The Osceola times., 1882-04-22
THE HOUSEHOLD.
Learning 10 Cook Bed Room Floors Sham
Pfllows-short Items.
LyARNINo TO COOK.

Pfiiows-shert Items.
LEARsISo TO COOK.
A jddicious mother will so manage her
daughters that even at the early age Of
13 they can. in an emergency, prepare
"a meal of victuals" A thorough do
mestic training is very useful to girl.
At school she always has a teacher or
a fellow pupil at hand to help her over
hard places, but if she is set to make
batch OF bread herself, and attend to II
from the time the sponge is set till the
loaves are taken, sweet. fragrant, golden
brown, from the oven, caloric. perse-
verance, delicate manipulation, self re-
lance, neatness, and acquires skill and
the habit of carrying her work in her
mind, as one act of neglect or forgetful-
ness at any point Of the process may
spoil the whole.
Because some unwise mothers do not
see in the stated and skillful perform
ance by their daughters. of household
services certain and valuable culture
which cannot be acquired at school, they
are willing to do themselves, what in
Justice and kindness to their daughters
they should require Of them.
Girls, left to their own devices, waste
a great deal Of time which might be
utilized to their advantage. A girl who
can climb trees, who can dance hours
without fatigue. or jump rope ia very
very dangerous pastine, by the way;
who can lake long walks, who can skate
and row-can also sweep and scrub, and
make bread, and wash and iron, if she
ia encouraged to do 30. These are the
accomplishments che must possess in
order to make happy home, though
she hay have half dozen servants at
her call.
Those who have sufficient curiosity
TO investigate this subject will find that
many OF the most famous women in lit
erature and art were as skillful in those
accomplishments considered specially,
as they were with the pen or pencil or
chisel. In training girls to be useful,
and ready to meet any emergency,
mothers confer upon them an inestima-
BILE blessing.
BEDROOM FLOORS.
There is with many excellent women
a sort of horror attached to bare floors,
yet for bedroom they are far healthier
than carpeted ones. In all cases of Cpl
demic diseases in the city, the first act
in fumigatiug the room Is TO have the
carpet taken up and thoroughly cleansed,
an expensive and annoying process. In
all sick rooms carpets become soiled and
dusty and are difficult to clean /; while a
bare floor can be wiped off with damp
cloth and no noise. OF course light shoes
must be worn on bare floor, as there is
no mufiliEg of sounds as with a carpet,
vet the advantages of bare floor are far
above carpeted ones. For all ordinary
bedrooms they are cleaner and far more
wholesome. Strips of carpeting or rugs
laid down can be taken up and shaken
every morning, il necessary, and no bed
lint accumulates to breed foul odors or
diseases. ANY ordinary floor can be
stained for trifling sum, If the expense
of wood carpet is felt to be too great. In
chambers with bare floors a mat can be
laid in front of the bed and dressing
table.
SHAN PILLOWS.
The latest style is to have two sets Of
pillows. one for show and the other for
use. The sham pillows are like the Dol
ster filled with excelsior and covered
with exquisite cases. A piece represent
ing the sheet turned over the spread,
matches the cases in design. A bed
made with these looks beautifully
through the day, and at nightthe servant
removes them. They can be gotten up
very costly both in material and work
manship. Fine linen heavily embroid-
cred by hand looks quite as artistic as
lace-edged ones and are really richer in
design, the selection OF the pattern being
really the main thing. Usually the in
tials are wrought in, the less showily the
more artistically.
SHORT ITEMS.
To air feather pillows place them in
the open air in the shade. and let them
remain most Of the day, beating them
occasionally. They grow lighter and are
sweeter for frequent airings Ex, client
pillows are made of horse hair curled.
These can be treated in the same man
ner. Husk pillows are rather too hard
10 become favorites in general use.
Bolsters really look better than they
are, for very few people like their heads
so high in sleeping as the bolster and the
large sized pillows now in use make
them. But they are part and parcel of
the bed made by all ordinary house
wivee, and no young housekeeper would
think her bed complete without them.
They are now most generally filed with
excelsior and removed from the bed
with the sham pillows at night. Bet
ter so.
Silk dresses should always be busted
with soft wooden cloth. A brush will
give the silk an old, shiny appearance
after awhile. No good dress should lie
long with the dust in its folds. A soft,
allwool bunting is easily busted, does
not crease badly, and is the very dress
to wear on occasions when a dark dress
is proper. and when one does not like to
wear ANYTHING easily damaged. These
items were given us by first class Dress
maker, very careful, fashionable, eco.
nomical woman.
Amateur cultivators Of geraniumns, as
a general thing, seem to fear to use the
knife could the plant suffer pain they
would not be more reluctant to cut. The
proper method is to prepare the plants
for taking in long before the time for
lifting them; but il is too late to advise
that, as il is TO suggest pruning them at
the time of taking them up. Even at
this late day it is better to cut back the
geraniums to good shape than to let
them remain as they are, misshapen
things. OF course each plant will have
its own needs in this respect, and only
general advice can be given. Cut back
the long stems in such manner that the
plant will form low rounded head, and
remove altogether such branches as will
make the head too much crowded.
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