Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-28


so chic and so immensely pretty and novel,
that You would VOW it was masterpiece
from Virot.
There are no bare banisters any more. All
open stalrcases are carefully treated" as
the windows in the house. Sometimes rich
prayer rugs, mellow with age and color, are
let fall from the balustrade to their full
length; people ofsgreater afluence use tap
estry paintings, which are hung 80 as to
cover the handrail and just clear the hall
floor. All manner of quaint weavings from
ancient and modern looms are utilized In
small halls, and where space is cramped the
rails are carved, gilded or enamelled and
the handrail covered with silk plush.
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Cut four round pieces of paste-board 81
inches in diameter, says the Ladies' Home
Journal, in referring to the illustration be-
low. Cover two of them with red surah silk
and the other two with white satin, or
chamois skin, for the lining. Take a strip
Of the red surah 12H inches In
length and 8 inches in width.
Make a narrow hem or the two
ends; gather the two sides and stitch them
on to the wrong side of each white round,
Just inside the edge, leaving three inches
and quarter for the opening. Take one
yard of half-inch wide ribbon, cut it in two
pieces. Sew one end of each piece on the
wrong side of the white rounds, tie the two
ends in bow to hang it up by. Paste one
of Kursheedts' small silk owls in the center
of one of the red rounds, with the words,
"You sleep, I'll watch" painted or written
in gilt above it. Paste the red rounds on to
the white ones.
I have heard of woman who was very
unhappy because directly in front of her
workable there was disfguring crack in
the wall. As she sat at her sewing her eyes
would be drawn to the opening. which each
day grew to her gaze larger and more ex-
asperating. She had tried patching 1t, but
she fancied that it looked ten times worse
for her pains. It made her cross, and her
ill-temper was reflected in her children.
One day she "came to herself" and turning
her table and chair around, put the enemy
behind her, and she was amazed to see
how day by day the size of the crack dimin-
ished.
This hat may be used as work or flower
basket. 1t looks very pretty when filled
with u0WerS. u DOWl may DC pub Auslue
to hold the water for the flowers.
It might also be used for let
tiers and cards. The basket is
made with an old derby hat. 1t has satin
shirred all around the brim and lining Of
the same. Use satin of two colors. Gid
six clothespins and fasten firmly around the
band, as shown in the picture. Decorate
them with ribbon and paint design on the
brim between each pin.
Get piece of sponge-the coarse, cheap
kind is the best, and after wetting it thor
oughly with warm water. squeeze it gently
so as to wiring out most of the water, but not
all. Have ready some seeds Of rice, oats,
millet, grass and red clover, and push them
into the holes of the damp sponge. Now
hang it up in window where it will get the
sun during part Of the day. taking care to
sprinkle it with little water every day for
a week, so that it may be kept slightly
moist.
Soon the little spear-likeleaves will begin
to shoot from every part of the sponge, and