Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-26
THE DAILY REC0RD-UNI0N.
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN.


There are nine women in the London
School Board.
In icing cakes it will be well to dip the
knife often into cold water.
Platinum and gold are often used in COM
bination in jewelry and ia the setting OF
diamonds.
Salt extracts the juices of meat in cook
ing. Steaks ought therefore not to be
sailed until they have been broiled.
Designs of birds wrought with peacock
and other feathers, in natural colors, on
canvas, are among novelties in fancy
needlework.
Catherine de Medicis is quoted as having
asserted that the highest thing to be said
in praise of woman IS that she can cook
a good dinner
The newest form of women's neck wear
in Duchesne lace is half necklace which
rivals the lockets and bows in web work
which were popular last season.
A new contrivance for holding cut flow
ers is Of frosted glass, and represents an
open parasol suspended by little chains in
the window or from the chandelier OF the
drawing room.
The Normaus are credited with reviving
round dances in the twelfth century the
Bohemians with inventing the redowa, the
Poles the polka, and the Hungarians the
mazourka and galop. The cotIlhon is at
least as old as the time of Louis XIV.
The Scientific NelcS says that writing
which has become faded and illegible by
time may in most cases be restored by first
going over the surface with a sponge and
warm water, then passing over the writing
with pencil moistened with weak so!u-
ton of sulphide of ammonium.
Crushed and defaced velvet can often be
restored to its original appearance by hold.
ing the wrong side over boiling water until
the steam causes the fattened pile to rise I;
or the wrong side may be thoroughly damp
ened and then drawn several times quickly
across the face of hot flat-iron.
Byron is credited with having called
Madame de Stael, the brilliaucy OF whose
conversation gained a worldwide fame, a
"society avalanche" because of the rapid
ity with which she spoke Shelley, for
the same reason, said that Sin order to
follow her one had to convert oneself into
an organ of hearing"
An attractive floral ornament for house
decoration in winter consists of round
mass of dried moss held in shape by fine
wire, one end of which forms loop. In
the moss are stuck any and all varieties of
ferns, and when this is suspended by a
bright-clored ribbon passed through the
wire loop, it presents pleasing effect.
Now that draperies are in great demand
for curtains, lambrequins and portieres, a
comparatively inexpensive material for this
use will be much sought for. Such a
fabric is called the fashion drapery."
1t is sixty-two inches wide, which permits
the making of mantel lambrequins without
piecing. As it is finished on both sides,
it is especially suitable for portleres
The Carpet Trade Reriew says: eta
pestry as made at the present time in Persia,
Turkey, and the tapestry manufactures OF
France, consists of wOollen or other threads
sewed on the strings of the warp by means
of small shuttle needles. The Persian car
pet is formed by knotting into the warp
tuft after tuft of woollen yarn, over each
row of which a wool shot is passed, the
fingers being employed instead of the
shuttle needles. In both methods the
principle is the same. Both are formed in
looms of very simple construction the
warp threads are arranged in parallel order,
whether upright or horizontal, and the
fabric and pattern are produced by colored
threads haud-wrought upon the warp.
This may be designated the needlework
method it makes but one stitch at time.
Real Persian carpets are seldom longer
than hearth.rugs very many OF them are,
moreover, much furnished by exposure in
the bazaars. To render them more salable
they are cleaned. This is done by cropping
the surface, which in some cases is shaved
close to the knot hence, most of those
brought hither are devoid of their original
depth of pile and richness"