The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-10-02
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GOSSIP ABOUT WINDOW GARDENNING.
y correspondent of the Ladies' Floral
Cabinet says: l have some hints on win
dow gardening which will probabls prove
OF some value to those that are always
trying to find out different ways of grow
ing and arranging flowers. First, pro-
cure 4 wooden box, quite shallow, and
about twelve inches long and eight inches
wide, and if convenient line it through
the inside with zinc, and punch about
four holes in the bottom of the box for
drainage. Then proceed rs follows: Fill
the box with rich dirt think what is
called chip dirt is very good, as l have
used it for growing plants and they
seemed to thrive splendidly-then mix
with this chip dirt some leaf mold, II II
can be procured, and if not just Il little
sand and dirt will do now you have
your box ready To plant your flowers;
81 you may choose lust what flowers you
like. | have box in which is planted
coeuls, ivy, verbenas, portulaca, Wan
dering Jew, and thus they form Il mini
allure window garden. l think that if
one would plant in a box row of hya-
cinths, a row of tulips, and a row of GRO
cuseS, and have them all bloom at the
same time, ii would be a beautiful sight,
and in winter who would not enjoy
them? l think it is SO cheerful to see
flowers in winter-even green leaves are
pretty in winter. l would advise every
one to grow the green Wandering
jew, and keep it through the winter, as
it is quite easily kept; if watered occa-
sionally with ammonia water it will keep
green and grow luNuriantly through the
winter. We have some growing in
hanging basket that has grower To the
length of six feet and nine inches, ard
every one that sees it admires it; 1t l.
the longest one | have ever seen.
When YOU have your box all filled with
plants YOU can ornament it on the out
side by covering il with rough bark,
which can he procured by taking a walk
in the country around the woods, and then
when it is covered varnish it with Damar
varnish and it will be quiet pretty. An
other pretty ornament Is 10 take bowl
of water and put in two sweet potatoes,
and in several weeks they will sprout and
throw out their green leaves, and 1t will
be n beautiful vine and can be trained
in any manner which the taste of per-
son may desire.
And still another beautiful window orna-
ment is to have a Wardian case filed with
Gala lilies and water lilies and lycopodium.
4 good wav to make Wardian case il
toprocure a common table and then To take
off the top and turn it up (the wrong
side up) and line it with zinc then get four
window sashes one for each side and one for
each end, and also one for the top, and it
makes n very cheap ward case; and rs
ward cases are very expensive, this will
not exceed, | do not think, more than
five dollars, If it does that much and
You cannot get one already made for less
than twenty-five or thirty dollars so |
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very highly. Another ornament is to
get large white sponge and plant in it
wheat, grass, fiaxseed, or rice, and place
it in a saucer or plate filled with water,
and immer-e it daily, and in a week or
two it will become green, and then it can
be suspended in window with 4 picture
or common cord run through it.
HOW To MAKE BAG CARPETS.
If you want something for your kitch-
en- floor, firm, warm, and durable, from
which spots can be easily removed, which
can be shaken, turned, and be rs good rs
new again for several years, use rag car
pets. They can generally be obtained of
carpet dealers at from sixty cents to one
dollar a yard but often smoother and
hand>omer article can be made mt home,
at least ready for the loom. For this
purpose save the old clothes-old flannel,
sheets, and underearments, old dresses,
in fact, everything which will make long
strips. Old clothes of good colors are
doubly valuable. Calicoes not too much
worn are excellent material. Cut into
strips about an inch wide, sew end to
end, and wind smoothly into balls of
about one pound weight. Allow from
one and one-fourth to one and one-half
pounds of rags to a square yard of carpet
ing. Collect all odd pieces of any color
Co. L. 4
Cut and mix these Thoroughly before
sewing, so rs to make this stripe rs uni
form rs possible. \ few pounds of rem
nants from a WOODEN factory or soft list
ings, of any needed color, make nice
stripe, and require little sewing. Do not
put too much black into kitchen car
pet, as it l. not Il strong color and shows
the dust more than other colors. \
stripe of several shades of red brightens
up carpet wonderfully who objects
to n little brightness in the kitchen?
White wooden rags take Il nice cochineal
red, white cotton a durable green from
fustic and logwood set with blue vitriol
A cinnamon color may be dyed copper
As. Select coarse strong warp of some
dark color-brown and slate colors are
good-allowing one pound of warp for
every three and One-fourth yards of car
peting- Keep the exact weight of rags
and warp, to compare with weight of
carpet when returned, and employ u
good weaver. Many prefer a Kitchen !
carpet put down with rings, as it car |
thus be easily taken up and shaken.
HEARTY BREAKFASTS.
In large majority of cases, says the |
Journal of Health, it will be found that |
the best and hcartiest meal of the day |
should be eaten in the morning. If the |
alnGInor ,,ft I,o. ha.,, |
too late or has not been excessive in |
quantity or indigestible in quality, the
stomach will be rested and active in the
morning after the individual has enjoyed
a cool bath. The stomach will then re-
spond quickly with the necessary gastric
juice for the solution of food, and, if "A
fair amount of exercise is taken during
the day, large mass of food will be as
simulated and converted into blood and
tissue. With good substantial break
fast no great amount of food will be re-
quired during the remainder of the day.
One further meal will be ample, and that
might better be taken at from two to
three O'Clock in the afternoon than at
any period, if business engagements only
permitted it.
The breakfast may be made from any
kind of wholesome food, and the fewer
kinds the better. The dinner should be
light and readily digested, if sound sleep
Is desired and strong appetite and perfect
powers of digestion next day. If hunger
comes, bowl of sweet milk and we'll
cooked mush of Indian meal, or other
unbolted grain, will allay it, and will di-
gest quickly: One square meal " in ev-
cry twenty-four hours is all that can be
taken care of by many>4veak stomachs
and more than this is an excess and in
duces headache, nausea, and distress. Ii
dinners are abandoned, and especially late
and heavy dinners, myriads Of dyspeptics
would be cured But under the exigen-
cies of city life late dinner cannot
well be avoided. This need not DE the
tremendous meal it is customary to make
it, if the breakfast be substantial and
nutritious, and not "a thing of slops and