The Lake County star., 1877-05-17
THE HOUSEHOLD.
EDITED ny mrs. eEo. xAros.

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EDITED ny MRS. oEo. KAToR.
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While sllentIy noting the different
styles Of furniture not long since, In
the warerooms Of city dealer, and
thinking as i examined solid look.
ing bureau and sideboard, that the
purchaser thereof could hail the first
OF Nay with smiling serenity, as far as
probable breakages Of those pieces
were concerned, was joined by On
old gentleman and his daughter who
wevo making purchases and who now
surveyed the sideboard with critical
mien. "s" you like that ?" quoth the
father. "Oh yes, replied she I'd q
hundred times sooner have II ,han
thst,n pointing to an elsborately
carved one on the opposite side OF the
room. But IT seems SO exceedingly
"Well- said she, after pause and
and they told me In Chicago that East
lake is all the rage now / was
amused by the colloquy and with the
Transparent reasoning Of the daughter,
who It was evident was only pleased
with the style. because OF Its popularity.
But an continued my inspections, i
was fain to hope that Easlake furni-
ture might always be popular, and
that the yearly accumulatiOns Of dis
abled chairs, tables and bureaus might
grow small by degrees and beautifully
less until we may entertain q few
friends without the certainty of being
obliged to send our parlor suit out for
repairs the day after their departure,
or until we can venture to occupy a
divan without seeing look Of dismay
overspread the features OF our hostess
at the rending asunder OF glued joints,
fragile upholstery, and "lretty fixins"
generally. Our enterprising people
all over the country as they have be-
come able to furnish their homes, have
spent hundreds of dollars on flimsy
furniture, that after few months use,
is only fit for q "Cheap John" auction
room, and IL the cry Of Reform, has
been at last heard by our dealers I'm
furniture, let us give thanks and pray
that sensible fashion may find
enough patronage to render change
undesirable and improbable.
Speaking Of Eastlake, the New York
Times says: HE is a perspicuOus
writer, and taste, his theme, Is only
common sense refined. Mr.. Eastlake
has invented nothing. He is the ad-
vocate Of no great theory or system.
He only pleads for taste, truth and
honesty taste, that when man sees
q bedstead he may know, not simply
that It Is q bedstead--which seems to
be the extent of knowledge with the
mass-but whether 1t Is q good or a
bad one, and why truth, that the arti-
cles Of household service shall he, in
all parts of their construction and Or
namentatiOn, Just what they seem to
be ; honesty, that our furniture may be
strong, s0lidly put together-nOtg glued,
a. is the present fashion-showing no
striking, but In every part evincing
the wOrkman's fidelity, to the end
that It may be lasting and serviceable.
Taste and truth give us good design;
truth and honesty, good workman
ship; and the noble spirit and motive
OF Mr.. Eastlake's book Is to wed good
workmanship unto good design. To
this end, he cites freely medieval ex-
amples, because, before false French
tastes corrupted honest Saxon instincts,
and before French tricks of varnish |
and glued ornament superseded good |
and woOd-carving, |
these were artisans Of their trade-real |
art wOrkmen, as the treasured speci-
mems Of their handiwork attest. So
because q man loves solid oaken din
ing-chair as good a. those used by the |
subjects Of James I, II doesn't follow |
that he Is an impractical person, who
spends his time and money in search |
ing for milk-pails of the time of Con-
or for Elizabethan pap-spOons. I
Nor does he always frown upon ma
chine work, though he will most like
ly insist that the human or animal
heads on his head.posts or mantel sup
ports shall be hand-carving and not |
pressed sawdust."
For OvENs-A basin of water pl..
into an oven in which cakes or pastry |
are baking will prevent them from |
Try this simple means.
q To REMOVE PAINT. To remove |
paint from windows, take strong bicar- |
Donate Of soda and dissolve 1t In hot |
water; wash the glass, and In twenty |
or half an hour rub thorough
ly with dry cloth.
VARNIsHING.-Befo any article Is
1t should be thoroughly
from all grease spots with
plenty OF hot water, soap and soda,
which must be well washed off. tits
also essential that the article to be
operated upon should be perfectly dry.
BAKED BEANs.-Here Is q recipe that
Is worth trying, taken from the Ohio
Farmer:
"Few people know the luxury of
baked beans, simply because few cooks
prepare them. Beans, gener-
ally, are not cooked half long enough.
This Is q sure method: Two quarts of
sized white beans, two
pounds Of salt pork, and one spoonful
Of molasses; pick the beans over care
fully, wash them, and add gallon of
boiling hot soft water; let them soak
In 1t over night; In the morning, put
them in fresh water, and boil gently |
till the skin is very tender and about
to break. adding teasp0onful of saler-
atus; take them up dry, put them In
your dish. stir in the molasses; cash
the pork and put 1t down In the dish,
80 IA to have the beans cover all but
the upper surface; turn In boiling
water till the top is just covered; bake
them with q steady fire, four or five
hOiIre. wotch them and add mora water