Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-27

| to be untidy, careless and unappreciatiye OF
| the beautiful. Make your children's room
| the daintiest in the house even If 1t Is very
| inexpensive If putting a great, big, ex-
| pensive picture on the walls OF your Parlor
means having none on the nursery walls, by
all means leave the parlor bare, or at leass
| divide the price between the two rooms.
| The nursery should be sunny and cheeriulj
| it should be scrupulously neat and wnole.
! some; it should have mating instead Oh
carpets, or better still, a hardwood noor.
| There should be window box OF br1gnt
| hued, easy growing flowers, and above all
| there should be pictures, good pictures, too:
A child's taste is very tractaole; ne Will
soon admire graceful outlines If he seems
| them constantly.
An ideal nursery seen recently was sunny
room with hardwood floor OIL which were
| gay rugs, easy to keep free OF dust, the
| walls painted delicate tint, with wood
dado three feet high running around the
room. Into this at intervals were inserted
behind glass to keep them from pryIng 1T
tie fingers pictures artisticaily drawn, repre-
senting the familiar Mother Goose rhymes.
A less expensive method for most salts
factory nursery gallery is to take the often
| fine copies of noted originals that are con-
tinually found in the best illustrated week:
lies Such mounted on a sheet Of bristol
board with the margin gilded or left plain,
or neatly tackled unmounted on the wall
with upholstery tacils, make an effective
showing and admit of frequent variety.
The three-quarter capes, so popular in the
spring, are rather resigning their place
among the cloth garments, but they are dis
tinct fall novelties in furs. This is blow
to the long triumphant fur shoulder cape,
which ought to be hailed with delight by
every friend to woman's fine appearance.
Those wretched little coachmen's capes were
convenient, and that was ALL They were
never graceful, and never suitable for
winter garment. Physicians agree that
they were really angerous-overheating
the neck, chest and shoulders, and leaving
the lower chest and back unduly exposed.
These new deep capes, circling the figure
just below the hips, are extremely hand
some and graceful, and are suitable fur gar
ments, afording ample protection
Women often complain that the velvet
strap and bow worn under the chin with
the small capote or cottage bonnet dis
colors the throat. The best modistes line
velvet with thin white silk.
Something of novelty for a child's party
seen recently was wooden frame. u
looked like one fold of an old-fashioned
clothes horse detached and mounted on two
small pieces of wood for foundations
all over to add to its effect, upon the cross
piece of which were suspended by cords of
unequal length and about 18 inches apart,
four or five prizes done up in tissue paper.
To each child was given q pair of scissors,
and it was instructed to make an effort to
walk in the direction of the frame and snip
prize. About 10 prizes were provided for
a company of 45 children, that proportion,
it was decided, would achieve success. At
the same party the bonboDs were not served
with the supper, but were put in little
white boxes, tied with blue ribbon for the
boys and pink for the girls, and passed to
the children as they LETT the house.
Round dinner tables are finding favor
again. Bonbons for dessert, cream wal
nuts, crystallized apricots and cherries are
served in tiuted paper cups which match the
table decorations.
A real prayer rug, one which has been
actually knelt upon by devout Mnssul-
man and an actual Japanese hari-kan
sword, make a pair of sp, cially desired
relics to the fashionable bric-a-brao hunter.
MARGARET H. WEIGH.