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room and in the same 
way as the conven- 
tionalized pattern. 
Pastoral effects 
are also seen in the 
new cretonnes and 
are much used for 
bed-rooms and _ nurs- 
enies, AN pietiy mures= 
ery cketonne is cov- 
ered with designs of 
children see-sawing 
and leading sheep, 
wile a fox carrying 
off a lamb all mixed 
up with trees, castles 
and wind-mills are 
marvelously grouped 
at arregular inter 
vals. With ivory 
woodwork and furni- 
ture, and blue hand- 
woven rugs, this cre- 
tonne in Delft blue would help to make a dainty bed-room 
for a girl. It is yard wide and costs seventy cents. 
Another of the all-over designs, costing forty-five cents 
a yard, shows a shepherdess on a medallion, while beaux 
reveal themselves from behind the flower motifs, which 
almost entirely cover the back ground. 
A yellow English print, Fig. 5, costing fifty cents a yard, 
is covered with an inch stripe of bright blue; trees and tubs 
are the motif introduced in the intervening stripe; the 
ground work of cream forms an alternating stripe with a 
trefoil pattern. All of these cretonnes could, of course, 
only be used with a simple wall treatment of plain paper or 
jasper stripes. Some of them can be used in a dining-room, 
in fact, it is one of the new features in decoration that cre- 
tonnes and taffetas, of original and strong design, should 
be used as dining-room hangings. We have long been fa- 
miliar with their charm for country living-rooms. 
Very pretty borders in wall paper are supplied to form 
a square panel in each side wall and there are several beauti- 
ful cretonnes that match these borders, making very dainty 
and attractive schemes for bed-rooms. One of these cre- 
tonnes has a cream ground containing three stripes about 
six inches wide; bouquets of flowers and birds are dotted 
about; dividing these broad stripes is a three inch stripe 
decorated with arose and ribbon design. It is very Frenchy in 
its effect, but quite different from anything that has already 
been on the market. This cretonne costs seventy-five cents 
a yard. 
Fig. 4—-A fruit tapestry suitable for 
a dining-room 
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Another cretonne 
designed to go 
with the new wall 
papers has a large 
pattern of roses 
and ribbons and 
can be chosen with 
yellow, blue, pink 
or green ribbon to 
Suit the ictoutong 
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room; the roses in 
each case are pink. 
Very unusual de- 
signs are shown in 
the linen taffetas. 
One with a group 
of jonquils growing 
at the side Somme 
pond; waam 
Fig. 5—-A yellow English print is cov- touches of color 
ered with a blue ribbon give relief tothe 
white jonquils and 
green verdure. It is fifty inches wide and costs two dollars 
and sixty-five cents a yard. It is one of the prettiest of the 
dark materials and is especially well suited for cushions 
for wicker chairs or for hangings in dining- and_ living- 
rooms. There is a freshness and charm about this taffeta 
that makes it one of the most popular of the season. 
Yellow larburnums on a cream ground is another of the 
new patterns that is having much favor. There is a bright- 
ness about the arrangement of the foliage that makes it a 
particularly happy choice for a bedroom. With plain yel- 
low walls, mahogany furniture, and white paint, it adds the 
piquant touch so necessary to well furnished rooms. 
A year or two ago, very little difference was noticed from 
season to season in these kinds of materials, but it is quite 
remarkable the diversity of pattern and the novelty of ideas 
that are shown in the new cottons. 
Among the new fabrics are the fruit tapestries intended 
for dining-room curtains as shown in Fig. 4. These are de- 
signed to go with the new tapestry wall papers, which are 
quite different from anything we have seen in other years. 
The side wall shows a mottled appearance in two tones of 
green, gray, or blue, and terminates with a Dutch frieze of 
fruit and flowers repeating the motif in the curtains. 
With such a varied choice of cretonnes and taffetas at 
our command, there is no reason why the most original and 
unusual patterns should not be selected, choosing, however, 
those which will be beautiful in themselves and will be of 
lasting enjoyment as long as they are in use. 
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