Evening journal., 1914-06-19

with garlands Of brilliant hue,
And what 90 you think,
Fen the kitchen sink
she has designs on too.
NEW YORK, June 19-The June
bride has doffed her veil and orange
blossoms and donned determined
decorative expression. She has
started out to decorate and furnish
their very first really and truly own
little home. Time was when the
newly-weds started housekeeping by
buying their pictures by the yard and
their furniture in n job lot, using The
model fat in the best department
store as working basis. Nowadays
the selection of single wastepaper
basket or even the shade OF border
on the dish towels causes the bride
many sleepless nights and two deep
wrinkles between her lambent orbs.
Surely this is as It should be for
our homes should be dressed up with
as much care and discrimination as
our bodies If not more So Artistic
and appropriate surroundings make
for happiness and nothing expresses
a woman's individuality and per-
sonality as much-not even 4he
clothes She wears as does her aome.
The trend toward the modernist
ideas in house furnishings is gaining
more and more. While the craze for
the antique mahogany chest and wing
chair is still with US the newest or
modernist furniture Is all enamelled
either in old grey, ivory or some neu-
tral tint which blends in well with
any color scheme Much OF It is gay
" festooned in garlands of brilliant
flowers and fruits, and this is es-
pecially true of dinlngroom furniture
nnd bedroom sets. or course this flow
er-decorated, enamelled furniture be-
longs by rights in the class of am
tiques but where the modernists step
IN and make it peculiarly their own is
IN the shape and the fantastic forms
assumed by most Of the chairs
tables and cabinets till they look like
an Aubrey Beardsley dream.
Black Is the favorite groundwork
for most OF the new draperies, car
pets and even wall coverings Car
nets aud rugs Of huge checkerooard
squares of black and white are Won
derfully effective in conjunction with
grew furniture, the monotone of the
whole being relieved by vivid color
splotches of hric-a-brac here and
there.
With rugs of this sort think how
perfectly attuned the man who leads
a oheckered life with his better half
must feel especially as they no doubt
20 to the mat very often.
The greatest joys of the new fur
nishings is that every thing is built
to be a component part of a perfect
whole and color schemes and designs
for the different rooms are carried
out IN the mlnutest details. For In
stance the tiny baskets of colored
fruit emblazoned on the ivory back.
ground of a modernist diningroom
set is repeated again as the motif of
the yellow toned wall paper
Even the ivory tinted china is
decorated with the same fruity effect
and the long strips OF ecru linen
across buffet, serving table, and the
nNMAtA hAHlltE Aabt1 nave AliN ANullttAAk
baskets embroidered on their edges.
A life-sized basket filled with marble
fruit upon the buffet reflects its
charms in a gilded mirror hung
behind the buffet on the otherwise
empty wall, its carved frame repeat
lug the same basket decoration in
rich colorings
In the kitchen is where the
modernist really shines, however,
with each pepper pot and dish towel
decorated with an appropriate motif
that Is carried throughout the sacred
precincts OF culinary art
It certainly is going some when
even the gayly colored quill pen on
your desk or the chord in your desk
telephone may throw your whole liv-
ing room furnishings out Of har-
mony No wonder the bride wears
a worried look till her furnishing is
finished The wonderfully charming
effect Of the completed product how
ever fills her heart with joy and is
worth all her pains. Something tells
us however that friend husband as
he absentmindedly tries to bite
chunk out Of a marble apple on the
new art buffet isn't going to be quite
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