Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-08
NEW SCREENS GALORE
PRETTY TRIPLES FOR Tending
OFF DRAUGHTS.
Cretonne Panels for Boudoirs Are
Daintiest of All-Col-
lege Girls.

Written for The Evening Star
The fall days with their unexpected chills
and draughts make a woman's thoughts
turn lovingly toward screens, and of a
truth, she will find the screens this season
more tempting than ever, for they come to
match the furnishings of every room from
the simplest boudoir to the most elaborate
of drawing rooms.
The most popular screen for present use
is called by dealers the three-uuarter size
and 1t is trifle over three feet high. adj
mirably planned to stand behind a chair or
In front of an open window They are also
much used for big freplaces. when no blaze
Is burning therein.
Inc most striking of the Japanese
screens either in single wings double,
Triple or quadruple, in full height or three
quarter is the uncut velvet hand-naipted
in japanese scenes The frame of Jananesa
WOOD in colorings, which tone nerfactiy
with the velvet, is six or seven inches in
Width and beautifully carved and POLISHED
A single screen in uncut velvet cappot Ia
bought for less than S37 10 al an nriantoT
importing house. But a woman who OIL
ready mas a suitable frame can buv the
mana painted panels and have them SET
sonable figure.
IN the heavily embroidered Japanese satf,
panels the fad of the hour is an enormous
htoos S done in natural colorngs with a
beaded eye. One of the most axnnan;I
triple screens offered by an imnortar $3.50
rooster larger than life size. and boidin9
panels VIC VI the
superb single screen for usa hasoro
fireplace shows black uncut veI,,e+ sl'I d
IN ombre hollyhocks The frame - 90
gldck wood, highly lacquered. ADntbor
japanese effect shows screen which NAV
De either single, double trinla or -
idpie, IN lacQuerpi
instead instead OF the embroidered or painted nm
elhgs there is severe stretch or duII
pioWh cIoth, and along the ton of tba
frame are fastened hooks such as orn -
Tor picture holdings Froy, +hrs useu
are suspended the japanese parchment nan
els, winch just now are enjoving -
ucular vogue. par
for college girls and bows and +ba ao..
tantes room come inexpensiva .ono ING uepu-
yam, or rattan with mating nanoi. Ia
LuSse are 10 be criss-crossed with parrn-,,
tnauo ana furnish a background for nbo.
On Dutch Lines.
FOR the dining room a popular. inexna,-
slve screen Is built on Dutch lines tn.
frame follows the lines of mission f,,rn,tura
ana the panel Is of burlap or tanestrv 70
ii1atch the hangings in the room, while the
space between the frame and the ton of
plaques. Ais eaieS UT
Inc ravorite screen for a young bachelors
apartment shows a burlap7 panel to within
in or Twelve inches of the top, where are
inset pictures or brass tablets If fine
mar man goes In for sports. there may be hunt
ing, riding or yachting scenes II he ia
i iIe from college. row Of college girls
~ Yale or Princeton-is often used:
II I'm the BRASS tablets are employed they set
iortn some toast suitable to the bachelors
tastes TWO figures of men, smoking. carry
the suggestive line, Better to smoke bera
than hereafter" The navy man has the
sailor toast, the society man. who is
known to go In for cotilons and things OF
that sort. has Gibson heads with anpropri
ate toasts to women. These screens are
really characteristic and always give pleas
ure to their owners
For a womans boudoir there is nothing
prettler than a frame to match the wood
work or the room or its furniture with
panels or cretonne to match the hangings
For the Louis room there comes a velour
screen showing Louis XIV scenes in soft old
world colorings.