The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-11-19
LOYAL WOMANFS WORK
The Household, Conversation Club,
Puzzles, etc.
The Happy Household.

The Happy Household.
HAIRY HOUSEHOLD: Reading the TRIBUNE, saw
you desired me to send You some suggestions Tor
fincy-uorl and cooking. ii can assist YOU IN
any way in the LOYAL Womans Department VIII
most asSurCdy do
Here Is an easy way TO make
A VERY PRETTY PLAQUE.
Take a piece of pastcboard, cut IT round, or any
shape you desire: then measure some velvet or
sitin allowing am inch TO turn over the edge Alter
IT,, covering has been sewn on take ribbon the
same shade as the velvet satin, run thread
through the center OF it, which makes fuilness,
then the ribbon on the edge. But hTst hand-
paint some pretty flowers on the plaque. Mnc has
iucilsias painted and they are beautiful Ii you paint
a bunch OF flowers tie a small bow of ribbon Qhe
same shade the border on the stems, making at
look like a natural flower. After it has been deco
rated, iasten the ribbon around the edge then
either faSjeH to the top brass cham or loops OF
ribbon with which To hang 1t by. A snow scene Is
also very pretty painted the plaque, with dia-
nond dust proiusely sprinkIed on tie paint before
Ii dries.
CREAM CAKE.
most excellent cake is this cream cake and also
Cdke-one cupful of -four. one heaping teaspoon
full of baking powder four taolespooniuis oil water
CreGsS.2Ome teaspoonful of essence of lemon.
one-baT cup of sugar. three-fourths OF a cup OF
milk one tablespoonful of corn starch. Boil the
cream until thick. Bake the cake in three different
pans, and when cool, put the cream between each
one. Ice it or not as you desire. VIII SEND you
something else soon, if desired.-Ella Hull, Muir
physborO, III.
WINTER FASHIONS.
Fur is the favorite cloak trimmings.
Bear is worn on young ladies wraps.
Lynx is the most beautiful fur for suits
Bands of plush trim cloth wraps prettiy.
Chenille bands in favor for brocade wraps
The newest buttons are as largeas crackers.
Deg collars of oXydized silver are worn by young
girls.
The dog collar is claspedtight around the band
of the dress.
Oxydized silver buckles, with clasp at the waist,
are in favor with cloth dresses.
The Astrakan jacket with loose front and half
fitting back, trimmed with buttons as large as
butter plate, Is in high favor.
Feather bands desirable for trimmings OF
costumes of silk satin.
The fleece lined Jersey cloths are among the
durable Winter fabrics.
The Sata costume with variations is Winter
favorite. 1t requires Is yards of 2i-nch serge and
Is yards of braid for trimming. The braid Is put on
in fanciful style on the front of the skirt and side
panels.
Editors Chat
THE TRIBUNE has no free list such as you write
about Mabel
The only msspelled words in the letters of our
correspondents this week are: WELDON" and
"revengefull-" How should they be?
VIII our lady friends of the Conversation Club
send some suggestions for making pretty Christ
mas souvenirs? Ella Hull has thanks for nice
letter.
Thanksgiving is coming. Will each of the Club
send some reason why he or she is thankful?
Conversation Club.
Rules of the Club Write briefly q Write only
one side Of the paper 3. Write to the point. 4.
Write one subject. 5. Write your best. 6.
Send answers 10 all puzzles for use OF Editor Each
week the names of those writing the best letters
style, composition, spelling, penmanship and gen
eraI merit cousidered-wilI be named at the head
OF this column the Honor Roll First honor will
include all of these requirements. Second honor
will include a deficiency in some one point. No
Others will be named.
THE CHINESE QUESTION - PHILANTHRoPIC
VIEW.
FRIENDS OF TIE CLUB: On the question. /" Re-
solved, That Chinese Immigration should be pro-
hibiled in the United States, take the negative.
This is free country. and should the people of
any nation be prohibited from settling here,
could no longer boast of it being free 10 ali
tions. Should we prohibit the Chinese from coming
here the coasts of China would be closed to the
United States, all trade between the two countries
would cease, and China become our enemy.
The Chinese may, on first coming here, work for
% cents per day. but they wiki find that others
receive mere, and will demand il for themselves.
Some may settle here, but think more return TO
their own country after a few years i think the
day far distant when they will settle here
bers large enough to create civil war.
As to their religious views doing the Americans
harm, think that the Protestant religion is built
on too firm foundation 10 be SHAKEN over
thrown by heathenism. Much is being done for
the Chinese, both here and in their own country;
but should they be prohibited from coming here,
our missionaries would not be allowed to land
there, and we, Christian Nation, would lose
our hold on them.-Carrie f. Eager, West sutton,
Mass.
OUR ADOPTED HEROES.
FRIENDS OF THE CLUB: / am the daughter of a
soldier who, although at present a citizen of
glorious United States, is OF English birth As such
!, loyai-born girl, would say 10 Mir. Harry II.
Moser that dissent from his views prohibiting all
foreign immigration.
The great of European immigrants finding
homes upon our shores intensely loyal. In our
great war for the Union, did not many foreigners
fight molly for their adopted country our beloved
United States? and did not many loya-born cIti-
zens stay quietly al home and let them DO IL? Shall
we, then, debar the poor, oppressed Irishnan and
others from enjoying the freedom with which God
has blessed US?
Allowing that our jaiIs and our alnlshouses are
full OF foreigners, do not other foreigners help pay
the taxes that support these institutions, III which
are many Americans? 4 do not approve of unre-
stT1cied Chinese immigration, but let not suily
the fair fame our country has always borne for hos
pItallty by building Chinese wall each shore
OF the American Continent.
Papa was private OF Co. A, 4th n. Y. H. A. and
loves the flag lac fought under,-our glorious Stars
Stripes,-if he was q forelgner.-Ella l.. Morgan
Fiandreau, Moody Co., Oak.
DISCOURSE IN NATURAL HISTORY
FRIENDS OF THE CLUB: As kind Editor re-
quested me- some time ago, 10 give description of
the ecbinoderms, or animal that walks Oh liz head
will now do The echinidae. a family of echi-
nodermata, do not have heads distinct from their
bodies. They are covered with a calcareous crust
or shell. This shell Is pierced with rows of holes
from which spines project These spines are at
tached TO tubcTces the surface of the she'll and
III the manner OF bali and-socxet joint. BY means
of these spines lin some of which they few and
sirongD they can walk on the ground. The mouth
Is situated al the lower orce OF the shell and they
sometimes move with it down. Whence the say
ing, it walks its head. Edgar Bowers Box
~. Chippewa Falls, Wis
TEACHER Oh PREACHER?
FRIESIs TEE CLUB: On the question, Re-
solved That more responsibility rests with school
teachers than with ministers OF the Gospel !" take
the affirmative. The teacher has the training of
the mind when it il like wax. 1t be molded
any way then; just as 1t is nodded when young, it
Will remain through life. AS the teacher is, will
be the school III the teacher is good the school
VIII be good If moi good, the school will not pro-
gress.-J. 4. Langley, Big City, Ky.
THINGS PROPER AND IMPROPER
FRIENDS OF THE CLUB: Here is another girl that
would like Walter kaler 10 understand all girls do
not practice tiSht-lacing, and who thinks HIM
unjust III asserting such fact. AS for dancing she
thinks II a harmless amusement. In the Scriptures
we meet with many passages which speak OF dane
ing. and some of the Fathers of the Church picture
the angels with harps OF gold, singing and dancing
around the throne Of the Lamb. There may be
dances immodest TO indulge III, just there are
some books which should not be read pictures
that were better not seen, and songs which offend
the virtuous ear; but, for these objections, should
We condemn literature art, and music? To the
pure all things are pure; and would recommend
dancing an innocent amusement-Minnie
Barnes, Wendell Depot, Mass.
THE INDIAN AND THE NEGRO.
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