Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-11-04
Farm and Household.
Hints for the HOus.hols.

Hihts tof tht H0nseh0ld.
Few York Mail and Express: A fa-
vorite dancing dress for young ladies
is modelled after that of the royal
bridesmaids at the by-gone Batten-
berg wedding. The occasion recedes
Tar enough to allow the style to have
tuli effect, as one of the prettiest OF
youthful toilets, namely, slip of lus-
trous white silk or merveilleux. with
nine tlonnces of dotted Mechlin lace,
and bodice and draperies of piece net
to match.
In buying table linen the finer, small.
er the pattern, the longer it will last.
When table-clothes are half worn, or
past use as such, the best parts may
be cut into table napkins, and, il neat
~ hemmed, few will notice that they
are not OF regular pattern, or these
pieces may be used to lay under boil
ed fish for serving; or they will be
found very convenient for wrapping
cake before putting away in a tin box,
Tor covering bread, and score of 9TH
er uses in the kitchen; for it is never
we'll to leave food, after it is cold, un-
covered and exposed to air, dust and
hies.-katherine Armstrong.
The custom of giving girls in the
early teens quarterly or monthly al
lowances for their small current ex-
penses, instead OF making all purchas-
es tor them, is growing in favor and is
an excellent idea, says the Springfield
Union. There is no better way to
teach girls correct and methodical
business habits, and girls ought to
know the value of money and the best
way OF spending it, for great part of
every mans prosperity depends upon
the practical financial ability of his
wife.
Effective scarfs for buffet, table and
toilet table, are made of huckaback.
Some large conventional design with
out too many curves is drawn as a
border on the material. The ground
about the design is run with colored
cotton in the manner OF Morris work,
care being taken that the little figure
OF the huckaback is always run under
theneedle. The design is then outlined
in white knitting cotton couched
down with coarse, white thread, the
spaces inclosed by the lines being left
plain. TIE effect is that of an APP
plique upon a colored network. 1t is
better to select huckaback that is not
too fine.
Married life is frequently rendered
miserable by woman's struggle for
power, than which nothing can be
more unwise, for it is only when she
loses sight of her own sweet attri-
butes, which are tenderness, affection,
devotion and fidelity, that man for
gets his higher calling, which is to pro-
tect, cherish and preserve her from'ill
Their relative duties differ, but nei-
Their is inferior to the other; when
woman, however, seeks to usurp a
power unbecoming her position she
gives man pretext for Withholding
what is really her due.
OF the wearing ofmourning woman
writes in the Philadelphia Press:
When the time comes to throw the
veil back, the time has surely come
to take it of. Its usefulness is gone,
and to ornament ourselves in robes
of grief seems ghoulish. A young
woman, "being in mourning" as the
phrase goes, may go to party, but,
being in mourning, she must wear a
black dress, nevertheless, in order to
make her funeral garb and her gay
surroundings alittle more compatible,
fashion graciously permits her not to
wear a gay ribbon-oh, dear, no!
That would never do; but she may
wear a scarlet flower. Being in mourn
ing, too, she must not dance, but she
may play cards at this same party
and have just as good time as she
knows how. 0, consistency, where
art thou?