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W E will ship you by express 
one of these shapely ever¬ 
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packed in a wood box. Decorate it 
with ornaments for Christmas and 
afterwards plant it outdoors to beau¬ 
tify your lawn. 
Add a tree each year and perpetu¬ 
ate the memory of your happy holi¬ 
days. Should this be baby’s first 
Christmas, the planting will become 
an historic event. 
Give Evergreens for 
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Your friends are sure to ap¬ 
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Spruce, $4; 5 ft. Jap¬ 
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New Color Notes in Decorated Shades 
(Continued from page 46) 
but with a wide stripe of brilliant floral 
garlands. The tassel may repeat the 
soft rose and blue green found in the 
I flowers. 
Holland shades may be made effec¬ 
tive by painting a design on them, so 
that when the shade is pulled half down 
the design will center. The trouble is 
to get a paint that will not run or crack. 
The design is more effective if enclosed 
in some geometric spacing. Of course, 
a border will add to the general appear¬ 
ance, but a design in the form of a 
medallion seems more decorative. If the 
curtains and window seats are of a linen 
with a repeat pattern, the design on the 
shade may be the same. For instance, 
using a linen with a design of orange 
and blue flamingoes enclosed in a me¬ 
dallion with blue, green and black, the 
curtains and valances may be edged with 
green taffeta bands. To carry out the 
same idea in the shade the tassel may 
be of green with a touch of orange and 
black. See that the colors of the shade 
match the linen, both looking at it and 
looking through it with the light. 
Such a painted shade is pretty when 
repeating the pattern of the upholstery 
in a breakfast room or porch. The 
overcurtains may be of q plain toned 
sunfast with a little block edge of two 
of the nicest colors found in the up¬ 
holstery. In that way the window 
drapery is tied to the rest of the room. 
This requires thoughtful planning. But 
there is no short cut to good decoration. 
It means brains, brains, brains! 
Oil Cloth Shades for Camps 
One idea, which I see no reason 
should not be feasible, is to use oil cloth 
shades for camps and seashore cottages 
where the weather and salt air and the 
long, hard winters are so destructive. 
One word, however. The fixtures gen¬ 
erally rust. Each fall before the house 
is closed, they should be well oiled. 
As to the oil cloth from the outside, 
it will look like Holland except that it 
will probably be less streaky and faded. 
On the inside fascinating patterns may 
be painted. I take it for granted that 
the shade will not be constantly twitched 
up and down. Oil cloth comes with 
little black and white checks. A tassel 
might be made of brilliant red linen 
floss, and the curtains of turkey red. 
A plain band border could be painted 
on the side of the curtain in red and 
black with a fruit design in fresh 
greens, yellows and lavender would be 
pretty for a dining porch. A nursery 
could be made interesting with pink and 
blue on white in some fresh, childish 
pattern. Think how little impression 
smudgy fingers would make on this 
shade! 
Powder Rooms of Yesterday and Today 
(Continued from page 27) 
as the memory of man. They are found 
on Egyptian mummies and the sculpture 
reliefs of Assyria. Thai's wore a gilded 
wig, as was the fashion among men and 
women in Greece during the early 
Christian era. To come down to later 
times, we find that in the 16th Century 
wigs were da rigucur throughout 
Europe. Queen Bess of the tawny hair 
owned eighteen; Alary Queen of Scots 
had so many that her portraits are per¬ 
plexing. 
In the 17th Century Louis XYI took 
to a periwig—not powdered. The king 
had lost his own once-abundant locks, 
and vanity drove him to artifice. In¬ 
stantly the beaux and belles of France 
donned the huge enveloping “full-bot¬ 
tom” wigs that the king had adopted. 
In France it was under Louis XV 
that the powdering of wigs came into 
fashion. The Court led the powdered 
and painted, patched and perfumed 
throng. Even nuns in Paris were some¬ 
times seen in powdered curls and paint, 
and history records that priests were 
accused of keeping the best wigs for 
the world and letting God have the old 
ones. 
The wigs of Louis XYI and Marie 
Antoinette’s time were immense horse¬ 
hair erections, often with bobbing curls 
on wires, over which no less than two 
pounds of flour were dusted after the 
oiling process. Then laces and ribbons 
and flowers and butterflies of spun 
glass, and fruit and even miniature 
ships were used as decoration. 
The largest wigs ever-worn by En¬ 
glish women were those of the reign of 
Queen Anne. A house now in Kensing¬ 
ton, with a powder room off the back 
drawing room, is said to have been oc¬ 
cupied by one of her maids of honor. 
Besides the Full Bottom wigs there 
was a notable list in vogue in England, 
including Bagg wigs, Grecian Flyes, 
Curly Roys, Airey Levants, Full Bobs, 
Minister’s Bobs, Naturals and Half- 
Naturals. 
Who was not a slave to the toilet 
table then? The toilette of men and 
women was a serious and lengthy per¬ 
formance in those days. Madame de 
Stael in her play “La Mode” makes one 
of her characters say: “Next comes the 
excessive labor of making one’s toilette, 
with all the attention necessary to insure 
being well dressed.” 
The names given to parts of the cos¬ 
tume paint the period. Colors were 
designated by such names as “Soupir 
Etouffe”—stifled sigh ! Trimmings were 
“Indiscreet Complaints,” “Preference,” 
“The Vapours,” “The Sweet Smile”; 
ribbons, “Attention,” “A Sigh of Hope,” 
“An Instant,” “Sigh of Venus” and so 
on. Emerald heels on long pointed 
slippers were known as “Venez-y-voir.” 
The 18th Century Boudoir 
The charming 18th Century toilet 
tables were as characteristic an expres¬ 
sion as we have of that age. You will 
remember that milady’s boudoir was her 
informal reception room. She utilized 
the long morning hours devoted to the 
dressing of her hair—the most elaborate 
coiffures were not taken down every 
night—for intimate interviews dear to 
her heart. Then it was her latest victim 
read aloud his Sonnet to Her Eyes, or 
played a love song on his lute. If bolder 
still he lingered, toying with the ribbons 
of her gown, till chance and a tactful 
maid allowed a kiss. 
The oft-pictured toilet table of the 
Louis is the canopied sort with frills 
and laces and bow knots on it. Equally 
popular was the poudrcusc —a dainty 
table of soft brown wood. The two 
side leaves fold out to right and left, 
and the central wing lifts, disclosing a 
mirror on its under side. In this table 
were kept comb and brush, pomades, 
scents, powder, hairpins, patches and 
peppermint water. 
The powder box has today resumed 
proportions consistent with the other 
articles which serve as aides to wom¬ 
an’s toilette. Powder is important but, 
like Pierrot the powdered star, it no 
longer dominates the stage. 
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