Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-20

the center, leaving folded and slightly
fulled circle two inches In diameter, Oh
which the right side is the gauged side.
A pretty combination is to use alternate
strips of pink and pale heliotrope ribbon;
one of all white is also effective: These
scarfs are very easily made, and are OF
trifing cost.
There are few housekeepers who do not
sigh for brass bedstead. Their strength,
durability, complete cleanliness recommend
them besides their beauty. They are, too,
the most wholesome of beds, permitting
perfect ventilation. But their cost is great,
and so there Is considerable vain signing
done for brass bedsteads along with other
good things of this life.
An excellent substitute however for
them-the brass beds, not all the good
th1ngs-are the pretty elameled iron
ones shown. They come In
similar designs to the simpler
brass ones, and are very artistic furnishers.
Those in white, with brass balls tipping the
posts, can be had in three-quarters size as
low as 81 so; such are shown in black and
brass as well, also in cream tint that is ef-
fective. Some with plain brass rod head
and loot piece as well as the post knobs are
S11 and So so, according to design. The
Margaret Louisa Home for Working Wom-
en-, recently built here by one of the Van
derbilt daughters, Mrs. Shepard, is pro-
V1ded with plain white iron bedsteads in
every room; so attractive an effect has this
furnishing produced that some captious
critics have complained that the effect was
actually too fine for working women, en-
gendering wrong notions of luxury, etc
In point of fact, they are wonderfully
nTottU of ut hov,
pings, daintily dressed in snowy bed linens,
with wreath Of cornfowers embroidered
on the pillow cases, furnishes young girls
bedroom with taste and elegance.
Did you ever, when you have been hck,
have bowl of cruel brought to you that
was weak and hourless, lumpy and abso-
lutely unpalpable? II you did, you were
only one of many other patients who have
been so afflicted, if that is any consolation.
Cruel is like the little girl in the nursery
rhyme; when it is good, it is very good, in
deed, and when it is bad, it is 'horrid'' and
only fit for pig food and not even for the
prize pig in the pen. Yet the knack of
cruel is 50 simple Its whole secret is to
wet the I-dian meal in cold water Take
two tablespoonfuls of the meal, or if it is
liked little thick, three, and stir smooth
In lttle cold water before adding 1t DY
degrees to quart of salted boiling water
This is secret No. 2-to salt the boiling
water before the meal is added. In this
way the salt itself is not tasted, but its
favor is. This may seem much ado over a
triding matter, but bowl of good Cruel,
drunk and relished by a sick person, is
sometimes an important factor in turning
the scale of an illness
The white linen covers for sofa cushions
which have been SO popular during the
summer, are being used as well in the fitting
up of apartments for the winter. They are,
above all, suitable-tbe right thing in the
right place-as they admit of laundrying.
Some of them are traced in all over designs,
others have small flowers worked solidly in
wash silks, like violets, forget-me-nots and
the like, and almost all have deep hem
stitehedbo rders A pretty one was worked in
yellow silk in scattering buttereups and
upon each corner was a rosette of yellow
ribbon. Ladies who cannot hemstitch buy
large plain linen handkerchiefs, hem
stitched all around, such as are sold for gen.
tlemen's use, and fit plain slip lining to
them, leaving the hemstitched border free
from the seam.
MARGARET H. WHLoH