St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-23

tnlnS Ill tne push
ton which alters the cir
culation in way that clears my brain
at once. and when, in addition, | close
my eyes, shutting out everything ma
ieyial. my befogged and jaded mind
strayS into this reStful darkness with al
most magical effect. | cot the habit, or
knowledge of 1t, from my father, who
was 4 lawyer, and who many times
commented to me upon the debt he
owed his old haircioth sofa III his inner
Office. 1T is the most valuable authority
in my library he used to say laughing
ly, and | understand now how much he
meant by the remark"
Another woman who is not writer,
but busy housemother, has the lounge
in her sewing room, and she teStifieS to
its potent restorative qualities, taken
five minutes at time from season
with needle and scissors. 1t is, of
course, all part and parcel of the doc
trine which preScribes relief to strain
before. not after, one begins to lose
ones vigor. Work under such circum
stances, even continued and severe
mental work, does not do serious dam
age. 1t is the student who Grams for
examination with wet towel around
his head and strong coffee on his table
who breaks down from OverStudy, not
the Philippe Fawcett who takes her six
hours day and no more throughout
her course.
A young married couple, composed
of rich girl and poor but gifted
artist, are finding life beautiful these
days in fitting up a residence which is
sufficiently near the city limits to COM
bine the pleasures of town and country
life. The house is full of charming
effects, one of the most original. per-
hapS, being the fittings of the dining
room. This is hung with Canton mat
ing. i'll its natural color. upon which, as
dado, the artist husband has painted
tall. swaying reeds and ruShes, in which
various kinds of game are seen-par-
fridge, quail and plover. The frieze,
done by the same hand. is a
| tates. with wonderful cleyerness,
the cloudy sky of real hunting morn
| ing. This realism is purely classic, as
| the Romans made their baths in the
floors of their houses. painting the sides
| of the room to represent deep sea
| growths and fishes and tintng the bath
| bottoms with the peculiar shade pro-
duced by blue sky shining far through
sea-green water.
Women ''just home from abroad"
| show with pride the gorgeous bed
| spreads OF Sllken embroidery which a
| visit TO Japan has secured, and which
has cleverly escaped duty by the addi-
ton of a monogram worked in corner.
| The stay-at-homes who sigh for this
elegance can produce one nearly as
| attractive, and certainly with a
| similar dash of the Orient in it. with
| the Turkish dollies on sale at most of
the New York shops where women
frequent. Select those with unsewn
edges and join the squares with any
pretty insertion lace, lining afterward
with canary or old rose satin, or any
that, indeed, that is most effective with
the. embroidery of the squares. The
Satin-finished cambrics and silesias are
good substitute for the more expensive
material. Some use large piece of
the work for center piece, so large
even as twenty-seven inches square,
with the smaller ones for border. The
result in any case is really surprising in
| magnificence and artistic effect.