The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-11

For she had but a single penny;
Yet she spent it for rose;
What she'll eat now goodness knows.
New York. Aug. 11.-What Words
worth wrote of Peter Bell: "A prim-
rose on a rivers brim a yellow prim-
rose was to him and it was nothing
more" applies just as truly to all the
Peter Bells of today and most every
Tom, Dick and Harry besides, to say
nothing of few James and Bettys.
Stick that yellow primrose in a low
blue bowl in one of those Japanese
bronze flower holders, add a hand
painted paper butterfly trembiingly
poised and vibrant on a long slender
wire, fasten a china bluebird on the
one edge of the bowl with a bit OF your
chewing gum and a painted glass but
terfly on the other, with the rest of
your gum stick and 10! even Peter Bell
would see something more to the
jaundiced primrose.
These new Japanese flower arrange
ments certainly are attractive. They
make more effective a flower or two
than huge mass of them. Even the
humblest of flowers becomes raised to
as decorative heights as her more cost
ly and exotic sisters. In fact loose
cluster of field daisis and red clover
arranged in a shallow bowl of green
or mauve becomes the acme of beauty.
Wondrous in variety. coloring and
shape are the lovely shallow dishes for
the flowers. Not the least of these
are those of glass painted in some one
solid color. Black perhaps is the most
effective.
The many accessories that go to
| make up the perfect whole of an
artistic flower arrangement are indeed
startling. In the old days of stiff set
| bouquets, IL we had the flowers. the
vase and the water we said .'suf-
| ficiency."
| Now at least one handpainted bird
of glass or china is a necessity to poise
deity and gummily on the edge of the
bowl A butterfly of like manufacture
is also almost Indispensable and then
| tie ones quivering on wire do add so
much.
There are also waved paper pond
| lilies to float on the water, tiny green
and red glass fish to CLEAN on the bot
| tom of the bowl. The fish and the
lilies are really more effective in the
bowls of crystal OF transparent colored
glass. The pottery bowls and Chinese
porcelaiDs of deep yeliows. purples
green's and old blues show up on the
gorgeously painted birds and butter
| flies. If you want something truly
| lovely try some purple iris in a bowl
| of turquoise blue or nasturtiums in a
| bowl of brass.
From the Japanese influence in our
| decorations we leap lightly to Chinese
influence in our other home furnish
| tngs.
Whole bedrooms and dining rooms
done in Chinese lacquer furniture are
pleasing and artistic to a high degree
Chinese lacquer lamps. either floor or
| table lamps. are stunning in black or
red lacquer with gold decorations and
| pagoda shaped shades.
Mirrors round, oblong or square are
framed in lacquer and some more or
rate have inset panels of silded Chi
nese wood carving with gorgeous Chi
nese tassels dangling from their cor
ners.
Pieces of Chinese brocade and en-
troidery deck pianos, tables and chairs
and over all CLEANS golden glow of
| lights in handpainted Chinese lanterns
of oiled silk - s,.---s-.
| All we need to do further is to light
punk stick or two and we have the
real Oriental atmosphere as well as
| immunity from mosquitoes.