Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-07
TYPOGRAPHY DESIGNS
so SIMPLIFIED THAT CHILDREN
ARE TAKING IT UP.
Nothing Pleases Mother Better Than
a Dining Room Piece in Tinted
and Burnt Wood.

Written for The Evening Star
Ten years ago the art of typography was
ccEfined to few skilled artists who drew
their own designs Today children barely
cut of the kindergarten know how to ma
nipulate the burning point, while count
less articles both Of wood and leather are
deliberately stamped or colored, ready for
the amateur Photographer, and wood stains
are obtainablc in all colors for enhancing
the effectiveness Of the work.
8 A boy or girl can fit out an entire room
with furniture of his own decora ton, and
wonderfully artistic this furniture will be,
too for the manufacturer has prepared it
ready for burning in it's most graceful
shapes, and in the most pleasing of printed
designs. Or young folks may have the fun
of making gifts for birthdays and parties
by oeautifying the smaller pieces of pyro-
work. among which are found every article
useful on dressing table or writing desk
PICTURESQUE plaques for the wall or deco
rative furnishings for chiffonier or mantal-
piece may be made more effective by the
Use of wood stains. though articles col
ored and ready for the burner are ex-
tremely pretty. Girls with deft fingers will
eh1oy applique leather work, in which
leather in harmonizing shades is cut out
to fit the pattern of a center-piece or sofa
pillow cover. or the leather may be first
burned and then delicately colored.
The school girl just beginning to fit up
her own boudoir will find all sorts of dainty
pieces of furniture which she can burn to
her liking. A fetching little dressing table
has an oval mirror encircled by a grape
vine design, which also covers the table
itself. Boxes for handkerchiefS gloves or
trinkets show finer designs of violets Or
forget-me- nots. An artistic samovar table
is stamped with blooms and falling petals
or a California poppy, either scarlet or
plain. for the ambitious decorator out
lined together with thin leaves ready
for the pyro-point Four oblong plaques
show each sauaws head in the
center with background which is to be
burned dark brown.
These PLAQUES are held together with
leather lacings and make "a scrap basket
writing desk with gracefully curving
claW-foot legs and an ingenious sliding I'D
is printed with a thistle or a poppN design
A low chair, equally as shapeIy. has
clover leaf back stamped with shamorcks.
For the Head of the House.
For fathers birthday, a boy will find a
unique tobacco set, the three pieces OF
which are stamped to look, when burned,
like half-hewn stumps of trees. Or he can
decorate a calendar holder or a box marked
''Telegrams,' or a letter holder showing
owls heads, for the office desk Tables
come in all shapes and sizes, and a par
ticularly pleasing round top card table
shows piping shepherd boy. An adjust
able rack for books has on either end a
pretty girls face surrounded by daisies.
No gift pleases a mother more than some
seini-useful ornament to brighten the din
ing room Tulip-shaped pitchers are
stamped with chrysanthemums, or handy
serving trays show fruit designs. Circular
placques for the wall have gaily gowned
Japanese figures or Gibson heads, or they
show iolIy-faced monks. Odd-shaped stems
are also conspicuous in display of this
pyro work. Long, narrow motto PLAQUES
fill in effectively above fireplace. One in
oak leaf design bears the particularly happy
sentiment. I've ornament of We house Is
ye guest that doth frequent it,