Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-16

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adorned save for it's decorative flavor of
antiquity, somewhere about the chimney
| piece. Then sit back on the low chair op.
| posite and rejoice that you have \ bit Of
| modish bric-a-brac
The screen is being as much abused as the
| tea gown. Combination screens have devel-
| oped until one may have q music rack, pho
tograph album, china closet, writing desk,
book shelves and possibly washing machine
combined with ones screen. A screen has
a simple cause for being. 1t is valuable to
keep of draughts, or to shut away the too
ardent flame of an open fire; it is useful,
too, in protecting an unsightly corner
| or doorway and in the sick room
to the nervous invalid. Its office as its
name indicates is interposition, and as such
it should be light and readily moved. To
make it a whole set of furniture is incon-
gruous and inartistic in the sense of per.
verting an obvious use. A screen becomes
cumbrous as thing of beauty if it is more
than two-fold; it ceases to be a screen and
becomes partition when it takes to itself
numerous feet Jf height and breadth and
multiplicity of panel. A simple model is
the one illustrated with IN upper half of
the panels of glass or embroidery and the
lower swung with curtain of heavy stuff
Tapestry with glass or a plain watered silk
upper with large initial or other design in
couched embroidery make beautiful COM
bination.
The growing interest among women for
legal knowledge enough to protect them
selves is a step in the progress of the sex.
A woman's club, doubtless there are more
than this one, will have several legal meet
ings during the winter to be addressed by
representative women in the profession, on
practical everyday legal points. In the
matter of servants, for instance, q woman
often finds her ignorance of the laws gov
erning mistress and maid extremely annoy.
ing and costly. Police sergeants aud JUS
tices will tell any one who chooses to make
INJURY that there are plenty Of unprinci-
Piled servants everywhere who make fair
living with little work, constantly taking
places for q stated period and within the
first 48 hours making themselves SO obnox-
ious that their discharge is provoked, when
they claim and can legally get wages for
full contracted time. This is but one of q
number of legal points upon which women
need enlightenment for their own sakeS
Window seat shoeboxes are on sale now
at the furniture shops. They come long
and square, and the lids are upholstered in
muslin to be covered with any desired ma
terial. When put in q parlor or sitting
room they are useful for music or newspa-
pers or work
A new gift for new baby is band Of
ribbon to keep the small person in his car
riage or chair If is is desired to have it
especially dainty and pretty it may be of
white ribbon embroidered with some small
flower, little Johnny-jump-ups in natural
colors being especially attractive. It is
lined with white silk and interlined with
Canton flannel. Either end is finished with
full rosette of marrow ribbon, which hide
the fastening of two ribbon ends designed
to tie the band in place. For more serv-
iceable wear golden brown or some similar
seen measured about Is inches in length and
was made OF 21z inch ribbon.
Church entertainments in these DAYS
have become almost q cult. The care and
detail expended to produce an effect for two
or three evenings or a week seem almost
disproportionate to the end desired, but il
in keeping with the excellence which is
striven for now in every department of life.
At Q rainbow tea last spring the frame of
the rainbow which spanned the room took
seven men day to build, and cost undec.
GRATED $50. Whole pieces of cheese
cloth in the prismatic colors were
then drawn over it with wonderful
effect A New England tea for church
extension fund was held in New York last
week. The decoration of the room was
given over to an expert with most sstis-
factory result On one side was IN old
colonial frsplacs with the crossed musksh
above and the spinning wheel and Asx b.