St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-31
THE woMAN's GLOBE.
Art in Homes and Toilets Useful Hints
For the House--Plowers and
Vases.
Oriental Handicraft and Dainty
Materials Or the Fair
Sex.
New and Novel Summer Fashions
The Popular Girl--DiscOurse
On Good Cookery.
Household Affairs.


The deep Japanese and Chinese vases
which have held place in the house like
decorated mummies are now put to theiI
proper use for holding flowers. No hand
bouquets will answer for Nankin vases
three feet high, and accordingly the florists
cut for these long stalks of lilies and choice
roses on stems over two feet in length. To
furnish such bouquets will tax even the Law
ish roseries of Bergen Heights and Flush
ing; and the price rules accordingly, the
long clusters costing So dozen. But moth
ing in flowers has more Opulent effect than
masses of Marechal Mel, Baroness and JAG
queminot roses with lavish foliage, like
those in the French artist Robes flower
paintings. The enormous new roses now
grown are only suited to vases and baskets,
not for hand bouquets or the corsage.
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Imagine a drawing-roOm with paneled
wainscOt, not above three feet high, broad
window frames in flat picture moulding, and
doors in crimson ash that is stained dark as
logwood on the edges, with glowing center
panels, much on the coloring OF a Jean Sou
pert rose. Furnish this with 'smooth-cush-
Toned tapestry of the modern design in the
fine tints and palms of o rich cashmere shawl,
framed in the same garnet-red wood; give
the wall filling in faint cashmere tlnts,
with pierced cornice in light colors in ma
room; choose Persian carpet; I'LL cabinet
and mantels with Belleek ware and Swan
sea, Barbotine and some fine amateur work;
arrange stands of fragrant myrtle, olive and
roses, and you have the most original re-
finement of the nineteenth century taste,
which it need not blush to send down with
its name to succeeding times.
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AS if there were not sufficient ills to
which flesh is direct heir, the women who
profess cookery must be found guilty OF
practices against life and health in some OF
their directions for made dishes. A soup
which figures at least six times in the house
hold department of sundry and Sunday pa
pers has for it's base canned tomato, I'M
proved in it's flavor and Righteousness by a
pinch of soda, which in combination with
the acid of the commercial tomato, Which Is
strong enough to have eaten the tin OF the
can already and left it beautifully glace, Of
fers potion to which blue pill is mild. 10
heighten the injurious quality, milk is now
added to the boiling tomato, and the cream
concealed by plentiful seasoning. One who
knows anything of the effect of acids and
milk on the human economy will substitute
the infantile diet of salmon and early GU
cumber, or lunch off crabs at midnight in
preference. We have been in the habit of
hearing that the higher education of women
Id directly tend to the making of better
housekeepers, and that the study of chemis-
try and hygiene would. make good cookery a
matter of course. Still it was 'shigher
educated" woman who, hearing at the cook
ing lecture that an hour was allowed fOI
baking pound loaf of bread, lisped out,
'sAnd [ suppose an hour more for an adj
ditional pound" as if six loaves could not
bake in the same time as one. The per-
nicious receipts peddled by the daily papers,
which the physician and the epicure alike
reject as contrary to health, and taste, raise
an awful wonder whether It is not true OF
some women as of children of old, ''the
more they learn, they less they know"
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Primitive hand crafts deserve much
more respectful attention than they have
received in the rush of this century OF ma
chimes. Hand work will always be the
| most priced and costly of productions; al
best the utmost cunning Of machines cannot
rival it. and civilization will yet find it i'm
possible to do without the simple methods
of earliest use. The choicest fabrics are
woven on hand looms, the muslin, shaWls
and silks of India, the rugs OF Persia, the
lustrOus linens of Russia and Irish dan1asks;
and the most cOmplicate contrivance OF a
modern heater or patent range does its work
not half so well and cheaply as the cOntin-
entail pottery stove and the Italian charcoal
table. Let us at least see if there are no
conveniences overlooked before casting away
all the antique gear. japanese saws are bet
ter set than our own. Chinese heaters with
out smoke OF chimneys would be a boon fol
our fireless rooms in spring, and we have
adopted the little Egyptian lamp in silver
and bronze, because it's shape is so good. A
show of household objects, gathered not fol-
their curiosity or age so much as their fit
ness for present uses, would be exceedingly
interesting, and nothing could prove more
attractive in any exhibition than to bring
the native workers with their rude nipple
ments and let the world see their processes
the Persian rug and shawl weavers with
their low looms, the Mexican Indians with
their potter's wheel, fashioning rollas and
drinking vases of clay, the Mennonite and
Bulgarian turning off their shining linen
tissues, which have one quality American
goods seem to have forgOtten-they wear.
In 1881 the Duke of Devonshire gave an
/ exhibition of hand work by his tenantry to
which six weeks notice drew forty contribu-
tors showing friezes, flann els, winseys
counterpanes and linens of excellence. The
Castellanis, the princely goldsmiths OF
Rome, after vainly trying to initiate the
delicate enclosing of Etruscan ornaments,
| found the process carried on by working jew
elers in Italian mountain villages, where
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work are still preserved. Quick-witted
American workmen have something to learn
| from such artisans, from those who weave
the velvets of Sardinia. the frieze and furry
| goats hair fabrics of Catania, as well as
from the tricksy jacquard looms of France
and the iron fingers of Manchester.
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The prettiest brocades on the counters
| this season are American. The changeable
| effects in bronze and wine, cress green and
| dull red or silver blue and terra Gotta, are
| handsomest carriage or dinner wear, in
charming mellow tones of color, and quality
| that comes as near standing alone as any
one wants it. The manufacturer does a
clever thing for the American trade by
taking ladies' own designs for superb white
| brOcadeS for wedding dresses, which are
woven in lengths to order of twenty yards
and upward and the pattern destroyed. Sc
every young lady is sure that her wedding
dress cannot be duplicated and the demand
for lily of the valley and rosebud patterns
gives the normal drawing class plenty to
do. Perhaps you don't know 1t, reader, but
some of the prettiest modern lace and bro
cade patterns are taken from the drawings
of the clever girls in New York and Boston
schools, some of whom make pretty penny
by this means before they are out Of the
school room.
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| Art fabrics coming into wear abroad have
| metallic lusters and effects without parti-