Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-02-18

gether, show glimpses of a satin ground
OF color-yellow, sage, pale blue, or
brilliant red.
Care of Brooms.
Don't hang your broom brush end
uppermost, unless you want to spoil
it. If the brush is the least bit damp,
the moisture will work down into the
body of the broom and makei it musty,
and after time will rot the threads all
out. l know there is a great fancy now
adaysfor fastening the brooms on the
wall by means of nails driven through
spools, as we'll as various broom
holders and similar devices, but it is
all mistake, as one may see by giving
the subject a little thought. Hang up
a wet broom in this way, and the
water naturally soaks into the tying.
Once wet, 1t would take days to dry
it. Before it could be thoroughly dry,
itgets wet again.
The inside portion of the broom is
fastened with wires. These become
rusted and break away, and the
threads which fasten the outside get
rotted, and ~ome little blow breaks
them loose: zen the broom is spoiled.
Go to tn, hardware store and
buy a do IN large size screw-eyes.
Put one of these in the end OF the
handle OF every broom in the house.
Drive nails and hang them up. Before
putting them up it is well to dip them
for about four or five inches OF the
length OF the brush into hot water,
then rap them smartly to throw out
the water, hang them up and let them
dry thoroughly before using. In this
way the bush dries straight, and the
broom will last as long again as when
treated III the usual way.
These screw-eyes have various uses,
and it Is economy to buy them by the
gross. The busting brush, hoor-brush-
es-anything with a wooden handle
may be hung up by means OF them:
The bread-board, the ironing board,
indeed, every wooden utensil about
the house, may be much more con-
veniently placed by means OF these
triIling appliances. Such small wares
cost almost nothing, and by their use
one finds elbow-roOnl, shelf-room and
order much more easily than by al
most any other means.-New York
Ledger.
A Woman's Game of Conversation.
"The women at our boarding-house
have taken up a little game" said a
New York wife tie other day, "from
which they derive considerable amuse-
ment. The men at our house, 1 am
sorry to say, are not very entertain
ing. Our husbands are deeply en-
crossed in business and are generally
too tired when they come home to
dinner to engage in small talk without
q manifest effort There are two or
three unmarried men who ale talka-
tive enough; often too talkative, in
fact; but their conversation is not
half as entertaining to US as it IS to
themselves. So six of us hit on this
plan: We gather in the parlor before
going down to dinner, and there we
agree upon some well-known proverb
or familiar quotation. Our object is
to bring the conversation of these
talkative young fellows around to
point where we can introduce this
quotation appropriately.
''Whoever succeeds in getting off the
quotation first is the winner; and
when each tries to win, she also tries
to head off the others, if she sees an
opportunity coming. 1t is rare sport
and affords us plenty OF fun. 10 drag
the quotation in badly, inappropri-
ately, does not count; it must come
in aptly so as not to excite the sus-
picions of these youths that we are
playing with them instead of at them,
as they fondly imagine. Take, for in
stance, the quotation: "A primrose
by the rivers brim, simple primrose
was to him, and it was nothing more
and try to bring around to that con-
nection the conversation of young
man which begins with "shop," takes
flight into Irritation and ends with
the theatres Or horses.
"It takes some ingenuity, l tell you;
and the little mystery underlying all
our remarks, which is known only to
ourselves, gives the game additional
interest for a woman, OF course
New York Tribune.