Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-24

our mothers and perhaps some of our grand
mothers as long ago as 1910. The hat is q
stunning affair, as the accompanying sketch
of it will show, with poke brim of amaz-
ing proportions made of finely pleated net
and edged with jet Some black ostrich
plumes nod over it from the back, and a
long veil depends from it in front 1t has
wide strings of black ribbon. In London
Just now the voluminous veil is in fashion,
and its length is often carried to extremes,
even to the knees Of the wearer.
1t is English to salt strawberries as you
would your melon.
In these housecleaning DAYS, as almost
any woman will say, the work seems half
done when the closets are disposed Of 1t
is the tuck-away hooks and corners, where
things accumulate and get thick, that are
the most difficult to overhaul. The walls
of hanging closets ought, of course. never
to be whitewashed, a caution that would
seem absurd if disregard of it were not so
often encountered If, as often happens, in
poorly built houses there is a considerable
space between floor and wall to gather dust,
and afford insects a home, q few cents
worth of pine molding nailed down will
make the floor tight. The cracks should be
filled with putty and the floor and molding
painted and vanished to offer smooth sur
face. Now that paints ready for use are so
cheaply and universally obtainable, this
process comes easily within the scope of any
rubber-gloved woman.
A depression is to urge that every house.
woman shall be rubber-gloved one. Wear
out, if must be, a 81 30 pair every spring,
and save The dicomfort and ugliness of
broken nails, roughened, stained and lacer-
ated hands. To return to the closets, many
neat housekeepers think the best treatment
to closet floors bedroom, not kitchen
closets is to cover them with table oilcloth.
This fits in easily, Is readily wiped over,
and as there is no wear upon it, is sufIlci-
emily durable.
Some unique boudoir lamps have for
standards square cut-glass cologne bottles,
into the top OF which the oil vase of silver
is set.
1t is the simple dishes of meal that need
care, for, like the little girl with curl,
when they are good they are very good, and
when they are bad they are horrid An
omelet, buckwheat cakes, Goldfish balls
who does not know the wide dissimilarity
between good specimens of these homely
dishes and those which were not good. At
a free cooking school lecture in this
city recently, the teacher demon
strated the evolution of some white Gus
tards that should 60 down to posterity.
They were, the teacher said, an invention
OF one Of her pupils, Western woman,
and they are made as follows: Break the
whites OF four eggs into a small teacup full
OF granulated sugar, mixing them thor
oughly but not beating the eggs. Into this
rich milk previously heated thoroughly but
neither scalded nor boiled. The mixture
should be quite smooth before being put
into the cups; if not, it should be strained.
Place the cups in pan of water and cover
with thick brown or buttered paper to pre-
vent their coloring. They should be quite
white when done. Bake in a moderate
oven.
A natural complement and successor to
the souvenir spoon craze is that of the tea
cup which is again upon us. In lieu of
box of candy or . bunch of flowers a beau
may send belle dainty teacup and saucer
delicate as her complexion and fragile a. her
promises
Easter favors abound everywhere. The
custom of giving presents at this festival
grows every year, and when . few years ago
an occasional Easter card or an egg-shaped
box of bonbons was the limit of observance
in this respect, it is difficult to-day to draw
the line against any offering. A novelty
this year is the silver flower pot made with
en- earthen one fitted inside for the actual
soil, which is, however, concealed by the
higher rim of the silver vase. Each pot
has the drain hole at the bottom, and with
a spring flower, a tulip or hyscinth spring
ing up from its glittering bed.
The surprise eggs sold at the women's ex-
changes are another novelty. In these the
natural contents Of the egg are carefully re-