The National tribune., 1885-01-29
LOYAL WOMANS WORK
1t is the Evidence of Industry and
Love that Makes a Pleasant Home.
HOME DECORATIONS.

,ate and extensive furniture if when one can
afford it. does not make the House Beautiful.
1T is the little lcve-Iats of thoughtful mother
and considerate daughters that give tone and
color and a genuine home atmosphere to the
domestic circle 1t is surprising what piece
of silvered card board and few bits of worsted
can accomplish in the def fingers of some in
dus:rious little girl intent upon giving happi-
ness TO others.
From away of in Natick, in the old Com
monwealth of Massachusetts,, under the shadow
of Plymouth Rock, and where Vice President
Wilson (who began life making shoes made
his home, little girl of ii sends the Editor
such reminder. 1t is in the shape of a banner
tho back to be used for scratching matches
ard is of silver card board scolIoped at the bot
tom, each scollop ending with a tassel of red,
white and blue; the edges are worked around
with red, with the figure of little colored boy
in the center, and above and below the letters
Scratch my Back, surrounded by vine of
green leaves.
With the gift came this letter, the whole con-
stituting the sweetest and prettiest gift the
Editor received, among many that are priced
and costly. And why? Because there is love
in it and patient industry and giTlish skili-all
the evidences that the donor will one day be a
bright, capable, useful woman, the only kind
worth the name in q busy, bustline world like
ours:
vANSIE's LETTER.
To THE EDITOR: AS this is my first letter to you,
j send my little "Colored Boy to introduce me.
And your work seems to be to light the fire of
affection IN little hearts toward you and toward
each other. well rs serving the entire TRIBUNE
family from the Atlantic 10 the Pacific, send you
This my New Years gift to help you i'll your work
IL the design is old TO you, please send to some
far-away little correspondent Of yours out on the
Western prairie and tell her TO please send me a
letter.
Now, should You visit the town where Vice
President Wilson first made shoes, and will call
where / am, you will receive cordial welcome
And that you may know where live, Will say
that il is at the of Reynolds street. Papa
named the street after the brave Gen. Reynolds
who was killed al the battle of Gettysburg near
where he stood. am truly proud that am sol
dier's daughter. And am your little 1-year old
fricnd-Nannie NJ. Cutler. Natick, Mass.
Now. the Editor could not think of parting
with Nannie's New Years gift as it is a true
token that THE TRIBUNE has not laberod in
vain in its efforts 10 bring the families of the
loyal and brave nearer together, and has de-
veloped and encouraged noble ambition in the
hearts of all the boys and girls TO excel in what
ever is truest and best in the respective stations
OF duty and pleasure which each may be called
upon TO fill. But equally sure are we that a
letter will find its way from the Western prairie
home TO our dear little friend in Massachusetts.
But reverting TO Home Decorations we are
reminded that one Of the prettiest novelties we
have seen recently is a
q dainty little convenience to hang beside the
dressing table for holding hoe-buttons glove
hooks and other small articles of daily toilet
use. To make one of these panels get small,
thin, smooth strip of seasoned wood, and stretch
smoothly over 1t a piece of plush or satin, or
other pretty material. Paste heavy piece of
brown paper over the back. Make hole in
either end of the board at the top. and run a
cord or ribbon through it, by which it may be
hrJrar hax ,lo,nc nj
board row of small brass hooks, first marking
the holes with some sbarp-pointed instrument.
The strip of material used may be first en-
broidered- or designs in vines, flowers or fig
ureS may be painted upon it after it is stretched.
Fancy letter, with brush or pen, is very pretty.
"A recent design has tie following, painted in
rustic letters below the hooks:
On these small hooks hang what YOU please
In the way of shoe-buttons, gioye-hooks, keys;
But although have placed them full inch apart,
Remember, tey ii not hold the keys of your heart
WINDOW ORNAMENT.
Did you evert try the pretty surprise in horti-
culture produced by a sprouting carrot Selects
large brightcolored carrot. cut of the root, turn
il upside down and scoop out hole three inches
deep in the smaller end Suspend the carrot
in the window by three or four ribbons, filling
the cavity with water, never allowing the water
to evaporate. The carrot will sprout upwards
from the bottom and throw out graceful vines.
4 sweet potato prepared in the same way
viii make a pretty window decoration.
SWEETS FOR CHILDREN.
Young Mother: A reasonable amount of
sweets viii not iniure your children. such as
strip with their cakes, or a little pure candy at
proper times. But beware of cheap mixtures
and fancy colors. The New York Board of
Health dumped tons upon tons of this poisonous
truck, which certain confectionery trade had
prepared for the Christmas market, into the
-ohal dock, thus preserving thousands upon
thousands from aniiine. arsenic, chrome yell
Cow and other poisons. But II is not every town
and city that is provided with a Board of
Health, save that which is presided over by
father and mother. If your children crave
sweets let them have Fnre sugar or uncolored
csndlcs, free from white earth and other irri-
tating admiztures.
SOMETHING GOOD TO EAT.
Rice crusts are very nice for tea and may be
made by adding 10 one cup OF cold-boiled rice
mllk enough TO form thin, soft mixture, by
heating slowly in boiler. Add one tablespoon
sul Of sugar, a little salt. one egg we'll beaten
and -four enough to make 1t hold together.
Grease baking paa and spread on the mixture
cne-third of a.. inch thick. Bake in a hot oven.
Split and eat with strip for tea.
Did you ever try apple johnny cake? If
not, mix, in the order given, the following:
One pint OF white coTnmeal two tablespoonfus
sugar, half teaspoonful salt, half teaspoonful
soda, one teaspoonfal cream of tartar milk
enough to make q soft batter. Add three
apples, pared and sliced, and bake 50 minutes
in shallow pan.
Could anything be better than this from the
land of heather jam p? The writer evidently
has tasted Of the American oyster, though in
the Scottish Northiands:
ODE TO THE OYSTER.
Let royster with the oyster in the shorter days
and nioIster that are drought by brown September
with its roguish final r. for breakfast or for sup
per, oa the under shell upper, of dishes he's the
salS: and OF Sheii-ish hes the star. We try him
n they fry him, and even they pie him; we're
partial to him luscious in roast; we boil him and
we broil him. we vinegar and-oil him. and oh he
H. delicious stewed with toast We eat him with
tomatoes and the salad with potatoes, nor look
him Ger with horror when be follows the cold
siaw; and neither doth lac fret us if he marches
after lettuce and abreast of cayenne pepper when
his majesty h raw. So welcome with September
10 the knife and glowing eDaber. juicy darling of
dainties- dispossessor of the clam To the
oyster, then holster: with linn, IN royal royster
we shall whoop ii through the land of heather jam
Tribune Exchange.
would like TO exchange autographs with SOL
6iers' and dauglters.-Garrie ". Anderson
R0ckland. Me.
Viii some send me advertising cards to add
TO my collection Jennie A Genning, Pine HILL
Wis
] viii exchange photographs with the young
ladies of New YORK, New Jersey and Pennsyl-
yaDia.-i5ox PSI. Hope Valley, r. /.