The National tribune., 1885-04-30
LOYAL W0MANS WORK
Eashions---COnversatiOn Club---Brain-
Hackers, etc.
AN ALBUM QUILT.

AN ALBUM QUILT.
One Of our friends writes us to know how to
make an album quilt. Now, of course, there
are many ways, but one we recently saw was
made of triangular pieces of pink calico and
white muslin as follows: Take piece of paper
and cut piece two inches square, fold diagon-
ally and cut along the crease. Then take one
piece for the pink and the other for the white.
Sew together in strips two yards and quarter
long Join the pieces and quilt in the usual
way. On every white piece should be written,
before joining the name of the friend, in indel-
ible ink. The quilt when finished is very hand
some, the names looking like japanese figures.
A benevolent society, or Relief Corps can
add very easily to the money in their treasury
by making a quilt of this kind, charging 10
cents for each name placed on the pieces.
A NOVEL TABLE-CovER.
Select fine peacock feathers and arrange them
on good-sized piece of felt, or firm cloth of any
kind. The quill ends must be split at the bot
tom in order to secure them easily. Several
loops of wide satin ribbon viii cover the I'M
slightly part of the quilts and form a handsome
finish. The feathers must be tackled with a
few stitches here and there. Old-g0ld satin
barmonizes with the feathers, and the bows
may be of the shades of blue of the eyes"
FLOWER TRIMMING FOR DRESSES.
Now that flower petals much used for
trimming evening dresses, or the bodices of
dressy suits, our girls may make their own of
velvet or satin, as follows: Take any artificial
flower, detach the petals and place them on the
material to be used, and cut IL exactly the shape
OF the pattern. Afterward vein or tint the petals
cut out, as may be desired, and they are ready
to sew ON the dress.
Conversation Club.
Rules Of the Cgub.-1. Write briefly. 2. Write
on one side Of the paper. 3: Write 10 the point T.
Write on one subject. .. Write your best Each
week the names of those writing the best letters
style, composition, spelling, pennianship and gen,
of this column the Honor Roll First honor will
include ali OF these requirements. Second honor
will include deficiency in some point. No
others viii be named
HONOR RoLL-BEST LETTERS.
First Honor-T. G. Kittredge Walden, VI.
Second Honor-Josie Wattes Grace Scott, Ok
ford, Ind. Ed. +. Watts. Mulberry Grove Ill.
CLEANERS AND GUEssERs.
Correct answers have been sent by Chas. Smith,
Du Bots City. Pa; Sarah Mcmahon, Spring Bluff
Wis; Dell Howe daughter OF Lieut. Howe 9th
Ohio; Edith =. Watkins, Hi!isdale, Mich; F. q.
Mnn Rose Se nd asan midy M snsepy Eye
WAITS, Mulberry Grove, H.; Herbert c. Norris
Lost Greek, ". Va.
VALUE OF INVENTIONS.
FRIENDS OF THE CLUB: On the new question
before the Club, Resotred That inventions
benefit TO the laboring classes take the affirna-
tive: Boys OF the Club would you not think it
terrible yon should have TO go out to till the fields
with crooked stick q? Or if you should have to
pound or thrash wheat with a fail? What would
The farmers of Kansas do who have to thrash their
thousands Of bushels of grain? How many of the
c. e ladies would like te have kept house few
hundred years ago? All! boys, il is a great deal
nicer TO sit OF; harvester than to swing cradle,
and it is great deal nicer to ride behind the great
ironhorse than it is to ride behind team of slow.
ungainly oSen. My father is Il veteran of the 59th
Ind and the famous Fifteenth Corps commanded
Ivy Gen. Logan-Andrew Mahuran, Niekerson,
Kan
SOMETHING ABOUT MAD-sToNEs.
49,
will say the maidstone, it is popularity believed.
Will insure lis possessOr against hydrophobia and
oeath by snake-bite Western paper says that
although the stones are rare is known to exist
at Des Moines one at Louisville. and Taylor
VILE ILL., Many people doubt the stone existence.
Where the nad-stones come from seems 10
know their possessors not able TO tell. An old
Indian chief said that the stones found in the
stonlachs of extremely old buck deers. The stone
is porous, and when il is applied to a wound the
virus passes through it into the bandages. The
stone, after being washed may be again applied
+. Craig, Leornster, Mass.
CAPTURE OF WASHINGTON ARTILLERY
FRIENDS OF TIE CLUB: Miss Smith, Lincoln ILL.,.
asks, III THE TRIBUNE OF April 9, if the Washing
ton Artillery of New Orleans was captured during
the war. bly, papa can answer that question by
saying yes; for the night after the storming of
Mission Ridge his regiment was on the skirmish-
line and struck the rebel lineof retreat and cap
tured two pieces of artillery belonging to the WASH
ington Artillery of New Orleans and also the sword
of Captain Beauregard. The sword is still in the
possession oil the person who captured it-Mr. j.
ZugheIbGler. OF this place. The regiment my
u. 81 A
Maggie Young, Dubuque, Iowa.
THE VETERANS PRIZE
FRIENDS OF THE CLUE: Elite Jones, Barry Co.
Mich, got the prize ship. WHO is my Friend"
was the subject of her letter To any one who will
send me the best song, will return a beautiful
picture, showing general view of the Soldiers
Home. Give your T. o. address in fall when writ
Ing to me. This offer runs ont May IL, 1885, 1t is
fun TO the Ole vets turn up the white of their
eyes on Friday when THE TEIBpNE is delivered to
them by worthy Postmaster stranger might
think TO such expressions of delight that they
had just got good news from the Pension Office;
but the good news from The TRIBUNE OFFICE is
just decentralization p Hayca Co. F. I'd N
Y. Cav, Box %, National Military Home, Dayton
Montgomery Co. o.
COMPLETING A QUOTATION.
FRIENDS OF THE CLUE: Can be admitted for n
few minutes. j love young people? | notice a
few words from the wife OF Zee ID. Gray Co l.
18TH Iowa, in which she introduces two admirable
lines:
u slept and dreamed tina: life was beauty;
woke and found that life duty"
Add 10 this fragment the following:
Was my dream, then, shadowy lie?
Toll on said heart, 'couragco,;sy
And thou shalt find thy life TO he
A MONDAY light and truth 10 thee"
The whole found floating in some paper in 81,
In those days oi sacrifice at home-sending broth
ers to the f:cnt, never TO return-and used the
whole TO dedicate journal for the year. How
little can our boys and girls realize the intense life of
those daysAlIneria l. Bliss Stearns wife of vet
eran James H. Stearns. Co. II. 18th siich) Leoni,
RECORD OF THE LAMB FAMILY
FRIENDS CLUB: am gathering records
OF all Lamb families in the United States would
like 10 correspond with any OF the name who read
The TRIBUNE / would also like TO hear from any
who have access to old Lamb records and from
those who live near cemeteries where Lambs are
buried vii! make present TO any one who will
copy ana SEND records or inscriptions.-Frank b.
Lamb jackson, Pa.
The Curious Corner.
ANSWERS &c questions will not be published with
In two or three weeks after questions appear so
ali VIII have chance to send replies The letter of
the one sending the answers in the best form will be
given. Others viii receive honorable mention
Jane Montgomery: Rough and Ready" was the
name given Gen. Zachery Taylor by his soldiers i'm
the Mexican war-Charles Smith Du Bots CITY Pa
Wesley Brewer: Stephen A Douglas was called
the Little Giant. Mabel Yaun East Ratliff Ill
Mabel Nauu: The President who chose a seat
near the sugar barrel, when !ounging in the stores
was President Lincoln. And he was the same who
called out, Speed, what is the price Of a becstead
mattress pillows and bed clothing and W ho trans
ferred ali his effects in pair Of saddle bags and
then said. We'll, I've moved '-Nettie L. Spencer
Tunnel. X. Y.
Wesley Brewer: II was Benedict Arnold who
asked prisoner, captured by the British this ques-
ton: " II the Americans should catch me what
would they do with men During tie war with
Mexico, M bow many battles Were the Mexicans
vlctorlousT-Minnie Goodenow. Elk Creek Pa
Who WAS known a. the Path Finder? Who was
known as Fighting Joe?-A. c. Bo!inger st Paris
Ohio.
What Presidents church InembersP-yira
Stowell, Big Spring, Wis.
Name the Summer months Of Chill? What place