The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-01
ALL AROUND Tas HOUSE.

ALL AROUND TaS HOUSE.
Dainty Dishes-Fancies in Picture Frames
Suggestions.
Among the deserts that can be prepared
at few moments notice, the French pam
cake is one of the daintiest. Beat three eggs
with a saltspoonful Of salt and desertspoon-
full of sugar until very light; add salt
spoonful of soda dissolved in vinegar, and a
large coffeecupfuI of rich milk; stir in -four
to make thin batter; butter hot griddle,
and enough to spread the size OF pudding
plate; brown on both sides, lay on a hct
plate, spread with any nice jam or preserve
and roll up like Jelly cake. Sift on some
powdered sugar and dash OF nutmeg. 1t is
necessary that the batter should be very
smooth and free from Jumps, and in order
to effect this il is well TO stir in part of the
milk at first, then add the -four, about
large cupiul, and thin with the remainder OF
the milk.
Jelly cake fritters can be hastily made if
you have the TWO necessary ingredients,
STALE sponge cake and jam. Cat the cake
into any fanciful shape, fry it nice brown
in butter, dip hastily in boiling milk, lay on
hot dish and spread thickly with straw
berry jam or peach marmslade. Any plain
cup-ca ke. if stale. may be substituted for
sponge cake, but cake that is rich with
butter will not do for this dish.
FANCY PICTURE FRAMES.
The framing of photographs is now an ART
| in itself Ingenuity Is taxed to to provide
suitable and original frames. With all their
| dash and tine effect these frames in fact
simple and may be easily manufactured by
the clever amateur. The material In most
frequent use is tea chest mating, and fine
wicker mating, and woven-matting. TIE
may be best illustrated by few examples.
| The first thing in choosing picture is to
consider the subject ana adapt the franz &C
cerdingly. For example, here is a couple of
lovers in the moonlight. A narrow strip of
blue velvet surrounds the photograph, leav
| Ing no white as margin. On this is laid
a mat of tea chest mating, silvered. The
| mating is laid on pssteboard. the edges
| neatly turned under. This requires little
| dexterity, bat no more than is demanded in
the covering OF plush frames. Another strip
of blue velvet overlsys the mat, and the
| frame is addec. This frame is mating of an
| other braid stretched over a rounded wooden
foundation. This is also silyered. A harvest
| scene, on the contrary, has strir of old gold
velvet and q mat of gilded mating. Another
strip of old gold velvet precedes a frame of
gilded n atting, described above. In other
instan ces the outside frame is painted red or
blue as the subject may suggest.
The fine bamboo striped mating 10 be
found at the Japanese stores makes beautiful
mats. Among the novelties OF framing is q
large photograph Of @. ID. Weldon's painting,
"a Dream of Japanese Dolls" There is
wide mat of this shining mating and Oh
this at intervals are Japenese figures. The
frame is covered with led and geld Japanese
chin,z, material much used, that can be
bought for fifty cents yard.
There seems to be no limit to what can be
done with Japenese stuffs. Frames covered
with Japanese SUITS are further ornamented
by small japanese metal ornaments. The
Japanese parchment papers are also used as
mats, their colors, especially in reds, being
admirably suited for this purpose To use
them the picture is laid down and the re-
quired size is cut OCT of the mat, turning un-
Ger the edges neatly.
the amateur trainers resources. A charmsea
piece, wife woman's figure on a balcony
overlooking the waves, has e plain wood
frame, over which is white netting.
Through silver rings in the corners passes a
rope silvered with excellent effect Other
marines have silvered nets.
Ropes serve various ends. Another picture
with q plain, rough wooden frame has three
cords as thick as the little finger stretched
over the wood, interlacing at the corners
into pretty ornament. The ropes NAV be
silvered CT gilded. Wooden frames left
rough or made rough are desirable. A har
vest scene, for example, has rough frame,
and in the alternate corners is small llchen
which any ono accustomed to artistic work
with hot poker can readily make. since il
is burned in. Another wooden frame has
Heather straps and buckles across the corn
ers, and is of course gilded. a third frame
surrounding q musical subject has sort OF
bridge in the corners. across which is
stretched fine wires.
Other fancy pictures are draped. For ex-
ample. there is the photograph of a yoang
girl. lightly dancing, holding her skirts in
her hands. The frame is covered with q
thick upholstery fabric of cadet-blue with q
large, bold floral design. On each side of the
material is draped curtain wise looped back
There are of course, no flowing ends, every.
thing being fat and compact.
Nothing is more distressing to a sick per
son, who is not quite i'll enough to give UP
all worldly thoughts than to have the doc
tor at his morning call find the room disar
ranged and the patient in night.dress, not
fresh and neat in appearance. It should be
the first care OF the one in charge of the
house TO see that this state of things shall
not exist. As long the room must be at
tended to some time during the day, why
not do it when the greatest amount of com.
fort would result from 1t?
II you forget, as many q woman has and
will, to put the favorine extract in your
cake il 10 not too late to remedy the matter
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