Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-03-29
THE HOUSEHOLD.
The Ideal Parlor.

-, The ideal parlor must be comfortable.
mere should be chairs with short legs
Tor short people, and others with long
legs for tall people, and with backs that
90 not bulge to throw the sitter forward,
II should not be over full; there must be
room to move about and make ones best
DOW without hitting the walls or the
furniture, Except in spacious apart
ments there are many objections to a
table in the center of the room; ottomans
and hassocks should be we'll away from
the main entrance, SO as not to trip the
Footsteps of the aged or unwary, and the
more delicate kinds ofbric.a brac placed
above elbow reach on brackets. mantels,
and the tops of bookcases. These sug-
gestions do not presuppose that ones
visitors are Cloths and Vandals, unused
to the ways of polite society, but in
room devoted principally to the enter
tainment OF friends, whatever is likely
to add to or detract from their enjoy
ment is to be duly considered.
The material used for coverings and
drapery is of but little consequence
more than that the colors blend properly
and form an agreeable contrast to the
carpet, wallis, and ceiling. Plush is
popular, handsome, durable, but too
much of it in small room gives stuffy
air and flavor of the shop. The pic
lures should be hung with o careful re-
gard to light and shade, and the orna-
ments disposed to the best advantages;
the selection of these should be gov
erned by rigid taste in regard to quail
lty. ChrOmos, tea store china and the
productions of the crochet needle may
answer for certain parts of the house,
but they have no place in the parlor. If
1t is the best you can afford it may as we'll
go undecorated.
But above and beyond all these, util-
ity, comfort. harmony. important as they
are. there must be that indefinite, intan-
gible, almost inexpressible something,
without which all else is failure, that
is called expression. do not mean by
that simply the general effect manifest
to the visible sense, but the unison that
often seems to exist between human be-
ings and their insensate belongings. 1t
is the homelike feeling we breathe in
the atmosphere, making form, color,
matter, and furniture altogether Sec
ondary. 1t is the subtle sense of fitness
and adaptation which is in itself Joy
and delight.-Good Housekeeping.
Hints to Housel<eepers.
ANTIQUE oak or cherry is the favorite
wood for bedroom sets.
PINE pillows are used on library
lounges as melting slumber.
BATHROOMS should not open into
sleeping apartments.
The sure preventive for cholera ie
cleanliness.
KEEP separate saucepan for boiling
potatoes in if possible.
NEVER stand still in cold weather,
especially after having taken slight
degree of exercise, and always avoid
standing on ice or snow, or where the
person is exposed to cold wind.
A NOVELTY in screens are those will
flaps or pockets on the outside panel FOL
holding cabinet and larger photographs.
The panel may be covered with diagona
cloth, Roman satin or plush, and the
pockets to correspond, or of rather broad
ribbon velvet, drawn tightly across
slantingwise, and stitched at one edge
to form pocket for the photographs.
In cooking oatmeal or cracked wheat
If the meal is put into double boiler
and salt added to the water in the oute1
receptacle, the food will be much i'm.
proved in taste. the reason being un-
doubtedly because the meal is better
cooked by this process. A sailed water
does not boil at so low temperature OF
jected to greater heat and is proper.
tionately better cooked and much i'm.
proved thereby.
The white worm, which sometimes
makes the earth in plant jar look as il
it is alive, can be driven out by stopping
the hole in the bottom of the jar, ther
cover the earth with water in which yor
have dissolved little lime. Let this
stand for several hours and it is not
likely that you will be troubled with the
worms any more.