Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 24, Number 39, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 March 1894 — Page 6

HOME DECORATION.

HOW TO FURNISH A HOUSE WITH TASTE, FASHION AND ECONOMY/

First Olncover V.! it Things Are Jseceasa^y For onvenieiion :iistl Comfort—Next DeeitWt on 11 Cont i! Sch«me of Color—Beqn lenient* of Jloilcrn Parlor*.

It may seem quite a simple matter to enter a store of furnishings and select the various conventional pieces of furniture required, but nothing less than a continuous study of colors, designs and effects, together w:ih an intuitive perception of what is really desirable and beautiful, is necessary in order to procure complete harmony of effect. The suggestions here reproduced from The Decorator and Furnisher will, we trust, be of assistance to those who desire to'know how to accomplish this result with taste, fashion and economy.

The true art of furnishing is to first discover what things are really necessary for the convenience and comfort of the occupants of the house, and then allow the individual taste full liberty, guided by a knowledge of what is proper in design and color.

The proper way to furnish a room is first to decide upon a general scheme of color, which is the first thing to be done in the decoration of an apartment.

Of the various woods, mahogany is perhaps the most appropriate for the woodwork of the parlor. If the room has a southern outlook, gray or blue col-

KMP1KE SOFA, SCREEN AND CHAIR,

ors are appropriate, and warm or reddish tints look beat in rooms of a northern exposure henco the following scheme of decoration will be appropriate: Woodwork, mahogany walls, self tones of old gold and yellow frieze, same as wall cornice, light old red ceiling, citron yellow carpet, deep old red, with old gold, citron and russot upholstery, warm olive green a deeper tint of wall color.

As regards the furniture, ono of the most refined of all the modes of the present time is tho empire style, which was developed in France under the regime of "Napoleon I. Tho furniture of this style is usually produced in mahogany, relieved with gilt brass castings and ornaments, which take tho place of the wood carvings of other epochs. The style may be produced in highly ornate or simple manner.

The modern drawing room is often finished in a modernization of tho Louis Quinze style. This style, which in its more extravagant effects is known as the Rococo stylo, is characterized by undulating lines and curves. There is also a considerable amount of carved scrollwork. Tho stylo is the vety opposite of that hard and stony style known as the Eastlake and the ultimate expression of fygedom of lino, grace and richness of e%cf..

It is not tho custom at present to manufacture the regulation suit, containing what was formerly considered the or-

A LOUIS SEIZE SETTLE, SOFA AND CHAIR,

thodox number of pieces. The parlor suit is now curtailed to three or at most five pieces, which comprise a divan or sofa, armchair and two side chairs, or sofa, two armchairs and one side chair. These are supplemented by a variety of pieces, known as odd chairs, corner chairs, ottomans, window seats, fancy tables and pedestals. Tho drawing room frequently will include a piano, with carved piano seat, music cabinet and piano lamp.

Information About Pianos.

A writer in The Etude has the following to say about the tone of pianos: The characteristics of a fine singing tone are volume, depth, duration, flexibility, richness of timbre and reserve power. By "reserve" is meant the capacity of the soundboard to give out a pure tono not only under ordinary touch and force, but to bear forcing till the utmost limit of the pianist's strength is reached (without less of noble and musical quality). The amount of pure tone the piano can be made to yield when forced is its final test of excellence, and I may add of durability. Comparatively few amateurs are aware of tho existence of the singing tone of the piano fewer still have ever produced it.

The singing tone if it be perfect will carry. That is, it will travel along distanoe undiminished in strength and unchanged in timbre—a property which depends upon purity as much as upon foroe of vibration. The singing tone of a fine Instrument may be counted on for many years and should increase during the first five years of use, as the texture of the wood grows more flexible tinder vibration, provided the piano receives proper care. Fine pianos have a great latent vitality. They can be repaired and restored to beauty of tone when inferior instruments are hopelessly disintegrated.

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When you are making your pastry, take the bits that may bo 'eft and roll as thin as writing paper spread with grated cheese, fold and roll again. Repeat this three times then cut in strips as wide and as long as your finger. Brash with beaten egg and bake in a quick oven. Watch carefully, as they burn quickly and require to be only delicately brown.

THE JAPANESE ROOM.

It May Be Rendered Effective WithaSmwll Outlay of Money.

A Japanese room allows of rich, warm

Japanese materials and Japanese furniture may of course cost as much as you are inclined to spend, but one great beau-

A good color for the wall is dull old blue. On the walls hang a cabinet of bamboo and fill it with Japanese bits. Here and there place a bracket supporting arose of good color and hang over yonr divan a flat screen of bamboo, but do not put pictures in this one room. For the floor select either plain white Japanese matting or matting which shows auaint figures here and there, and throw aown upon it a few jute rugs.

Buy only light bamboo chairs, which are in perfect harmony with the general scheme, and select one or two footstools of the same material, but be quite sure that each one makes a comfortable seat. In one corner erect your tea table, and there let as much color concentrate as yonr purse allows. Let the table itself be of bamboo, with the two shelves covered with matting, and select your service of Japanese ware. Into the ceiling screw a strong lamp hook and hang to it a big umbrella, from which the handle has been cut, and beneath this let your table and the one chair for the maker of the tea stand side by side. Select your kettle of Japanese bronze.

Lastly, when all the rest is complete, hang bamboo portieres at the door and cnrtains of cujafouri cloth at the windows.

IIow to Make an Omelet.

The most successful way of proceeding is to beat the whites and yolks of the eggs separately until both are light then add to the yolks one tablespoonful of milk for each egg and th? frothed whites. Stir lightly together and turn into the omelet pan, which must be ready on the stove, $ith just enough hot, browning butter in it to keep the omelet from sticking to the pan. As the omelet sets slip a thin bladed knife under one edge and lift it enough to let the uncooked egg run under. As it hardens roll up a little and turn out on a plate. Do not wait for it to be entirely cooked. The heat remaining in it will make it solid without hardening. No salt must be added until the omelet is cooked, as it will make it tough. So made, an omeTfet should be a light, puffy mass, brown on the outside and golden hearted within.

Griddle Cake*.

One cupful of hot pudding and a cupful of warm milk, beaten together with a cupful of sifted flour. Let it stand over night. In the morning add a well beaten egg and half a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in a little warm water. When ready to fry, stir into the batter a half cupful of sifted flour. Butter a hot griddle and fry in small cakes, sending at once to the table. This is dainty and good.

A Homemade Tea Table.

Now that the fashion of offering tea to afternoon callers is so general tea tables of every shape and size are seen. Those that have a double stand are found to be more convenient, and such a one, recently illustrated in The Household, can be easily made from two barrel covers.

If this'tablo is painted with the ivory white enamel paint that is now so popular for furniture, the rims of thecovers

color and of wider range of individuality make by one who has had experience 4n than does the ordinary room. If yon serve afternoon tea, it can be made a real gem of a place.

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ty about a room of this sort is that it can be made immensely effective and at the same time exhaust but little money.

The inexpensive china and the low priced stuffs are good in color and excellent in design, which is the great reason of the popularity these goods have attained. The foundation of the room is of course the floor, and if that and the walls are correct the rest will follow quite naturally if you have any of that sense of fitness which all women are supposed to have.

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These are turned so that stand up and secured by four broomS stick logs, which are screwed into the covers.

lined with gilt paint and a few lines of Enamel flies, spiders, butterflies and the gilt striping the legs at the top and robins figure upon the handles of dainty bottom, it will be very handsome and spoons, especially designed for the ever serviceable, popular "5 o'clock."

WEAVING SILK RAGS.

How to Do This For Cnrtains, Table Cwers, Cushions and Slumber Robes.

Th«?re is nothing prettier or easier to

making rag carpets than the outcome of silk rags woven 'together. The House keeper gives these directions: Collect every scrap of silk, satin and velvet, whether bias or straight. Cut in strips half an inch wide. Thin silks can be cut wider and very heavy silk and vul vet narrower. In sewing lap the pieces one-half inch, sew firmly and smoothly, and as you sew roll them into one pound balls. If much satin or velvet is used the ball should weigh 1± pounds.

Twenty-two ounces will weave a yard of goods 61 inches wide 20 ounces will weave a yard of goods 44 inches wide 16 ounces will weave a square yard 12 ounces will weave a yard of goods 2 inches wide. Rules-for colored strips: One ounce of any one color will make a band 2} inches deep when woven a yard wide an ounce of any one color will make a band 2£ inches deep when woven 44 inches wide an ounce of any one color will make a band inches deep when woven 51 inches wide. By a little calculation one can plan a striped border for curtains or spreads,

The hit and miss curtains are woven by sewing all colors of scraps together, using no piece over half a yard long. These curtains are generally finished with a band of plain color near the top and bottom or a border of Roman stripes. Where you are making more than one curtain and desire stripes, the best wayis to divide each color into as many parts as you wish curtains. If you have eight ounces of red and wish to use it in two curtains, make two four ounce balls. If you desire stripes at the top and bottom of each curtain, make four two ounce balls.

Knitting silk is used for the warp, and if the center is hit and miss any color can be used, but where the center is of any plain color use this color for the warp. Light or faded silks can be easily dyed with bright dyes. Where there is no weaver or one has but a few scraps, they can be prepared in the same manner and knit upon wooden needles or crocheted. By using four knitting needles one can knit a strip one yard wide, but it is very clumsy to handle. It can be knit in narrower strips.

Crochet Lace Pattern.

Modern Priscilla suggests a neat little edge "which is very simple and therefore quickly made. It is especially suitable

CROCHET TRIMMING,

for trimming underwear, children's skirts, aprons, etc. It is worked in the width with crochet cotton No. 70 and a fine steel needle. Make a ch of 12 st First row—One in fourth st, 5 ch miss 5 ch, 11 c, 8 ch, 1 in next st, ch, 1 in last st. Second row—Two c, 1 picot, 2 c, 1 picot, 8 on 5 ch 6 O on 8 ch 3 ch, 1 in center of 5 ch 8 ch, 2 in 2 c. Third row—Three ch, 11 in 11 c, 5 ch, miss ch, 1 c, 3 ch, I in 1 c, 5 ch, miss c, 1 in 1 so of scallop. Repeat second and third rows.

A Word About Pound Cake.

"They don't make pound cake 'pound for pound' in these days," said one of the pound cake makers for the Woman's Exchange, "but the formula is about as easy to remember if one says to herself, 'Six ounces of butter, 7 ounces of flour (after it is sifted), 8 ounces of sugar and half the latter number in eggs—that is, 4. To this add a pinch of ground mace, or two pinches if you like, or a quarter of a nutmeg and the grated rind of a half lemon and the juice. No baking powder or soda. Depend on the beaten whites of the eggs for the lightness. "I know it is the custom in making this cake to beat the flour and butter together first, but I never have bad hick, and I beat my butter and sugar together first then I add the beaten yolks of the eggs, then the flour with the mace and the grated lemon rind, Mid when my papered pans are greased and oven ready the beaten whites of eggs are added to the cake and stirred in hurriedly. When the eggs are beaten to a stiff froth, I add the lemon juice to them and use the egg beater vigorously. "You do not want too hot an oven to start with. I sometimes open my oven door several minutes before putting in the cake. Cookbooks will tell you the exact number of minutes required to bake your loaf, but don't be misled your minutes will vary with your style of oven and your kind of fire. Don't always pin your faith to a brown splinter either. When your cake stops 'singing,' it is done every time."

Thing* Women Want to Know.

Bayadere ere pons showing raised irregular lines of various colors on black, brown, dull pink and ecru grounds are among the mew importations.

Prominence in the new colors is given to browns, beige, pale yellow and all thades, running from brown into lighter tints.

The large bows in black or white moire antique, edged with either black or cream lace, are the rage just now.

Flouncings are now sold gathered to their headings in wide and narrow widths, so that there is no question as to the amonnt to use in the fullness.

The tendency toward draped or double skirts is growing more pronounced, particularly in evening gowns.

It is not likely to be a year in which

^ere he any wonderful fancy staffs in fashion. Solid plainness will characterize materials, which will be trimmed often with narrow galons.

Boxes for sardines and holders for oranges are novelties out in silver plated ware.

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, MARCH 24. 1894.

DRESS AND FASHION.

NEW BONNETS, CAPES AND COATS •\T FOR SPRING WEAR.

A Season of Ribbons, With Moire Ribbons Leading—Bow Bonnets and Jet Bonnets. A Pretty Spring Cape—Latest Styles In

Coats.

The spring of 1894 is to be a season of ribbons, so the New York milliners say,

An early importation in bonnets has acquired the name "bow bonnet" from the fact that it is apparently composed of one large bow which is wired in fan-

CAPE FOR SPRING WEAR.

tastio curves. Sometimes the ribbon bow covers the crown, or else it forms a crown. Again it is placed broad and low across the front, and, newest pose of all, it is perched high at the back, with ends that droop below it. Some of the new importations are larger than the past season's Mercury bcginets. There are capotes with ample crown of opeu sign. A striking Paris hat with low orown has its brim turned up under rosette bows in ribbon matching the plaited aigrets that stand up on either side like wings.

Coats for the demiseason are made in various styles. There is the short coat with a fitted waist and large revers, and there is the long coat reaching nearly or quite to the knees. The fronts of this latter lap and button like a man's frock coat, and the notched collar is covered with velvet. The easy fitting back is made very full below the waist line, and the sleeves are very ample at the top.

A cape for spring and designed to be worn over a tailor jacket does not exactly reach the waist. It is made in cloth flecked with navy blue and is attached to a gathered yoke, the join being cover-

•A NEW COAT AND HAT.

ed by a shoulder flounce. A band of ga Ion or other trimming outlines.the funnel shaped collar and the pelerine. A knot of ribbon with loops and ends constitutes the fastening at the throat.

Among the new coats is one in brown beige, double breasted and made dressy with atop collar in black moire silk and large embossed buttons. The high collar, bib and wristlets are in black velvet This coat is quite dressy in effect.

Thoughtful Practicing.

Lack of definitenesq, of purpose is the stumbling block of most pupils. By this is meant, explains The Etude, a lack of a clear, analytical perception of what they are trying to do. Suppose a pupil attacks a page of new music. First, he has to satisfy himself of the musical aspect of the passage—i. e., phrases, sections, etc.—and next the technical aspect—i. e., which passages will need special practice and how to !q them.

When beginning to practice an awkward passage, he soon finds a place where a stumble or a mistake occurs, and he tries again and again—perhaps gets it right, perhaps does not. Instead of this happy go lucky way let him at once stop at the spot and try to see what the exact difficulty is. It will be either wrong fingering, wrong position of the hand, or a finger action to which be is unaccustomed. Then let the few notes compromising the difficulty be practiced as an exercise until it is no longer a difficulty.

Gems Made With Rice.

A good way to use a cupful of cold boiled rice is to put it into gems for luncheon. Separate the yolks from the whites of 3 eggs, beat the yolks light and add a pint of sweet milk and 8 cupfuls of flour. thoroughly and then add a tablespoonful of butter melted—which is not a tablespoonful of melted butter— a teaspoonful of salt and the cupful of boiled rice. Beat vigorously then add 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder and the well beaten whites of the eggs. Grease the gem pans thoroughly and bake 20 minutes in a quick oven.

and moire ribbons are already a preferred tion, and that he discovered a large and kind. Not only are bonnets trimmed with ribbons, but belts, sashes, neck scarfs and the huge inci*yable bows are made of ribbons. Ribbons will also be a favored trimming of summer dresses.

AN INTERESTING DISCOVERY.

An Adventurous Miner Runs Onto a Strange Prehistoric City.

Manville W. Cresworth, an English mining man well known throughout southwest Mexico, arrived at Mapimi Mexico, recently from a long overland journey through the Sierra Madremoun tains, his starting point being Culican near the Pacific coast, in the state of Einaloa. He claims to have visited section of country never before visited by a white man of the present genera-

beautiful deserted city. He told the correspondent that the wonderful city is situated about 80 miles west of Lake Colorado, in the recesses of the Sierra Madres. It occupies a basin about 10 miles long by eight miles wide, Perpendicular cliffs surround the basin on all sides, rising to a height of hun dreds of feet. The only entrance to the city is through a deep canyon, which has a width of about 80 feet. Mr. Cresworth states that he stumbled onto the secret entrance quite by accident. He gives a vivid description of the deserted city,

The buildings, he says, are construct ed of redstone blocks resembling granite The business blocks are two and three stories in height and are entirely differ ent in architectural design from the structures built by the Aztecs and Spaniards. The streets are very narrow, but are laid out in regular order. In the city is a small park which is overgrown with rare flowers and tropical vegetation. He entered the business houses and decay ing residences, but found very little of value except some remarkable

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strange ornaments made of stone. He believes that the city was looted at the time that it was deserted, whenever that may have been. No records or writ ings of any kind were found, nor did he discover any skeleton that would give an idea as to the race of people who at one time inhabited the city. None of the natives of that section of country had ever heard of the deserted city. M. Cresworth is making diligent inquiry of them. Mr. Cresworth's story is very startling and remarkable, but it is believed by those to whom he has related his experiences. He will organize an expedition to make a thorough exploratioi of the city.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat

A Sour Stomach

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A Nutritious Fancy Dish.

Cook some rice in the morning and turn into buttered teacups. When cold, turn out the contents of the several cups onto a platter. Make a little cavity in the top of each of these beautifully shaped molds, placing a little square of some kind of jelly in the openings, and with a pitcher of sweetened and flavored cream you will have a fancy as well as a nutritious dish.

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