Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1895 — Cover for Bed-Room Stand. [ARTICLE]

Cover for Bed-Room Stand.

These are made of colored linen powdered with small' flowers, of white dotted muslin, of tapestry cloth, and of chintz. A cloth of yellow linen may be scattered with dogwood blossoms and edgrd x with a frill of the same with the scalloped edges button-holed. If the spread is for a blue and white room, darkblue linen may be used powdered with white violets, with a frill of heavy white linen lace. A chintz cover may have some of the flowers in the design outlined, and for the edge a frill of lace or of the material or with tasseled croton fringe of ths several colors.

The fancy laces vie in delicacy and beauty with the hand made patterns, and new Calais laces show iainty straggling fine thread de signs like those in mediaeval devices. Imitation Alencon in finest meshes is scarcely less beautiful than the real. Black silk Irish guipure will be used with a lavish hand. Rococo irabesque patterns in cream, ivory, ind butter colored laces will be extensively employed as a garniture for spring and” summer silks and sheer light woolens. Vandyke laces by the yard and choice Vandyke cape collars will form elegant shoulder trimmings for stylish spring wraps Very handsome and artistic buttons are sold for both coats, vests, T ancy waists, and for fastening the sides, front breadths of gored skirts, redingotes, and cycle costumes. Many of the new jaunty street jackets and jacket bodices on tailor that are to take the place of the three-quarter coats are finished with vests that button visibly from neck to lower edge. Bridget—What is the result of casting bread upon the waters? Brooks —In our bouse it returns the second day as pud • ling.