The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-04-18
FOR THE LADIES.


That once were her babes delight,
All through the misty spaces
She follows It's upward flight.
Little she thought OF moment
so gloomy and sad as this
When close to her heart she gathered
Her child for Its good night kiss.
She should be tenderly cherished,
Never grief should she know,
Wealth, and tile pride OF princess,
These would mother bestow.
And this Is the darlings portion
In heaven-where she has fled;
BY angels securely guarded,
BY angels securely led.
BroOding In sorrowful silence
Over the empty nest,
Can you not see through the shadows,
Why 10 In all for the best7
Better the heavenly kingdom
Than oil riches Of earthly crown:
Better the early morning flight,
Than one when the sun il down;
Better an empty casket,
Than Jewels besmlrched with sin;
Safer than these without the fold,
Are those that have entered In.
The Scotsman.
Our readers need not suffer from having
their hands affected by water or soapsuds II
the hands are dipped in vinegar-water or
lemon juice Immediately after. The acid
destroys the corrosive effect OF the alkali
and makes the hands soft and white.
A mat for the floor in front OF bureau,
or perhaps needed in another part of the
room to save the carpet, can be made of a
coffee sack, by cutting il the size desired,
and hemming the edges under; then work a
border in Germantown WOOL and your in
itial or a bud or two would be pretty for the
center.
If you have an unsightly mantel let a car
penter make you board, and cover it with
blue, pink or cardinal paper muslin. Place
the board over the mantel cut a piece of
muslin the length of the board, in some
pretty, fanciful shape, and drape it around
the edge of the mantel Lambreauin pat
terms may be purchased but are not neces-
sary IL one will exercise a little taste
Cover the whole with plain or dotted Swiss
or nottingham lace, either of which can be
bad for % cents yard Where any looping
is needed place a knot of ribbon of the same
shade as the muslin lining.
Fill goblet or any other glass dish with
cold soapsuds made of the best quality of
washing soap, put in your lace and place in
a strong sunlight for several hours, often
IL it seems necessary; when bleached
rinse gently in three or four waters
and If you want it ecru squeez-
ing the lace, and changing the water
or yellowish white, dip il into weak solu-
sire to stiffen it slightly, dip it into very
thin starch; provide yourself with paper
of fine needles, recall the forms and looks of
the collar when first purchased, take a good
pincushion and arrange your collar in the
right form and gently prick into place and
secure with the needles every point and fig
ure in the lace as il was when first pur-
chased; leave il to dry and press either be-
tween the leaves of heavy book or lay be-
tween two pieces of flannel and pass
heated iron over il. Applique lace can be
nicely washed by first sewing il carefully,
right side down, to piece of wooden flannel;
wash, stiffen slightly, and press before re-
moving from the flannel.
A room with grand, new-looking carpet
in IL, and very little else, is dreary place
enough while one with scarcely any or no
covering at all, but plenty of other things,
can be made cosy and delightful. Let il be
straw mating and homemade rugs, or
painted floors and ditto; but, until parior
is provided with few good pictures, how-
ers either cut or growing, and, at least,
white clay figure or group of some kind, it
has no right to a slrpet. These things edu-
cate, and the carpet does not; no one ever
called a carpet loop-hole of the soulf Very
fer carpets are properly used; men with slip
pers on their feet and tacks in their mouths
pull and stretch il into every possible
left uncovered, and obligingly notch out
places for the various recesses. until the ex-
pensive fabric is utterly spoiled for any
other room than the one to which it is fitted.
1t is very ugly, too, arranged in this way
being far more picturesque as large square
or oblong rug, bOrdered and trimmed with
fringe, and showing all around it yard or
so OF dark, polished floor. A bordering OF
inlaid wood work, known as parquetry, is
very pretty and not much more expensive
than first class Brussels carpets Such
floor covering has a sort of old-time and
eastern look aboat it, and may be taken up
and shaken with comparative ease-a few
nails along the edges keeping it in place
when down.
The most important thing in a home is
its atmosphere. do not refer to the COM
mon air, however essential that, in its puri-
ty, may be to physical health. There is in
every family another subtle, invisible, but
constant force which makes and molds char
acter As there is fashion in dress and
coloring in art, and a style in speech, and q
tone in music, so the home life has its DIS
tinctive atmosphere. which is the product
of many combining causes, and which edu-
Gates more effectually than rules or precepts
There is a worldly atmosphere. All things
whatsoever are viewed through It. Habits,
opinions. aims and conduct are under its
control. All thoughts all ideas, all under
takings draw their support from its frigid
elements. As icicles are formed in winter,
so selfishness grows and hardens under
its pressure. The worldly atmos-
phere insures sharp and biting winter in
every home wherein its blighsing rigors are
allowed to reign. Hardhearsed people are
brought up in the atmosphere of worldly
homes. There is an intellectual atmosphere.
So far as it goes it is benehcient. 1t quick
ems mind, develops power, supplies substan-
tial themes for thought and talk. 1t gives a
certain dignity to home above anything
which bare material splendor can impart. A
home without books, pictures, newspapers,
articles of virtu and pleasant trifies to glad
den the eye is no home at all for anything
more than the bodies of its occupants. In