The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-10-26

IouuuCutly duOpt hICdIuO TWO TulcS, W
tut short his losses and let his profits run
IN.
This course may be adopted on small
farm as well as large one; and the small
farm, although admitting less of expensive
would have the advantage of
being wholly under the eye of the owner,
instead of under the hired agents of the
extensive domain, and would in the long
run prove eminently satisfactory.-Coun-
try Gentleman.
Social Amusements in Old.Time France.
1t is amusing to note the devices by
which these social and pleasure-seeking
coteries sought to amuse themselves, and
to pass the time which hung heavily on
their hands. At one period it became
for men to busy themselves
with embroidery and other light work
which had hitherto been the exclusive
province of the ladies. Entering the
salon, you would observe gayly-dresscd
caviliers seated at the embroidery frames
or stitching away at piece of tapestry;
even grave statesmen and ponderous phi
losophers might have been seen busily
embroidering birds, flowers and coats
of arms. Then there came about fash
ion of unraveling the sill1cn and metallic
threads of tringes and tissues This was
called "purfling." The ladies of quality
were wont in this to make a pretense Of
doing something useful and economical.
At first they and their male gallants en-
ployed themselves in picking out the gold
and silver threads from old garments,
worn trimmings, epaulets, and so on.
"On a circle of ladies being formed"
says Tame, "a big unraveling-bag in
green tatfeta is placed on the table, which
belongs to the lady Of the house; immedi-
ately all the ladies call for their
bags" The gentlemen were expected to
supply the rather costly materials for this
curious pastime; on one occasion the
Duke de Lauzun supplied his guests with
a harp to be unstrung and unraveled. The
ladies, after thus separating the threads,
We'd with each other in selling them, and
thus made merit of earning an income
If they destroyed a garment worth a
thousand francs, and then sold the threads
taken from it for hundred, they regarded
it as good operation.
Not content with unraveling old gar
ments, they would .caprlciously destroy
new ones in the rage for excelling in this
peculiar accomplishment. One day
lady, as she swept out of the drawing
room, took it into her head that the gold
fringe which dangled from her robe would
be capital for unraveling; and without
hesitation took her scissors and cut it off.
" Ten women suddenly surround man
put his fringes and laces into their bags,
just as if q bold flock Of tomtits, f1utter-
ing and chatterlng in the air, should sud-
6on1v dart IN d low fo y,111nly <,F itc footl,
ers. Thenceforth a man who enters Cir
Gle of women stands in danger of being
stripped alive, -
II al die fancy.work on which ladies'
employed themselves. the men seem to
have taken part. Poinsinet, in one of his
omedies, represents a young Marquis en-
tering room where two fair damsels are
embroidering. One is working a piece of
dress-trimming, the. other Marty founce.
The beau examines the embroidery with
the eye of a connoisseur, points out here
and there the specially good touches, and
is too polite to notice any defects. He
takes little gold tude out of the pocket
of his richly decorated waistcoat, and Sc
lects a dainty gold needle. He goes, to-
the frame at which Cidalise is working,
and finishes the flower which she had be-
gun. From her he moves tothe sofa, and,
selling one end of the founce, assists Is
meme, to whom he pays special attention,
to complete her task" At this time it was
the custom of the ladies invariably to car
ry their work bags with them to the even
receptions, in which they had not only
their embroidery materials, but the last
novel, the popular song, and their patch
boxes and rouge pots. Gentlemen also
carried deftly-embroidered little bags into
company, which held i" a whole arsenal of
cutlery and fancy articles, such as boxes
of different shapes filled with lozenges,
bon-b0ns, snuff and scent"
At another period the fashion Of the day
was to cut out drawings from books and
pamphlets, and to paste them on screens,
lamp shades, boxes and vases. The skill
in this was to so arrange the drawings, or
parts of different drawings, as to produce
a curious or amusing effect. Then there
came season when all the rage was for
charades and riddles, which gave Pc
culiarlY good opportunity to exercise the
light and rapid wit SO conspicuous in
the French. Every evening, the drawing.
rooms we're contated into inipromptu
charades. Some lady w0uldj suggest .
word or phrase, and forthwith 1t would
be converted into the subject OF sprlght-
ly little play. Many Of the word games
now current with us in America had their
origin in the necessity the French salons
were under in the last century to divert
themselves. . In some of the, salons the
fashion of keeping daily chronicle of
news, which was too often mere chrOn-
icle of scandal, was adopted. Nine.
Doublet de PERSIAN issued bulletins which
she called :. Nouvelles q Ia main - in her
apartments two registers fNef4 kapfs de
of authentic news received here and there
by her guests, the other Of fOating rumOrs
and on dts; and from these the budget of
her chronicle was made up and circulated
throughout France. -Gsergs n. Toscle, in
Appsetons Journal for Nooember::' . 80
For cleaning jewaelf:y5' there there is nothing
better than ammonia and water. IF very
dull OF dirty, rub q little soap on 3 soft
brush and brush them in this wash, rinse
in cold waterx drYv fiMtEin -ApYold silk
handkerchief, akd then rdb wish buck or
channels skin.s Their freshness and bril-,
lianeE f6lSn this aaeAmelK E1anA - SA6s
passed by any compound used by jewel
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The work of Prof. Draper, of the
University ofsNew York. Sn thsassC Conflict
Between Science and Religion" has been
put upon the fndet Ezpurgasorius u tie