Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1915 — IN GRAY AND YELLOW [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN GRAY AND YELLOW

INDIRECT LIGHTING GIVEB PRETTY EFFECT IN ROOM. •Ilk and Lace Bags Inclose Lights Giving Mellow Glow That Brings Out the Color Bcheme of Apartment. If you walked Into a certain room I know, you would think It belonged to the lady Alice Meynell must have meant in her shepherdess poem, she with the flock of white thoughts. This room has a pale silvery gray wall. But it doesn't shine. The woodwork is gray. too. And so ie the furniture. But the furniture has delicate yellow cane insets. And they give the keynote for the color in the room. The rug is Chinese. Do you know the lovely coior of these rugs? They always seem to me quite old —and precious. This rug is gray and gold and blue. The windows have curtains of the finest white silk crepe. These are hung to the sills. The window draperies are of the Chinese cretonne, in yellow and ivory, lined with gray silk. The draw curtains, which hide behind these, and which take the place of the ordinary window shades, are of corded blue silk, matching the blue in the rug. Two of the chairs have upholstered seats, which are covered in the cretonne, the backs (by which is meant* the rear upholstery), are covered with a light old-blue velour. But Just wait until I come to the lights! On either side of her dressing table this lady has two bags. In these bags the lady keeps her .lights—or, at least, two of them. Someone made these bags for her, without so very much trouble, too. First of all, the wire frame must be made to order. It will cost fifty cents or seventy-five cents, according to the size. In this particular case the wire was covered with yellow silk. Then yellow silk was used for the bag’s out-

side. One strip was fulled on the top rim of wire, thsn pulled down straight and fulled on the middle horizontal wire. Another piece of yellow silk was fulled on to the middle wire and then pulled back to the bottom on a line with where the wall would be, when it is bunched quite a small space. All the yellow silk is covered with white lace. The top part is of lace edging. The lower part may be tacked on separately or fulled in with the silk itself. The upper part of the bag is garnished with small silk roses in various shades of blue and yellow. The lowest point is supplied with a heavy tarnished gold tassel ornament. The bag, which, while rounded out semicircularly in the front, is parallel

with the wall in the back, suspends on three wires from a brass hook in the wall. These wires may be, all three, electric wires, in which case three bulk lights may be within the bag, or just one of the wires need be electric, resulting in the use of one light. All wires are covered with tarnished gold bullion braid. The braid is twisted into a decorative bow or rosette as a top finish. Now, can’t you imagine how beautiful these bag lights are when all aglow? Some are made more plainly, without the lace. And of all the colors, I think deep rose is the very prettiest.

For a Boudoir Light.