, 1876-03-12

18F8 QfOET6Q VI q NAAEASA Ao45o osC4 t~Noo
worth Of regalia, combination collars, jewels,
official regal1a, etc. They intend to equip 10
members in the new street uniform.
HOME ADORNN1ENT.
The Art OF Homc-!17ai1tug-N11m
Suggestions from Ladies' of Tastcs
To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune:
CHICAGO. March 9.-The articc on Home Adorn
ment in TEE TRIBUNE Of last Sunday Was move
in the right direction, A dozen ladies OF my ac~
quaintance have announced their intention OF
contributing. but I fear many OF them, when
thoy take the pen to write about or describe what
they can do go easily and 80 we'll, will hesitate,
will entertain tie notion that somebody olse Can
tell the story better, and will finally find an cx-
cuse for not writing at sll. I hope this will not
be the case, however.
Women who have tho talont Of homs-meking,
that ia, tho power to transform the plain rooms
of house into cheerful and comfortable and
beautiful homo, are found in ovory walk OF life.
cottage or three rooms may be cosy and lnvit-
ing, and havo all tho atmosphere Of home while
three-storg marble-front may be cold anu
dreary-a place merely in which people cat
and sleep. Or tho marblo-fro Mt may be
tho homo, aud tho cottage az blank
aud staring as an old barn. This depends on
the presence of the home-loving woman, having
the ability to carry out her instincts and desres
TIE POET AND AN EMPTY HOUSE.
Men. as rule, are helpless before bare walls
and uucarpoted floors. Thoy are not only help
less. but often distressed and bewilderod. re-
rambor one case in which well-knoWn and
nonu1ar poet had more discomfort ~ selecslnG
y house for his family than ho would have ha d
H.
abound in the tenderest and prottlest pictures
Of home and yet with his wife in Washington,
he was be,Ylldered in an empty house. at last
lie communicated his troubles to gentleman IN
whose cosy home he uas guest. Ihis gen
tleman aud bis wlfe went with the
It beauty, and looked aoout with genuine u
terest Our poet followed her iu sort OF
daze. At last he admitted that the trouble WAS
that he could see nothing homelAo about 1t.
The bare walls, and square rooms, anu long
halls. were to him Us severe as tho lines and
figures in q geometrical problem, and as puz-
ziing, The lady said. 1T ls q house.
not a home your wife will make it a home.
Hero is YOUR parlor. you SEQ, and there your IL
brasy !, this your d'nns-f0'n' anu '0A' ID your
rs it," said theinterested MAD, IL couldn't
| make head or tail OF it."
They went upstairs. and the lady proceeded ::
.sThis will be- your room, ana mere
is q cosy room for tho little Es!s
and this will be your gaest st,o eaam- haaa
don't you soc and COED walls for pictures, aad
| Vonr wife will make item all rs cosy as bud
| nest!" 1,, >, 90.
pictures that made the house possible nome o
| Hs wife camo aud made the possibility 1acl'
! MANY houses never become more thar houses II
| thnir owners simply because the man ls help!ese
| and the woman has not the vonanly talent o.
home-mtkiug- /,
o-araona and the rooms have the appearance o
~ nVen1rasged woman. The evidence OF lack
| teste. the obtrusiveness Of apparent eiioft, AT
Va had AZ the absence OF all characterization, an'
should be avoided.
Amonr the devices in ornamenting rooms tha
| are eomparatiye|y new to me, are Wall-pocAet
for bououets Of dried grasses and leaves: Ihss
| mar be- made half-moon in shape or etianeulss
Take stiff cardboard and cut two haIt-moons
say measuring the one or mcnes ana nElons 1srca 10
one Is for the top and is cut ont N the centfe y
"a to ]aaye strip all inch wide all around: ~
smaller one is for the bottom, ana is usea HlIu
ant cutting. The edges Of both should
pinked. Pierce holes IN ootn oMsF ;tb sna or uppe
stiletto, making them large enough 70 aom
+ha straws you buy in punches st she chm
stores There should be an equal numper
holas IN ton and bottom. AMI care snonld
taken to duly proportion tue olssanee ~ iomt I1t
| c;rcIe. Use white s:raEs, 6 or inches lonf
nntt;nq them through the holes so thar tue
, pprniacS about an inch at top ana potion
Weaye narrow ribbon (sny 4 inch wide), seafle
: | h1no. ar green, in aud out, between the etfa"
commencing At the bottom ana Teasng e4ene ra,'
: md above it tho uext, aud so on). Inns may -
8 finished With bows, etc. and. hung against u
+ | wall, makes a pretty receptacle lo1 "any oi4
i. | mental clusters of grasses, leaves, eH. -
stead of ribbon, glazed paper n 1s co,ol ua5 10y .
as veil.
il While IN the subject Of strawa. l will Say tn
q verv nratty easels for small pictures OF phos{
graphs may be made Of &c eo,o'sa 90 csnta buus
a Thesa are scarcely describabe, except 20 81
| that tho three upright straws form tr1poo wv
il for the picture and one Tor 5uppoiIl !, anu ~ ~
i. the straws joining theso short distance ;, 11o
bottom project a. bboo eoon ted IN bows
a croa.ines to hide the stitches. They are graz
ri and appropriate, and ladies who know ne 4
~ make them can teach others to 10 80 IN Il
COVERS FOR FLowER-PoTs
~ covars for toyer-pots have been ment'ons
u hnve simpler plan than the orc fisen ::
Il week, Take strips Of white paper an lnen W
than the depth Of tho pot to DO coSereu. -
26 tl,is in ereases as children DO IN MAKING PaE
q fans. @ the folds to be half an inch vide: - l
paper ahoua be long enough to go arTana ho'a nl
tt1ronoh thu fold an inch from the top aud
i sans distance from the bottom, and thron
= |nY The covers my be mado Of paper Of any col
32 Thev arc very pretty made OF drab paper lou o
10 10 as described, with strip OF golu OF sn'el pa'
., - | ot the top and bottom: ,,. =
81 81 All these may bo old to many ladies, but t
y. Tort shond not deter those who arc Inost tan
~ iar with methods Of household ornamental
y. from writing. What is old to them may % y
ch | ~ tha GREATER number Of readers. a. II.
70 The Memoirs and Correspondence or %
lima Herschel," sister OF Sir William and aunt
IF Sir John Hersche, is volume by Mrs: Jf
~ " HarschoL announced for publication by II. 1