The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-19

Screams" of the sos.
Crazy Quilts, Wax
Flowers and Doodads
That Used to Make
Home Happy in the
Bootjack Era
modernists have opened their
/ studios to display OF what
used to make home happy In


used to make home happy In
the bootjack era. Mrs. Ruby
Ross Goodenow's workrooms at rs East
Thirty second street have been turned
into q museum Of such things as house.
hold implements transformed by velvet
and gliding into objects Of vertu pro-
NOTED from the kitchen to the parlor. as
II were There are velvet covered rolling
pins bearing hooks to hold whiskbrooms
or buttonhooks. There are frying pans
fitted with Silt strings masquerading as
banjos.
But nobody Is trying TO make fun Of
grandmother; the memory Of her dough-
nuts and her kisses Is too precious.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman says she was
simply trying to find the outlet for her
artistic creative impulse that her grand
daughter finds In designing houses or
in furnishing them Mrs. Goodenow
says It Is simply our turn to laugh. and
that our grandchildren will go into hys-
terics over the crimes in stencilling and
wood burning that we are perpetrating.
The exhibitors hope to show the woman
who could 20 into the desert with a
pair Of scissors and an armful Of news
papers and make a home" what not to
do.
Grandmother certainly was industri-
Gus. She never wasted anything. either
and a feature OF the collection is a gor-
geous bed covering made OF strips of
satin from n wedding gown hand painted
with rows OF roses and red clovers The
strips are put together with hand cro-
chetted lace and there Is little night
gown bag to match
II never had the heart to throw It
away" confessed her descendant who
lent 1t There was such a fearful
amount Of work on it,
Nearly everything in the exhibit takes
a sinister pleasure in pretending to be
something It Ia not. A wooden dog
kennel with a fierce cast iron dog start
ing from It's door proves when once the
roof is lifted to be satin lined scent
case with four silver bottles.
Two genial atrocities have been per-
petrated in the name of the picture
frame. From one made of a five strand
braid OF silvered rope the Father OF His
Country gazes In offended dignity. An
other Is n combination Of pine cones
and oak leaves vanished together.
In what dusty corner Of atticless
New York could the picture Of Home,
Sweet Home" done In crewels. have
been unearthed? 1t is a honeymoon cot
tage surrounded by picket fence, but
It's fiercely smoking chimney would
have brought It under the factory laws
Another, There's No Place Like Home
in old English. Is said to have
been made by a man. Such are the con-
tagions OF environment
Another ornament which haughtily
concea.s its utllitarian purpose is O
china figure Of Rachel at the well. TIL,
we'll holds not water but matches. An
other piece Of crockery bric-a-brac is 9
CHINA snoe hatpln holder, furnished with
buttons on both sides so that YOU coult
not mistake II going or coming, and
thermometer in the toe
There Ia mortuary corner done IN
black velvet. bearing "A German tea SCI
decorated in funeral urns. The suga
bowl Is so startlngly urnlike that you
are afraid to open II. Exhibit b Is
cross made OF wax flowers mounted OF
black velvet and marked GRANDMOTHER
1854"
Flowers were evidently made OF al
Eos, t4-.ything in Great-eunt Jemima
day. One bunch of wax fuschias ant
tuberc~"s in "A china vase under n tai
glass 70 realistic enough to make yol
want To open the window There Is al
cntree with this, boutonnicre OF rose
with safety pin affixed. \ bunch o
forld peoni"s turns out 10 be made q
feathers.
Some astonishing parlor furniture
mas been uncarthed. one gided settle,
all broken out in knobs is upholstere,