The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-07-22
Household Fancy Work.

pleasure, 10 brighten up and DeauClly our
homes as much as possible with things
useful and ornamental. Now some one
may say, at is well enough for those
with plenty of money to say that; as for
me, have other ways to spend mine, al
though like to see pretty things as well
as anv one, if could only afford them"
Now just stop minute and think. How
a few simple thiRgs, that cost next to
nothing except the time, and very little
time, too, it takes TO fix them. How they
brighten even the dullest room, and cheer
and shorten the darkest winter days. In
the bright, pleasant days, how little trou-
BILE it is to gather some bright leaves and
select some perfect specimens from them.
WoOdbine, sumach, blackberry, rose, rock,
maple, and many others are lovely. Then
take a warm-not TOO hOt-flatirOn and on
it rub some resin, and iron out the leaves,
and | think the result will satisfy you II
YOU have any taste for the beautiful. An
other excellent way is to oil the leaves in
linseed oil and let them dry. They are so
pretty for vases and TO put over pictures,
and to arrange in bouquet form on bristol
board then take piece of glass-say six
inches long and five wide, and place the
leaves under the glass, and cut the card
board the size of the glass, then fasten the
corners with mucilage, the same as you
fasten the leaves on the card. Then cut
strip of dark brown or gilt paper about an
inch wide and bind it over both edges TO
look like frame, and you have some
pretty mantel or bracket ornaments. An
other way TO make pretty frames for pho
tOgraphs or pictures cut from magazines
is this: Take some cigar-lighters as they
are called, dampen them slightly, and cut
them the required length, and sew row
of them on the pictures around the edge,
letting about two inches of the sticks pro-
iect from the corners then sew on an
other row, leaving just space enough be-
tween the two rows of sticks to see the
paper; then cut two pieces of the lighters
for the corners and sew on and cross; cut
The ends off in nOtcheS, and sew on either
black or steel beads in little stars or
crosses on the corners to hide the stitches,
and at intervals at the sides and top and
bottom. Th,re are all colOrs, but
the dark and light are prettiest.
rhe white ones cost 10 cents
bunch and the dark 20. They make very
pretty frames. Shell work is easy, too,
and pretty. Take some pastebOard ian
old box is best. as it does not warp) and
cut from it a cross, cover it with shells,
and YOU have a handsome ornament
This is nice recipe for cement that does
not crack or peel off. but remains firm,
Take l ID white lead, Id whiting; mix
in linseed oil to soft putty; add one-third
flour and two tabespoonfuls japan; have
it soft enough to spread. 1t takes several
days to dry il. When you 90 to the beach
in summer gather all the shells you can
aud, if you can, get some foreign ones tC
fhau, hranlynt aH1
without sides, and cover with shells, and
it will be very handsome. Even the com.
mon shells look very nice when varnished
with white varnish. Pink foreign shells
arranged in the form of roses, with some
of our native shells, called silver shells
which are yellow, look very handsome
At the back of your pictures place some
wide-necked bottles filed with water
Have cord fastened round the neck o.
the bottle long enough TO let the bottle
down so it will not be seen, and put the
| cord over the same knob as the picture Is
| hung on; then put some water-ivy in the
| bottle, and let it run over the picture; il
grows very fast in water, and looks 81
| pretty. Take some pieces of straw braid
! and sew two or three rows around some
small pictures; they make odd little
! frames; finish ct the corners with rosettei
made of straw. Little baskets are pretty
made of pasteboard and covered witt
gray moss and filled with evergreen anC
| bright berri or autumn leaves; or they
are very pretty ornaments to cover thu
| baskets with shells and fill with the sam,
/ or pretty little stones. If you want ;
pretty and useful match-lighter, take ;
piece of pastebOard and cut it into any
| shape you like, and then cut a piece o
! sandpaper the same shape and glue it on
! finish il with a narrow ribbon and loop Il
| hang it up. Cut SOME perforated care
! five inches long by four wide, work a pref
| ty pattern on each side, make little bag
and fill with heliotrOpe or any perfum
powder, and place between the cardboard
plait some ribbon the same color as tn
pattern on the board (about an inch-wid
lutestring ribbon, bright red or blue, ]
pretty, and sew the ribbon on one side
place the two pieces of card together, an
leave loop to hang it up; this is yer,
pretty indeed.
HE was as black a negro as ever wa
painted by proficient artist in lampblacb
and was terribly indignant because som
other darkies had invited him to join
benevolent society: ''Whar's de use" h
| OIC " 1Ou hJSSNA
tell me dat A nigger can't do dem ting
like a white man You all iine manevC
lent s'eiety and de able-bodied niggers i
de crowd has to pay to sport de one VIII
can't and won't work. OATS no manevC
lence! De best manevolence is to hel
yourself; dat's me, Pete. Yer heerd mel
And he tramped on about his bushes
jingling his nickels in his pocket.-AtLGnt
(GG.) Constitution.
a FoURTEEN-YEAR-O OLD girl in SAND
Hill, n. Y, eloped with a school boy, g
married, and returned home with him
be forgiven. She was soundly span Ied 3
her mother, and the husband on ais wa
out of the house was kicked eightee
times by her father. They had never res
any thing like that in novels.
As a mark of esteem, the King of Ho
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