Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 24, Number 19, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 November 1893 — Page 6

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CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PREVAILING STYLES.

That Exceedingly Comfortable and Convenient Three Plcce Salt—There Are Two Types of Dresit Skirts—The Best linings and Trimmings.

When comfort is the special object in view, there is nothing better for ordinary street wear and for traveling than what is familiarly known as the "suit"—the snit consists of three pieces, a skirt, a coat and a blonse\ or waistcoat. These pf|i suits are cheap or expensive according as they are bought ready made, made at i*£•' home or are tailor made. The piece J^' known as the coat may be made in several ways, with a tight fitting bodice, buttoned once at the waist and rolled bajk above in wide revere and turndown fNTtSdlla^ wfiJi^ stock collar on the smooth waistcoat, and having a short basque, V* jpith# dpubje breasted long coat, or it 4 may be in blazer style.

Skirts have settled down into a medium size, doubtless to be maintained with little variation for some months to come. The fashion writer of the New York Herald describes two types of fashionable skirts, both are more or less gored, jslfc4- but whereas the one encircles the figure in a bell form the other shows a slight fj/ fluting—that is to say,. it is cut much 7 wider than the first at the bottom,

There is no special class of trimming confined to one more than another. You

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see flounces placed upon umbrella skirts, but more frequently upon the bell shaped skirt, and bands are used to encircle each kind. Traveling costumes are for the most part made of plain woolen, such as diagonals, serge and cloth, and either quite plain or merely decorated with bands of ribbon, velvet or braid.

Skirts are invariably lined, and between the lining and the material there is always a layer of stiffening, which is more or less high, according to circumstances, but in almost all cases reaches at least as high as the knees. It may be quite superfluous to add that the stiffening must be tacked down arid firmly secured to the lining, not the dress materiiil itself. Thin

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nized lining for all really elegant dresses, even those in cloth and serge, but nevertheless the great majority are merely lined with cotton fabrics, manufactured BO as to resemble silk as nearly as possible. The stiffening added in the lower part of the skirt may either be buckram or haircloth. Haircloth linings give the dresses in which they are used just the right consistency, while not interfering 'with the smoothness of the outside material.

The basques of many of the new mantles will be rather full, though tailor made ones will retain their simplicity. It is probable that sleeves may in some measure decline, but they will still be full, though not very high. The portion that covers the arms from elbow to wrist is likely to continue tight for a consider-

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Able period. This feature of fashionable drees is both picturesque and sensible. There is little convenience in a sleeve that is loose jnst where one finds it always in the way. House dresses are •ttds with short trains, the skirts being •efficiently full to foil in graceful folds.

MAKING^

LACE FOB TRIMMING LINEN ARTICLES.

TJxose who have ma^e point lace will need no directions for making the braid lace, but as the pattern calls for little «W11 a beginner may safely attempt it, so we will put them In the right way by giving the modern Priscilla's design and directions for working the same: The pattern may be traced on thick paper or it may be stamped on cloth. Baste the braid on the outline, miter the corners and run the curves with fine cotton and put in the twisted bars, darning those that intersect according to the design. Bear in mind that the right side pf the work is next the cloth while working.

The Useful Soft Castard.

In making soft custard when eggs are scarce substitute a tablespoonful of cornstarch for egg and use half the usual number of eggs. The soft custard with different flavorings is used sometimes to pour over squares of stale cake. Sometimes rice boiled and kept warm in a bowl till ready for use is nice with cold custard poured round it. The various puddings make a change and are already flavored. Bananas sliced, with soft custard poured over them, are delicious.

is the only recog-

An Embroidery Pattern.

The desire for something new is ever active in the minds of women devoted to fancy needlework. The Modern Priscilla, desirous to please, furnishes the new centerpiece here depicted.

This' centerpiece is entirely new in shape, and the cut edge is to be worked

Wrltlnc Paper and Mentis. -,l

The New York Sun tells that "royal ire" is the new color which will probreoommend itself to favor among of tinted stationery, but quite the novelty is the comparatively thin gold and silver moire paper made in exact Imitation of watered silk. A faint cerulean blue and a deep yellowish green promise to be popular in the bright medley. Among new conceits for the dinner table is the magnified facsimile of a filbert in cardboard. If left whole and fiat, it bears the name of a gueet, bat when cot nearly in half to disclose the kernel it serves as folded menu.

Woman Farmers.

In Wayne county, Mich., there are 220 iromen farmers and in the whole state 8.707, with an ownership of 870,489 acres. The value of the laud is estimated at fi»,a00,000, and the earning of lbs wOBMtt aggregate

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An Eartjr Design, With Simple Directions For Reproducing the Same.

'1 Braid lace ought to be popular for two reasons at least. It is easy to make for those who are acquainted with point lace making, and their number is many. Then it affords a handsome trimming for linen articles, such as sideboard scarfs, table covers and the like. jiiiiW'ijiiiiiiiiowuiUiUiiiuiiHiiiuiiiii'iiiiuiiHtiiU'i itHM^*M ..VW' v"?

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in long and short buttonhole stitch. The forgetmenots may be worked solidly with pale blue or pale pink, and the scrolls with pale green in fine feather stitch or outline. If color is not desired, the whole design may be carried out in white.

TJy 3^ Cooking Vegetables. aJEc

Most vegetables are better cooked fast, excepting potatoes, beans, cauliflower and others which contain starch. Cabbage should be boiled rapidly in plenty of water so should onions and young beets and turnips. Never leave a spoon in anything required to boil quickly. The spoon conducts heat away from the liauid.

Growing a Vine Indoors.

The experiments of growing a vine on the wall indoors has been often successful. The common ivy succeeds best, as it thrives in a temperature of 70 degrees and over as well as in a much colder one. It has no flowers, but is a clean vine, harboring no' insects, and is sufficiently hardy to stand the strain of fluctuations in the average house temperature. The vine should start from large pots of LeMs pottery and may festoon a window or door opening or clamber at will over a wall space, where its glossy, overlapping leaves outshine tapestry or damask. With a soft sponge wet and wipe off the leaves occasionally on both sides.

y. Pumpkin Johnny Cake. Pumpkin johnny cake may be made as follows: Two teacnpfulsof sour milk, 8 teaspoonfuls of soda, a cupful of molasses, a cup of sugar, 2 of pumpkin, 8| of meal, of flour salt Bake it slowly in deeper tins than those used for an ordinary johnny cake. This would be nice for brown bread at an old fashioned "Thanksgiving dinner."

Thing* Women "Want to Know. Basques formed by small gathered or kilted flounces, square or leaf shaped tabs oar loops of ribbon will make an old gown look almost as good as new.

Waved or serpentine braid of silk and mohair in hercnles and more novel weaves is one of the new fancies.

Neck ruffe continue in fashion. Th® new pocketbooks for feminine use axe large and commodio*t&

Some of the winter dress fabrics are roagh, with a hairy surface. Women may have either «4« or capes and remain in th«

The skirts of walking dresses are all mads to ««3ape touching the ground.

THE HOME LlLnArt/-

Begin One on Well Laid foundations, and It Will Develop Day by Day.

In these days of diffusive education every home requires a library as much as it requires a parlor or a kitchen. A place to keep books in is one of the first essentials in imparting atone of refinement to a house. Yet to have the books themselves is more important than to have the special room which is their casket. A corner of the drawing room, with a table and an easy chair, pens and ink and a few low shelves, makes a capi fid "library. 41?

In some homes drawing room and library are combined, and the books elbow the bric-a-brac and the soft divans and cushioned lounges. What sort of books will you have in your home library? Remember, you need not buy them all at once. A library is like a garden. It grows by cultivation. Like the family to whom it belongs, it develops day by day, year by year. It is liVft a house. It must needs possess foundations well hewn and strongly laid.

First among its must he's is & good en' cyclopedia. Among other books of refference a dictionary of dates in indispensable. So is a compendium of familiar quotations and a reader's handbook, The very best attainable lexicon should be in some accessible spot where the children and young people may form the habit of consulting it whenever doubt arises as to the spelling, pronunciation or precise shade of meaning of any word, whether a word in common use or one seldom heard. This is scholarly exactitude, not pedantry.

In a good, and well chosen home library there will by degrees enter separation and adjustment. One shelf will hold volumes of history, another will be devoted to biography, another to poetry, to travels, to essays. The book loving boy or girl will insensibly acquire so intimate an acquaintance with the books that he or she can put a hand on any wished for volume without long and bewildered search. The backs of the books will regard the family in a friendly fashion, and some brown, fat, shabby, faded, much read, and often made the companions of daily life, will have an individuality never the portion of any but friends Of the family.^ ',

When in sueh a house a m'ember of the circle brings home a book or a half dozen bpoks at a time, nobodyis cold or critical or disposed to consider the purchase a piece of extravagance. These books are held in an estimation as high as daily food, as clothing or shoes, says Harper's Bazar, authority for the foregoing. The library among such people is the fostering nurse of all that is bright, sweet and uplifting in the home of which it is the center and the rallying point.

Salt Water Baths at Home

A thrifty resident of Atlantic City is making money by shipping barrels of salt water to various parts of the country to persons who desire to take a salt water dip in their own bathrooms.

Cocoanut Drops.

Beat the whites of 6 eggs to a stiff froth, add half a pound of confectioners' sugar and one pound of grated cocoanut. Mix together, drop from a spoon on buttered paper, place in the bottom of a dripping pan and bake in a quick oven.

Cocoanut candy can be made without cooking, as. follows: Grate the meat of a cocoanut, have ready 2 pounds of confectioners' sugar, the whites of 2 eggs beaten to a stiff froth and the milk of the cocoanut. Mix all together and make into small flat cakes. Set them on a plate to dry.,

A Laundry Hint.

Silk "handkerchiefs must be washed in tepid water, using best castile soap. After rubbing in the suds until clean rinse in several waters. Shake, but do not wring, and iron when still»,damp with a rattier cool iron until dry, after which an iron quite warm—not hotmay be used. Ironing with an iron quite hot and before the silk is dry makes it stiff and unfit for use.

A Wall Pocket-

Wall pockets are conveniences that require no recommendations. Everybody has one or more of them who has the time and ingenuity to make them.

In the cut is illustrated a pocket shaped bag. It can of course be made

A POCKET SHAPED WALL BAO

In any material, but the following will be extremely pretty: Make in antique tooeade, withcseaxn colored satin feeing*, edge.with gold cord and finish off wt& a loop in the center over the box plait. Th® shaped back is In pink all: and is crossed with a lattice work in fancy galoon.

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turned into-a bed. Primarily it is along wooden box. The first thing to be done is hanging on a cover the next putting on castors. It is attractively covered in striped French cretonne, with large cushions in frilled silk or striped linen with light embroidery, just a spray worked in the lower half, more effective than if covered with flourishes of braid and crewel.

In the same inviting corner the screen may teH its own tale to the uninitiated, being a carpenter's frame costing just 60 cents and filled in with drawn silk or Japanese cotton. An ample book table suggests the student juRt as the screen may hide a small stove for chilly days. The studio table may be furnished with a rack of narrow shelves up the back and be covered with any pretty square of linen or cloth.

For a simple yet luxurious looking piece of furniture for a sitting room few designs surpass the corner stand. Any boy who can firmly frame sides and three cornered shelves out of inch pine can be responsible for the foundation, which is then covered with nut brown, tan, pale terra cotta or willow green velveteen, with fringe on the upper shelf and frill or silk or velveteen, imder the fringe of the lower one. •'yj

Every one knows by this time the virtues of enamel as a beautifier of old painted furniture the most unpromis-

A CORNER SHELF ARRANGEMENT, ing looking things can be made thoroughly nice by its use, and old chests of drawers, dressing tables and washstands are further beautified if nice brass drop handles, which cost very little, are substituted for the old wooden ones. One shade only of paint or enamel should be used 'eicher for interior woodwork or furniture, but panels of doors, cupboards and wardrobes may be adorned in many different ways. ,•

Hints on Cooking Macaroni.

There is a very necessary point in preparing macaroni dishes. That is that the macaroni must be boiled just long enough, as it is as easily spoiled by too much or too little boiling as green corn or eggs. Another thing to be remembered is that there must be plenty of water in the kettle in which it boils, and that the water must be all the time boiling thoroughly, but not too violently. A little salt is to be added to the water too.

Thp Sunday Meal Problem.

'We don't have Sunday dinners at our house," writes a New York Times correspondent. "We have a hearty luncheon and a supper, and the result is that Sunday is, as it should be, the easiest day my maid and I have. I keep only one, and every other week I am alone for the evening meal, but we always have the supper jnst the same. We used to do, as is the practice of many families, to follow a late, hearty breakfast with an early hearty dinner at 1 o'clock. We were never ready for it, but by 6 our appetites would be sharp enough for more than the light Sunday tea, which •hrmlfl complete the trio of meals. "To have a 6 o'clock dinner on Sunday in our modest establishment meant hard work for me every other week, and the difficulty has been solved by this .doable compromise. "The dishes for the luncheon are prepared the day before, while the sapper may consist of cold meats and one hot dish easily prepared, such as escalloped oysters, broiled chops or creamed fish."

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Clever Fingers Guided by Taste and Ingenuity Construct Box l^ounges, Protecting Screens, Corner Shelves and Other Useful

Accessories—Some Helpful Suggestions.

Comparatively few persons have a practical knowledge of even the simplest carpenter and upholsterer work, and yet the class is a very numerous one which cannot afford the services of upholsterer and decorator. This class must many times either go without furniture or rely on their own clever fingers to make the home comfortable and beautiful. The hints following are given by a writer in The Housewife and are intended tognide the amateur worker:

The dressing box lounge, which opens like a trunk to receive dresses, is an especially coveted article with women who live in restricted quarters where closet room is scarce. This lounge, tastefully upholstered, may serve as a seat in some cosy corner by day, and by night be

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There are more ants to the square mile in Florida than in any other country in the world. There are ants which will measure more than half an inch in length, and then there are ants so small that they can scarcely be seen to move with the unaided eye. There are red ants and black ants and troublesome ants. But as bad as they are, 1 have never heard of them eating ont the seat of a man's trousers, as a missionary, the Rev. Mr. Wilson, once told the writer he saw the army ants do in India whilethe man was sitting on the earth for a few minutes beside him.

But the Florida ants will take out the lettuce and other minute seeds from the soil in which they are planted and actually destroy the beds. They will suck the life out of acres of young cucumbers and melon plants, uproot strawberry plants or cover the buds with earth to such an extent as to kill them. They will get into pie, pickle, sauce, sirup, sugar, on meat, in hash will riddle a cake or fill a loaf of baker's bread till it is worthless. Ah remedies failing, I took to baiting them near their nests with slices of meat, bones, apple and pear parings, and when I had from 80,000 to 100,000 out, turn a kettle of boiling water on them. I have killed during the last week over million in the space of

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and I have almost wuipped them out.. 1 bad to do this to secure any lettuce plants, and many unobservant farmers complain of seedsmen when they should attribute their troubles to insects. ^It is very curious and instructive to see how promptly the ants which escape the scalding will go to work taking out the dead, and, after piling thujj np outside first, then go to excavating again and rebuilding their cells and run

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being done quickly, the next work on hand is the laying in of a supply of food, by haul ing the dead bodies of the hot water victims into their storehouses. You mry see small black ant hauling and tugging at the carcass of a red ant 20 times its own weight, and he always succeeds in the end in landing it in the warehouse of the colony. Next you may see a sort of ambulance corps searching for the disahled. These are taken carefully into the underground house, Where the surgeons and nurses are in waiting. Then, too, you may see the timekeepers and bosses directing this one, or turning another, back on some errand or to some other duty. There is not a moment's delay, no halting feet, no idle hands, but all move as if it was their last day on earth, and this is the only hour left in which to redeem a misspent life. For lessons in industry and in perfect government, go to the ants.—Savannah Newa'

Carrot Padding.

Carrot pudding is said by those who have eaten it to, be very nice. Boil and mash fine 6 ounces of carrot, add 8 ounces of suet, chopped fine, half a pound of currants, 2 large tablespoonrnls of sugar, half a nutmeg, a saltspoonful of salt and 8 large tablespoonfuls of flour. Mix all these ingredients thoroughly, put them in a greased pot and boil the pudding for three hours.

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