The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-05-26

black lace, and tied with either black or col
ored ribbons, they are very pretty and useful
for Summer wear.
There is art in painting house as we'll as in
painting pictures. Different houses require
different treatment. There is the solid, sub
stantsl home that looks best painted either q
dark-red or dark slate, with dark-red trim
mings Such colors would not suit more fam
ciful house with ornamental roofs, windows,
and porches. 1t should be painted French
gray, trimmed dark green, or good shade of
green with darker trimmings would be pretty.
very good, neat effect is obtained by using
very light brown with dark brown to bring out
the architectural points Such treatment would
suit q majority of the houses.
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Cushions and pillows are moro than ever In
demand now that Summer is almost here, and
we find them on the porches In the big chairs
or tumbing around the hammock. Now,
cushions for outdoor use do not have to be so
fine as those Of the parlor, and can be made Of
cheap, serviceable materials and, in fact, are
much better than the more elaborate ones
Denim. which costs about Is cents yard ;
Canton flannel, using the twill side; black
sateen, huckaback, toweling-all make pretty
colors. Have some great big, generous, pill
lows, as well as smaller ones. Fill them with
curled hair II you can afford it.; If not, use
excelsior. A denim cover, with spiders web
outlined with linen floss across one of the
corners, 10 easily made and artistic Unbleached
Capfnp. 6anuAl with
either drawn or traced In the center and then
worked with red linen thread, can be used with
putting of red along the edges for finish.
Black sateen worked in yellow silks, buttercups
scattered across one corner and down the side,
would be pretty. The huckaback worked in
wash silks could be washed very nicely. The
pattern can be darned or worked In coarse long
and-short stitch. pretty idea ia to make one
side Of the cushion of the hucka back with
design of orange colored threads, and the other
side of silk or sateen to match the color.
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Tho hat In the initial is Of light straw.
trimmed with green velvet ribbon aud yellow
roses.
A pretty sachet is made by making two little
bags of boiling cloth and filling one of them
with silk Rawlings of all sorts of colors and
the other with the SOFT fluffy milk weed seeds.
Do not fill them in too closely.
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Norfolk jackets, changed little, but still
Norfolk jackets, are made with tho pleats in
tho back stitched down, but the three on either
side of the front allowed to hang looser from
the shoulder.
Flies are awfully troublesome any way, and
especially II there are not screens to keep them
out If after every meal the table is cleared off
quickly, the food put away, tho carpet swept
and the room darkened through the hot part of
the day, there will be less trouble.
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1t is not often that anyone is brave enough
to say that beauty Is confined to one style of
womSn, but q London paper says that q woman
in order to be strkingly beautiful must have
blue eyes Of a medium shade That is the
most essential thing. Secondarily, she must
have an aquiline nose dark hair, rosy checks
and lips, white teeth, aud dimples The dark