The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-23
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

| Cayenne pepper blown where mice or ants
congregate drives them away.
| Sprinkle hellebore on the floor to kill cock
reaches Sweep it up each morning.
| Rub window silis with fine wood ashes and
| rinse with clean water to remove fower-pot
/ stains.
| A crescent shaped cushion of old gold velvet
( or satin may be embroidered with daisies or
| forget-me-nots
| household is the proper thing to hang in the
| fashionable hallway now, and the frame is often
| worth more than the cat.
| soft pillow of China silk is covered with
| conventionazed roses worked in outline stitch
| in silk, in shades of dull red. In the center is
| disc with two youthful faces in profile, in the
manner of medallions.
Two ounces of soda dissolved in quart of hot
water makes ready and useful solution for
cleaning old painted work preparatory to repair
ing. This mixture should be applied when warm
and the woodwork afterward washed with water
to remove all traces of the soda.
A pretty scarf for easel or chair is of light
brown etamine. The border is worked in cross
stitch, with shaded silk in a design of acanthus
leaves There seems to be diminution in the
popularity of this species of furniture decora-
tisn. 1t is, indeed steadily driving ribbons out
of use.
A pretty all over design for toilet set is made
The dots are worked over with golden yellow
silk to form the center of daisies, the petal being
worked in white silk. The set consists Of scarf.
pin-cushion and bottle covers, which NAV be
lined with silk or sateen. This null embroidery
is also effective for window curtains.
cheap but effective way of curtainiilg the
narrow but dsproportionately high windows of
poorly-lighted sitting room, is thus described
by the Art Amateur for the benefit of an in
curing correspondents Cut off from the upper
part of the windows enough to make the height
of the window proportionate to the width, and
fill in the upper part with Japanese lattice work.
which can be bought very cheap at almost any
of the Japanese stores. Below have rather
narrow brass pole, with the usual brass rings
From this suspend Crete curtains which
transparent, but heavier than the similar gren-
adine goods called Madras With light buff or
rich cream color window shade as a background
for the lattice work. as it it will be if the shades
are kept down foot or twc you will retain more
light in the room than you could secure by the
use of any other kind of curtains, and have an
artistic effect at small expense.
P. 6. Hamerton, the art critic. says: "For
engravings plain oak frame, narrow, fiat and
unvarnished, is all that is really needed. Paint
ings almost always require gilt frames, very
few of them can endure a black one. Ii he dis
likes oak frames for his engravings he may have
them gilded, showing the grain of the wood, or
he may substitute narrow molding or fiat of
German gliding, which is simply tin foil var
nished with solution of gum-lac slightly tint
ed. In narrow beads and flats it is surprisingly
like gold, though it does not answer we'll for
broad surfaces, and it has this superiority over
real gliding that the FURNISHED parts of it
can be washed. The poorest collectors of all
may paste a wood cut on piece of the milboard
used by book binders, frame it with bit of
plain deal, and varnish the whole together
Such an artistic decoration of room is not to
be despised; there may be more art it it than
there is in inferior pictures, and it will look well
on one condition, which is that example of
more luxurious art be admitted into the same
room.
A writer in the Boston Transcript is RESPONSE
BILE for the following "The smoke of wooen
rags is a cure for the most dangerous wounds.
through her finger She could not be released
till the machine was taken to pieces. The needle
had broken in her finger in three pieces one
of which was bent almost double. After
peated trials the pieces extracted by
pincers, but they were very strongly imbedded.
The pain reached to the shoulder, and there was
avery danger of lockjaw The wooden rags
were put over the Goals, ana she held her finger
over the smoke, and in very short time all the
pain was gone, and it never returned, though it
was some little time before the finger healed.
This Is but one of many instances OF such cure,
some of them taking place after several days
from the time of the wound. Let WOODEN rags
be kept sacredly and always at hand for wounds.
The smoke and stencil will fill the house, per-
haps, but that is trile when the alternative is
lockjaw, or even a long, painful sequel to
wound Another instance was the wound made
by an enraged cat, which tore the flesh from the
wrist to the elbow, and bit through the feshy
part of the hand. One ministration of the
smoke extracted all the pain, which had been
frightful.n