Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-10

ship must be so years of age or over. As
the fin du steele woman has, like literature,
no age of limitation to her mental faculties
the club loses nothing by its embargo. Mrs
Kate Sanratt Woods and Mrs. Mary j.
Livermore are members and Mrs. Michael
Dyer Is President
Sofa cushions full yard square when
finished are much covered this spring with
gingham and gay fowered lawns A wide
gathered frill, hemmed. edges them. The
sumner cushion is subjected to very hard
usage; it is tossed about piazzas, crumpled
in hammocks, taken to the lawn seats and
often left there for summer nights rain
it is quite wise to see that it is clothed in
washable covers. A young matron who is
fitting up her rustic wood cottage in the
Catskills has made dozens of cushion covers
of plain turkey red, of firm. good quality.
They are many Of them finished with frill;
others have full rosette in the corners,
made of a double bias of the material, and
their effect on the gnarled and twisted chairs
and divans. of gray wool in her wide piazzas
looking off into the view will be exceeding
ly enlivening.
Double portieres arranged in somewhat
novel fashion are being introduced into
many New York parlors The usual por-
there's are hung on the hall side of the
single or double doorway, and within on a
swinging pole is hung q second drapery,
which, when swung out into the room, makes
an effective cosy corner. Plain hangings of
rather dull rich colorings are most used.
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A variation of the Circulating Library
party, in which the men and women repre-
sent books and are drawn out each BY one
of the opposite sex, and promenaded with
for five minutes to guess one another's iden-
tity before being exchanged, is that of re-
cent hostess of small company. To each
guest five books are given for her to illus
trate, and in addition she was to imperson-
ate sixth suggested by herself The guests
assembled talked, had music and were vari.
ously entertained until the end of the even
ing, when all were provided with pencil
and paper and asked to write out
the number OF identifcations each had
been able to make. Prizes were given to
the highest and lowest list furnished re.
spectively by each sex, as in all prize par
ties. Some OF the illustrations were verv
clever It was not desired that thev should
be elaborate, merely small designs to be
pinned or otherwise fastened on the dress
"a Tale of Two Cities was shown by a
small cat tail with Boston and Chicago at.
fixed; "a Bow of Orange Ribbon BY the
necessary bow; "We Two" by wee figure
2 on plain white card; 1.-THE Scarlet Let
ter" by a. brilliantly red envelope stamped
and addressed; Kipling's mine Own
People" by q genealogical tree Of the
wearer's name; "Boots and Saddles'' by q
bootblack plying his trade before butch
er's shop where saddles of mutton were dis
played, such as could not be actually pro-
duced being sketched on cards A woman
'tIn Silk Attire" had also Three Feathers"
punched at her corsage and q clever man
bore as breast plate, large plscard show.
ing two typical pugilists, fighting Justify on
a large box packed with strands of silk.
Only one woman knew enough Of prize ring
slang to guess that this was 1.-THE Mill on
the Floss" but all the men saw the design
ct once.
A new sauce. an object lesson of which
was recently given at New York cooking
class, is one to be served with any sort of
broiled fowl. A teaspoonful Of dry mustard
is thoroughly beaten into glassful of cur
rant jelly, imparting an undistinguishabl
but very agreeable flavor.
Some new sleeves are illustrated, No. /,
arranged in loose puffs banded with velvet
ribbon. The model is Of gray crepe banded
with pink ribbon; this, however, can be
varied indefinitely. No. Q is especially
pretty in nuns yelling, surah or any soft
silk and is gathered around the lower arm