
act shape of the bed. To this oblong
piece of lawn is joined deep f1ounce,
which carries the same number Of
tucks in the same size as those used on
top of the bed. Or a good quality Of
lace insertion is used instead of the
tucks on top of the bed, and the f1ounce
around the bed is edged with lace to
match the insertion. The bolster-roll is
covered with the lawn and has a ro-
settle of lace on either end.
The only colors seen on the new bed
spreads come in the form of Persian
lawn bands, which sometimes take the
place of tucks or insertion, but these
Are less popular than the pure white.
Curtains come to match all these COW
ers. If dotted Swiss is used for bed
cover, then white silk is used beneath
it-no color.
The most expensive bed spreads are
those of fine linen, hand embroidered
in satin stitch, Mont melliok, English
eyelet work or Madeira. The most ex-
quisite work halls from the Irish and
French converts, and bureau scArfs
come TO match the he'd SureadS