The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-05-16

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upon the paper than | turn Immediate
" % the Ladies Dedartment and CLEAN
all the New Ideas t, patch up my
skeleton knowledge cap: Mrs. ,
pattern for a rug has been carefully
put away. What if ii be a rugged piece
of information, sisters. it Is none the
loss se~rviccable. and trust our kind
Center will accept my poor thanks.
must also return thanks to Miss L. \.
for the receipt with which she was
kind enough to favor me, let her rest
assured | shall follow her advice, not
only in bread-making, but in many
other instances of life, and try again.
| wonder if the daughters of this
Carolina land, as they ran-ble through
the pine groves that clothe such a
large portion of their mother State IN
everlasting green, ever i OF what
pretty little ornaments can be made OF
the grass and cones they tread under
foot or toss at each other III their mer-
nv glee: And yet is it true. One Of
prettiest hanging baskets L ever saw
was made of four pieces of paste-board,
square across the top and tapering grad
ually to meet in a point at the bottom
in the shape of a square cornucopla.
The sides OF this pointed box We're
then covered with the scales of pine
cones one tapping over the other, and
the whole finished by a small cone at
tached to the pointed 10 tom. When
the glue, with which the scales, and
whole cone were fastened, was dry,
the whole received a coat of v%araisil,
and being filed with a boquet Of our
"dew-nurSed grasses carefully
sorted, was suspended in the bay win
dow, and really my friends, you don't
know how pretty it was. Card bas-
kets and cigar stands can be made IN
like name the vanished one scales
on the outside and the inside lined
with blue or crimson silk finish
ed with a quilting and bows of the
M Besides these neat picture
frames can be made by covering a PLAN
wooden frame with cone scales. acorn
cups and shells of English walnuts and
pecans: this too receives q coat Of var
nish and frames a rustic scene TO per
lection. For my frame | made a cross
of lichens pulled from oaks and rocks,
the base (also of lichens)was ornament
ed with a few shells and pebbles while
a spray of ivy from my last years hat
wound round the shaft and fell over
one arm. An acquaintance of mine
formed a tiny basket of Vanished cone
scales against a cardboard back
ground, Just as | had done my cross,
and filled it with pretty specimens OF
dried grasses and in its cone frame it
formed one of the most attractive fea
lures of her parlor.
Thus it is that at every step means
for adorning and identifying our
| homes present themselves if we would
only use them; the trees shake their
tributes to our very feet, and the long
grasses, nodding to the breath Of a
ture along the side of every babbling
brook, seem to invite us to gather
them! But my dear young friends,
this is not all we must DO to render
home attractive; "home is what we
make it" and we will never make it
"a little heaven here below"by merely
supplying its walls with pictures, its
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mats-ah my friends. a few loving
words, kind acts and encouraging
smiles are worth more in a home than
all the paintings of the grand old mas
ters or the most beautiful combina-
tions of worsteds art can device. No.
L say again, these things are not suffi-
Gent to made home happy-we must
color every wall with the tinting Of
hope, curtain every window with kind
ness, carpet every room with charity,
wax every hall with c~heerfulness. and
flood the whole building from garnet
to cellar with the golden sunshine of
content, and then, and not till then
can we hope to make our homes in
any ways types of those '.many man
sions, eternal in the heavens" where
we all hope to gather when the night
OF this life shall melt into the glorious
dawn of eternity.
Home. home. oh, it is a theme to
make the dullest bosom burn with
momentary enthusiasm. and give such
impetus to eloquence that her culver
ing pinions shall bear her upward-up-
wagd-until she write the glorious
word upon the vault of heaven in stars,
of deathleSs radiance,
Oh We daughters of Carolina who
are blessed with homes, make those
homes bright and happy and prize
them far above gold and jewels; and