Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-08

this or that new Seeding and a prope
selection of bulbs or shrubs; eyerythin
IN country garden has its history an
personal association. The old bushes, tn
perennials, are apt to have most tende
relationship with the hands that plante,
them long ago. There is a constant ex
change of such treasures between tn
nelghbors, and IN the spring slips and cut
tings may be seen roofing on the window
ledges; while the house plants give endles
work all winter long, since they need care
ful protection every night against tn,
frosts of the severe New England weathers
| A fower-loying woman brings back from
every one of her infrequent journeys som,
treasure of flower-seed, or root, or bulb, OF
cutting-or else a huge miscellaneous nose
gay"
In reply to an item that first appeared
in these columns many weeks ago (ther
true to the letter., and has ever since beer
going the rounds of the press, Miss Anne
Dickenson sent the following letter last
week to the New York World:
You are mistaken in stating that Anna Dick.
lnson is still an invalid, confined TO her room
etc. Before many months elapse she will take
up her public work agaln-probably for short
cal stage. anna Z. DICKINsOS.
fittsburg, Pa, August "a, 1889.
A NEW DEPARTURE
In the conduct of funerals, which seems to
be rapidly gaining ground in this country,
is the exclusion of females from the burial
service, especially those who were relatives
or near friends Of the deceased. Nova
days, especially in Eastern papers, one may
read many such advertisements among the
local death notices, as "Male members of
the family only are invited to attend the
funeral" Last week, in Philadelphia, a
wealthy lady died who had previously
made special request that her funeral
should be devoid of ostentation, and at
tended By no Uomea. This is but one exam
pie of number that have recently oc-
Cured. and numerously- attended funerals
are no longer popular. In New York, most
OF the funerals are attended only by the
male members of the family of the de-
ceased, as in the European countries, and
especially in the Spanish this
custom has long been in vogue. Not only
is it a menace to delicate health, especially
on cold, damp or stormy DAYS. to take the
long, slow carriage-ride to the cemetery.
and to stand on the damp ground while
the last sad services are being conducted,
but 1t is often far too great strain upon
feminine nerves, sometimes resulting in
complete prostration, protracted illness, or
loss of life. Frequently women faint while
the body OF some relative is being lowered
into the grave, and often terrible hitch
occurs in the dropping of the coffin-not
to mention the sound one can never for
get, of the first clods falling upon it. The
depth OF a woman's grief, or her devotion
to the dead, cannot be measured by her
presence at the cemetery, any more than
by the length of her veil
A CUNNING DEVICE.
A most useful, as well as handsome toilet
screen may be made of two folds ofa common
old-fashioned clothes-horse, such as every
house used to have, but which are now
mostly relegated to the attic, to give place
to some modern contriyance upon which
to air the ironing. A screen made by a
young lady of my acquaintance to suit her
especial needs, had its battered old wood
work painted white; and then width of
French cretonne was used as a panel on
each fold of the frame The cretonne
used was exactly the width of the fold of
the bars, so that it hung perfectly flat,
thus showing off well the design of the
cloth-festoons of pale mornings -glories on
a pink ground. The cretonne was simply
hemmed, top and bottom, and then laced
on to the top bar of the frame with sew
eral strands of the heavy linen floss, in
shades of pink and olive. The panels
were tied together at the angle of the
screen with large loops of the tinseled
linen threads, ending in tassels. These
were made by crocheting around brass
curtain rings of good size with the linen
floss, and then tying in lengths of the
floss to form tassels, somewhat after the
fashion of those now so much used for
looping back window curtains. Three of
these were used to tie the hangings to-
gether, and three as a finish on each out
side edge, thus making the panels secure
to the framework and giving a unique
finish. The cross-bars of wood were left
free on the inside to serve as towel-rack
of more than ample dimensions than is
often secured. The screen set about the
washstand, made a complete little dress
ing-room of one corner of the bed chamber.
Especially in small houses, a screen is
great convenience, and may be used in
many ways and in diverse places. Where
one affects eight Housekeeping" and gets
up occasional meals over oil or gasoline, a
perfect little kitchen may be secured in
one corner of the dining-room, secured
from view so that nobody will be the wiser,
though your sole cooking table be an old
trunk or dry-goods box. / have screen
of three leaves, painted black and var
nished, upon which pale yellow Madras
strewn with oak leaves, is gathered full on
a cord run into shir at top and bottom
and secured to the frame with ass-headed
tacks. For bedrooms, white muslin with
big 'dots" in it, is pretty for the purpose
Olive Harper says: 81 have Just dis
covered that if any person subject to priclly
heat in summer will bathe the places
in a weak solution of saleratus water and
dry them with a soft cloth, and afterwards
powder them with equal parts of fuller's
earth and rice flour, they will have perfect
ease. 1t should be done night and morn
ing in hot weather; and if mosquito bites
you, don't try any heroic remedy, but
simply apply a little cold cream, which
somehow overcomes the poison and irrita-
tion when nothing else will"
Ewes GREAT-GREAT-
GRANDDAUGHTER.