THE SUNDAY OREGOXI1N. POKTLANT), JULY 21, 1912.
COMMODIOUS DWELLING IS
DIGNIFIED AND
Furniture for Substantial Home Will Be of Best and Most Expensive Materials, but Will Avoid Gaudiness Care
fully Points on Ways of Furnishing Home.
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BT LAURA BALDWIN DOOLITTLE.
THE house and plans submitted to
me this week by one of the lead
ing architects for which to
work up a color and furnishing
cheme is one of unusual Interest.
1: is a house of dignified appear
ance, commodious, . rich and quiet In
all its appointments. A home that
calls for quiet and dignified furnish
ing, rich and of the beet materials,
but not showy. It is always a great
pleasure to build up a color scheme
for a home of this kind, even though
It demands a conventional treatment.
There Is a Joy In getting together
fabrics and furnishing that will har
monize in every detail.
The whole lower floor or rather the
drawing room, library or book room
as most people of ultra taste now
call it. the hall and the dining-room
are all finished In gold mahogany, and
real mahogany It is too, not a cheaper
wood stained to imitate our good old
standby. I do wonder whether any
thing will ever take the place In the
hearts of all as dones this one wood.
Ever since I saw a small table of the
most beautiful workmanship finished
In a satiny old golden mahogany stain,
done by a local workman, an artist in
that line. I've been longing to " do a
bedroom in a house worthy of it. The
man will make a bedroom suite In the
same color and finish an empire set
a Napoleon bed and a big bureau all
In this lovely golden Krotch veneer
and In this house I have the very place
lor It. The room would be carried out'
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in rich mahogany colors" a color that
might be called burnt orange. This
room would be the guest room and car
ried out in somewhat richer and heav
ier materials than I advocate for sleep
ing rooms generally. The walls should
be papered with an empire paper or
hung with damask, the net for the
windows in empire design with over
draperies in a silk damask that looks
as though it had been especially de
signed for this room. It Is just the
color, is an antique damask with
glints of tinsel all through it that
makes It light up well. The large rug
is a iiandtuft French Aubusson in blue
and orange designed for the room. It
is a stately room, but it would also be
a beautiful one. The fixtures should
be antique gold.
Wood Trim Motif for Color Scheme.
The wood trim In this house is all
so rich and beautiful In tone that It
calls for certain colors. In fact. Is the
motif for the color scheme and one
Just works It out as one would a. theme
in music.
The entrance hall Is large and
stately running through the center of
the house. The stairs are wide with
broad tread and a good rail and newel
post, leading straight up to a landing
with ample window lighting. These
stairs should have a soft gray green
velvet carpet, thickly padded and at
the entrance of the hall there should
be a good Oriental rug In soft tones
of blue, green and rose with a back
ground of Ivory or beige. The paper
for the hall is an imported one with
excellent design in a soft dull rose
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BOTH
BEAUTIFUL
color conventional design on a beige
background. A large design, but this
one is not bold or showy, it is one of
those papers that seem to lie per
fectly flat owing to the balance of
color being so well kept. There Is to
be a large seat of mahogany that looks
somewhat like an old dower chest of
the French Renaissance period, a couple
of chairs, a console table and mirror
and a tall clock on the landing. The
hangings are of a soft old rose velvet,
plain and depending on the quality and
workmanship for their beauty.
The dining-room opens from the hall
at the right as you enter and this
Is wainscoted high in mahogany and
has a cove celling. The frieze Is a
tapestry blue, mahogany color, with
green the " blue predominating. The
hangings are all of blue silk velour.
The rug is blue mahogany in color
and a handtuft Autrlan. The furniture
will be mahogany with a large round
table that Is an extension when de
sired. A mahogany tea wagon is an ad
ded convenience and ornament. A big
palm in a copper Jardiniere adds much
to this room. The fixtures and all the
small hardware should have the red
dish gold or copper finish to harmonize
with a blue scheme.
Conservatory la Attraction.
Across the ball Is the drawing room
or large living-room. And to add to
the vista Is a large conservatory with
French doors that will add much to the
room when filled with growing things.
This is Just opposite the archway Into
the hall and is a lovely view from
the dining-room. One can sit at the
dining-room table and look across into
this conservatory of green plants and
calms. There Is an ample fireplace
Lwith a mahogany shelf and lovely gray
and mahogany colored crystal .giazea
tile. The fireplace is always, or should
be the center of attraction, the piece
de resistance, and gives the keynote
to the color scheme. The walls are to
be gray the same soft gray as in the
tile and there will be a narrow border
to lust give the touch, of color neeaea.
Here are Oriental rugs with the same
soft yellow rose tone predominating.
The under curtains are of net in Col
onial design and the overdraperies of
a rich two-toned damask looped DacK
with silk cords over crystal knots. The
same colored silk cora nangs me
pictures. The pictures for this room
should have gold frames and the m
tures are of brass to harmonise. There
is a larre tufted couch done in tapes
try near the fireplace, a large library
table, a tiffany leather screen near the
conservatory that Is a sympnony on
color in its rich bronze tones a stat
uette on a pedestal and small tables
and chairs add the livable touches.
The man's den or ofr.lce as ho calls
It on the secod floor Is done in ivory
enamel the same as all the rooms on
this floor. The walls are a gomen
hrown with narrow border in bronze
colors, zreens Kold and browns set
thrie inches from the ed;res and panel
Ing each wall space. Here he will have
a desk of mahogany, a tufted couch
that is for comfort, chairs, a bachelor's
cabinet, table and smoking set, in fact,
all thar goes to make a man comfort
able combined with tne artistic ana
practical. The rug is a Khiva in
brownish tones. . In fact this whole
house is to make for comfort carried
out In dignified lines without show or
pretense.
Good Things for
the Larder
RANDY PEACHES Peaches are
generally very plentiful in Au
ci,st and the brandied sort, while
very expensive to buy, are cheaply
made at home. They are toothsome
accompaniments to baked ham or
game and go Bplendidly with any sort
of cake. No fruit sweet is more liked
by the men folk of the family.
Put ripe but very firm peaches
clingstone variety in boiling water
for a few minutes, when the skins
will peel off easily. For each half
n,,r,ri nf neaches make a syrup of
half a pound of sugar and half a tea
cup of water. - Skim the syrup of
scum during boiling, and when It is
clear of foam put in the peaches and
boll them until tender, but no longer.
tov. .rh one carefully out or tne
pot and put in this manner In the Jar.
Then remove the syrup irom ine lire
.- tn it half a pint of the best
fnr Avrv nound of peaches.
Cover the fruit with the liquid and
seal the Jars while itris hot.
- Chow-'Chow On cold meat aas
chow-chow comes in very handy, tak
ing the place of a salad or more ex
pensive appetizer. Enough of the pick
le, too, can be made for JI to last
all Winter.
Chop one peck of green tomatoes,
one-half peck of ripe tomatoes, six
onions, three small heads of cabbage,
one dozen green peppers and three red
peppers, with the seeds of each kind
removed. Sprinkle with salt and put
in a bag coarse enough for the liquid
to drain through. Hang the bag over
a wide tin pan and let the draining
go on all night. In the morning put
.u- vntfoiahipR Into a oorcelain-
lined kettle with two pounds of brown
sugar, one-nait teacupiui m si""
horseradish and one teaspoonful each
of ground black pepper, mustard,
whole white mustard seed, mace and
celery seed. Cover with good cider
.i . , nnj hn till clear. Seal hot
In Jars with tightly fitting covers.
Sweet CucumDer i-icKies
tastes sweet pickles are far more ac
..nf,hi than acid onea and they al
ways seem much more of a dainty
than the sharper sort, it tenaer auu
-.ii imnpil and snlced they often
seem like delicious preserves.
To BOO small cucumoers iurb - uco
quarts of cider vinegar; add two
r, t ctnnamnn nllRTllCA and
ounces ct"." v- v.... ,
cloves, three pounds of light brown
sugar and a lew tiny reo. peppei.
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salt and water and then put them In
the cold vinegar ana onus -boll.
After the boiling begins, cook
. mni-A If the vineerar
is too strong, add a quart of water
to it. An Increase in me
of si.trar will, of course, make the
pickles sweeter.
Ripe Tomato soy in i , ... ...
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soy for a basis. A tablespoonful of it
put into the dressing of a fish hors
d'oeuvre gives a delicious taste.
To one peck or tomatoes, peeiuu m"
,i j . l V. nnlnnfi. sliced, thin.
suueu, liu. .
and one cup of salt. Let the mixture
stand 24 nours ami men "
the liquor. Then to the tomatoes and
, j j miavto nf vin?ar and
onions auu i h" r, -
one tablespoonful each of ground mus
. j ninvoa nTid fi.llsnlce. and
iara, 511151, wv-
cayenne pepper to taste. Many per
sons use nan a umreoii". -cayenne,
aa the peppery quality Is
thought the chief charm of soy. Stew
slowly for three hours, and when near
ly done add two pounds of sugar and
.,,., nn.md of white mustard
seed. Put in Jars while hot.
Fruit Drink rui a j""-
, , a miart of currants
raspoerrie uu -i -
into a preserving kettle and mash them
thorougniy. oei i -
erate heat and let the fruit cook grad-
Tin 1 1. miTtnrft becins to
uany. lie . -
boil, take It at once from the fire and
strain it through a jeny oag
. . . , n.t,.n ft 1q rlMP and cold.
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sweeten to taste and put against the
ice to chill, mis is si"ij.
in small wine
Menus for One
Week
Tuesday.
Cold Consomme.
Boiled Salmon Cucumber. New Potatoes
Lettuce ana nucwyf n.c
Frozen Rico Cream Raspberry Sauce.
Coffee.
Wednesday.
Rico Soup.
. Lamb a la Jardiniere.
Puree of Potatoes.
Red Currant and Cream Cheese Salad.
Raspberry Sponje With Cream
Cofiee.
Thursday.
Watermelon Cocktail,
v Broiled Steak With Olives.
Broiled Tomatoes. Potatoes.
Strlns Bean Salad.
Devonshire Junket Trifle.
Coffee,
Friday.
Fruit Soup.
Italian Macaroni With Grated Cheese.
' Jellied Vegetable Salad.
Sweet Omelet. Apricot Sauce.
Coffee.
Saturday
Freeh Fig; Cocktail.
Breaded Lamb Chops. Spinach.
Brown Potato Turnover.
Tomato, Cucumber and Nasturtium Salad
Peach Plum Crusts.
Coffee.
Son day.
Chilled Bouillon.
Casserole of Chicken. Potato Balla
Sweet Corn.
Lettuce Salad.
Canteloupe With Ico Cream.
Coffee.
Monday.
Vegetable Broth.
Nut Loaf With Tomato Sauce.
Potatoee With Cheese.
Lettuce Salad.
- , Peach Cobler With Cream.
1 Coffee. . ,
MISS LILLA GILBERT, HEIRESS
TO $15,000,000, BECOMES ENGAGED
Long Beach Society Entertained in Water by Miss Charlotte Van Courtlandt Nicoll and Guests Are Served by
Waiters on Floats White House Would Be Gay if Wilson Should Be Elected.
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EVST YORK. July 20. (apecial.)
It was announced a few days ago
that Miss Lilla B. Gilbert, daugh
ter of Mrs. H. Branhall Gilbert, Is en
gaged to marry H. P. Renshaw, of Troy,
N. Y. Miss Gilbert, who has been in so
ciety for two years, has had many
suitors. She is beautiful, a linguist, a
musician, an athlete and is heiress to
116.000.000. She is one of the best
swimnrs of the young society set. Be
fore her debut she spent five years
abroad in study, principally in Paris.
Miss Charlotte Van Courtlandt Nicoll
LINENS OF MANY COLORS POPULAR ON
MIDSUMMER MORNINGS IN GOTHAM
Pink and Buff Are Shades Predominating in One-Piece Suits Gray Continues to Be the Elite Eage in Simple
Dress Elaborate Evening Gowns Mark Habitues in Cafes Charming Footwear Noted
NEW YORK, July 20. (Special.)
New York may be the Mecca of
Fashion in America, but that not
all the Paris fashions make their first
bow in New York is proven by the
smart gowns and hats worn by many
of the women visitors in New York
these days. The hotels are full of out-of-town
folk sojourning here on the
way to the beaches, or for a fortnight's
shopping during the attractive marked
down sales of mid-Summer, or merely
to enjoy the gaiety of the restaurants
and roof gardens and to take little
trips to the surroundings beaches of
an evening. The frank and friendly
burr of Western speech and the liquid
drawl of Southern tongues pervade the
hotels, the tea-rooms and the shops,
and whMe all the real New Yorkers
are at Newport, Bar Harbor, South
ampton, these others are - enjoying
themselves mightily In the metropolis,
whose Great White Way is none the
less gay because of unfamiliar faces.
Everybody is wearing linen of a
morning, and the most charming colors
are seen. Pale pink and a delicate
shade of buff seem to be the favor
ites, though one notes blue, lavender
and Teseda green in fair proportion.
All these linen frocks are in the one
piece style; that is, waist and skirt are
Joined at the belt.- The high-waisted
effect is not as much favored as it was,
and with many of the linen frocks,
made earlier In the season in this
manner, a broad patent leather belt Is
now worn. The straight, narrow skirt
buttoning down the front or at one
side of tho front is the Invariable rule
in these linen trot-about frocks,
though in many instances the peplum
is introduced to give a more formal,
coat-like effect.
St. Louis Woman Distinctive.
A woman from St. Louis, lunching at
ful linen frock distinguished by its
simple good lines. It was of buff
and had a perfectly plain kimono waist
Joined to an equally piain i-s"
skirt under a narrow belt of the linen
In manv Tllfi belt
clasped with a round pearl buckle in
iront ana an tne way uwn mo
in the center front went a row of
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shade of the frock. There were three-
cornered turned-oacit cutis 01 eyciei
embroidery, with a narrow collar of
th. earno nmhrnMATV finished With a
small pump bow of white grosgrain
rlDDOn. JUt tne leature ui iuc
was an unusual peplum with all the
1 ,H..aEHnn nf nanlum lines and
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none of the clumsiness of the ordi
nary peplum over the nips, xne ooi
tom of the peplum was there, all
a.n.,T4 v.,,t thA tnn rf it-had been cut
away In curved effect along the line
or a cutaway coat, ana iuib panuiuiii
peplum was stitched to the skirt, mak
ing a graceful trimming at the hips.
Another linen suit worn uy a numaa
4.1. a t.fA.,t!nn that marked her
from Virginia was worn at the lunch
eon hour in Maillard's last week. This
suit was also of French linen In the
soft gray shade Just now the craze,
3 1. - .ttnnc n-n.o rivpd to match
the gray linen. There was the usual
straight, two-gore sairt aim aiuipic
bodice, and a short peplum fell six
1 1 th wnjnt which was
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girdled with a gray suede belt. This
gray costume showea not a toucu ui
white, even in collar and cuffs, for
. 1. n th. linen, embroidered
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with gray scallops. A big Panama hat
trlmmea witn pansies, u. puipio pataDu
lined with gray and gray satin oxfords
t.w , A -..,1 hiittntin and worn
Willi oinuniu .
with clocked gray stockings completed
tms aaoraoie unio , .
Uress, in tne evening, is w cittuviaw
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. H.
Nicoll, of New York City, and a niece of
Do Lancey Nicoll, the famous lawyer.
Miss Nicoll recently gave a "tea party"
at Long Beach which attracted a great
deal of attention. The guests were in
bathing suits and were served in the
water by waiters on floats.
The present head of "The Equal
Franchise Society" in New York is the
well - known Society woman, Mrs.
Pearce Bailey. She succeeded Mrs.
Clarence Mackay and has presided at
as in the morning it is simple. Not
even in January, when the opera sea
son Is at Its height, are more expen
sive clothes to be seen in the theaters
and restaurants, with the exception,
however, that in mid-Summer the
grand toilette is not the rule. Decollete
frocks are seen, but they are rare, and
the usual costume Includes a graceful
gown of lingerie and lace, of chiffon,
marquisette, satin or some similar ma
terial and a handsome picture hat.The
roof garden restaurants are in great
favor with out-of-town visitors, and at
these Testaurants hats are almost In
variably worn, sometimes with frocks
of quite decollete character. The lin
gerie frock in every variation Is fa
vored, and some of tnese irocas, simple
enough in line, are worth small for
tunes because of the costly lace incor
porated in their make-up. Two pretty
young women from a city In Michigan
have been stopping at the Plaza for
two weeks of shopping and "doing" the
theaters and restaurants, and the cos
tumes they have worn have attracted
much attention because of their smart
ness and simplicity. Their lingerie
frocks are particularly charming and
some of them bear the unmistakable
stamp of Paris.
Two of these lingerie frocks worn
the other evening with immense
plumed picture hats were especially
lovely. One sister wore a frock of
finest batiste, having on the skirt
three flounces of net, each . flounce
st into the batiste with an Insertion
of the net hemstitched to the batiste.
The three flounces reached to the
knee, and above this the skirt was
banded at intervals all the way up
with two-inch strips of pintucking, set
in with bands of net and hemstitching
an incredible amount of work, set so
fine and dainty in effect that the frock
seemed simplicity incarnate. A panel
of the pintucking edged with tiny net
frills went all the way down the front
from the small square decolletage to
the knee, this panel widening at the
top and Tunning along the shoulder
and down the sleeve to the elbow, the
tiny frills of net following the edge all
the way. A softly draped sash of
mauve-pink satin was worn with this
soft and expensive little frock, and un
der the net flounces peeped out little
boots of white satin with crystal but
tons, Lingerie Froclt . Smart.
The other sister wore a more elab
orate llnge'rie frock of sheer white
crepe and VaL lace, combined with
French crochet. Over the frock was a
coquettish coat of dull blue chiffon
embroidered with sprawling designs in
the same dull blue with dull blue em
broideries on the wrist. The hat ac
companying this frock was heaped
with palest apricot pink plumes and
had long streamers of black velvet and
black satin oxfords with buttons of
white pearl gave a saucy chic to the
whole effect.
The out-of-town woman who visits
New York in mid-Summer soon dis
covers that the lingerie and linen
frocks, which are the only possible
things for the sultry weather in town,
will not suffice for beach wear, and
either she must don her dark-colored
serge or cheviot traveling suit for oc
casional Jaunts to Manhattan, Brigh
ton or one of the other beaches, where
one may get a whiff of the sea while
enjoying an appetizing veranda dinner,
or she must invest in a tailored suit
of white mohair, serge or some other
appropriate material instanter.
In early July and late June one may
venture to the beach In a thin frock,
unprotected by a wrap; but with the
coming of mid-Summer the evenings
grow cooler, and by August at the
shore one is likely to encounter
actually chilly weather after sundown,
all their meetings at Carnegie Hall.
Before her marriage to Dr. Bailey she
was Miss Edith L. Black.
Should Governor Wilson be elected
President of the United States in JJo
vember, the social regime at the White
House after March 4, 1913, should be
a brilliant one. In addition to a bril- .
llant wife Governor Wilson has three
accomplished and attractive daughters.
They are Miss Margaret, Miss Eleanor
and Miss Jessie. They are leading fig
ures in the social Hf of the New Jer
sey capital city.
though the days may be insufferably
hot. Fortunately, quite delightful lit
tle tailored suits built of fabrio con
taining a touch of wool, yet In light
Summery colors, may be picked up
for a trifle at the Summer marked
down sales, and one may often obtain
a taffeta or satin suit, or one of white
or light-colored serge with fetching
braid and button trimming for as lit
tle as $20 or under. The Ideal beach,
suit is of white serge or mohair and'
worn with a white hat trimmed with,
wings, white gloves and white but
toned boots of buckskin. Such a suit
will be infinitely smart and knowing
in effect. A red or green parasol will
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will be appreciated on the ahadelesa
beach In the arternoom
, Hot Weather Gown.
Washington, D. C Herald.
Blazing days are not the best on
which to show off one's smartest toilets
and in consideration of this one of the
best-known dressmakers of Paris has
been designing "hot day frocks" for
his clients in anticipation of anothee
record Summer.
The frocks are of the "one piece'
order, and extremely simple In design.
The sleeves, cut en kimono, are left
wide for greater coolness, and in some
cases the neck opening is cut so low
that the gown slips on over the head
and is devoid of fastenings, fullness
being afterward gathered under each
arm by means of drawstrings.
One gown of this sort was In dark
blue foulard, with large spots of pale
blue. A large black silk bow at th
front of the bodice and a silver clasp
at the termination of the gathers under
the left arm were its only adornments.
Pale green silk was chosen for m
second gown, which had reversr of
white silk spotted and bordered with
apple blossom pink.
A Convertible Coat.
Indianapolis News.
Frank P. Matthews, of Baltimore, has
Just received a patent for a convert
ible coat. The latter can be worn In
the daytime as a frock coat or a cut
away and can be changed into an
evening coat, or swallow-tail, in a few
moments.
HAM CANAPES Rub chopped ham
to a smooth paste, moistening it with
cream or melted butter. Spread the
paste on small rounds of fried bread,
sprinkle with grated Parmesan cheese
and cayenne or paprika and brown in
the oven.
New Drag That Quickly Removes These)
. Homely Spots.
There's no longer the slightest need
of feeling ashamed of your freckles, at
a new drug, othlne double strength,
has been discovered that positively re
moves these homely spots.
Simply get one ounce of othlne
double) strength from Woodard, Clark
& Co. and apply a little of It at night,
and in the morning you will see that
even the worst freckles have begun to
disappear, while the lighter ones have
vanished entirely. It Is seldom that
more than an ounce is needed to com
pletely clear the skin and gain a beau
tiful clear complexion.
Be sure to ask for the double
strength othlne. as this Is sold undec
guarantee of money back if It falls to
remove freckles.
FRECKLES