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Show I Woman's Page I I H I Cushion Most Important and Attractive Part of House Furn-H Furn-H ishings Newest Thing for Porch Cushions Awning H Stripes for Cushions of All Sorts Smocking Ef fee- H . tively Used Round Cushion Late Style. I HER SIDE SWD HIS H I . B I " H 1 (By Zoe Beckley) 1THE EXPLANATION. David, nervous as though he was at fault, waited in Mrs. Brett's reception room, rehearsing "w he would explain ex-plain Cora's failure to accept the Im- perious woman's invitation to live at H 1 her lionu It dawned on him that he I! xvas hciim made to wait unduly long. Hfit Mrs. Brett, mistress of the art or 'i putting the world on the defensive, of- M ' : fended by even a moment's opposi- " tlon to her will, was letting Daid ' ! ,.., himcnif into a state of tension r i which would start him at a disad- M' antage In U:e coming terw t "hen she finally appeared, hoween it' i in a house dress that followed out the I sucgestion of royalty in her, shews B J as suave end inscrutable as a queen Bl before a forcjqn diplomat. V' "We exrecied you and your wife. ' Mr Tcmu'e, for dinner last night l waited for you in fact." she smiled ( "But I suppose there was a good reiu son why you both could not come. m t "Tbern was a buu i -. ;;-- H B-ett" David laughed nervously, but I 'hardly know how to make it con- vlncinpf Yon see, I had yanked Com suddenly and by the roots out of th- home sho had grown to know in xNej Yoik Into an entirely ne setting 1 Then, she no sooner got off t he tra n J an hen well." ho floundered, she did not feel equal to making a sudden Jo- 1 but among strangers in their own , home. She had no chance to prepare M j herself, you know." fl (I "Oh then sbn Is coming later? Mrs. M t Brett r.skod politely. Hi -Yes that is. perhans. I mean she ' has not vet made up her m'.nd. She wants a chance to get hor hearings. B- David knew how weakly he was B ' cutting Cora'a case before her. u ' made him fu-'ous at himself and at Vr Brett, but not at Cora. For he H wps now ready to defend Cora, against M the world and himseK, if necessary H ' lip would not even try to save him-B him-B self bv revealing to Mrs. Brett the W struggles, the estrangements, the sac- urn i hpiwi i rmi uniiiiiniiiiii' rm ni i i i i ' m rifices, the sad hours it had cost Cora to .follow him. That would be to lay their intimate life bare, to bo frank to the point of shamelessness. But that was precisely the only penance Mrs. Brett would have accepted ac-cepted a prostration of some sort. She, a queen such as American men so often make of their women; a queen by right of her proven ability to build and execute along with the nbleBt men she had offered her homo to a man in her employ and his wife, and her offer was thrown back in her face by a woman she had no;er seen and with no contrite apology or explanation. ex-planation. "Very well. Mr. Temple, we'll let vour wife get her bearings, did you say?" she said, taking up a bundle of plans she had drawn up. "In the meanwhile, will she have any objec- LlOnS lO your CUllieillMb wau iho uh business matters?" "Lord, how I'd like to bend that proud neck of yours to teach you a little humility!" David thought. "Why, of course, I am at your disposal any or all the time," he said. "That's quite fortunate," she replied, "for I shall need a great deal or your time at all times. shall want you tc see how a family like ours uses its house morning, noon and night I shall want you to see how every room in the house has to meet the tastes ot people who are accustomed to have their slightest need and comfort catered cat-ered to. We shall have to study the most private arrangements of such a household as ours, and the most extensive ex-tensive social use of the house. So, you see, we have quite a program before be-fore us together. "And we had better begin with a study of the hostess's private suite," she said, leading him to her own wing of the house. oo FOR THE SUMMER CUSHION. Cushions. If they are properly made and chosen, can be n most important import-ant and attractive part of the furnishing furnish-ing of a house or a room. And at this time of year they are also an important import-ant part of the piazza furnishing. The newest thing, perhaps, for covering cov-ering porch cushions is a heavy checkered check-ered cotton material. The blocks or checks are perhaps an inch square. Two tones, brown and black, blue and gray, green and gray or black, are used, and the effect Is very attractive The material and colors are durable, too, which Is of great Importance in a porch cushion that lc subjected to much rough wear and dust and often even dampness. Another new thing Is the square cushion, covered with awning cloth, In any of the gay combinations of color used this yeir This cushion Is some 15 or 1G inches high, and perhaps 12 or 14 inches squire. It Is filled with a very substantial filling, so that it holds its shape well in spite of repeated use as a cushion. The awning stripes are used for cushions of all sorts, for the house, tne piazza and the garden. As they can bo bought in almost every material Imaginable, from Teal awning cloth to the softest silk, they can be found in something suitable for garden or boudoir. bou-doir. Smocking is used everywhere and in every way possible, and naturally the smocked cushion 'is found. It is decidedly decid-edly pretty. It is made of soft silk, with a pretty pattern smocked on it There are round cushions with stripes running 'round and 'round. The stripes are formed of strips of ribbon, rib-bon, of contrasting colors. The center cen-ter is a circle formed from a piece of ribbon seamed together and gathered up on one edge. A button is usually placed over this gathering to form the middle of the cushion top. ' nn |
