Morning journal and courier., 1892-08-20
NEW HAVEN. CONN. MORNING, AUGUST 90 1892.

prove that since 1898 women have bee
struggling into the field of musical crea
tion with more or less success, and tina
with the greater facilities offered to VIC
men, in every line of action, and the i'm
proved methods of teaching, there is ever,
reason TO believe that they may yet be &C
knowledged as composers of marked gen
ius and enduring fame. Many may nov
be only waiting for the assured success o
gifted and daring leader to pass from
the province of Interpretation into tn
more exalted realm of musical creation.
THE OLD HOMESTEAD.
The moon rides clear In q dark, unstudded sky
Stealthy sea odors creep up from the shore,
While the elms breathe low and their quiv'rinl
shadows lie
In a network round the old homestead door.
Stretch your grand old branches!
Whisper tales OF yorei
Memory's gates stand wide-vanished days conn
To the threshold Of the old. homestead door,
IT'S the cricket's lone chirp, tits the locust,
Both, in chiidhood, made music to my soul,
And my heart feels their spell with the old
ecstatic stir,
As the years in misty clouds, backward roll
Welcome, tireless vo:ces
Strike the chords of yore
Memory's gates stand wide-childish forms come
To the threshold Of the old-homestead door.
The moons weird touch hath Its wonted marvel,
Every leaf, every spray, is silvered DER;
So. our youthful dreams were with fairest luster
fraught.
AS We wove them in the old-homestead door.
Work the old5time magic!
Charm me as OF yorel
Memory's gates stand wide-cherished forms
To the threshold Of the old homestead door
Harki a leaf drops down, like the falling OF q
tear,
The night wind rIses with moan;
In the long yeass with sorrows thickiy strown,
Mourn for those departed!
Weep for days Of yore!
Memory's gates stand wide-cherished forms are
From the threshold of the old. homestead door.
1t will not be long ere follow all the rest
To that greeting on the great, eternal shore;
Let me cling, till then, to the scenes 1 love the
Let no change approach the oidhomestead
Waiting peace enfolds me:
Farewell, days OF yore,
Memory's gates stand wide-lo. the faith OF
Looking upward from the old-homestead door.
New Haven. Z. NJ. b.
SEED EMBROIDERY.
A quantity pleasing style of embroidery,
by which the tasteful worker may produce
really beautiful effects, is known as seed
1t has in this country the
charm of novelty, though 1t has long been
in vogue among German needlewomen.
The seeds used for the work are generous
ly provided by the various melons, the
pumpkin and squash; even cucumber and
canary seeds, and kernels of Indian corn
have been thus ornamentally utilized by
the ingenious.
The foundation material may be what
ever is desired, and the seeds must be BE-
lected with reference to the color of this
fabric, as we'll as to the size and shape of
the petal or leaf forms which they are to
cover. The design should be of rather
small single flowers in conventionalized
forms. Small single leaves and all sorts
of compound leaves are made of the seeds,
and stems aud calyxes are worked in silk.
linen floss, crewel or chenille, as preferred.
All the connecting embroidery should be
done first, after this it Is usually
better to stretch the work in small circu-
lar embroidery frame before sewing on the
Seeds The silk with which the seeds are
sewed down must match them to o shade
Some may be fastened down with stitch
taken across each end, others must be
pierced with a sharp needle and sewed
the method of sewing depending
upon their shape. The central disk of a
flower Is worked in French knots, the pet
ais, made entirely of seeds, seed to a
petal, are then sewed around it. Ears of
wheat are very effective when done with
seeds, the awns being worked with single
thread of foss. Some seeds have the effect
of ivory, and watermelon seeds are partic-
ularly rioh-looking upon background of
yellow silk. A high raised effect is pro-
duced by setting the edge of the seed, in
stead of the fiat side, upon the foundation
and sewing through it, fastening the seeds
together by thread passed through their
,enters. Such embroidery is suited to
table and mantel scarfs, hand bags and
sachets, anything, in fact, which will not
require cleansing by water. 1t may, like
the muskmelon seed bags of our grand
be exposed to the attacks of the
predatory mouse. but, unlike them, may
be easily repaired when the melon season
returns. HILARY.