River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-11-25
THE IDEAL HONB.


THE IDEAL HOHs.
Beek's Journal Of Decorative Art: The ideal
home beautiful is attained rather by avoiding er-
rors Of taste than by the adoption OF special
dogmas Of art For my own part, il have any
dUgmss 10 preach they may fairly be condensed
in this one rule: AVOID shams and Alterations
OF all kinds"
Don't mistake mere prettiness for beauty.
Millinery, for instance, is out Of place in the
home beautiful.
Don't attach 20 your chairs ard sofa cushions
meaningless bows OF ribbon which tie nothing.
Don't dress mp your toilet tables in muslin pet
ticoats stiifeued with crnone or colOrcd calico.
Don't scatter startling white "tidies" about
chairs and sofas a. on so many bushes, as II you
were hanging out the wash to dry.
Don't display on your walls china plates and
dishes They were never meant to 20 there.
An exception may be made now pud then in IA
vor of piece of line colorto help light mp the
room. or where a delicate china painting Is
worthy OF careful examination. But hang up
ordinary domestic china! Don't!
Don't hang small pictures 20 that their beauty
il lost to any one under eight feet high IL pic
ture il not seen from the same position that the
artist saw il when he painted it the drawing will
appear foreshortened and the general effect con-
sequently falsifed.
Don't hang any picture in the home which
has not the impress Of elegance, purity, and
eheertulness.
Don't give place to representations OF corpses.
tortured saints, anything occasioniug pain
ful emotions. Above all, having sCch pictures
and not wanting them down-stairs, don't Danish
them to the nursery, school room, or bedroom.
Some things would reegat, to the bedroom
out Of the way some WHEREIN locked draw
ers, for instance. mean mementos OF seaweed
and dried ferns or flowers, and wretched daubs
on china, Canvas, or paper, the crude efforts Of
youthful members of the home beautiful VIII
infiict these On his family aud friends and com
pei them TO violate truth by pretending to like
them.
Don't buy your carpet or your Wallpaper be-
cause it looks pretty in the roll when you see il
in the store. But think OF the htress OF each
with its ultimate surroundings. Remember
that the carpet is TO be background Cor your
furniture, and ll-paper-unless Il IS to be the
actual decoration OF the wallis To be merely
a background for yo1r pictures.
Don't admit into the home beautiful any
piece OF furniture a. implement CT everyday
life which does not honestly serve its pur-
puse-no light 1msy chairs which able
bodied man dare not sit upon; no pniy, debili- |
lated s1fas, all wind aud springs; no Furnished
br ss-sheeted fre-irons, bought only to be
looked at and give place To the ugly little black
poker and shovel when coal Is 70 be broken or
ashes are to be removed.
There il no reason why an object should not
he useful as well ornamental Indeed, there
can be no beauty without fntess. Nature |
everywhere teaches o. the compatibility OF the |
highest utility with the greatest beauty.
And 20 with beauty anu truth. There may
be trnth without beauty; but there is no beauty |
without truth. Truth, beauty, aud utility are
the inseparable trinity OF the ideal home. Let
US then write them upon tue portals OF the |
house a. the tpitome OF all that is most admra- |
ble in religion, in art, aud IN everyday life.
WINTER GARDENING.
yhe use Of sssh and heating manure i. year
" asconing more and more common smong |
IA, vae4a in the forcing Of vegetables for trans
plan ting 70 the open ground in the spring. |
These hoi4bads are not less seldom found among |
spburb On residents. The reason why they are
not eth more common is from the fact that peo |
ME nust my the beating manure. and the ex-
pepse 10 IN obstacle. It'll mistake, however, |
10 suppose there j. any loss here. Manure IL |
reouired for the garden. and when II has ex |
bansted it, heat in the hotbed II is in just the
proper condition to apply to the soil. and the /
soa1I OF the bed has in the meantime absorbed all
n gases given up by the heat generated eX-
cent that small portion ABSORBED oy the piants /
Wit Yin the frame.
n ,,ttis fact we're better known winter garden /
inc a ,pId come TO be more and more practiced /
bv bot n farmers aud village residents. All that
l. re- ~ ired - a pit two feet deep To accommo- /
late m . heating manure, the frame having dOu- |
NJ y,,lts. six inches thick hlled with tan-baTk, /
the frame rising not more than four inches |
above the surface of the ground at the 'front.', |
and about six inches at the back. with proper |
of the whole against wlnd Oy means |
~ evergreen hedges and solid board fence, and |
a foot Of slough hay to cover the glass at night,
and in very severe weather when the sun does
not shine radsh, lettuce, parsley, pepper-grass'
etc, may ne grown al winter, lettuce forming !
the principal crop. II the lettuce plants nave |
been started in November two full crops may be /
taken during the winter. The OF the bed |
once the crop il transplaBted is not onerous.
It is simply question OF watching, covering |
early Mt night and not uncoveriug in the morn
ing until the sun shines fully on the glass.
There are times when the hay must be left on
the lid continuously, on account OF intense
freezing weather, yet this is seldom, IL the sun
shines.
The satisfaction of having plenty OF lettuce is
alone sufficient to repay the labor, where the I
heating manure may be had and, AZ rule
however plenty lettuce may be had in the city
markets. IL Il seldom had in it, best condition
in the suburbs and never in the country unless
raised at the home.
THE OLD TINE PUMPKIN PIE.