Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-02
COLD NIGHT COVERS.
With Winter Approaching the House
wife Must Consider Warm Blankets.

Written for The Star.
The advance of cold nights already ne
cessitates the consideration of warm COW
erings for the bed. Feather beds and
wooden sheets have never had place in
the city household, but even In country
homes their use no longer is thought es-
sential, except in the northernmost prov
inces Cozy comfortables and blankets
are much more practical for our change
able climate and they certainly are much
more attractive to the housekeeper with
an eye to the beautiful.
Down comfortables especially offer no
end of variety both in price and artistic
effect. Dealers have brought these de-
lightfully warm coverings Of feathery
lightness within the reach of the most
modest purse. Printed silkalines in the
dantiest patterns and colorings vie with
costly silks and satins to give the huge
squares of tufted down a festive appear
ance, and are quite as seryiceable for the
economical housewife.
If comfortable neither of silkaline nor
yet entirely of silk is desirable, the upper
side will be of silk with edgings of satin,
while a soft percaline or near SILK OF eX-
actly the same color Will line the under
side. Huge flower designs adorn the new
est coverings both in silk and cotton, and
show much the same patterns displayed in
wall papers. Fantastic nouVeau art de-
signs of water lilies lotus flowers are
particularly popular, and one quaint, old
fashioned pattern has wild roses OF pink
mingling with festoons of blue ribbon
Colorings are seldom brilliant, and if pos
sible match the principal tint of bed
room. For holding these comfortables as
well as extra pillows during the daytime
new chiffoner is built with deep chest
at the top above several drawers.
Almost a rival of the down comfortable
this fall is the silky slumber robe. 1t Is
extremely supple, and when only nght
extra covering is required 1t Is declded!v
less clumsy to handle than the down quilt
glossy fur-like finish causes them to re-
semble closely a genuine silk blanket and
their deep rich colorings allow of their
being in use during the daytime on couch
chair
Soft and Fleecy.
Blankets for constant use on the bed gain
each year in softness and f1eeciness, and
the manufacturers have added a touch of
loneliness this fall in bindings for the
edges of unusually wide ribbon. Even the
ordinary California blankets show this
wide ribbon finish in delicate pink, blue or
lavender, to match the stripes that boroer
them.
But it is on the exquisite single blankets
of wool that the wide silk or satin ribbon
gives a finish of simple elegance. These
broad coyerlets are woven in paleSt color
ings contrasting with white TO show scroll
or checkerboard designs. Finished with
double face, the blanket has directly
contrary weave on the upper and under
side. For instance, a white, ground with
baby blue scrolls will be a blue ground
with white scrolls on the under side. and
while and blue liberty silk will finish eth
er end
OF all seasons of the year this Is the
best in which to buy bed linen, for its new
ness renders il warm, and by the time
summer comes 1T will be washed fairly
thin for hot nights. In bed linen
also there is an innovation this fan. Hand
work, which plays such a part in fashions
realm, is also employed on sheets and pill
low cases Very simple designs of Yiolets
star flowers in French embroidery OTTa-
ment the linen or cotton just above the
plain deep hens
Hamburg Trimmings
Fine Hamburg is also used to set off bed
linen, being inserted above the hem, and
quite a new wrinkle is line of narrow,
triple tueks outlining the head of the
hem.
Less elaborate linen shows pretty hem
stitchins I'D he ,alircl1a sed almost as