Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-18
Household Notes.


Household Notes.
HOME DECoRATIoN-An exchange con-
tains the following information as to how
home can be decorated inexpensively.
There are Hartford ferns, for instance.
They are beautiful and quite inexpensive.
Tack them over the doors, around the pic
lures, and over the windows, or on the
lace curtains. This will pay in beauty for
all trouble, and keep all winter Or if
you have a door in the middle of the par
tition in your sitting-room, fasten some
brackets very securely each side of the
door about halfway up. On them put
common flower pots planted with Madeira
bulbs in the center and Wandering Jew
and Inch plant to fill up the pot thickly.
Train the Madeira as it grows over fine
wire in any shape-an arch is pretty. The
other vines will completely hide the rude
pots in a very few weeks. You can paste
paper over the pots till the vine is grown
if you prefer not to see the plain ware. Give
plenty of water; they do not require sun.
FRAMES FOR CARD PICTURES. Cut a
piece of perforated cardboard two inches
larger than the picture, letting it run to a
point at the top; cut the edges all around
In squares, points or other fanciful designs,
and work in each design or star in colored
worsted (split zephyr; this makes the
back for the frame Now cut another piece
of cardboard the exact size of your picture
cut out the center, leaving the sides, the
top and bottom the width OF the margin ON
your picture work design in each cor
ner; row of plain cross stitch around the
inside edges and across the top. Place this
in the center of the piece of cardboard ;
fasten on by working down the sides and
across the bottom through both pieces, the
same as across the top. Braid or twist
some worsted the desired length, fasten at
each side and hang. If you wish to orna-
ment the frame more you can sew glass
or colored bead in each star around the
edges.
An EMBROIDERED SOFA PILLow.- This
is of black satin, with wheat heads, pop
pies, daisies and grasses embroidered
on the edge with cord of gold and car
dinal. A more serviceable pillow for a
sofa or lounge can be made by crocheting
four stripes-two black and two cardinal
in Afghan stitch in this way Dc the two
black stripes twenty stitches wide and
fourteen inches long. The red stripe can
be made for fancy by crocheting three rows
twenty stitches on needle) plain Afghan
stitch the next time in taking the stitch
up, take up three stitches, chain four, take
up three, chain four, and so on to the end,
then three rows plain, and make the little
loop again. Join the stripes together in
the usual way by crocheting cord on the
right side. The under side is pretty. done
in one block of cardinal, eighty stitches
wide and fourteen inches long
HANDKERCHIEF CAsEs.-For gentle
man, the size OF the case would be eleven
by eighteen inches, doubling down the CEN
ter; for lady, fourteen inches square it
should be lined with silk, lightly wadded
and scented. Cut piece of satin twenty
SIX inches long and eleven broad, line with
fine flannel and quilted satin over it. Turn
in the edges all around and sew over neat
ly /; fold the two ends in toward each other
until they meet to within about an inch
Sew over the double edges at the sides and
fold up the case. The handkerchiefs slip
in on either side, into the two pockets thus
formed, the plain ones being arranged on
one side and the fancy ones on the other
These cases are sometimes made ike a
large envelope.