New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-04-27

been covered with this material embroidered with
white linen floss and finished with white linen tassels
and fringe II is especially desirable material
| for hammock pillows because 1t can be easily laun-
dried, if laced the pillow with white linen cord
and tassels. These pillows arsticaly embroidered
in rope-sttch or COUGHING effect with white linen
floss in any scroll conventional wheel pattern.
The nearest approach TO the old-time Gobelin
tapestries found are the painted tapestries which
are used as wall panels in halls, dining rooms and
Libraries. English paintings Of the time OF Reynolds
ana Gainsborough and sometimes religious subjects
are reproduced in this way. \ large tapestry now at
the Mutual Benefit Exchange is designed for hall
panel in a Canadian home. The tapestry is copied
from Sir Joshua Reynolds's portrait Of Lady Hill.
IL represents the lady in the character OF Mirth,'
and II Is therefore TO be presumed that the portrait
was taken before she had attained to the exceptional
honor Of being the mother Of twenty one children.
The pillow bolster is one of the latest mechanical
inventions which will serve TO test the patience Of
good old women in the country. This last Is device
ior reforming the pillow against which no one was
ever known to complain providing it Is well made and
OF good material This contrivance reduces the pillow
to three caterpillar like rolls, which put into
pilow-case with three compartments. In the language
Of Betsy TrowOOd What IN common sense IS 1t for y
The inventive genius who first conceived the idea
Of introducing mongre lines of black and yellow called
mauresque.' TO reproduce in carpets the pleasing
effect Of gded wall papers, is unknown to fame. but
for this atrocy of design for long time
found special favor. You could pick the flowers as
the old lady enthusiastically said in describing the
effect Of her carpet The trouble is that people Of
good taste don't for a carpet in which the pat
tern refuses to lie in place. can be picked up
Maurcsque lines produce just this effect; they throw
up the PATTERN and are perpetual WEAKNESS to the
flesh
Women who have worked hard and been successful
in their work naturally do not feel much sympathy
with women who wait To be helped. There IS too
much begging among reduced Gentlcwomen' In this
country. There many pifu cases. 1t is true, but
Of these may be traced TO want OF energetic
personal effort on the part Of the sufferer or TO
tendency to waste energy combating windmills. Can
not go TO work Systematically as men DO,
letting side issues Of any kind come between them
and their work. Boarding house keepers, as RUE
are mere struggers in vain attempting to make their
expenses equal their income and rcsoing too oeh 10
absurd and foolish economies for this same purpose
Yet no special sympathy is needed for thcm any more
than for men who fail in business. There arc women
in this city who without help have kept their houses
with tho system Of hotel, and are as successful a.
a business man could be.
II has been proved that a house. series OF houses
containing fifty or sixty boarders, where the board
averages - OF - A week, can Dc run al a nt'
profit Of from - 900 to $4,000 a year. The secret
lies in systematic bookkeeping; in buying at hotel
prices food. carpets and every other article used in
the house; In in weighing and measuring every
thing sent In from markct-in short in perfect business
system such houses these are always full because
they kept satisfactory business basis. The
head ~ such house is compelled TO resort to no un
wise economies. She buys her supplies In the
wholesale markets and obtains the best meats
and vegetables at lower prices than
she could buy inferior cuts and produce for uptown
she keeps strict charge Of the keys Of the store
closet and linen closet and hand, out supplies To
her servants. and makes them accountable for them
The keeper Of such n house this must be shrcwd
business woman and devote herself b business
such a woman In Chicago has recently invested the
earnings Of n number II years In large fiat which
she lets furnished and supplies with meals and
service. She I, building mp fortune.
boarding house keeper here who has kcpna pain sub
stantial neat house. succession Of thrc, houses
ha, recently invested $4,000 the result of fifteen
years savings. In real estate There many others
who have become large real estate