Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-04
LADIES.
! HINTS ABOUT
var MATTERS.
Things TO Adopt and Other Things
to Avoid-Fashion Hints APP
propriate to the Season.

do Just what they can do without getting
so completely drudged out, there would be
fewer sick women, and happier homes
Study convenience in every household ar
rangement and perform every duty with
as few steps and as little labor as possible,
and do it well. We find good women every
day who run from cellar to garnet and
back again before they can get together
the necessary ingredients tins, etc, to make
a few biscuits or dish of plain cake. Not
two weeks since | found farmers wife
land one of the best women | ever knew,
and with poor healthy who went out doors
to the cans for cream, to the hen-house for
eggs, down cellar for butter, to the pantry
for spices, then into the ante-room for Hour,
and carried them all to the kitchen to make
cake, to say nothing of calling together
the dish, egg-beater spoon and baking
tins. No man would do it land | honor
their sense in that, and certainly no
woman, and especially an invalid, can af-
ford to do so. | asked this friend if she
would let me alone in the kitchen for one
hour after dinner, and with permission to
do what pleased / hunted the hammer
and nails, some newspapers and bits
of boards. l pulled the kitchen
table away from the wall and tackled
my papers back of and above it, then
drove up two rows of nails, on which l
hung up egg-beater, skinner, large spoons
and soup-dipper, rolling-pin, potato-mash-
er, cake pans gem pans and small dipper.
put back the table, and on the top Of it
set, in row, a jar with cooking salt (it was
a cracked jar but held sat all right next
to ii good one, a gallon jar, with Graham
flour, and another one with white flour
for these articles were used so many times
a day. Then put neat little covers over
them all. The spices. soda and baking
powder boxes, in row next, gave the dish
pan home in the corner near. At the
right hand of the table l set wooden soap
box bottom side up, with piece Of oilcloth
tackled over it. This held the water pail.
| hung the dipper above it. 1 could not
build the house over them and make a
sink, closets, and all the convenient shelves
and pegs of model kitchen, but l could
gather those articles that were used so
many times day somewhere near each
other, and save steps for poor, weak wo-
man. When she came oct to see about the
supper, she looked really pleased when she
said; Isn't this nice, TO stand right still
in one spot and get supper all ready ? y
[The Housekeeper.
WHAT TWENTY EXTRA STEPS DO.
Twenty extra steps taken dozen times a
day amount to eighty seven thousand six
hundred $4,000 during a year, and in
twenty-five years to over two million
(2,190,000) steps! If these steps are taken
needlessly by the weary housewife what an
enormous waste of strength. So little a
thing as this seems, when we look at a
r,ia lN tha, ,al-
weight that decides the question of good
health, vigor and prolonged life. 1t was
only very light weight, but it was the
last feather that broke the camers back
yet how many matrons are there that
could save even more than this twenty
extra steps, many times a day, by little
change in the arrangement of the tables,
dish-closets and washing-sinks. Suppose,
for example, that the dishes have to be
carried three times q day from the table to
the sink, then to closet further on, then
back to the table and 50 round and round
at every meal. Suppose, on the contrary,
there is 4 convenient closet or cupboard
near the table, with an opening or slide to
pass the dishes directly into the kitchen if
the closet be not adjacent, would not those
twenty steps, more or less, be saved, not a
dozen times, but twenty or thirty times
daily? If the washingsink be located on
the further side of the room, instead of near
the pantry. and that near the dining-room,
the illustration is still more fo-cible. We
suggest that our house-keepers look at this
and think about ii, and if they please let us
have come of their thoughts In another
article we suggest one help Prairie
Farmer.
KEEPING UP APPEARANCES.
While none of us may wish to be entirely
excluded from the pale of so-called society,"
if society demands sacrifice of our health,
duty, comfort and conscience TO its auto
cratic sway, society exacts more than we
should yield. Comfort of heart, mind and
estate, approval of conscience and an hon
est pride, think far more to be desired
than the smiles and caresses of fashionable
society, so insincere, SO ephemeral. Man
is a gregarious ANIMAL and requires to
develop his higher and nobler qualities by
association with his species, but this asso-
citation need not be with the vain, selfish,
irrational minority, falsely called society.
Far wiser and better is intercourse with
the frank, honest, kindly, cordial, great
majority, who create for themselves and
constitute the purest and best society,
wherein no fraud and sham is admitted,
and where none is required to keep up
false ppearances.-tE Exchange.
ATTRACTIVE BEDS.
There was never a time when pretty beds
were as general as they are now. Beautiful
parlors have always existed kitchens have
been clean and convenient: every year sees
new beauties added to the dining-room
the sitting-room is very cheerful and free
for all 3; and now there is not more de-
lightful room in the house than the we'll
kept bedroom. Passing the cushioned win
dow seat, the polished floor With its gay,
warm mats, the soft drapery of window
and door, the picturesque landscape on the
folding screen, the bevel-mrrored dresser
the rigidly angular cheffonnier with its
wealth of drawers and compartments, the
low rocker, the soft, dreamy light from
crystal lamp and FURNISHED chandelier, the
hand-painteG chamber china that 800 did
not buy. past lace mats, plush boxes, crys-
tai caskets. cut-sass bottles fragrant with
violet, hvacinth and lily-of-the valley-we
come to the bed, framed in polished brass,
stained cherry glossy ebony, oiled walnut,
and fresh, white oak. The wooden Stats
that small people were always falling
through and fat people were always break
ing are replaced by wire bottom woven into
a succession of long slender ringlets.
Husks, straw and shavings are put TO their
proper use-beds for cattle; and the SUI
fragrant moss, feathers as light as air or
down plucsed from the breast of the elder
duck The whole is covered with linen,
katin, lace and fringe, and is as pretty rs
sny cushion fashioned by decorator or
needle pain,er.-[C Chicago Tribune.
FASHION NOTES.
An old sunshade stripped of its former
cover may be easily recovered to match any
costume Take one of the sections re-
moved and cut as many of the new material
az was first used when olc old sunshade
was new have them stitched together by
machine sewing and fasten to the frame. A
new lining, if required, is as easily made.
The work is not difficult, and Will pay just
now. when the effect of uniformity in dress
details now so studied, requires change OF
paraSoi for time, place, and costume. 4
little ingenuity and finger dexterity com
bined go almost as far, and sometimes fur
ther, III giving finish and elegance TO toilet
etceteras.
II is d noticeable fact that ladies at the
various watering-places are wearing white
and unbleached hosiery. When colored
stockings are seen it is the exception, and
they look antique. Children's stockings
are in plain colors. but very thin un-
bleached hose are worn under these, which
serves two excellent purposes they
keep the colors from staining the skin
and the stockings from being soiled readily,
as, no matter how expensive they are, these
rich dark tlntS never look so well after be-
ing washed.
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