The Washington times., 1905-05-21

Colored fshnet, with a larger. more
open mesh than ever before, has been
made up to serve the purpose Of screer-
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 the
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 bringing the motifs closer together.
BY the way, sash curtains are always
the full length Of the wtndow-fron the
top to the sill; the half-sash length is
There's such an unfinished look about
them:
For the overhangings and upholstery
and for odd little portieres (where You
rnadras) there are silkolines and ere
tonnes, denims and taffetas, all of which
wash, In. spite OF their eoiors-silkoiine
perhaps less well than the other three
Figured denims are always-or so
nearly always as to be the rule-of q
single color, the difference being only
IN weave, but seeming more IN color
from the way the light strikes those
differences.
Taffeta In upholstery stuffs is a sturdy
material, about a yard wide, with a Ht-
tie dot about an inch apart. II is usual
ly printed in patterns something like
cretonne patterns, nearly like those of
tapestries, and Is as pretty as it is
seryiceabfe,
And cretonnes are Ioveller than ever,
In prim little designs tby the way, small
patterns are best liked for bedroom
bangings. this year, or in bold arrange
ments Of more gorgeous flowers than
botanists have yet been able to achieve
by natural methods.
Siikoline. of course. as its name would
| imply, copies the designs of drapery
silks; and where it can be made to an
swer the same purpose, does II at about
one-sixth the cost. But silkolfne should
always be weighted or slipped on a rod
In nc
per. IT is roo sieazy stun TO hang
| free, and soon gets bedraggled look
Weighting it-9eWing little iron weights
into The lower hem-keeps it In good or
DIR and SO makes it last longer.
Be Chary of Rose Designs.
Stunning portieres TO hang at the
doors Of upstairs rooms are made OF
tafTeta or cretonne-using two designs
and interlining the portiere with cam
ton flannel TO give it body. On each
side the design and coloring should
tone in with the surroundings. and, be-
sides, should be as different as possible
from the other side.
A summer screen for a rose room is
covered with green denim, and on each
panel. leaving a margin Of the green
two Inches wide all around, is tackled
nowered taffeta, the edges neatly COW
cred with plain little gimp. Sofa pill
lows are being mace 10 match the
| screen, the square of fiowered stuff
stitched on 3 larger square Of the
denim. And q porttere will be made
| in the same way. Even shirt waist
boxes and window hangings could
match,
But be careful about getting too
much rose design in g room. If your
paper is covered with. roses. keep to
the rose eolors. but let the designs
alone in your upholstering. The DIFF
ferent materials viii be TO much alike
to be different" and win spoil the
general effect.
IF your paper is soft pink, or
green, or perhaps, white and green, in
duige in howered stufSs 20 your hearts
content--you'ye setting Tor all the
Roses are perhaps most popular. but
the other flowers are. represented in
exquisite ways. from being apparent
" fiung on the background to being
twisted into the most conventional Of
designs. perhaps Egyptian In treat
menf, perhaps Persian. yet still re-
tanning their dowsg suRRestion-