The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-08

with anime colorS that have faded are made
| to look bright as ever. Commercial chloro-
form will do quite as well as the purified. and is
| cheaper.
Square dinner plates do not appear to grow in
fashion, as was expected, and several objections
| against them are urged by housekeepers. Crock
erymen do not always know when to let well
enough alone.
| Yellow sateen makes an elegant table scarf
| and with broad bands of crimson plush and deep
| embroidery in various colors above the band, it
is toned down SO that there is nothing glazing or
| too pronounced about it.
Serviceable and inexpensive portieres are
made of horizontally striped, double-faced can
| ton flannel, or fashion drapery," it is often
| called. Various designs in feather and blanket
| stitch are embroidered on the stripes with
| crewes.
| An ounce of nitrate of soda dissolved in four
| gallons of water is said to be good stimuant
| for bulbs 1t should be applied twice week
after the flower spikes show themselves. A pint
| OF SCOT, tied up in cloth and immersed in the
same quantity of water, is also an excellent and
| safe stimulant.
| The color of walls in house decoration should
relate to all objects placed against them. 1--WE
| can make our walls red" said lecturer on this
subject, "a warm, physical or blue. which is cold
and mental; yellow, which is genial and sunny
and which is best in the entire scale to bring all
others into harmony"
| Nice table mats can be made OF palm-leaf fans.
Cut off the handles and trim the fan to suit your
taste, both in size and shape, bind the edge with
crimson worsted braid, and next to the braid, or
| half an inch from it, work a row of heavy cross
| stitch or double brar stitch in crimson zephyr
| They make pretty and serviceabe mats.
| A pretty picture frame may be made at small
cost by having the frame cut from common pine,
and covering it with some coarse lace Have
the lace adjusted perfectly smooth, and when
the mucilage is quite dry, varnish it; when this
| is dry. put over 1T coating of gold paint The
result will resemble an expensive gilt frame, and
will delight you.
A useful and pretty scrap bag is made of one
OF the handsomely bordered fringed towels that
may be purchased at any linen store It is cut
In half the border ends and sides sewed firmly
together and hem and casing for elastic sewn
| at the top. A bow of old gold and cardinal rib
bons is placed near the top, and ribbons of the
| same color are used to suspend it by
Bi-carbonate of soda (bakng soda) affords
| speedy relief for external burns, and should be
kept in every. house Apply the soda to the
burned part and mosten well, binding wet cloth
over it, In nearly all cases the relief is almost
| instantaneous. If one application should not
| relieve make a second after few minutes 1t
has been found that burns heal more rapidly by
| this method of treatment than by any other.
A handy board" is made of white holly
| board the size of a sheet of note paper. Numer
Gus hooks are fixed in this for the safe keeping
| of scissors, keys button hooks and such things
painted vine wanders among the hooks, and
| so entanglsd among the hooks and vine leaves
that it requires some ingenuity to decpher them,
are the words:
Here you only have to look
| To find your keys and button-hook"
Try homny cakes or croquettes made thus
| TO one quart of boiling water add teaspoonful
OF salt; stir in gradually heaping half pint of
the finest hominy; boil three quarters OF an hour
and put it on the back of the range where it will
remain hot an hour longer; then put in large
| bowl and add the beaten yolks of two eggs mix
| 1t thoroughly and when cold shape into cones;
dip the cones in beaten egg, roll in crumbs and
| fry IN boiling fat
For what is sometimes called snow cake take q
cupful of granulated sugar, one tablespoonful of
butter. two eggs. one cupful of flower, and
| teaspoonful of baking powder and two table
| spoonfus of sweet milk. Bake in a square pan,
| and cut into little squares when cool. For the
| snow take one cupfu of stewed and sfted sour
| apples. one cupful of white sugar and the white
of one egg. Beat all thoroughly together, and
| spread between your squares of cakes =
| For sweet apple pickles take sevenJpounds of
sweet apples; pare and steam until tender. Put
| them in pan with three pints of vinegar, three
| pounds OF sugar and one half pint of ground
| spices in equal quantities of cloves, cinnamon,
allspice, tied loosely in a CLOTH and cook them as
| you would preserves When done, place them in
jar, boil down the liquid and pour it over them.
| If there is not enough liquid to cover them
nicely make more syrup in the same proportion.
| The pickles must be we'll covered.
The Art Interchange gives these directions for
| cleansing furnished gilt frames: Quicklme
| one ounce; sprinkle with g. little hot water to
slack it. then gradually add one pint of boiling
water, as to form a milk Dissolve two ounces
of pearlash in one and half pints of boiling water;
mix the two solutions, cover up, agitate occa-
sionally for an hour, allow it to settle, decant
| the clear liquid put into fat bottle and cork it
| well. Use it alone or diluted with water, apply
| ing with soft sponge, and then wash off with
clear water.
| A writer in the Atlanta Constitution suggests
set of nut plates as pretty Christmas gift
Get wooden PLAQUES about six inches in diam
| eter and one 12x12. On the large one paint a
| squirrel on the branch of tree with nut in
his paws On the smaller ones make a messy,
leafy back ground, and then decorate each plate
with nuts of different kinds, and bright berries
| hickory nuts, acorns hazel and a bough of horse
chestnuts just bursting from its burr When
| dry, finish with retouching of French varnish
| and lightly line the rims with gilt.
Contadina aprons may be made of bordered
towels. Fold the towel SO that the lower part
will be twice as long as the upper. Run casing
below the fold for broad linen tape string. the
ends OF which should be embroidered to CORE
spond with the pattern on the apron. Some of
these aprons have merely two button holes on
| the under side. through which the string is
| passed, drawing it through between the upper
| and lower part SO that the apron will lie
| smoothly about the waist The gathered plan
| is. however, preferred although rea, contadina
aprons have the button-holes.
| The following, from writer in Gardening
| Illustrated, will be of interest TO many. Have
| any OF your readers tried the following recipe
| for preserving flower buds, so that they will,
| bloom one or two months otter being picked?
| Gather the buds when nearly ready to open. and
seal up the end of the stalk with seang-wax:
| wrap the bud in tissue paper and put in a box
perfectly alright When the bud is wanted to
| open cut off the sealing-wax and immerse the
stalk in water, in which little saltpetre has
! been added. was very skeptical of the success
of this plan when first told of it. have tried it
with rose-buds however, and succeeded per
fecty
writer in an exchange says that to ward off
wrinkles only the finest linen or cambria wash