The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-05-23
NOTES FOR THE FARM AND HOUSE,
Variety Of Household Things.

Variety Of household Things,
Ventilated bedclothes is n of the la
test inventions of English genius. They
are perforated, and permit the vapor
from the body to escape.
Waste-paper baskets are made OF
Chinese straw painted in floral designs
with oils, the same syle being seen in
racks for paper, doors for cupboards 81.
Dainty little sweeping caps are made
out of old silk handkerchiefs gathered
to fit the head, the four points being
brought back to the top Of the head
and held by a bow of ribbon.
Knit portieres are made from strips OF
silk dresses that have outliyed Their
usefulness, or such other pieces of silk
rs might be ut hand can be utilized.
These portieres have quite the effect of
oriental stuffs.
For fancy work we find peacock feath-
ers among the favored decorations.
They are used on panels, lambrequins,
table s%carfs, ect., and are painted, en-
broidered, and the real feathers may be
applied with very artistic results.
Birch bark canoes, lined with tin and
planted with ferns, or filled with cut
flowers and trailing vines, suspended
from the chandelier, have a very pretty
effect, in conjunction with other decora-
tons, for evening entertainments.
Ash grows more and more in favor in
furniture in ones country house, aspect
ally us some intelligent observer has
found out that the Duke of Sutherland's
house in Devon, you know, has ash fur
niture. The fashion has no reference
TO ash barrels.
A pretty little novelty may be made
from an ordinary hanging rack. Make
n lambrequin for it in colors corresponds
ing with your room. Underneath the
top center plated piece may be made a
neat hiding place for scissors. spool cot
ton and articles needed in every room.
New decorative wall papers simulate
to perfection bronze, brass, old and
black silver, old gold and tinted metals,
while the designs for ~friezes, dados and
decorations are made up of q mixture,
conyentionalized and realistic in high
and low relief, in the style of the best
repousse and carved work.
Japanese bottles with long necks are
made into hand-screens by ingenious
girls, and the manner in which it is
done is by placing in the necks of each
bottle an open fan. The bottle and
neck and handle may be covered with
silk, thus %concealing the joining point.
The screen may be placed beneath a
lamp to shield the eyes from the light.
Some of the prettiest shades for glass
globes are made out of pale-pink gauze
put plainly on the globe, first being
doubled three or four times. The edge
about both sides is gathered and then
drawn down tightly and tied. It is
sometimes necessary to fasten the top
with a little mucilage or gum. Trans
parent birds and flowers are often pasted
on the gauze, but the plain pink looks
best.
The circular wall decoration made of
three japanese folding fans, disjoint-
ed and fastened with the paper part
within and the sticks darling out in
radii, is still prettier as Q ceiling center
piece. In this case the knot of ribbon
in the center of the ornament Is dis
pensed with. The chandelier passes
through the hole. Still prettier it is as
a bedroom ornament, where there is no
central chandelier, but a Japanese Ian
tern is hung from the center piece.
But pottery, faience or china collected
in cabinets OIL arranged on shelves are
employed with a wrong idea of Their
purpose. Displayed in this manner the
display is outdone by every brio; brac
dealer in town. The use of these arti-
cles in q room is to brighten it up.
Nothing, says Sidney Smith, does so
much to make q room cheerful as a little
china or trifes OF the kind, and hence
all such objects should be brought into
our homes with this purpose soley in
view.
A very pretty shade for a chandelier
globe is made Of a band Of bright satin
ribbon two inches wide, gathering slight
ly at the upper edge to fit just abovethe
largest part Of the globe. The lower
edge is bordered with antique lace
about three inches in width, finished
with a fringe of embroidery silk Of the
color of the ribbon, knotted into its
pointed or scalloped edge. A chande-
lier of three globes has shades repeating
the colors Of the furniture, one with
ribbon and fringe of crimson, another
of yellow, and the third of dull blue.
Pretty mantel v~alances are now the
fashion and every room in the house
must be adorned with one. For house
keepers who have not time to sit down
and embroider or crochet them, very
tasteful ones are made out of pretty
lowered chintz which comes in stripes
8 or 10 inches broad. One c at a
cosy home was in pink and deep brown
stripes with moss roses scattered on
each, which, at o little distance, looked
as though embroidered. A fringe of
blue, brown, pink and white worsted
was crocheted to the edge, and the
whole vas fastened on q valence-board
with silver headed tacks.
Agricultural Items.
Mr.. Nimmo's recent conclusions are
especially cited as "a damper upon tho
trichinosis %shrickers":
"He inquired of the Health Depart
ments of the large cities. and the reports