The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1905-07-08

Nothing Better Than Swiss for Bed
rooms and for Other Apartments
Madras Is Excellent.

SwissTplain or dotted or cmbroider-
ed ruffied or hemmed, left plain or
trimmed with rose-printed strips--is as
good as the day 1t was first adapted to
window use, probably better. But it
belongs to bedrooms. Don't use it for
downstairs rooms; madras is better
for them.
Madras curtains show more wonder
full developments than any one OF the
other stuffs. From the palest Of all.
with just the suggestion of color laid
on its delicate background just Off
white), for bedrooms and downstairs
rooms, to the deep kinds. definitely
bright with color, for den or library,
there are hundred changes rung on
each degree of color depth
Loaded glass designs have invaded
everything in the house-decorating line,
from the interesting new lamp shades
down. They're fascinating in madras,
either in soft, dull colors which bright
en- up when the sun shines through, or
in alternate blocks of red and blue,
thrown into more striking relief by the
bars between being made of coarse net
Colored fishnet, with larger, moro
open mesh than ever before, has been
made up to serve the purpose ofscreen-
ing. without shutting out the air. In
dining rooms, when the windows of the
next-door~ house are unpleasantly near,
this new \fishnet is the best of all stuffs
to use. Sometimes, too, it Is used as
drapery over the white sash curtains.
and some of 1t is finished with border
made by adapting the design and bring
ing the motifs closer together.
BY the way, sash curtains are always
the full length of the window from
the top to the sill; the half-sash length
is almost never used, even for kitchens.
There's such an unfinished look about
them!
For the overhangings and upholstery
and for odd little portieres (wherc you
prefer different sort of portiere to
madras) there are silkolines and Gre
tonnes, denims and taffetas, all OF
which wash, in spite of their colors-
silkoline perhaps less well than the
other three.
Figured denims are always-or so
nearly always as to be the rule-of a
single color, the difference being only
in the weave, but seemingly more in
color from the way the light strikes
those differences.
Taffeta in upholstery stuffs is a
sturdy material, about yard wide,
with little dot about an inch apart.
1t is usually printed In patterns some
thing like cretonne patterns, nearly
like those of tapestries, and is as pref
ty as it is serviceable.
And cretonnes are lovelier than ever,
in prim little designs Thy the way,
small patterns are best liked for bed
room hangings this year, or in bold
arrangements of more gorgeous flow
ers than botanists have yet been able
to achieve by natural methods.
Snkoline, of course, as its name
would imply. copies the designs of
drapery silks; and where 1t can be
made to answer the same purpose. does
it at about one-sixth the cost. But
silkoline should always be weighted
or slipped on a rod in the lower hem
as we'll as at the upper 1t is too
"sleaZy" a stuff to hang free, and soon
gets bedraggled look. Weighing it
sewing little iron weights into the
lower hem-keeps 1t in good order and
50 makes 1t last longer.