St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-22

young man for an hour in plain sight of
everybody and nothing will be said or
thought about it. 1t is the funniest of all
funny places.
Among the fancy work have seen here
none is better than that of ornamenting
linen doilieS that come ready stamped with
the designs of various kinds, by embroider-
ing or outline stitching the same with col
ored washing silks or cottonS. Greenaway
figures of children and little people, punches
of flowers and fruit, chickens, ducks and
geese, pug dogs, rabbits, squirrels, little
goats and tiny baby elephants in all sorts
of odd groups and single figures are the
subjects found on these ready-stamped
linens to be had in all the so-called art
embroidery stores, the magazines for fancy
work which abound not only in New York
but in all our large Cities
Dried rose leaves make nice filing for a
perfume bag or satchet, and, as the petals
of all the roses you may get may be care
fully dried i'll your room in the shade, you
make the bags to hold them While enjoy
ing your roclSing-chair on the piazza or
Your hammock Oil the lawn. First make a
bag eight inches wide and fifteen long
of thin silk, and ill it three-quarters full
with your rose petals when dry. Now take
piece Of linen lawn or fine Swiss muslin,
and make a slip cover for your sHken sack
Hem the top, put q frill of lace around it,
and. slipping it over the silken bag, tie it
with ribbon low enough to give it
MEAL-BAG SHA Pc.
A spray of roses may be worked or ap-
plique Oh the outside Of the muslin cover,
and motto, Sweets to the Sweet" or
Sweetest when Crushed" or some such
legend traced in colored silk stitches, under,
oyer or through the device. These rose bags
laid i'll bureau drawers OF placed under the
pillows OF an invalid are pleasant and yield
healthy perfume.
Tuss0re silk and pongee are lovely ma
terials for chair scarfs, pillow covers, work
bags, fancy-work aprons and many other
fancy toilet and household articles. Gin
gress canvas is another favored stuff for
such purposes It is q coarse grenadine
fabric, the threads of which can be easily
pulled cut for drawn work, while embroid-
cry and applique show to fine advantage on
its coarse surface 1t is thirty-six inches
WIDE cream colored, and costs so cents q
yard. Tussore silk, 81 yard; pongee
about the same. They are both about a
yard wide.
The taste for quaint conceits in the way
Of ornamental and useful pin-cushions is
on the increase. The newest are made of
cOlOISu SILKS dllu NeINCIS W represent lrulC
lying OH their leaves. The Streaks and
ripening shades are then put Oh with paint
The stalks are of gutta percha, such as mil
liners use in making artificial flowers. APP
pies, pears, peaches, melons, cucumbers
tomatoes, plums, grapes and nectarines are
produced by the artistic worker in
THESE NOVELTIES.
Unbleached huckaback is chosen by some
workers as the foundation of which the de-
signs for quilts are embroidered in silks OF
cottons. First. the whole of the huckaback
foundation is covered with darnng stitch
in gold tilosele or red silk. This stitch is cas-
lily made by passing the needle and thread
under the two little raised strands of fabric,
either lengthwise, crosswise of diagonally. If
diagonally, it will require a second running
in the opposite direction. This accom-
plished, the squares of the quilt OF pieces,
no matter what the shape, may be deco
rated with suntfowers, daisies, dahlias or
dog roses, outlined i'll buttonhole stitch
with two shades OF silk, and the center of
the flower filled in with French knots of
darker silk, OF any tasteful pattern can be