Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-21
PHOTOGRAPH FRAMES
NEW RECEPTACLES IN WHICH TO
EXHIBIT PICTURES.
4 Tapestry Covered OF Carved
Box is the Latest
Holder.

Written for The Evening Star
Ihls Is the season of the year when the
average home-maker finds her mantels,
secretaries, chiffoniers and table overflow
ing with photographs, and she yearns for
the old-fashioned album which some two
or three years ago she turned over to moths
and mice in attic recesses
Perhaps, in sudden spasm of tidiness,
she decides to unearth the family photo
graph album and refill its empty spaces, or
she may even think she will find something
new In albums-and SO she will-the most
hideous combinations in celluloid, plush or
burnt wood. all built over music box
which grinds out Teasing" or Goodbye,
Little Girl, Goodbye" as one turns the
pages in search of familiar faces.
But the good old-fashioned album, bound
In desirable quality of leather, is not to be
found in department store nor book shop.
In It's place has come the box, or rather
many boxes, supplemented by pliable
leather receptacles resembling glove and
handkerchief cases, and for unmounted
photographs, the camera book.
Boxes for use in the drawing room are
covered with exquisite silk tapestries. A
mauve tapestry. showing stripes of tiny
pink roses, forms the cover for one of these
boxes. The edges are bound with mauve
braid and bullion, and large square piece
of glass in the center of the lid reveals the
cOuteHlS VI tIe TtCepldCit. These UOASS are
big enough to hold the large-size portrait
photographs, and can be ordered In silk or
tapestry to match the DECORATION of the
side walls. In this same size, but heavier
and more costly, the boxes of beaten
brass and bronze. These have figures of
cupids or pastoral scenes carved in bold
relief on the sides and lid and stand on
four low carved legs A carved box plated
with silver showed the reclining figure OF
Father Neptune surrounded by water
nymphs.
A Two-Foot Box.
The housekeeper with scores of family
pictures to care for will appreciate a deep
leather box two feet In length. A partcu-
larly handsome box of this sort has a fig
ure Of st. George on a fiery steed carved
on the hinged cover and outlined in gold.
Wonderfully artistic carving is also shown
on boxes of weathered oak from which a
rugged Indians head, the spreading antler
of deer or the figure of a bear stand out
as If nodded in bronze. The thistle is an.
other favorite design for carved wood
More novel Is oblong frame of olive
wood an inch In width, from which Is sus-
pended a bag of green leather folded like
an accordion. When not in use this case IS
not more than two inches in thickness. The
cover is Of olive wood fastened with sill"
yer clasp and lined with green suede. A
loop of the suede holds magnifying glass.
Long, flexible leather cases contain two
pockets for photographs and are tied with
a silk cord and tassel. Among a brides
gifts was a gided leather case carved IN
flower design and lined with champagne
coIored MORE silk. This was tied with a.
satin cord and tassel in champagne color,
The corner of one side was decorated with
a porcelain medallion showing girl in an
1880 gown, with a sprightly beau In knicke
erbockers standing against background
of pink apple blossoms. Stalks or pale
lavender and white fieur-de-lis rose about
their feet.