The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-25
ALL AROUND TIE HOUSE.
The Simplicity of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
TO Observation-Disclosures and Table
Govers-D inner Novel

Govers-D inner Novel
ties.
1t not only taxes the purse of the wealthy
beyond patience, but involves the ,usehold
in such whirlwind of labor that everyone
breads lunch party. What We need is
some one brave enough to pioneer. A series
OF evenings, calling together only those
who Will make a harmonious company,
are beyond value as mediums CT real pleas.
IRE.
Why do wits or men and women of letters
care for course after course of extravagant
preparation? Some Of the red letter DAYS
that come wildly to us were those where
the eatables were so simple that now they
are merely very delicate and subjective
portion of pleasant time. We should
make what we eat a most insignificant part
OF our entertaining.
An exchange offers the following
SUGGESTIONS TO MOTHERS.
Have you q button hook" Where is
the button hookT' How many mothers hear
these cries Just at the busiest moment You
say: There's one in my bureau" but alas.
Blossom has been buttoning Dolly's shoes
with your own particular hook, and Dicks
impatient declarations, 1T isn't there" and
he'll be late for school," are anything but
calming. Now offer remedy for this evil.
1t is useless to hope to keep button hook,
unless il is chained, 30 tie one to long
string. fastening it to the washstand drawer
or TO the knob of the closet, and one and
another will avail themselves of it and shoes
will be buttoned without lamentation.
Another very useful article in mothers
room is little wooden chair. Blossom had
such childs chair given her year ago,
sure it is Just the right height to finger over
everything on mammals bureau" but how
many times the little feet have stood upon
it to reach pin or needle for some older
person, or 10 bring the 'tolone" when she
heard the word headache" The chair is
chained button hook, and again to serve as
mount that mamma may put away some.
thing on the closet shelves.
Once week three needles are threaded
and placed on mothers cushion" One is
stout and thick, holding black linen thread
for any shoe, button that falls off; another
has black silk, and the other strong white
thread. Many time boy will sew on a
button for himself if he can put his hand on
q needle With thread ia it; indeed even
woman is more apt to take "the stitch in
time which saves nine" If she can do il
without moving from her toilet table.
There is another little thing which / have
learned and will pass on to others: What
ever jar occurs in the family, question your
self as 10 ways 70 prevent its recurrence.
The means, as IN the matter of q button
hook, may be very simple, but how often we
90 not take the trouble to look for them.
Let Us not forget that ciamor is one of the
things that We must put away from Us and
from our households-as much as possible.
HANDSOME PoRrIEREs
shown at the Decorative Art Society's rooms
are OF dull gold silk material in which
corded coils are woven; q band OF amber COL
ored plush, one half yard deep, is placed
scross the bottom, and somewhat narrower
acre IS the top of each. Between the bands
are interpreted groups OF oak leaves and
sccrns, cut in natural size. from the amber
colored plush and fastened down with flo
selle in cr0uching stiiches, and the veins in
the leaves are worked with silk q shade
darker. The groups of leaves consist some
times of two, with three acorns aud at 9th.
ers OF three leayes and an acorn and empty
cup; the cup part of the acorn is filed with
knot stitches, in dark brown silk, to rssem-
BILE the natural roughness.
It see ms that the fashion for table covers
and scarfs is not waning. for they are con-
tinually being made, and new devices are
employed in their decoration. A pretty one
was recently made of dark cardinal satteen,
lined with yellow; on each end Is q broad
band of plush or velvet of the same color, J
but of a deeper shade: it is finished on each
end with tassels, and above the band is q vine
in delicate Kensington needIe-work; and, by
the way, to do one piece of this needle-work
well is more satisfactory than to do half a
dozen in the Kensingtou painting. That is
go easily done that great many women
take one lesson and then go on ''daubing,"
and fancy that they are really artistic in it
Another table scarf is OF felt, and is cut into
points all round. The ends have three deep
points on each; between the points a tasssl
Is hung. A few inches above the points on
each end q scroll of velvet is outlined with
gilt braid or fine cord. Another, of drab
felt, has bouquet OF autumn leaves in velvet
applied, and the ends of the felt are slashed
to make the fringe. Yellow satteen makes
elegant tsblescarfs, and with broad bands of
crimson plush and deep embroidery in var
ious coloIs above the band it is toned down
50 that there is nothing glazing or too pro-
nounc ed about it.
THE LATEST FANCY IN MENU CARDS
il 10 have them in fine decorated porcelain.
Thew pracficallv everlasting n the menu