Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-10
HIT AND MISS FOR LADIES.
MATTERS MATERIAL TO MOTHERS
AND MAIDENS.
What to Wear and When to Wear
1t Home Decorations ana
Culinary Suggestions
DECORATIVE WORK FOR AMATEURS.

DECORATIVE WORK FOR AMATbuRs
The framing of photographs is now an
Art in itself. Ingenuity is taxed TO provide
suitable and original frames. With all
their dash and fine effect these frames are
in fact simple and may be easily manu-
featured by the clever amateur. The ma
terial in most frequent use is tea-chest
mating, and fine wicker mating and
woven-matting The use may be best illus
trated by few examples. The first thing
in choosing a picture is TO consider the sub
iect and adapt the frame accordingly. For
example, here is couple OF lovers in the
moonlight, A narrow strip Of blue velvet
surrounds the photograph, leaving no white
as margin. On this is laid a mat of tea
chest mating, silvered. The mating is
laid on pasteboard. the edges neatly turned
under. This requires little dexterity, but
no more than is demanded in the covering
of plush frames. Another strip of blue vel
vet overlays the mat, and the frame is
added. This frame is mating OF another
braid, stretched over a rounded wooden
foundation This is also silyered. A har-
vest scene on the contrary, has a strip of
Another strip of old gold velvet precedes a
frame of gilded mating, as described above
In other instances the outside frame is
painted red or blue as the subject may sug-
gest.
The fine bamboo striped mating to be
found at the japanese stores makes beauti-
full mats. Among the novelties of framing
is a large photograph of c, D. Weldon s
painting, "a Dream of japanese Dolls"
There is wide mat of this shining mating,
and on this at intervals are japanese fig
ures The frame is covered with red and
gold Japanese chintz, material much
used, that can be bought for fifty cents q
yard.
There seems TO be no limit to what can
be done with japanese SUITS. Frames COW
cred with japanese stutfs are further orna-
mented by small japanese metal orna-
ments. The japanese parchment papers
are also used as mats their colOrs, especial
" in reds, being admirably suited for this
purpose To use them the picture is laid
down and the required size is cut out Of the
mat. turning under the edges neatly.
The japanese stuffs by no means exhaust
the amateur trainers resources. \ charm
ing sea piece, with a woman's figure on a
balcony overlooking the waves, has a plain
wood frame. over which is a white netting.
Through silver rings in the corners passes
a rope, silvered with excellent effect. Other
marines have silvered nets.
Ropes serve various ends. Another pict-
ure with plain, rough wooden frame, has
three cords as thick as the little finger
stretched over the wood, interlacing at the
corners into a pretty ornament. The ropes
NAV be silvered or gilded Wooden frames
left rough or made rough are desirable. A
harvest scene, for example, has a rough
frame, and in the alternate corners is a
small hchen, which any one accustomed to
artistic work, with hot poker can readily
make, since it is burned in. Another
wooden frame has leather straps and
buckles across the corners, and is, of course,
gilded. A third frame surrounding a mu-
steal subject has a sort of bridge in the cor
ners, across which is stretched fine wires.
Other fancy pictures are draped. For
example, there is d photograph of young
girl, lightly dancing, holding her skirts IN
her hands. The frame is covered with a
thick upholstery fabric of cadet-blue, with
a large, bold floral design. On each side
the material is draped curtain wise, looped
back There are, of course, no flowing
ends, everything being fiat and compact
New York Tribune.
HAND SCREENS.
A curious little hand screen is made Of six
sheets of pink tissue paper, a sheet of bristol
or card board, half yard Of pink satin,
yard and half of quilted pink-satin rib
bon, three-qqarters of yarl; of Pink-satin
ribbon not plated, a spool of pink sewing
silk and bottle of mucilage. For the
handle, cut from a small japanese fan the
long bamboo stick, which answers nicely
and is stronger than wood Of any kind.
From the bristol board cut two circular
pieces each six or seven inches in diameter.
Smoothly cover one side of each piece with
the satin and overland them together, the
satin side out. Make slit about two inches
deep in one end of the bamboo handle, and
insert the satin circle. Use pins as rivets to
fasten the screen and handle together, one
pin to each end of the slit, passing them
through from one side to the other, and as
the points Will be too long, cut them off
with pair of sharp pincers, leaving a
small portion of the pin to be turned
against the handle and hammered down
fatty, thus holding the screen and handle
the circle paint with water colors pretty
design of birds or flowers; or, instead of
painting, bunch ofartiiicial pink roses, buds
and their foliage may be fastened. The
tissue paper is then to be cut in strips about
four inches wide the entire width of the
sheet, then fringe the strip quite finely,
leaving half an inch at the top for a head
ing to he pasted to the screen. The fringe
is then crimped with the scissors or the
back OF a knife by gathering or pinching
it up between the fingers and knife, as a
rutiie is crimped. Each piece is 10 be done
in this way, then unlolded and shaken out
that the fringe shall not be matted together.
Coat the plain heading of the fringe with
muci!age, and paste one piece at a time all
around the outside edge of the circle Then
row after row, each one falling closely over
the other until the satin is covered to the
small circle which contains the painting or
flowers. To finish the edge of the last row,
which is fastened to the satin, sew on the
quilted satin ribbon; the plain satin ribbon
is tied in a bow round the handle. In past
ing the fringe on the screen it must be
allowed to fall outward, as the feathers on
q fan, and each side of the screen must be
covered in the same manner They are
very convenient 10 use as screens for the
face when sitting beside the fire, or as a
shield for the eyes from lamplight. -
american Queen.
VISITING DRESSES.
Extremely handsome visiting dresses are
shown, made OF heavy Ottoman silk, the
skirts arranged in very wide kilt plaits,
with bodice of silk velvet and drapery of
Persian brocade in fine but brilliant color
ings. One elegant costume is made of
dark-green Ottoman silk, very rich and
beautiful in quality: the skirt Is laid IN
kits eight inches wide, and beyond the
edge Of each plat shows a fold of dark
green velvet these folds Stimulating extra
kits. The green velvet bodice is cut like
a close-itting jersey, and gamished with Il
Ia. =, IN te,f, IL
and beads of amber, ruby and olive-this
trimming greatly enriching the appearance
of the otherwise plain bodice. The drapery
of satin brocade which covers the joining
of skirt and bodice reproduces in its ORR
entail design the rich and varied colors of
the bodice trimming and is simply finished
at lbs edges with wide hem. \ black
velvet jersey, jet embroidered, and fastened
to a black satin and velvet killed skirt, is
also extremely stylish and effective, the
tunic and back draping being made Of
hlscl, lace suDerbIv beaded in ipt