Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 20, Number 35, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 February 1890 — Page 6

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i. WOMAN AND HOME.

AN AMERICAN WOMAN ADMINISTERS A SCOLDING TO A FRENCH ARTIST.

Combination Among Enciltb Women—One W»jr to Make Tea—An Ex-Mlnister's Theory on the Society Novel—A "Woman of the World—Women as Farmers.

There isa fine painting in the drawing room of Mrs. Jobn B. Henderson, the wife of the ex-senator from Missouri, and the present bead of the American delegation to the International American conference, that has a bit of a story connected with it. It represents a small boy on his way to school, stopping before a wall gaudy with illustrations of a coming menagerie. Right under his eyes is a stern bulletin of the provisional government of France, but he looks beyond and sees only the painted elephants and giraffes. His book strap hangs loose, be has pushed back his cap from his blond curls, and stands with mouth open and hands stuffed in his pockets. In one corner is the author's name, "Achille-Fould." Mrs. Henderson saw the painting at the Paris salon and at once negotiated for its purchase.

An elderly lady came to her, and said that Bhe was authorized by the artist to make the preliminary contract. She nanxsd the sum that would purchase the picture. Mrs. Henderson readily agreed, and as the visitor was about to leave the house, bethought herself that she would like to know something of the history of her new purchase. "Who is M. Achille-Fouldi" queried she. "An artist of great repute," said the other. "Young or old?" "Of middle age." "Has he exhibited in the salon beforef "Yes."

That was the extent of the conversation. Later it was found necessary to have the artist himself sign the contract and give a receipt, as it could not be done by proxy. Mrs. Henderson sent for him and was surprised one morning to have a pretty girl, seemingly 24, ushered into her apartment. "I was expecting M. Achille-Fould. Can I never see him? Do you perhaps come from him?" "I am M. Achille-Fould," was the reply. "I use a mail's name so, that I will be paid higher for my work." "I am glad, you are M. Achille-Fould, instead of a middle aged artist, as I anticipated," said Mrs. Henderson, "because there will be much more time for the development of your genius. But you made a mistake in thinking an American would not pay as much for good work from you as from a man. I should have paid more if you had not deprived a woman of the honor of seeing a woman's name on that painting."

The pretty litte artiste accepted the kindly scolding and told her that she was not the only woman artist in Paris who took that means of disposing of her paintings.—Exchange.

Combination Among Women.

Combination among skilled women workers is increasing every day, though slowly, for women are naturally conservative, and they do not readily accept the principle of unionism. They hftve many of them suffered sorely from the effect of strikes, and though they realize that prolonged combination, if carried out consistently, must improve their position and in the long ran raise their wages, never lose sight of the long period during which their employment must cease till their ultimate demands are conceded. Added to which they do not forget the bitter feelings aroused —the breach between employer and servant, and above all that in a struggle, such as a long strike always must be, it is only the strong who win the weak ones go to the wall.

All these things make women shy and slow to join a trade union, while the introduction of foreign labor in England and the increasing demand, on account of their cheapness, for foreign goods have made a much deeper impression on their minds than is generally admitted. The skilled woman worker has, however, the security of knowing that she can take up her stand with a greater chance of success for with tho best women workers, as with the men, the supply is rarely in excess of tho demand. And were technical instruction given to women a good deal of the better class work they cannot do would be carried out in England, instead of being executed by French women, who are trained for it in the many technical schools which exist for women in Franc®.

In Scotland the question has been warmly espoused by the women who work in Glasgow and Dundee, aud the prospect of combining for the unskilled as well as the skilled working is very much more promising there than in England. Scotch women are more independent and self reliant, added to which, though the pay is bad, their surroundings are less deteriorating than those of the London women, and their dwellings are better and rents are lower. The rapid increase of the population and tho influx of people from the country to the large towns make the problem of how to deal with our unskilled female labor every year more difficult. The education hitherto given to women in England is purely intelleotual, and when a girl has pasred the standard she at once goes into tho ranks of the unskilled. If she can give time she may be apprenticed and learn a trade, but the number of girls who can afford to do that is getting fewer every day. The few shillings a girl can earn at ouoe is much too important an addition to the family income to be rejected, and as the majority of them marry while practically children, neither the necessity of being apprenticed nor of joining a union appeals to them.—English Illustrated Magazine.

One Way to Make Tea.

"Tho proper manner in which to make tea is as follows," said an Englishman the other day: "First warm tho teapot, which by preference should be of earthenware, or failing that of porcelain—but never of metal—and see that it is immaculately clean. Then put two teaspoonfuls of thcleaf— but not more— into the pot, and pour over it water which is within a fow degrees of the boiling stage. Under no circumstances must boiling water be used, as this would tend to bring out the tannic acid from the leaf. After allowing the tea to draw from sixty to eighty seconds by the clock, it should be poured off through a cambric strainer into a glass decanter or bottle. "A fresh supply of hoi water should then at once be poural on the leaves, and the pot allowed to draw from two to three minutes, but no longer, after which the infusion should be strained off into a swoood decanter or glass bottle and set aside. The pr©c*sss may be repeated with the same original tea leaves eight or ten time* in saeeessfeai,, each infusion being allowed to draw one minute longer than its predecessor. The decanters or battles of tea thus made wlii^i an* nofc required..for imawy diate drinking should! be carefully corked up after bwog allowed 1© cool, and should then be placed on ice ready a or oven a fortnight later if try. Ail that is require! in otvter to prepare it for d&rinktni will be to w«m it, but iwt to a boiling degree, in fi porcelain litwd suMtpaa. "The tea made by tho above pmsws—wben an ordinary #tx*l leaf is wwd—*» of ©aior resembling that of fbcrry, and is entirely devoid of all bitterness or tannic add. Hot*.

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over, it retains all its true fragrance and aroma, and possesses a flavor so exquisite that any person who has once tasted it would never dream of adding sugar or milk thereto. Although so relatively small a quantity of the leaf has been used, yet the infusion is more than sufficiently strong to invigorate and refresh the most exacting of tea fiends. "The tea leaf, it must be borne in mind, is an extremely delicate article. Its susceptibility to the odors of^ommodities near it is a source of danger and deterioration, as it readily takes the smell of coffee, spices, cheese, bacon and other articles of pronounced odor. Tea must be stored in a warm, dry place, and unnecessary exposure to the air should be avoided at all costs."—New York Tribune.- j?t

The Queen's Lack of Consideration.

It must be whispered that the chief lady of the realm is not on all occasions the most considerate of companions. Besides her disregard for the feelings of others in respect to icy apartments, she is apparently unaware that her ladies in waiting are like ordinary mortals, capable of bodily fatigue. They must always be within earshot, always ready to reproduce the daily papers (from which every paragraph which might prove distasteful to their sovereign has previously been carefully removed) and to read aloud standing for any length of time. French fijjd German as well as English books are disCussed in the presence of the royal circle after dinner, when the queen is not feeling inclined for music, and woe betide the maid who shows any sign of failing strength 1 Many ladies have indeed proved physically unequal to the tasks thus imposed upon them and liave been dismissed without further ado.

The queen is, as may be imagined, a stern mentor in small matters as in great. Her dislike to the ways and manners of the modern English woman is very evident, and only recently has she allowed her ladies to indulge in such vanities as "fringes," or to disport themselves in ulsters or other outdoor gear displaying a masculine cut. To drive a dog cart was also, in her opinion, an essentially manly privilege, and Princess Beatrice, who now revels in thepastime, had, I believe, a hard fight to obtain her mother's permission to be seen thus demeaning herself anywhere outside the castle grounds at Balmoral, writes a correspondent.

Lady Victoria's own costumes are of the simplest and her bonnets of antiquated fashion, while—must I admit it?—her indoor boots retain the broad, almost forgotten shape of bygone times, and are made of parametta, with elastic sides.

Not long ago, to my knowledge, a pretty little maid of three summers, the child of one of her favorite young friends, was summoned to Windsor to take tea with her majesty's grandchildren. The proud mother had dressed her tiny daughter in a sashless but picturesque Kate Greenaway frock—a new fangled attire which did not seem to find pleasure with her majesty, for she remarked to the nurse on parting with her: "Maggie is a nice little girl, but the next time she comes to see me she must wear a sash."—London Letter.

A Woman of the World.

Do you know what a woman of the world is? The woman of the world is one who considers what you like, and attempts, for her own comfort as well as yours, to give it to you.

She is the one whose manners are always perfect and who does not offend you by being gushing or freezing.

She is the one whose gowns attract no noticojunless by their absolute suitability. She is the one who can be friendly without being familiar, and who can repel without snubbing.

She is the one who refrains saying malicious things, not only because it will ruin the shape of her mouth, bet because they are in as bad taste as swearing.

She is the one who blows how to be most dignified at a dinner table, and yet who can enjoy a lark at supper time.

She is the one who always makes you fed at ease with yourself and the rest of the world.

She is the one who, if stewed puppy was served at dinner, could praise its flavor and talk of the civilization of the Chinese.

She is the one who can make order come where disorder has been regnant, and put everything and everybody just where it or they should be.

She is the one who is never unpleasantly candid. She is the one with whom it is a delight to associate, and who, after all, may be governed not only by her own desire to make life smoother, but by greater and higher beliefs than are credited to her.

She is the one whom it is well for your daughter to imitate.—St. Louis Republic,

A Rattlesnake Dress.

Mrs. Donaldson, who is making a rattle-: snake dress, is really an artist in her line of business, such as you seldom find in a place of tills size. Tho dress is Eiffel shade, a rich shade of brown, fine and beautiful in texture. It is a tailor thade gown, strictly on the severe English style a perfectly plain* skirt, with a panel about seven inches wide of the tanned skin of the rattlesnake. The skin is a beautiful specimen of its kind. A polonaise, also severely plain, closed at the side with straps of snake skin and buckles. A vest, shape, of the skin, and collar and cuffs of the same. With it will be worn a helmet shaped hat, trimmed with material to match the dress, but the visor will be covered with snake skin. The shoes, the uppers made of material the same as the dress and tipped with snake skin, complete this unique costume. It will be wonderfully pretty and effective, and an object of envy to some of our fair dames who delight in original and charming costumes. The lady for whom the costume is made is from Ocala, and came to Tampa especially to secure Mrs. Donaldson's work for her dressmaking.—Tampa (Fla.) News.

Women Farmer*.

Farmers wl»o find the business profitable owe much of their success to the good management of their wives. It is conceded by all that a farmer without a wife who is a good home manager cannot expect to make money. As a general thing farmers' wives are as skillful managers as their husbands, and share almost equally with them tho burdens and privations of farm life. A woman who has Iweu reared in the country finds pleasure ami health in overseeing the dairy, the gardett and the poultry yard, as well as looking after her household duties. Where a farmer has such a wife he can devote his entire time to his general farm work, and at the end of the year the profits will be wOU nigh doubled.

Tbsre are in Indiana a groat many women who farm extensively and ar« skilled in tho business as any of the men. These women have made money out of the and would notgive it up for any calling. Marion county has quite a number of women who have given fanning much -tight, and are equipped to make Use busia a ntccass. Many of these ladies are member* of the county ar *^ural and their view* areaJwa as dgfrtas tfeoeeexpressed by the male members.

Mwslda K" ard who was br :t fc up on farm at-..* of.u-2 city, believes tat successful and enjoyable faming depon:*•largely upon tl» home management by the wif*

She would have the wife be a helpmate to the fcwhand in all tilings not a slave to work, bat & woman who takes an interest in the aflbirs of the farm and manages the home so as to increase the husband's profits. She tidwifa the country home is, or should.be, the ideal one.—Indianapolis News. f®,

An Ex-MlnUter's Theory

The latest and most serious charge against the society novel is made by Edward J. Phelps, ex-minister to England, in Scribner's Ufagagine. Commenting on the fact that 75 per cent, of library patronage is for novels of recent production, he says: "The most numerous readers of novels are to be found among women, perhaps because they have more time and fewer other diversions than men. In the large class of them who derive their ideas of life and of the world from this source, the result is seen in the enorfnous and increasing business of the divorce courts, of which they and their husbands are the principal patrons. Aside from the loose and vague notions of morality that become familiar to them, unconsciously, from books they read, they enter upon married lives with ideas and expectations so false and theories so absurd that nothing but disappointment and unhappiness can follow. "Instead of the impossible and self sacrificing heroes of their dreams, they awake to find themselves married only to men, with the imperfections common to hun&nity. They perceive that the perfection they are in search of is to be found in other women's husbands, not in their own on which point they would be speedily undeceived if they could exchange situations with their apparently more fortunate sisters. It is not long before both parties to a union that has proved a disappointment are ready to escape from it or, if not, one or the other is determined to breakaway. It is probable that all other causes put together are not so prolific of divorce among the class in which it commonly takes place as the fact that its women are brought up on novels of a low grade as their habitual and almost only reading." This is the ex-minis-ter's theory.—Current Literature.

Pretty Feet.

Very little is written on the subject of feet, yet a pretty foot, although necessarily concealed much of the time—unless its owner is resolved to display it—is quite as powerful a weapon in the armory of beauty as a pretty hand

A slender yet plump foot of moderate length, with short toes, small heel, and arched instep, is the ideal of beauty and although many well dressed feet appear to possess all these requirements, it will often be found that much depends upon the dressing. A pretty bare foot is a rare possession, and a sculptor, a young and gifted woman, who had attained eminence in her art, said that she found it almost impossible to obtain a desirable model Ijeyond the age of childhood. At this period the charm of bare feet is a theme for the painter and poet as well as the sculptor, and in mamma's catalogue of baby's attractions the cunning little pink toes are sure to play an important part.

The prettiest feet on record wefe those of Napoleon's sister, the Princess Boghese, who, after her bath, used to recline griefefullyon a lounge in her dressing room with her diminutive feet, plump and perfect as those of a child, and tinted like a tea rose, carefully displayed. A lady who was admitted to the intimacy of the dressing room expressed her admiration of the feet, and especially of their peculiarly beautiful tint but she was quite overwhelmed by the reply: "Are they not pretty? My maid does them every morning after my bath." This was a work of art which had all the merit of originality, -harper's Bazar.

A Dispenser of Private Charity.

Mrs. "Marshall Field, wife of the Chicago dry goods prince, has in her household a cultivated and most intelligent young lady who dispenses her private charity. The almoner receives all the begging letters, beggars and applicants for help or assistance that come to the Prairie avenue mansion. A personal investigation is made in every case, and if fraudulent the individual is enrolled in a book of frauds kept for reference. Although provided with ready money, the almoner rarely bestows it. The needs of the family being known, they are relieved by donations of fuel, groceries and clothing.

Sometimes the services of a physician are secured old people are fitted with glasses suitable to their eyes, and braces, crutches and surgical shoes or limbs provided for crippled children. Sympathy as well as self help is rendered men and women out of employment back rents are canceled, and a gentle, effectual influence often exerted upon the land agent by which abetter hygienic condition is brought about in cheerless and unwholesome tenements. It is not unusual for this representative of sweet charity to send brain weary and careworn men and women off on short vacations, to provide country air for sick mothers and impoverished children, And to find congenial and lucrative positions for gentlewomen hitherto unpleasantly situ-ated-—New York World.

Fashions and the Stage.

Popular actresses have always proved the most immediate and the most powerful inculcators of fashion. The incomparable Vestris "set" at least a dozen "mpdes." The patterns of her dresses, her coiffures, her hose and her dippers were enthusiastically copied. The exquisitely simple but beauteous costume of Giulia Grisi in "Norma" incited the fashionable world during an entire season to appear at h*)ln and assemblies in the snowy robes of druidical priestesses, and for a time sickles were carried instead of fans.

To coma to our own times, the dresses in "Frou Frou" took all the town by storm, as those in "La Famille Benoiton" had done a few years before. A popular actress made fashionable the swathing of the neck and the pectoral muscles with lace and the embellishment of the left clavicle with an enormous bouquet. If I may be allowed to adduce an instance personal to myself, I m*y here say that a few years ago I introduced anew bonnet of quite unusual shape, which bears my name, and i9 still fashionable in the bean monde.—Jane Hading.

Women Love Chocolate.

The favorite confection of the American woman is chocolate. If one stands for a few moments in any shop where sweets are sold, one is satisfied as to this beyond a doubt Out of every test pounds that pass over the counter in their dainty boxes six pounds are some variety of chocolate. And if one joins the throng of women that flock about the counter where the things to drink sure sold, one sees nearly every one sipping her hot ehooolate from a dainty silver cup, tar else a chocolate ice cream soda from its deep gl&& A few cops of bouillon and of coffeo are asked for, but chocolate is in constant demand-— New York Evening Sun.

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Qj Champion Female Tennis Player.

Miss Lottie Dodd, the champion female tennis player of the world, lives at Burton Head, near Liverpool, and, like the real enthusiast, works at the game every day. Sbe is 90 years of ages, weighs about 200 pottnds, is healthy, ruddy and strong as a wan, bat with all her training has not lost a particle of her woomiiiBeaiL—Exchanges

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ATTRACTIVE STYLES IN FAVOR AT HOME AND ABROAD. Vl

Picturesque and Becoming fashion* (or Uttle Girls—Charatnfe Frocks for Kvtmtag Wear and for Dancing—A First Empire Oat of loor Costume.

Empire styles for children are in great favor, for their effect is always picturesque ind quite generally becoming. Our first cut shows a girl's empire frock for evening wear, in cream cashmere embroidered with pink daisies the sash is of pale green surah knd the edge of the overskirt is vandyked, with a fine kilting under it.

girl's empire krock.

A charming dancing frock for a little girl is made in soft old rose silk, entirely covered with ecru silk gauze, run through at the hem, with rows of ribbon of the tone of the underdress. The front of the bodioe shows tome gathered silk, and the full sleeves terminate with pretty cuffs.

Printed pongee represents material in higk favor for young girls'evening dresses, chiefly in Japanese designs such as quaint dragons, fish, etc. Cream striped brocade silk of various colors, with pompadour bouquets thrown on the cream stripes, is used for the same purpose and hardly anything prettier could be imagined.

In the second cut is given a front and back view of an outdoor costume in First Empire style, for a little girl. Thairock is in bronze velveteen, edged with fea£her trimming, and brightened up in front with plaited panels, in green pongee silk. Over this is a treble cape in green amazone cloth, with a yoke braided, in bronze and gold cord. The aureole shaped bonnet is of bronze velvet, enlivened with a shaded ostrich feather, and a circlet of braiding round the crown.

uttlk girls' first kmpire oostumk.

A costume in excellent taste for a girl of 11 is of plush and vicuna cloth, combined in tints of brown and dark green the redingote shaped skirt and bodice of plush forming a back and front the green cloth carried over the shoulders in the form of braces, stitched in folds with feather stitching, and continued down the back plaits of trimming forming underskirt, divided at the waist at the back with three bows of ribbon front to correspond epaulettes of green cloth, and sleeves of brown plush plush cut up at sides and back to show green between. 4,4

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A Tartan Walking Dress.

The tartan, in shades of pale blue and bronie, was cut polonaise fashion. The fronts wero full the back fitted the figure closely to within a few inches below the waist, where the skirt was gathered to the bodice and where the bodice and skirt met at the back, the junction was concealed by a band of bronze ribbon velvet, which was passed loosely round the hips and tied in along bow and ends in front. At the side the polonaise opened to disclose a skirt of bronze green velvet, of which material the sleeves were also composed. The point to remark about this dress was that the velvet sleeves made the back look a great deal narrower than if they had been of the plaid, and the easy, shawl like manner in which tho woolen was draped was so much more appropriate than the tailor made style.

ads and Fashions.

A new and particularly elegant boutonniere affected by New York men of fashion consists of eight or ten fine white carnations ingeniously wired together by the florist on a single stem, and so combined as to look like one large and very beautiful white rose.

The wheel of fashion has again brought back the white kid glove for evening wear for both men and women. t" -v 4

Tucks are coming in once more, and are deftly applied to black cashmere—a material difficult to treat now that scant drapery and long straight lines prevail on skirts.

Some shot silk petticoats, over which dresses set unusually well, have an almost invisible plaiting at the edge, and three pinked out gathered flounces above.

The capotes and toques with strings continue small in size, but hats are large and of all imaginable shapes.

The hair is still worn dressed high tor evening, making the bead look as small as possible—a distinctly elegant mode.

New styles of street gloves have tiny sachet pads in the palm for perfume, a pocket for car tickets or a buttoned case for small coin or a tiny watch.

The tradition that "making ap* the complexion is tabooed in the best society threatens to topple over, the fact appearing to be flptt upper crastdom does about as it pleases.

Printed chaliie cloths with ab&rdarcoona adgSWfl! in Anew shade, tt mauve that is alirawt ph«^, fa called tb* ophelia.

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Charming Arrangement of Flowers Upon the Satiny Damask of the Dinner Table.

Floral decoration for the table has grown to be almost as important as a faultless menu. At a large dinner recently given in Washington a space in the center of the table nearly forty feet long and eight feet wide was sunk so that the 000 potted ferns with which it was filled rose but a short distance above the table cloth. Innumerable little electric lamp6 were scattered under the fern fronds. No other lights were used in the room, and the effect was charming.

For modest tables glass dessert sets and vases are fashionable and particularly beautiful flower holders, and old fashioned silver cake baskets filled with wet moss and white flowers, such as stephanotis, arums, etc., look lovely, especially if lightly veiled in maiden hair ferns.

London florists use baskets of different shapes, lined with white plush or brocade, in which are hidden receptacles for water, and these are filled with flowers and green, the latter trailing over the handles and being kept iu place by streamers of satin ribbon and silver cord while the bags of satin or brocade, shaped *like sacks, and caught in round the neck with silver cord, form delicious cachepots. Suchtags are easy to make, and are most effective if made loose enough, while entirely hiding the vase or not, to fall carelessly on the table.

Jars of metal—brass, copper wad silverare universally appropriate to t'ue decorative placing of flowers. Blue flowers in a bowl Of burnished brass, with brown gold draperies behind and beneath them, are a joy forever and any one who has ever arranged a group of pink orchids in a classic silver vase, reflecting all their elegance of form and changing beauty of color from the mirror like breadth of a salver placed belovv them, will not soon forget the lustrous pearl like quality of their beauty. Such an arrangement finds its proper environment in a white drawing room or upon the satiny linen of a dinner table.

Moisture In Hounes.

Few people realize tho damage done to wall paper and other articles in a house by sudden changes from cold to warm and damp weather, when common sense principles in airing a house are neglected.

One evening people go to bed with a hunt for extra blankets because of the sudden and severe chill in the atmosphere. When they rise in the morning their bedrooms, parlors, dining rooms, etc., are yet chilly from the cold of the previous day, while the outside atmosphere has perhaps suddenly become not only warm, but hot and oppressive with dampness.

Inconsiderate persons will at once open their windows and doors, forgetting that the excessive moisture in the atmosphere will rush iu with the warm air and swiftly deposit itself on the cold walls, furniture, etc., and penetrate wall papers, curtains, bedding and everything within reach that presents a surface colder than the air that carries it into the house.

Of course the moisture loosens and discolors paper, makes curtains as limp as washrags, makes beds damp and musty, and generally spoils everything that water can spoil. All this could be avoided by following the plain, common sense rule, of not opening houses suddenly to suddenly changed .atmosphere, carrying an excessive quantity of moisture.

A pitcher filled with cold water and placed in a room in summer will "sweat," that is as soon as the Outer surface of the pitcher becomes cooler than the atmosphere in the room, the moistdle of the air will be precipitated upon the pitcher in drops. This simple illustration should teach all housewives to avoid suddenly opening rooms in a bouse when the outside atmosphere is warmer than the temperature of the rooms and full of moisture. The only thing to be added is that, when people have thus ignorantly or negligently allowed their houses to become damp, they should light fires and dry them as promptly as possible.

'Orange Baskets.

Orange baskets are a pretty thing for a child's party. Select the required number of fine, bright oranges and cut them, leaving half the peel whole for the basket and a half inch strip for the handle. Keep the pulp and juice for making jelly by straining through a wire strainer and using it for flavoring. Soak one box of gelatine in'a pint of cold water half an hour add a pint of boiling water and a pint of sugar add snfflcient orange juice W flavor it well and enough more water to make three pints of liquid. Strain it and, after placing the baskets in a pan of broken ice, td keep them upright, fill with the jelly. Put cj spoonful of whipped cream on top and serve on abed of pretty green leaves.

Point* for the Cook.

Gouffe, the French cook, says that "fat is the best for frying." The light colored drippings of roast beef and the fat taken from broth are best, then comes beef suet chopped fine and melted down over a slow fire. When the pan can be seen through tho suet it is sufficiently melted.

One pound of sugar stirred into fruifcofter it is cooked and yet worm will make the fruit aa sweet as ft much larger quantity added while the fruit is boiling.

Two Dainty Cushions.

A novel, light and artistic affair in down cushions is shown in the cut. This cusiiiion is covered with folds of silk in one color, forming little soft puffs that give a most luxurious and inviting effect it is usually made from eighteen to twenty inches square.

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An ingenious and pretty thing for the back of a chair is a "rose" cushion. It is made of soft silk in any of the colors of the rose. The petals crumpled, as if in full bloom and about to fall, are set on thickly, covering the entire snrfaco of the cushion, and the appearance is that of a monster bloom staffed with down. This is luxury itself.

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