The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-01-27
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Give most attention to the comfort
and cozlness Of your rooms during the
evening hours" was the advice of
matron to a young bride in a maze of
doubt as to what was most essential
! in the furnishing Of her small, new
home.
ut has always been my policy to
| make the living rooms most attractive
when all the family are using them,
and as my husband and boys are down
town during the day this means during
the hours after shutdown. Have your
house radlate cheer and complete con-
trast to the grayness of office walls OF
workaday hours. This is one of the
secrets of keeping your husband fond
| of his home"
! In their decoration, the modern lamps
are as much a part of the room they
| light as are the table and chairs that
furnish it. An outcome of the popular
mission furniture is the iron lamp OF
dull black finish, Shaped on similar
severe lines also, its oil vessel is per-
fectly square, while from it rise curv-
\ ing iron standards. Rather small iron
chains are suspended from these and
hold the four corners of a loaded glass
shade showing subdued greens, browns
and reds, and shaped like the square
pointed doof of a japanese house.
Countless other designs i'm loaded
glass effect various mushroom shapes
and mellow the light from both oil
burners and electric bulbs. If only a
suggestion of light is desired in some
cozy corner or hall, a large tallow can
Il &c
globe of the lamp and this burns in
perfect safety for an interminable time.
Less severe, though not a whit less
picturesque, than the iron lamps are
those of FURNISHED metal or painted
parcelain. Noteworthy among these is
a dull brass lamp, the light from which
+ passes through a huge round globe,
painted to show a smiling fisherman
with twany skin against a fading blue
sky. Set in a jardiniere of porcelain
with spreading lavender iris design,
another lamp is shaded by a circular
canopy of porcelain to match and is
finished around the edge by a deep
fringe of milk white beads.
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! This season the coat is the thing!
Together with the latest creation in the
/ skirt line. It bids fair to be an impor-
tant rival to the smart gown. Evident
| ly the fancy coat and sheer skirt cos
tune is to reap many fresh triumphs.
Probably the most striking feature of
the new fashions in the coat line is the
dominance Of Empire models. In even
! ing coats and dressy daytime coats of
the highest class TIE Empire lines are
easily first.
Just where Directoire ends and the
Empire begins it is hard 10 tell and
the makers have merged the two per-
iods in a fashion that justifes salesfolk
in the gay impartlality with which they
use the two words INTERCHANGEABLE
| The beautiful new supple moires, the
J handsome striped and lowered silk,
plain satins, velvet cloth sail are used
for fanciful coats to be worn over lace
or other sheer skirts; and of lace coats
there is no end. Some of the latest
coats i'm lace take on Empire lines, fall
| ing loosely over an under robe that de-
fines the lines of the figure beneath the
| flowing lace folds. Verv smart little
bridge coats are made in this fashion,
ana lace is used. too. for the Louis and
| Directoire models.
Such stunning things, some Of those
short-waisted coats, fashioned of silk
or cloth or satin or crepe, or lace or
velvet! The material chosen must be
of the supple, clinging sort, for stiff
ness would spoil the lines of the folds
or plaits hanging loosely from the
short waistline.
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