Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1895 — THE LATEST IN FADS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE LATEST IN FADS.

Indian Relics and Indian Furniture Are All the Rage. The very latest thing in the fads of the fashionable world, or at least the American part of it, is at the same time one of the most unique which has taken “society” by storm in many years. It is nothing less than the collection of Indian relics of every sort and of everything Indian which will go towards the furnishing of “wigwams” or summer cottages. In the living room the proper thing is to have chairs, paddle backed and easy, which are largely constructed of weapons of the chase and Indian blankets. Those who do not possess curios sufficient to form the foundation of thgir “wigwam” furniture have recourse to the cabinet-makers’ art for their chairs, sideboards and dressingcases, with painted pipes, tomahawks and paddles. The real thing, of course, is much more chic and expensive. Indian blankets are used with good effect as rugs and portieres, where “wigwam” furnishings are used. A pair of such blankets large and fine enough to drape a doorway costs S2OO. A Navajo saddle blanket for a chair covering or rug may be bought for $25 to $35. Paddles and carved trinkets range in price according to the work upon them. “Totem poles,” Imitations, of course, cost anywhere from $lO to SIOO. When it comes to dining-room and Bleeping apartments the idea is much less pleasing. It gives one a creepy feeling to be eating game with a barbarically ornamented sideboard in front of ope. And then to wake in the middle

of the night and see in the moonlight a dressing table ornamented with beaded and feathered war clubs, or with wick-ed-looking spears is enough to make one’s dreams full of ghostly spirits and most unhappy hunting grounds.

PADDLE-BACK CHAIR.