Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-24
DAINTY CUSHIONS AND
BED ROOM FURNISHINGS

have to get busy with her stiletto and
fashion her own eyeiet work.
1t is very easy this year to carry out
definite color scheme, as the shops are
offering complete sets OF bed furnishings
In one color. In baby blue are California
blankets, bound with broad white taffefa
ribbon. The cover for these Is a heavy
white linen spread done in eyelet work.
slip of blue silk may be used beneath Il II
one especially desires a color to show
through. The down puff. which is to be
rolled at the foot Of the bed, Is OF pale
blue satin with the centerpiece and corners
worked in ribbon flowers.
For pink room one should purchase
pair of pink and white blankets with
checkerboard pattern, each square meas
uring about nine inches. The most suit
able coverlet to use with these blankets is
an ecru net with medallions of guipure lace
over a pink silk, slip. The down COM
Portable of pink satin Is appliQued in the
center at the corners with guipure lace.
Dotted swiss sets are much cheaper. and
often as effective as the lace ard en-
broidery covers. College girls this season
are carrying into effect an uncanny fad
in room decorations and are having their
being in a den done UP in sepulchral black.
Every detail in the apartment is subjected
to this sable treatment. even the boxes
spreads" being painted black. 1t is grew
some and unattractive, but appeals to the
cult that is rampant just now. Woodwork,
floors and ceilings are painted BLACK, ana
d.
couch cot are of black sateen. College yells
are outlined on pillows of black velvet and
satin, while India silk, trimmed with lace,
makes the dressing table cover. Inc tea
table appointments have not escaped ana
are of white china decorated with black
flowers. The silver Is In dull antique
finish.
There is no detail In which woman
particular as to the appointments of her
house is more interested than the DISPOSE
ton of her cushions. In drawing room
and living room they are piled ]. eisniy,
subtly inviting one to nestle IN their sliKen
depths In library, dining and billiard room
they are of more. substantial nature, sus-
gestive of the solid comforts of life ratheS
than of it's frivolities. The color notes
these cushions strike are often or value In
the scheme of q room, so new Ideas or
variations of the old ones are always well
come.
There are many chairs of the high-backed
style on which a head cushion Is COM
fort. The best way of arranging them Is
suggested in the sketch by pair of small
pillows laced together so that hung over
the back of a chair one balances and keeps
in place the other. For dark tapestry
or leather covered chair the head cushion
in plain bright colored silk or velvet makes
pleasant touch. An appropriate cush-
ion for library, where the toning will
permit Is a combination of copper and
blue For example, the cover. with it's
ear-tied corners, may be of duh blue linen
and the applique design of shade of cop
per toning to red browns in the embroid-
cry.
OF different character altogether is a
dainty circular cushion called the Becky
Sharp Small and rather fiat. 1t Is just
the thing for tucking in behind ones Shout
ders on a low-backed chair Or settee or,
best of all, for posing high on pile Of
other cushions. It is prettiest when made
Of light silk decorated with ribbon work
and surrounded by friIl of muslin. repeat
ing one of the colors in the embroidery
But cushions are seen at their best when
heaped up in artistic confusion on a couch
mahogany sofa of the old-fasliioned sort