The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-02-14
INFERIOR DECORATIONS

Up to date curtains are no longer limited so much to a prevailing style in drapery fabrics as they are to an artistic effect. This means, actually, most any fabric is used to curtain win dows that will add beauty to the win dow or the color scheme of the room.
 The shape and the outlook of the window perhaps is the first consid- eration in draping window effec- lively. Long windows as a rule, should not have plain side drapes unless the long line is broken by top valance, lambrequin or light cur aims beneath them that are looped back from the centre of the window give a broad effect. French doors only are an exception in draping in | long effect. Quite often draperies for these windows are a simple fla bric, like net, that is shirred tightly to rod top and bottom of the door. However, curtains that are looped back from French doors, as they are in European country houses, are very charming. Broad windows, as a rule, l are easiest to curtain, for nearly any style of draping does not seem to dis turb the proportion of the windows to 1 the room.
 The outlook, especially in the city, often compels complete curtaining of window, either to give privacy | or shut out an ugly view. Most win dows, however, are needed to let in ] all the light and air possible, so when | they must be completely curtained something thin and white should be used for the centre of the pane.
 With period, Chinese, black and white, and every conceivable modern effect in house furnishings, great lati- tude in color and fabrics is permissi- ble to secure an original or colorful effect. Yellow is one of the newest decorative scheme, and so yellow draperies are much used to carry 1t out. When seen from outside dark house, old gold, for example, looks very cheerful and artistic.
 Curtain materials all very popular just now are net, Swiss, marquisette,
 crim, linen, chintz, cretonne, pon- gee, taffeta, poplin, terry cloths and
 velour.
 The new note in curtain trimmings
 is perhaps those that resemble the
 decorations that applied to clothes.
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 coarse but gay wool embroidery is
 chosen for gray crash curtains, little
 flouncelike ruffles are applied to all
 sorts of white bedroom curtains, and puffings and fringes are very good on
 the silk curtains that look rich in the living or dining room, insets of cro-
 cheted filet lace are popular on many
 kinds of white curtains, and bands of cretonne or painted stencilIing are I used on charming but inexpensive e curtains made of cheesecloth or un. @ bleached cotton.
 e The artistic home maker who e likes her kitchen to look honey in. n stead of like a workshop should in e troduce a bit of cheerful color into ,. the room with the curtains Blue ana = white curtains in Dutch or blue birt V designs have been much used, bu r the newest is red plaid towelling ol
 curtain with a lattice design, witt e flowers climbing upward, such as art n used in breakfast rooms. All kitch - en curtains should, of course, bt e thoroughly washable to be practical ', for once in two weeks is hardly tot
 often to keep them spic and span.
 On the whole. the very simples
 --ay of curtaining windows is tn, !, vogue al present in homes of goot A ta Sta