The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-07-08
COOL
Effects for Home
Now In Order.
pY MARJORIE MoFFETE.

, BY MARJORIE MOFFETE.
With the advent OF really warm
days. the homemaker who imagined
that her spring house-cleaning had
accomplished all the necessary trans
formation feels vaguely dissatisfied
The rooms which looked so fresh and
inviting after the cleaning was fin
ished now seem warm and perhaps
"stuffy."
Possibly, she will find that the best
method of relieving this condition
is the removal of all hangings and
heavy pieces of furniture. Almost
every article of furniture upholstered
in deep red or yellow should be ban
ished to the attic until cold weather,
and all hangings, save the lightest
and airiest, snould be packed away
in trunks or boxes. Ii this leaves
the house looking bare, few typical
summer articles can be bought for
small price.
For instance, II you miss the tapes
| try or velour hangings between liv-
ing rooms and dining room, fll in the
| blank space with thin, shadowy ef-
fects. At a Japanese store you can
pick up bamboo curtains. which sway
with every passing breeze, as low as
SO a pair, and these will last several
summers IL carefully packed. More
ornate patterns run up to $40 pair.
Or you can make portieres of fish
net in cool, grayish green, which
costs 30 cents yard and is fifty
inches wide. Another pretty summer
material, at IL cents a yard, is fig
ured batiste, with oyster-white or
cream round and delicate pastel fig-
ures in dull blues, pinRs, lavenders
and greens.
A wicker chair or two will make
even the city living room look cool,
but always avoid the brilliant red
| wicker or enameled chairs. They
are suitable only on large lawn
| with cool shadows. A new wicker
now being offered in parlor furni-
| ture Is known as deal" IL sells at
a low figure and wears splendidly.
II Is rougher than the higher-priced
| furniture, but with few cookbook
ing pillows piled in 1t the roughness
Is forgotten.
Denim in cool, delicate colors
makes the best plain pillow covers
for summer. Cretonnes are popular
this year and limitations, in effective
summer colorings are offered at 10
and | 5 cents a yard. Cretonne will
launder If care Is exercised. QenerN
ally the limitations run" The best
colors for simmdf ape grayish green,
with white and a little yellow. or
odd, dull blhes, With atlsh green
figures or bedrQoms, the fayorite
cushion cover is lowered cretonne
or a delicate-tinted silesih or perca-
line slip, covered with dotted or en-
hroidered swiss, which will wash
every week If necessary. The Gre
tonne pillows are drawn up on each
corner and finished with button.
generally mold covered with the
same material used in the cover No
cords, tasseis, fringes or bows are
seen on the cool summer pillows.
One of the best ways to secure A
cool look in house or on the porch
is to plant quantities of vines, These
are the cheapest and the most charm
ing of all screens, The suburban
woman has her porch and surround
ing patch Of ground. The city woman
must depend upon her window boxes
A 5-cent package of morning glory
seeds Will screen three ordinary CITY
windows, and, If planted on either
side, they can he trained to form n
perfect frame. Morning glories grow
so luXuriously that they must not be
planted too thichy, and they must
be pruned out otherwise they mat
and form nesting places for insects,
spiders, etc.
Any carpenter or even the son of
the household, can make window
boxes. They should be slightly wider
than the outside window ledge, and
should be firmly lashed or wired to
the sides of the window frame. They
should have small holes bored in the
bottom Tor the water to drain off.
and soft green, cray or brown paint
gives the best color effect. The
brown should be light and cookbook
ing. not reddlsh-brown. Red Is
pretty for time. but soon looks hot.
For the living room, try vines on
either side, and then train them to
cross In the center OF the window TO
form frame and FIJI in the center
Of your box with geraniums, sweet
elysium, pansies and English daisies.
Vines that grow rapidly from seed
are morning glorles, cypress. dolichos
and scarlet runners, which II planted
now will give YOU good shade by
July fourth. Or. You can buy any
of the following plants or roots and
have vine-soreens In a short time:
Cinnamon vine, kudzu vine. cobea
seandens, nkebia quinata. moon
flower and clenatio pan,cuiata. The
seeds are never moro 'hnr 20 csu.s
a package, '"hts the p,s7.S vary fioEi
10 To so cents each.