Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-22

is on foot to create a medal fund in
order that similar honors may be
ready for any one who deserves as
we'll Of her people as Miss Agnes
Cruise.
Never did the sleeping room display
such cherry colorS as at present and
not alone in cottages in the country OR
by the sea, but in the home all the year
around. The chatelaine of an extern
sive mansion in the Long Green valley
of Maryland has just demolished the
dark gloomy state chamber of the
past fifty years. stripped off the pan
eled papering and replaced it with
soft plain gray with dado of flock
of bluebirds and the ceiling bit of
the sky with tumbled clouds tipped
with pink mauve. The furniture is of
indigo blue, with natural colored in
sets of wicker. with drapings of flow
cred chintz. The result is Respondent,
especially when the morning sun
glorif1es the blue and spreads gay
flowers from the curtains on the
cream rug with it's walls Of Troy Dor
derS in azure.
Peacock rooms are having rage up
in New England. where fashions in
bedrooms have remained sedentary
since the days of the Pilgrim Fathers.
The cumbersome mahogany is tenn
porarily relegated to the attic and
enameled wood, with cane adornment
is placed instead. with radiant curtains
OF cotton and rugs of rags, though
most artistically arranged rags. Moth
ing can attain the splendor of a bed
room in cerise and at the seashore /:
positively becomes poem. Even
the dining rooms are feeling the
movement toward cheer and effect
rather than conservative elegance.
Apricot furnishings with great loops
OF the soft and colorfuI fruit along
the walls is found in a home in Bev-
erly Farms and it is a revelation just
70 SIT in that room and admire it's
changing aspects.
With SO many invalids in the world
II Is small wonder that the automoton
OF the eighteenth century is again
making Its appearance. In Paris the
wounded soldiers who have mechan-
,cai genius are kept busy with re-
VlVals of the famous toys of Vencas-
son, who was the master hand of
ms day and who was the designer of
the Famous automatic jewel case of
Marie Antoinette imbedded in the
walls of Chateau Ramboullet. Press
the opening thus made and hand
case to the smiling lady in waiting,
make low bow and then disappear
into the aperture, to return with other
boxes. Some of the geniuses of Paris
are perfecting some odd tricks for the
table, too, for instance. a small dark
hgure. seemingly intended only for an
ornament for the centerpiece, will
arise and bow all round when the
host proposes toast or at any suit
able time when the spring is touched.
IT is proving quite successful at
Partisan banquets. and even for card
tables an automatic toy may be Sc
cured which will give signals and
call halts and perform other little
duties which will relieve the hostess,
and all for the trouble of winding just
as a clock is kept running. In the
Cluny Musee are toys which date back
to the thirteenth century. but which
have hitherto been considered SO in
tricate and tedious that the modern
workman could not afford time to re-
produce them.
But the need for finding remunera-
tive employment for men with much
time on their hands and with head
for solving such problems has led the
French government to place these
models in all the vocational and tech
meal schools for the invalids of the
war. Next Christmas will possibly
see the first result of this revival on
the American markets and the au-
tomaton will again figure among the
amusemepts of the grown-ups as well
as for children
A charming little volume called "Tea"
and the work of Oakiro kaku, formerly
attached to the japanese embassy in
Washington, under the versatile NJ
Takahira, has reached few intimate
friends Of the eastern diplomat The
author is at present a member Of the
Sta1 OF the japanese ambassador to
London. Viscount Chinda, who was also
formerly stationed in this country, and
the book comes from a we'll known Cam
bridge publisher. 1t would seem that in
England at least would the diplomat
reel impelled to issue such an apology
for tea nor to be at such pains to tell
the imbibers how it should be served
But the Britons apparently offend
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