Perth Amboy evening news., 1917-01-05
GENUINE OLD LACQUER"
KEEPS DECORATURS BUSY
By MARGARET MASON.
written for the United Press.
Alack, her lack of lacquer
Stamps lady as passe,
f7or everything Is Iacquered


For everything is lacquered
That is up to date today.
New York, Jan. 5.-Every Yiddish
artist and decorator in New York is
kept busy these days turning out
genuine real old antique lacquer"
tables, chairs, mirrors, frames, desks,
cabinets, bedsteads, and what not,
(not whatnots howeVer).
To be sure there are a great many
true Chinese pieces also, for the astute
Chinaman, taking advantage of the
forced stoppage of imports from bel
ligerent countries, have simply
sWamped our market with the glories
of their arts, consequently Chinese
lacquers and embroideries are to be
met with at every turn for the better
or turn to the right
But with such avidity have the
American lovers Of the beautiful COB
bled up the wares from China that the
Chinks can fill only a few chinks of
the popular demand. Hence the
abundance Of homegrown or Hobraic
lacquers that defy detection even
when placed alongside the original.
After all they too are redolent Of
the east even IL 1t Is only the east side.
The most popular lacquer is in the
gold on black or red but gold on old
blue or O. soft gray green is also very
effective. Whole rooms are lovely
done in lacquer and especially bed
rooms and dining rooms with Chinese
rugs and Chinese embroideries to carry
out the Oriental atmosphere. Lacquer
floor lamps are beautiful with pagoda
shaped shades of silk and the LACQUER
mirrors beggar description. Certain
ly anyone holding the mirror up to
nature ought to be sure it is a lacquer
one.
Set a serene and wise eyed Buddah
on a lacquer stand and back him up
with a Chinese mirror on the wall
and you have an artistic touch in your
living room that is hard to beat this
side of the Chinese wall.
There are lacquer candle sticks and
lacquer trays, after seeing which you
will exclaim "the Deuce take all other
trays" There are lacquer screens to
screen fires and boudoir secrets and
, lacquer picture frames fittingly beau
tiful to encase him or her.
When it comes to boxes this is
where lacquer really shines, especial
ly when it is built to enshine different
sorts of shoe polish or my lady's jew
els. For holding things that go up in
smoke like coal, wood, cigarettes,
cigars or love letters lacquer boxes are
alluring in all shapes and sizes. From
| the head to the foot of the box class
, hat boxes and shoe boxes of lacquer
sell with alacrity.
Work boxes, candy boxes and powd-
er boxes are so lovely of lacquer that
even Pandora herself would have been
J so entranced with their external beau
| ties that she never would have yearn-
ed to see what was inside. Even Vic
,, trolas are all dressed up in black and
gold or red and gold lacquer cases un-
| til they have become veritable Chinese
music boxes with every thing except,
thank Heavens, the music, Chinese.
And right here it is only meet to
announce that the lid is surely off
when 1t comes to candy boxes. 1t
used to be that the humble box of
| pasteboard was an adequate receptacle
for sweets to the sweet but not in
1917. Next to the lacquer box in
popularity is the ornate box of bro
cade, gold lace and French ribbon
! flowers or the Chinese silk covered box,
| gay with varicolored beads and Chin
| ese tassles. Cretonne boxes are effec-
| tive and the hand painted wood boxes
| of the Russian peasants show vivid
bits of color that enhance the beauty
| of nesting chocolate bonbons to per-
| lection.
| Hand painted tin b9Ss- Scund and
long, short and tall, x ~
| llong-and octagoS -
4 1sdnclU ~ sssslrd ~ nave the fur.
their advantage of keeping the enclos
ed, sweetmeats fresh and moist. Such
a box will keep them from the ravages
of time If not from the ravages of fe-
Imales unhampered by subserviance to
Eat and Grow Thin"
These tin boxes and also the more
elaborate brocade and gallon covered
Jones are cake boxes as well. You may
not be able to eat your cake and have
it but now you can eat your cake and
have the box. This is decidedly worth
while for these boxes certainly are the
dearest things. Oh these are the days
when a box for candy or cake costs
quite as much as a box for opera or
| theatre, my dears.