Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-20
THE HOUSEHOLD.
DOMESTIC ECONOMY AND HOME DEC
GRAFTON AND FURNISHING.
The Parlor, Kitchen, store-room. Studio.
Library, Nursery, Sewing room,
Garden and Poultry Yard

| SOME NEEDLEwoRK. - Very beautiful
and rich are tablecovers of plush with Dor.
ders in applique of Persian embroidery.
| This embroidery comes down on thin linen,
| whence it is cut and transferred to the
plush. Stitches of tine sewing silk hold 1t
in place, while the edges are covered with
silk cord or gold braid, fastened by cross
| stitches in embroidery silks. The newest
idea in table-covers is the long scarf cover,
which is used for small tables, longer than
they are wide. OF these only the ends
are embroidered and fringed, like those of
a scarf, whence the name. Less costly
| tablecovers are of crash or oatmeal cloth,
| embroidered in crewels, and such have the
merit of being easily washed at any time.
| Very elaborate covers are made of the old
fashioned, stamped felt tablecover by en-
broidering the entire design thickly in col
ored silk. Mantel lambrequins have come
to be an accepted part of handsome house,
furnishing. Upholsterers make them to
match the curtains and other draperies of
the room, while more elaborate ones are
richly embroidered or hand. painted, care
being taken that the colors EN-.
ployed shall harmonic with the fur.
niture of the apartment. Very elegant
lambrequins are OF plush, ornamented with
Persian applique, as already described.
Others are of satin, embroidered in floral
designs, wild roses, apple blossoms, daisies
and dandelions, etc., being much liked.
Lambrequins of cloth, with apphques of
cloth or velvet in fanciiul arrangements,
are easily made and are very effective.
Cloth is one of the most satisfactory mate.
rails for applique work. 1t is easy to
Al - ~ = ~. l..
can be had in a great many different
shades and colors, and has the advantage,
in common with velvets, that it does not
fray on the edges. The pieces should be
cut out with sharp pair of scissors and
,gummed or pasted on the stuff 1t is to or
nament When quite dry it must be secured
with fine sewing silk of the same color, and
afterward worked over with purse or en-
broidery silk in button-hole stitch in an
other shade of color. Ii an edging of cord
is used, the button hole stitch is not re-
quired. The cord is sewn down with fine
sewing silk of the same color. When the
design is complicated, or in many colors,
or it is to be executed IN more precious
stuff, tracing should be made on the ma
terial it is to be laid upon and the parts
carefully numbered; they should lit to-
gether like dissected map.
WOMEN WILL WELCOME IT-On No
vember 18th new electro motor, weighing
only two and a half pounds, attached to a
sewing machine, and a battery of six cells,
was exhibited and explained before the
Franklin Literary Institute, Philadelphia,
by William Woodruff Griseom. The ed
itor of the Journal of the Institute says
that. the machine did both light and heavy
work, and the speed was under complete
control. The sulpho. chronic battery,
which contained one plate of zinc four
inches long and two inches wide in each
cell, was sensibly constant, and showed no
signs of polarization. He.estimates the
force generated at 1000 foot pounds.
Without engravings, long description
would be necessary to give the general
reader a good idea of what this compact
electro motor consists. The principle en-
| bodied in it, however, is thus stated by
Mr. Griscom himself 90 If bar of soft
| iron pivoted at one end SO as to move in a
horizontal plane, and semi circular mag
net is placed eoncentrically with the cir.
Gle which the bar can describe, it is found
that given force is exerted upon the bar
| at a much greater distance from the poles,
when the latter is within the semi circle
than when it is without. believe that 70
| field magnet of this principle has ever be-
fore been made" The battery requires no
attention until the reservoir is exhausted
by actual work, and is ready for work at
any moment.