Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 266, 16 September 1913 — Page 18

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, TUESDAY, SEPT. 16, 1913.

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PARIS has broken loose in a new spot. A year and a half ago Paris dictated black and white as the proper colorings for home decorations. Now the French decorators have gone to the other extreme and are using a perfect riot of colors. The- Cubists, whose weird productions have recently been exhibited in this country, have had considerable influence upon this change, but then Paris only needs a suggestion to touch off its volatile temperament. Of course America never swallows the Paris ideas whole, but sugar coated and modified to meet our conditions we certainly adopt the many themes of the Parisian dictates. i It is interesting to note that back of these apparently rapid changes in Upholstery styles a new influence in decoration is at work. I Some years ago a community of artists in Vienna formed themselves in what they called a Werk Staate. Their idea was to furnish, decorate and equip i house complete. But they soon ran Into "snags" in trying to get the sort

of draperies which they thought were necessary to carry out their ideas. This led to their creating fabrics for their own uses and finally for the general market. To-day these Werk Staates are organizing in most of the European centers and as each has its own idea of decoration we are getting from Europe more new styles and suggestions for beautifying the home than we have had for many years past. Incidentally, all of this work is being done, or at least most of it, with an idea of the average home in mind. These artists say that in the past all decorative ideas have had their origin in the Palace of the King or Nobles and that, therefore, they were totally unsuited for the great middle class of people. This new school is to give us artistic decoration which will meet "the needs of the average home. There is one thing which the housewife can well remember in considering the furnishings of a room and that is the strong tendency to run both carpets and draperies to the baseboard. For a long while we had the rug idea and the

sill length curtain as the popular ideal in furnishings. But rugs cannot give the fully furnished effect of a carpet and sill length curtains lack the graceful lines of the longer drapery. If your window has a projecting sill the white curtain may be of short length but the overdrape should always reach the baseboard. Just at this period the retail stores are resplendent with all sorts of materials for beautifying the home. It seems this year that the sunfast materials will be more popular than ever, both for window and door draperies. Our old friend, the Nottingham Curtain, is also to be found in new and more artistic designs in every high-class store. The woven scrim is another line in which splendid variety of artistic patterns and colorings are being displayed and these promise to be more popular perhaps than the printed scrim which has been used so much during the past few seasons. In floor coverings the stores are showing almost as wide a range of materials and certainly the most artistic selection

of patterns anil colorings that have ever been made to beautify the home. It is also worth while noting that the honest, well-made domestic rug will replace the poorer class of factory-made Orientals. Most of the better class of stores are now showing a deep pile, heavy woolyarn Wilton Rug, such as have come into favor so largely with the big hotels. These are made up in the Oriental patterns, or other conventional designs, and not only make a splendid appearance on the floor, but with average wear are almost indestructible. Indeed, it is the ability to withstand the hardest kind of usage which has made this type of fabric so popular for hotel use. Next time you go shopping you want to be sure to look for linoleum. There never has been so many varied and artistic patterns obtainable in this floor covering as at the present time. The fact that linoleum is positively a'sanitary floor covering started a surprising popularity for it a few years ago, which has been steadily growing since that time; and added to this we have discovered that it makes a very warm floor covering for the winter.

Europe realized the advantages of linoleum long before we considered it of value in thjs country for anything outside of jjfcjtchen. But it seems likely that wesnall now rival Europe in the use of linoleum for the bedroom, sitting room, and other purposes. The popularity of this covering has brought into the stores a new floor covering in the past few seasons. It bears the same strong, attractive patterns as the printed linoleum. Instead of being made from a foundation of ground cork and oxidized linseed oil as in the case of regular linoleum, this new fabric is a modification of the patent roofings which have been used successfully during the past few years. When on the floor, of course, it is like a printed linoleum and should certainly prove valuable in the extreme, for a floor covering gets none of the hard usage from the elements to which a roof is constantly subjected. Another line of merchandise which is being admirably displayed these days is Wicker Furniture. We seem to have suddenly recognized that Wicker not

only is artistic and pretty, but is extremely comfortable as well. A room furnished with a set of Wicker Furniture with cretonne cushions, with cretonne of a similar pattern at the windows and a Gobelin Rug of the same pattern and coloring on the floor, is restful alike to mind and body. Such furnishings are well suited to the sitting-room and library, but, above all, for the bedroom of the daughter of the house, or the young bride. Speaking of bedroom furnishings, one of the very newest ideas recently brought into prominence is the use of embroidered bed-sets. For years the lace spread has been popular, but no one seems to have realized until the past few months the possibilities of embroidery for this particular purpose. Relative to bedroom fittings, surprising advances have been made in the matter of sanitary bedding in the last few years. This subject has been thoroughly agitated in the legislatures of several States. Realizing that most people spend practically one-third of their lives in bed, the law-makers have de

cided that it is nearly as important to have pure bedding as it is to have pure food. And American women apparently have tnemselves decided that comfort and cleanliness must go hand in hand. The result has been that while laws have only been passed in one or two States, the storekeepers have been quick to realize the wishes of the public, with the result that many of the better classes of stores are featuring their mattresses, whether of hair or cotton, from a sanitary viewpoint and are handling, either exclusively or to a prominent extent, new feather pillowa rather than renovated ones, since it it difficult, even with the most careful renovating, to purify old feathers. In short, when milady goes shopping for housefurnishings. the store should be prepared to furnish her not only with the best, but with the most artistic merchandise. And it is often possible, by the use of good taste and judgment, to furnish her home with beautiful merchandise to-day at a smaller outlay than would have been necessary a generation ago for very mediocre furaishines.

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