Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-10
Household Oruamen,ation,


All the ornarnentation of the dinner table
is high-high candlesticks, high vases, high
glasses for the flowers, and tall glass COM
potiers. Salt-cellars are looking up; and a
fayorite device is silver vase, about two
inches high, with shell for salt.
Silver and silver-gilt dishes, having been
banlshed for five years, are now reasserting
their pre-eminent fitness for the modern
dinner table. People grew tired of silver
and banished it to the plate chest Now all
the old pieces are being FURNISHED up and
reappearing; and happy the hostess who
has some real old Queen Anne As the
silver dollar loses caste the silver soup tu-
reen, or as the French say, the soupiere
land it is a good world, rises in fashion,
and the teapot of our grandmothers re-
sumes its honored place.
A new sofa pillow is shaped like a huge
egg, with large bow on each end One of
black plush is very handsome, with large
pink roses upon it, with bows of pink satin
ribbon upon the ends and lining of the
same.
If you are thrifty housewife, you should
have a rag bag, and we will tell you how to
make one. Take strip of material the
size of an ordinary chair back, linen or
woolen stuff will do; embroider it at one
end and fringe it, turn over the other end
and work it to match, so that two rows of
fringe and work appear one above the
other. Sew piece of muslin at the back
to make the bag and some rings at the top
through which run cork; hang it on the
wall of a sewing-room, and put scraps in it.
Old straw hats form pretty receptacle
for carrying work around in. The Leghorn
flats are the best to make use of. although
any large shade hat can be made to answer
the purpose. The outside of the brim is
covered with trailing spray of wild roses,
marguerites, and forget-me-nots worked in
the long Kensington stitch, a band of rib
bon is passed around the crown and tied in
bow on the side. A bag top of satin is
sewed to the inside of the brim and drawn
in at the top with narrow ribbons, which
also serve to carry it on the arm the in
side of the crown should be neatly lined
with piece of the satin used for the bag
top.
Pincushions are made in a variety of
forms, and vary in size from five to twelve
inches; they are usually filled with bran.
Small gilt baskets are converted into pin
cushions by being filed and stuffed. the
tops covered with satin. There is fashion
just now for long, narrow cushions, say
fourteen inches long and four inches wide,
embroidered in silks or Satins, and edged
with lace and cord. The Siamese twin
CuSDiOu ID HOFelly II Is TWO square
cushions united just at one corner, with a
looping of ribbon across the joining, SO that
they appear like bow, the cushions each
forming loop. Another novelty is a sort
of cupfower, made of cardboard, covered
with thin silk, having tiny floral sprays all
over in this cup red silk pincushion is
inserted. Another novelty is a pincushion
like miniature pulled ottoman, the two
cushions placed cornerwise across the other;
they are made in oriental-patterned silk
and edged with gold cord.
A piece of wood with cigar box at one
end, having place cut for the face of a
shabby clock, the shelf and box covered
with plush, velvet, or felt, makes a pre-
sentable ornament at a trifling cost.
A small barrel is capital receptacle for
soiled linen instead of hamper. Have it
well cleaned and lined with chintz, the
outside should be either painted or covered
with Turkey red embroidered with sprays
the lid must be covered or painted to cor
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