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Show XaNT TRACTIVE PILLOWS PAGE. M r r . I for, yor rAe tftomr- V"ss3CHOOL GIRLS ROOM lA 73EW Ones Needed Every Autumn JlMW pjfc rte Sfcrtfenf fife W ffer Sfr SK V? lWwk Brother-the College Man J04S WWi important a matter for great decorators I to tnkc into their consideiat ion. nnd that inn ny artists of merit have bent their i minds to tho humble task of dosictilnij (embroideries for 6ix.li purporcs. IN" a room having plain walls nifl floor covering, pillows with striking goo-I goo-I metrical designs are peculiarly effective. Heavy linen, rraKh, denial, &c, nre largely large-ly used for the I in ck ground of these pillions, pil-lions, nnd both plain and figured materials urc employed, according to the design that one wishes to enrry out. Two materials, mate-rials, one plain and the other figured, are used for Feme of the pillows, nnd they are trimmed not onl.v with embroidery In linen thread but also with braid nud an applique of material of a contrasting 'shade or a different lone of the same shade. While these striking designs are good for a room whieh is otherwise quite plain they nre often quite confusing ond unpleasant In a room having n desigu on the walls, unless it be a very small design giving the effect of a (da in wall. The plain pillows should be used in n room with figured fig-ured walls or the pillows should carry out GIRLS who are gojng away to school or college or thoc who have brothers and cousins just starting upon a college career usually nre interested at this season of the year In the making of new couch pillows. This is one sort of handiwork which will always pro e a welcome i-ift. for there is constant demand de-mand in every household ns well as ouiong the college nnd boarding school fraternity for .1 fitsh supply of new pillow covers. I'"or girls who rejoice in the possession of an all w Lite boudoir the lingerie pill ws ore still the most desirable, and these are now made trimmed ouly Willi embroidery or needlework and genoral'y without lace These very dainty pillows are, however, only possible for certain rooms, aud certainly cer-tainly will not be practical for the hard wear which must be looked for in the school sitting room, anil of course the school boy or college youth would recei-e such a gift with a shout of derision. The stoutest of material nnd the most enduring endur-ing colors are those most suitable for the which has recently been designed by 4 artist is trimmed with tray braid nnd red stitching. In cnh corner i a dmil.li circle of tin- red m l i I liing made up of i,iv circles so arranged that they somewhat resemble a vine. I'.rt-,cen 1 tt -0 nr.- irr. ul.-ir four sided figure made of the briid In linen color with yellow embroidery thin design is very effective. I'ongee in different weights nnd color and s-ift silk which has 1I11II surfaces ate materials w hich wear cry w ell and are most satisfactory for pillow which are to be much used. These are also em-t.roi.lered em-t.roi.lered and Irimincd with application.' of silk (if other color or different torus of the same color. For these material-! Chinese designs or those having Chiiie-c motives, nre particularly good, and it ii rather interesting to look up Rome of these designs and have them ndaptcd to the purpose, for which they are needed. This is the sort of thing that makes needlework nee-dlework interesting, and any girl who enrcs for it will fiud it infinitely more interesting in-teresting than it has ever been when she. takes the trouble to study out the desigu.-? for herself, or, if she Is not sufficiently advance. in the art to make up her owo designs, then at least she can study designs de-signs in pictures nnd antique embroideries embroid-eries and then consult a more experienced worker about how they may be used. SriLLOW with Chinese design was made of pongeo in the natural ehadc, with embroidery of violet, purpln and pink, nil of rich but dull tones, and wa meant for a room furnished la gray with touches of violet ond yellow. The strong, heavy lines of embroidery nre. of purple, while the smaller, tlowcr like designs are of light violet and pink. Tins design is very suitable, for a satin pillow as well as for those of. less elegant material. ma-terial. link, blue and green linen thread are used in embroidering a quaint pillow in sampler di.slgu. The pillow of white linen has graceful pointed designs of the embroidery extending from the four sides to the centre. Each design terminates in a double coll, and all four of these together form a circle in the centre. The colors used iu this design are all the deep, rather dull tones known as "old'' pink, "old" blue, ,fcc. The- jointed designs are made up of slender vines in dull green, between which there is a group of round ornaments in dull pink which suggest flower, although they are in reality nothing but circular disks. This whole side design has a line of the blue stitching j around it which extends to the centre coils, so that tho centre ornament is entirely en-tirely of the blue. The colors used for th'n pillow are so CDtirely suitable to the design de-sign that it would probably lose much of its attractiveness if developed in many shades, even though they might be bar-Imotiioiis bar-Imotiioiis Cither shades which would be effective for this pillow an violet, pink nnd yellow on while linen, or red. blue and green, on linen color or white. Tor foundation pillows to go at Mm back of the couch as a sort of support f. r the other pillows those of leather arc very good and they are not out of place will-, heavy linen pillows, although with light, delicate pillows they would look od. 1. s'..fi 'leather pillows in neutral tints, especially those in the suede, are excellent also tc 'use with pillows which are covered iu lh' college colors, and they go well in nlmo-d I any room except those furnished in elaborate elab-orate or very dainty styles. m if 11,1 L w' tewpff the ssme design as the walls or upholstery. There are exceptions to this rule iu the case, for instance, of a room having a flowered flow-ered paper. Pillows covered with striped (material of the proper shade often look particularly well in such a room, nnd Dowered Dow-ered pillows look well in n room having striped paper. The rest of the upholstery of the room is then, however, either in the design of the paper or nearlv like it or 1 n j that of the pillows am! couch cover, or absolutely plain. A very gooo riesign for a heavy linen pillow was in stripe-d and plain linen, the border cf the striped linen Ving quite wide and mitred at tho corners. The pillow pil-low was in violet nnd while linen and Intended In-tended tor ji room furnished in two tones of violet and in black walnut. The centre of white linen was 11 square, on which were pet fonr circle of deep violet linen. These were cut away in the centre. sliow- ing squares of white. Other smuller circles of the violet linen w ere set o between j the large circles, and the whole wasi Kor.lored nnd seoarated with narrow! broj.lercd wreath for its only decornticu. The beauty of the design j,-s in the perfect per-fect baliime of the w reath and pillow; ii is just the right si.e and just suthVicnriy i heavy. Illue mid white handkerchief; Iin-n, a small white ring on a blue ground.' was used for this pillow. The w reath ' was in white linen thread. In lingerie this pillow would l.iok most allractie if made of ligured musliu or embroidered ba- fi.ste with the same style of wreath, while in K-1 tin or velvet the wreath would be made of vari-colored silks with 11 ilttle gold thread or perhaps entirely of gold. One of the pillows suitable for a college1 mom is of white and red crah trimmed with narrow braid. This would be u good pillow in which to develop the Harvard red, for with the correct crimson could be used a neutral lint such as the room lor which the pillow was intended was fur- - -- 1 riished in, and thus the college color ?.uld be had without the monotony of tho plain crimson, which of course would be used for other pillows. J'or instance, if the walls of the roini and the furniture coverings cov-erings are largely in brown or tan, that color would look very well with the col-jlcge col-jlcge crimson, as would also gray, dull engei green and other mutral tints. It wo.ild j be necessary to avoid any combinaMon I which would suggest anol her colb-ge nud j to select a colo-r to go with the crimson which would go into the background of the room j This white and red crash has n bor-jder bor-jder of plain dark mnlerial on which double bands of narrow braid are used to effect a striped design. The centre is of the light material, with a design made: of applied pieces of the darker fabric. There, is no embroidery, but so small nre' some of the pieces that if made by hand the pillow is Dot the affair of a moment. A very charming white linen pillow overage school girl's or boy's outfit, and if 0 great deal of work is to be put on the cover it is best to have them made of wash materials, for the entire destruction of a fiuc piece of handwork through the hard usage which robs it of its freshness prematurely is heartbreaking to the per-son per-son who has spent so many hours in toiling toil-ing over it, as well as to the person to whom it has been given. Such nlroeities are perpetrated iu the way of embmidi ! pillow that it is well to go slowly in selecting the materials ma-terials and designs and above all the colors, for our taste is more or less vitiated in this direction by the constant display of frightful combination of colors to which our eyes become accustomed. One may place no dependence . whatever in Dame Fashion either, because many of the designs and combinations of color which become fashionable for embroidered embroid-ered pillows are wholly unheaiitiful and will ruiu all claims to harmonious furnishing fur-nishing which any room may possess. One must take into consideration not only; the single pillow- which one Is making but I tho others with w hich it is to be used is well, and also the general coloring of j Ihe room. Of course when class or school colors are being used there is more latitude lati-tude of color combination permissible than when only the coloring is being considered con-sidered for its beauty nlone, but even with these arbitrary colors to deal with one may if one w ill lake the trouble make on artistic success of what would otherwise other-wise bo an unbearable jumble of inharmonious inhar-monious colors and designs. You wil' fiDd if you investigate the matter thai the detiigning of a pillow is not too un- bands of cross stitch. This was on the in.side square. There wns no cmln-r or trimming of any kind on the striped larder except that each while stripe was finished with a little violet ornament In cross stitch. The entire pillow was made by hand, but it would look perfectly well if carefully made by machine and would then lake very little lime as well as being most inexpensive. j -7T VKliV Btlnictive design, suitable I A either for satin or lingerie hs well s for Hie more durable materials, is nado of a figured material with so em- |