The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-16


whitewashed, wash in vinegar or saleratus
Wata&
To brighten the inside of coffee or teapot,
MI with water, add a small piece Of soap and let
It boil about forty five minutes.
Cayenne pepper blown into the cracks where
ants congregate will drive them away. The
same remedy is also good for mice.
If gilt frames, when new, are covered with a
coat OF white varnish, all specks can then be
washed off with water without harm.
To remove grease from wall paper lay several
folds of blottng paper on the spot and hold not
iron near it until the grease is absorbed
Strong black tea, used cold forms an excellent
prophylactic against common sore throat. A
solution Of table salt, one dram to pint, is also
efieacous.
The injurious action of coffee on the organs of
digestion is said to be obvated by the use Of
sugar with it, and in this case 1T is not only
harmless, but absolutely beneficial
To remove vaseline stains, cover the cloth
with piece of brown paper ard press with hot
iron, changing the paper as 1t becomes saturated;
or sponge the cloth persistently with ether.
very pretty cover for a parlor milking
stool" is made of golden brown silk serge, with
conventionalized apple blossom in shaded pink
silk with the stamens in gold silk between the
petals.
Tinsel outline embroidery is a fancy of the
moment the design being Japanese chiefly. 1t
Is applied to canvas grenadine and other thin
textiles and where many rich colOrs COM
bined is very effective.
A pretty way of draping mantel valances for
summer is to them with muslin or lace,
lacking the same at intervals, SO that it will fall
in graceful waves, showing here and there
glimpses of the colored material.
An excellent tooth powder for constant use
may be made of two ounces of precipitated chalk,
half an ounce of powdered cutie fish bone and
half an ounce of orris root. also powdered. If a
Y1la cd 10 al pI1t
fish bone
Furniture needs cleaning much as other
woodwork 1t may be washed with warm soap
suds quickly, wiped dry, and then rubbed with
an oily cloth. To polish it, rub with rotten stone
and sweet oil. Clean off the oil and polish with
shamois skin.
A Mexican authority gives the following as a
reasonably sure cure for cold: Pour about
half pint Of boiling hot water over about a
dram of puverized camphor, and inhale the va
pors arising therefor ten to twenty minutes
Great relief is at once experienced, and after
two or three repetitions the discomfort is said to
disappear entirely.
A charming bureau set is composed of Chinese
linen. At either end are irregular groups of
disks, some filled in with darned work in gold
eolored silk, others worked in lattice patterns
Against the filled in disks are pale purple iris
lilies with one or two pale green lance shaped
leaves. The mats show the filed in disks and
lilies; both mats and spreads edged by fine
linen lace.
A pleasant summer drink is made by the fol-
lowing recipe: Boil half an ounce of hops, half
an ounce of ginger root, bruised, in one and one
half gallons of water for twenty five minutes.
Add one pound of brown sugar and boil ten min
utes longer; then strain and bottle while hot.
When cold it will be ready for use. 1t must be
kept in a cool place. Dried horehound may be
used instead of hops
A handsome bu ffet spread in old German en-
broidery is fastened as follows: Four squares
are made oblongs by the use of diagonal inser
lions of TorchOn lace. In each half diamond
section is embroidered design of scrolls and
foliage, with quaint heads of dragons in white
linen fosses, out lined with dark blue in va
rety of stitches The spread is richly bordered
all around by deep Torchon lace. This Ger
man embroidery is extremely popular in white
and blue orange and brown, and all its combina-
tons
A pretty tablespread is of creamwhite batiste
finished with broad hem, hem stitched with
cream-whte silk. Powdered over the surface of
the spread are dainty groups of small pink clover
blossoms with bud and two or three little leaves
II olive green's Another spread of Kensineton
crepe is deeply fringed with its crinkly
rawlings. On either end is painted and en-
broidered a branch of yellow single roses, the
petals and leaves exquisitely shaded and the
stems and stamens embroidered deeptoned
silks.
writer in a household journal SAYS Il have
known man who had grown dissatisfied with
all the cooks, whose fastidious palate served him
chiefly as source of discomfort, to eat won
derful breakfast Of roast contender sweet
corn, carefully Soasted over hard wood Goals, in
wire grdron-and pushing back his plate at
last with sigh, he exclaimed, as he met the
slightly surprised eyes of his very English SON.
i haven't tasted it before since | was boy; and
It tastes just as good as it did then, he added
with languid triumph"
The latest style of combined EN- broiderv and
ribbon work just out is "Ribbosene." "Ribbo-
sene" is done with arrasene crewels and silks for
the foliage and stems and with a moSS-ke or
erimped ribbon which comes in exquisite shades
of orange, heliOtrope, violet, pale blue pink and
yellow This ribbon makes lovely violets,
arbutus, jasmine, forget me nots, panses.
geranium, lilacs. snow balls, daisies, oranges and
blossoms. 1t can be used oD any textile that
takes Italian ribbon work, but it differs from
that in the much richer effect of its presenta-
tons.
For bureau spreads and sets for summer use,
Congress canvas is favorite material. 1t is
daintily decorated by bands of well-shaped
ornaments in pale blue and pale pink in loop
stitches worked in alternate squares of each
color. Lace is the favorite trimming of these
delicate spreads which should De laid over
white or colorcd spread Of silesia. Congress
canvas is also ornamented by of shaded
ribbons. very narrow and bright in color, run
through draYn-wo borders and left in loops at
the intersection of the rows. Orange color, garnet
and pale blue or lemon are the colors generally
used.
For peach tarts take ripe, juicy free-stone
peaches, pare them and cut them into small
pieces; leave out the stones, half of which must
be cracked and the kernels banched and mixed
with the peaches. Mix in a sufficient quantity
of sugar to make them very sweet, and set the
peaches away till the sugar draws out the juice;
then stew them without water) till quite soft.
Take them out, mash them with the back of a
spoon and set them away to cool Have ready
some shells of fine puff paste, baked of light
brown. When cool put the peaches into the
shells having first mixed the stewed fruit with
some cream. Crate white sugar them
A salad dressing with cream instead of oil is
made thus: Beat two eggs in bowl; add by
degrees, stirring persistently. a dessert spoonful
of French mustard linked with sweet herbs,
teaspoonful of salt, q saltspoonful of white or
black pepper. a little cayenne Ito taste), third
of a cupfu of vinegar or half as much, with the
juice of lemon, and cupful OF nice, smooth
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