Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-05-19


takes oil readily, and is an effective back.
ground for vines and flowers in outline.
Stripes have run down plain fabrics for
portieres, which appear in graduated
shades separated by silver or gold threads.
The material is cut in lengths to reach the
floor, and hangs in straight, heavy folds.
A Bible.cover of green serge, embroid-
cred in crewels, has 2 border around the
front and back of all the flowers mentioned
in the Psalms, and I. II, S. in the center.
The flowers are all in natural colors, the
letters in gold.
Mirrors are multiplied in rooms OF quite
limited dimensions to apparently increase
their Ella and small ones of graceful shape
hung in a good light are ornamental, as
well as useful in rejecting the figure at
various points.
Jaunty little aprons for home wear and
for service at festivals are made of white
or brown linen, with border of Kate
Greenaway figures across the bottom and
| group of figures on the pocket. These
figures are usually worked in one color.
The summer comfortableness of rattan
chairs has suggested the use of the ma
terial for the lazy lounge, and this kind of
couch bids fair to be the summer fashion.
1t can be made very gay with bright rib
bons and foot-rests to match are a pretty
addition to the boudoir.
Here is suggestion which should be
borne in mind: When you have the wood.
work in room painted, it is a good plan
to have about two inches of the floor
painted also; have the paint the same
color as that of the Dashboard then if
when changing carpets, the carpet will not
come close to the wall, the little space left
will not be so unsightly.
Colored glass enters largely into house
decoration this season, and among the diff
| ferent forms 1t assumes are oblongs, which
are suspended in the windows. Those bear
ing lights of birds are selected for conserve
tories, and flower designs for aviaries.
| pink or blue tints, on which is painted the
bright colored rose or deep-hued violet.
A remarkable " floral diary" kept on a
recent journey up the Nile by Mrs. Eugene
Benson, wife of the artist, was written
with needle on long strips of eau de Nile
| silk. The records of this exquisite diary
were in silk of every color to be found in
the blossoms under Egyptian skies, all the
strange tropic flowers discovered in the
course of that fascinating journey being
faithfully copied.
When, says DR.. Squib, the fixed stopper
of glass bottle resists all management
such as warming the neck with cloth wet
with warm water, by tapping, and by the
wrench, or by ali these in combination
there is another means which will almost
always succeed. Let the bottle be in
verted SO as to stand on the stopper in a
vessel of water SO filled that the water
reaches up to the shoulder of the bottle,
but not to the label. Two or three nights
of this treatment may be required some
times before the stopper will yield.
A lady writes Last winter was much
troubled with green fly upon my tea-roaes
1 dipped the plants in hot water, smoked
them, and in spite of all the lice would in.
crease. The present season | have over
1 come them, and my roses are blooming
and the foliage beautiful and vigorous
This was effected in the following manner,
by the use of what shepherds know as
sheep dip: A ive-cent paper Of chewing
tobacco was stepped in one quart of hot
water and tesspoonful of -four of sulphur
was added. After twenty-four hours Of
sleeping and shaking, the liquor was
strained into quart jar and kept in the
flower. stand. A rather stiff, small paint
brush was dipped in the liquid, and the
yonng shoots and other parts of the plants
were brushed nth it, removing the lice
from the brush Dy dipping it in tin cup of
hot water. By going over the plants three
times in about three weeks they were COM
pletely freed from the pests. and L haveseen
none since.