The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25
Household Hints.

| Far prettler than the three initials worked on
a band for gentlemans hat. is the newer
| fancy to make lining for the hat of silk and to
! embroider the initials on it.
One of the latest novelties in picture frames
has brass rod across the top, and to it curtains
| are suspended, which caught up to the sides.
This is newer than those with scarf drapery on
| one corner
| Rust stains may be removed from cotton and
| linen by mixture of two parts powdered cream
| Of tartar and one part powdered oxalc acid
The cloth must be dampened and little of the
powder applied
| If flannel dresses of the children are soiled
| and at all greasy, add borax to the water in
| which they are washed. Dissolve a large table
| spoonful of borax in pint of boiling water; put
about third of it in the first suds in which the
garment is to be washed, another third in the
next water, and the rest of it in the rinsng
water; shake the garments thoroughly before
hanging them up to dry
A very pretty new lamp shade is made of
bright silk handkerchief with hole in the mid
die and shirred around the top. Tasses are
hung from the four corners and four hang from
the top over the sides.
An agreeable flavor is sometimes impaired to
soup by sticking some cloves into the meat
used for making stocks; few slices of onions
fried very brown in butter are nice: also flour
Drowned by simply putting it into saucepan
over the lire, and stirring it constantly until it is
dark brown.
One Of the very prettest shoulder-cushions for
the back of chair is made in the form of cres-
cent 1t should be about FIVE or seven inches
broad at the center, and gradually slope to
point; the point should be up the curve being
downward, as it is most graceful so. The crazy
patchwork makes a handsome covering for this
cushion, and the pieces should be small, and or
namental bits of delicate embroidery on silk, or
satin, or velvet being very effective.
Handsome pincushions are now frequently
made long and narrow, rather than square. A
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blue plush; on the corner opposite was bow of
satin ribbon or the same color; embroidery may
be substituted for the bow. Another pre- Sly one
is made of several strips of diferent-colore sat-
in with gilt cord covering the seams, or has
box-pieating of ribbon around the edge, with
narrow braid sewed to the upper edge.
Correspondence New York Commercial Ad-
vertiser II saw a novel way of mending2 "a
WOODEN dress in which round hole had been torn
and where only patch could remedy matters
The frayed portions around the tear were care
fully smoothed. and piece of the material,
moistened with very thin muci1age, was placed
under the hole. A heavy weight was put upon
1T until it was dry, when it was only possible to
discover the mended place by careful observa-
tion."
Different methods are recommended for cook
ing onions so that the consequences will be less
disagreeable. Boiling in two waters, well sailed,
or letting them lie in cold water is thought to
be effective. Boiling in milk used to be thought
onions we are able to purchase now. even in the
country are not so strong in odor taste as
was the onion of our fathers. The Bermuda,
the ideal onion of the Spanish, needs nothing
beyond boiling in two waters.
Slightly soiled white wooden articles, knitted
or crocheted, may be made to look as we'll as
new if they carefully rubbed in -four. Cover
them with -four and rub gently as if washing,
until the -four becomes dark. Shake out the ar
ticle and rub in clean -four until all the
soil is removed Shake well and hang in
the wind until no atom of flour remains
in the wool OF course one would not care to
cleanse in this way articles that are worn next
to the body, but for shawls, capes and head COW
erings flour answers admirably.
A pretty cover for the piano stool is made of a
square of felt. It should have fringe around the
edge. either sewed or made by slashing the
edge of the felt The ornamentation is of vel
vet ribbon put on in lines to form squares; the
ends should be painted and the edges of the
velvet may be fastened down with fancy stitches
in bright embroidery silk Or border of satin
ribbon may be put on; put square Of the rib
bon in each corner and then plain strip of the
ribbon with the ends pointed where they join
the squares. This, too may be made very or
namental by the addition of embroidery.