Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 244, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1913 — WAY OF DRAPING CURTAINS [ARTICLE]

WAY OF DRAPING CURTAINS

Method That May Appeal to the Housewife Because It Is Something of a Novelty. A new way of draping bedroom curtains of sheer and soft, thin materials like casement cloth, cotton voile, marquisette or net, is to hang a single width at each end of the pole and let it fall in straight folds to the floor. The hooks supporting these straight widths occupy about one-third of the space at each of the pole, and next to them are suspended two double widths of material, both of which are hooked back at the window sill, but while at the top one of these widths fallß naturally, the upper inside corner of the other width is brought forward to overlap the first one and hooked to the pole within three inches of the end widths inside edge. Finally, several feet from the pole at the opposite side of the window this overlapping curtain is partly caught back by a narrow ribbon or twist of silk starting from its own end of (he pole. The lapover fills in the space at the top of the window, which draped-back curtains always form, and it is less stiff in appearance than is the short width of cirtaining sometimes employed to obviate the abrupt break at the center of the window pole.