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Show DECORATIVE NOTES. New Things and Clever lileas Describes by The Decorator ami ! uiuislior. Centers of heavy linen ire very effective on the dining table when touched with gold and with the backgrouuii:lish scaled with white silk. The couchiuj is of the heavy Japanese wash gold, wjiich has on the silken background the effect of gold bio cade. The hem is simple hemstitched ot may be finished with a fall of lace. Heavy or fine sheer linens, sateens, silk and bolting bolt-ing cloth are all used ns centers, and newei than any of these is a silk material called "mail cloth," which is especially adapted to centerpieces, because it is woven so like huckaback thatdarniug isasiniple matter. It is decorated with a bold design, either outlined or couched, a favorite combination combina-tion for which is delicate gieeu and white. One of the novelties seen as yet onlv in the shops is the swinging, cranelike rod to be put on doorframes, and from which the portiere is suspended, instead of being fastened to the frame.' These come in white, with brass rings and trimmings, and prohably darker wood as well, and are ornamented with eurvesand scrolls. They swing back and forth and are fastened at one end only, so they can be adjusted at any angle desired. Thej might be used across a narrow stairway with portieres looped high to allow passing up and down the stairs, or across the5 foot of a couch where the head comes in Coi ner, thus improvising im-provising a niche, and for various other pur poses. Many of the newest sofa cushions are made of beautiful broctes with the pattern pat-tern embroidered in silks, chenille and gold thread. Some exquisite designs are worked in tapestry stitch, and others in . tent stitch on a watered gold or silvei ground. The stitches are worked on can vas, laid on the watered material, which is drawn away afterward. Some have panels of silk or even lace on silk, carried diagonally diag-onally between embroidery. Basket stitch as a grounding has been brought out of late, and very largeQishions are the fashion. ; If you have an alcove off your room which you have been surveying with a lackluster lack-luster eye and worrying' over, be at rest. A net is precisely what it needs. Drape the seine against the wall from "a bamboo fishing rod instead of a pole, and against that background hang a lot of your marine sketches or water colors. : If you can swing a hammock across and) make a genuine nautical corner of it, so much the better. One of these nets makes the prettiest drapery imaginable. A seine also makes an exceedingly pretty frieze. Cut the net as narrow as yon please, festoon it from the ceiling all around the room and you will have something which is nniqueand very effective. - |