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Notes on Household Decoration

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nough to cover the basket leaving some
little distance all around. Cut out the
petals of the flowers in red cotton twill
and tack them down upon the Holland in
their places, fixing them after with red
crewel overcast round the edges OF the
flowers, pointing the stitches in the d1rec-
ton IN which the petals grow. Link the
stalks and leavesi in red crewel stem stitch,
and the stamens of the flowers in single
long stitches headed with French knot.
Line the embroidery with piece of Hol-
land the exact size of the basket, hem
ming it on the outside with fine white cot
ton, and leave the edge single. Turn mp
the edge on the right side and border it
with n strip of red twill, sewn on with red
crewel, herring bone stitch.
Very pretty curtains, which can be
laundried and look as well as new ones,
are made Of white muslin with large round
dots the size of silver halfdollar.
Loop them back with plain band Of rib
bon. These are pretty for bedrooms or
for the common sitting-room. They look
well with no other edge than a hem.
The following directions make a very
unique and handsome tidy, and it is com
lucutcu tSpScluIlN 10 ld'lItS MilOoc tihlc
for doing fancy work is limited. 1t is
easily made and shows off remarkably
well for the work that is put into it..
Take for centre piece square of cretonne
with a Vatican scene, or any one with
some gNyly attired figures upon it. Fol
low the outlines of dress coat or mantles
with tinsel cord, which comes in all col
ors and is very cheap. 1t is sewed on
with very fine white thread, over and
over, and the stitches do not show. A
few stitches of bright colored silks may
be put in for the high lights, and the
more tinsel decorating the figures the
more gorgeous the effect. For the bor-
der take piece of cretonne with pretty
stripes follow the pattern as before with
the tinsel, and baste these stripes around
the centre. Line the back with soft sill
esia, and where the border joins the CEN
tire sew on narrow velvet, and add a row
of tinsel on each edge of the velvet. The
edge may be finished with fringe or anti
que lace. 1t is fascinating work, and
when once begun is quickly finished, and
ideas come when the tinsel lines begin to
grow under your fingers. Curtain bands
may be made with stripes of cretonne out
lined in tinsel Lined and bCrdered with
fringe, it really has quite semblance to
old tapestry work, especially when the
cretonne is well chosen, the color5 are soft
and many of the designs graceful. A
simple tidy for Il chair in common use, is
to select square of cretonne whose fig
ure seems to be complete III itself, and
trim this all around with an inexpensive
cotton lace, or with knitted ficelle lace,
which you can do yourself, and which
wears remarkably well. An old chain
may be wonderfully frightened by this
inexpensive and easily made tidy.
Seasonuble RecIpes.
A capital aud inexpensive pudding fol
children may be made as follows Take
deep dish, cut some slices of stale bread
into neat pieces about one-quarter of al
inch thick, take off all the crust, grease
the inside of the dish thoroughly with 6
little butter, cover the bottom with slices
of bread, scatter some nicely stoned and
chopped raisins over the bread, with a
little grated lemon peel, if the flavor be
acceptable place another layer of breaC
and raisins, and so on to within about al
inch and half of the top of the dish
pour over rs much milk as will fill the
dish almost to tho top let the pudding
stand for short time add more milk ii
it becomes all soaked up place piece Of
butter on the top and bake in moderate
oven.
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hot
A 1alic;ous dish for desert is made O
civ ewoot oron,rsa neoled and sliced on,
can If ,,ine,on5In and one Grated cocoa
nut arran,ta ~ eIic,s in n GLASS disl
With plenty0 Of powdered sugar between
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ter will make the cakes brown nicely and
help to form Il sort Of crust on the out
side. If YOU have no cider, pour little
hot water over some apple peelings and
let it stand for an hour,