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all the pulp, juice, ETC., through sieve; al
low ~ pounds Of powdered sugar to each
pint of juice; CRATE . teaspoonful of tho
thin yellow rind and add the juice of one
lemon. Boil quarter of an hour, skim
ming as long as any scum rises Take from
the fire, strain and bottle, corking tightly.
When you have once had supply Of this
syrup for use you will wonder why you
have ever done without it.
The Uses Of the Syrup.
Two tablespoonfuls mixed with a quarter
of pound of creamed butter makes deli
cious sauce for plum or plain butter pud-
ding A glass of iced water into which
tablespoonful of the syrup has been stirred
becomes nectar Of the gods in summer. A
few drops imparts delicious flavor to Gus
and can be freely given to children who are
teething, as orange Juice is thought to be
almost a specific in bowel troubles.
The skin, or peel, of the orange is as cap
able of usefulness as the Juice. Boil one
pound until tender; chop fine; to one pint
of water in which the skins were boiled add
three pounds Of brown sugar and the
chopped peel Boil together until very
thick, pack into wide-mouthed jars and use
the mixture for favoring. 1t is delicious
for cakes.
An orange salad for breakfast Will induce
an appetite, and is wonderfully refreshing.
For this select very juicy oranges; peel and
slice four very thin. Sift powdered sugar
over each layer as they are placed in the
glass salad plate; set in cool place for an
hour or two. Occasionally baste with the
juices that form. Some prefer the rind left
on oranges when served thus, claiming q
richer flavor.
A Delicate Orange Ice.
Orange sherbet is easily prepared and is
q tavorite ice. For this CRATE the rinds of
four oranges; soak the rind for ten minutes
in boiling water; strain pint of the water
upon pound of cut loaf sugar; when dis
solved, add the juice Of the oranges and
gill of boiling water; when cold freeze
partly, then add the stifly beaten whites of
two eggs; put into mold and set in cracked
ice to harden.
A Aavoring extract is simply made by
pouring one pint of rectifed spirits of wine
over Is much shredded orange peel as it
will cover. The fruit should first be
washed and the peel freed from as much
Of the inner pith a. possiblA Cork tightly,
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cramped space round about it, nor so
little as to seem oppressed with the
weight of lamp or half dozen books.
Imperatively it must not have a
cover 10 swathe its comeliness and de-
stroy its clear lines. Instead put on top of
it one of the handsome new leather table
mats This material is suede-calf colored to
match the rest of the furnishing. The
shape is oblong-say Is BY 80 inches. The
border is sometimes a very handsome
metal gimp, but the one illustrated had a
border Of stamped open work underlaid
with the lighter suede that formed the sp-
plique in one corner. The guard was
rich tawny chestnut. the ornaments very
pale yellowish tan, outlined with fine gold
cord. It is scroll pattern, bold and clear
cut, and runs diagonally across one end.
The other Is left perfectly plain. Lay the
square on top your table in any position
that pleases you, so 1t does not droop over
an edge, then set your lamp, q bowl Of flow
ers or smoking set or inkstand upon the
plain part
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THE HousEKEEPIRy TRRAsURIA
How . Little Woman Takes Care OF Her
China and Silver Ware.

How o Little woman Taxes Care OF her
China and Silver Ware.
A woman who has pretty china and who
deserves to have it, because she knows how
to take care of it, has way of guarding
against scratches and breaking in her ware
by making dozens of mats of pinked cotton
flannel which she uses everywhere in her
china closet. Every plate, when 1t Is piled
away in the closet, has one Of those soft
mats laid upon it; every saucer and small
fiat dish has mat laid over it before an
other is laid upon it; mats are laid over the
tops of sureens before the covers are set on
them and the cups and tumblers instead of
being piled upon each other, are set singly
on the shelves.
Quite as careful is the way she puts her
silver away. There is lot of it and it's all
solid, so in the logical way of many women
she puts 1t safely away in a big Nuremburg
chest and uses plated ware instead. But
the way in which she packs it is an art Of
itself There are bags great and small Of
cotton flannel, with draw strings, into
which the larger pieces are slipped; but
these are not uncommon among careful
housekeepers. It is her pockets for the
small pieces that command respectful ad-
miration. The knives, forks and spoons
are not packed away in families, but each
one has its own apartment She doubles a
large piece of cotton flannel, sews 1t up ex-
cept on one side, and then stitches it into
dozen little compartments, one for each
piece. When these are carefully slipped
into their places she rolls the pocket to-
gether and ties it with tape strings, like an
old-fashioned needle case.
The last touch of fastidiousness in the
care of her china closet is the covering
which she permits herself for the shelves
instead OF the paper commonly used. These
covers are made of heavy white linen, ex-
actly fitted to each shelf, and with friI1
of heavy linen lace hanging over the edge.
souls of other women, if it doesn't FIRE them
with envy.
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on Eastern silks is because these silks are
not printed in China and Japan at all, but
are sent out from those countries plain and
are printed in France. This is device
OF the dealers, who cannot afford to carry
goods that do not sell. Here the
silks are printed to the order of
all markets. 1t is not the dealers fault if a
large part of the importations are of bad de-
signs, or that in general the worst designs
are on the cheaper grades. Artistic pat
terms cost no more than ugly ones 1t is
the fault of the American women who ask
for them. A New York importer brought
here some pieces of China Grape, magnii-
Gently fowered. They cost him 81 90
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little of it is made and so little sold.
Choice in the market lies practically be-
tween the products of China and Japan,
about nine-tenths being from China The
difference between these two is not seen by
the casual observer. The weave of Japan
is more smooth, and even and soft in quail
ity, and much more beautiful They wear
about equally well, and there is no perceiv-
able difference in the price, the range in
both being from so cents to S3, the latter
price being for an extraordinary quality, a
ward wide The qualities recommended
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is 81 % yard.
What the Modistes Suggest.
These silks will be fashionably made up,
the modistes say, with round waists varied
by yokes and surplice crossings, wide belts,
full sleeves confined in one or more puffs,
bell skirts. The trimmings will be ribbons
of velvet, moire or satin, which will make
skirt borders and belts, collars, bracelets;
laces black and white that will make vokes;
sleeve and skirt rufies and jacket fronts
sleeveless jackets of passementerie will also
be garnish for dress occasions
But how meager this programme seems
when are considered the fabrics possibili-
ties? If all its beauty should be developed
passementeries and ribbons and all other
applied trimmings would be only an imper-
tinence. 1t cannot be but that the fashion
makers will relent
This silk should not be laid smooth over
the waist, but should wrinkle and fold and
show its quality. This the round waist will
permit. Also the smooth garment suggests
strain, to which thin texture should not
be put 1t is a pity that the skirt in vogue
allows no folds about the hips Worth has
lately given out design for a skirt to be
side plated all the way round, but what
significance may be in it is uncertain. An
other reason why it should not follow
L VI VI.
A figured garment should either be loose or
lie in folds. Then the figures vary with
each new pose, half hide, half disclose the
form, and give all the charm of variety On
the smoothly fitting garment repeating
pattern merely suggests tattoo. The in
stinct which leads women to choose howered
fabrics for loose house robes is true one
The loose gowns of the Chinese and Japan
ese women derive their beauty largely from
their fowered surfaces.
What Japanese Women Teach.
In the dress of Japanese women there is
illustrated principle of art that should
open up world of suggestion to Us in
making up these fowered silks. L refer to
the law of alteration. 1t calls in painting
for dark tree trunk against light distance,
and in Japanese decoration it is illustrated
by bamboo stalk beginning light against
dark ground, and changing abruptly to dark
against light ground. Japanese dress owes
much of its charms to the observation of
this law Instead of making the costume
throughout of one ground, monotonously, as
we do. one part will be dark on q light
ground and another light on a dark ground;
and thus without any applied trimmings
the inner garment, the outer one, the sash
and the Innings are all varied, and all COM
bine to make a harmonious and charming
tout ensemble.
Such alterations enrich infinitely the
dress, and in these silks lie great possi-
bilities in this direction. But remember,
if you will experiment, that the contrasts
should not be in trimmings or inconse-
quential parts, but in the constructive por-
tions, such as the Innings or the sash.
Some Suitable Combinations.
Among silks likely to be found for COM
binations there might be proposed blue
ground and white figures with white
ground blue figures. An alienation OF
residu green and white might be exquisite.
The same figure should be on both grounds
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An ARTISTIC WARDROBE

The Necessary Article Transformed Into .
Thing OF Beauty.
All corners are troublesome because II Is
difficult to fill them with furniture that is at
once artistic, appropriate and useful, but
the corners Of sleeping rooms present
special difficulties There is little furniture
that is either necessary or best in bed
room. And when one of the few necessary
pieces can be made to fill a corner, the
happiest effect is produced. A little
while ago, q young architect. who
had Q room without closets, had to
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-28
A MAN WHO BAKES BREAD.
Edward Atkinson Tells How He Grappled
With the Prob,em-He Got . Mechani-
cal Kneader After the First Effort
SCiouce of rho Oueration


With the Prob,em-He Got . Meohani-
cal Kneader After the First Effort
Science of the Operation.
WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATcH.]
The problem with which I first under
took to grapple, and I use the word
"grapple" in q true sense, was the prob
lem of making good bread at home instead
of buying poor bread of baker Bread
making is by most people considered one
of the mysteries. There is no mystery
about it. My own experience proved to
me that it took a good deal of muscle and
not much mind when worked in the ordi-
nary way of graphing
I first applied my mind to the theory of
bread, which is to mix with -four and water
some yeast, or some kind of baking powder
which, when subjected to certain degree
of heat, will generate carbonic acid gas
that will work up into the dough and make
bubbly places in it. Not having 9 special
fancy for baking powders, although they
are excellent in their place, deter
mined to try my hand in graphing or
otherwise kneading the dough. T found
it very good exercise for a sedentary per-
son: the Objectionable feature to my own
mind was that it tended to perspiration.
A Mechanical Bread Kneader.
That reminds me of the little story of
what happened the other day. An old gen.
tleman came to my cooking laboratory, at
my Office. q call it laboratory, because
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keep in dark, dry place and you win nave
genuine orange essence.
A delicate yet penetrating perfume, like
that of the blossom itself, is made by the
women of the South, whose homes lie amid
the sunny orange groves. They fill cut
glass scent bottles with the odorous petals,
as full as possible; they then pour in pure
spirit, adding more flowers as those used
shrink. A concentrated perfume is the re-
suit, costing nothing except for the spirit;
it is as delightful, though not SO lasting, as
the altar of roses EMMA L MCLAGAN.
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America Hasn't Equaled 1t Yet.

America Hasn't Equaled 1t Yet.
There is an American imitation of these
silks, the texture of which, so far as have
seen it, has not the soft quality of the East
ern fabrics, but is wiry. 1t is three inches
narrower, and of about the same price.
These Japanese silks-as we may call them
all, since they all are classed under one
head-are figured. The character of the
figures is an important matter for con-
sideration, and in choosing a dowered fabri ;
the laws of decoration should be borne in
mind. The figures on dress fabrics should
not be limitations, with perspective effec.
and natural color but they should be fat
and conventional, or of natural forms
analvzed and their decorative elements
alone retained. A decortion should not be
picture. A picture on garment attracts
the eye from the wearer, asking attention to
itself, which is isdisrespectful and demeaning.
Moreover, a repetition of the same picture
at intervals over a surface is absurd and
monotonous. Yet large proportion of the
figures on silks offered for sale are pictures
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of flowers, with shading, coloring and de-
tails aimed at limitations of nature.
A good decoration modestlv embellishes
the texture and does not seem to hide it.
The first all-over pattern, as 1 have before
suggested, probably had its ORIGIN in the
unevenness of texture in hand weaving.
The accidental roughness, or changes In
color, developed into intentional ones at
regular intervals To good decorations be-
long arrangements of broken lines, dots, and
all patterns derived from flowers that are
not initiative; also plaids and stripes, which
are but variation of warp and woof.
Silks Printed in France.
If you will look at Japanese and Chinese
designs they will teach you how far nature
can be suggested in decoration, and what
sort of figures on your silk you should
choose. In them nature is interpreted. but
not initiated. A good illustration is found
In Japanese drawing of a chrysanthemum
flower, or a sun-disk behind flowing lines
that may suggest atmosphere or water.
"How is it," you will ask, 'that the
Chinese and Japanese silks in the market
are covered with the natural flower forms
condensed?" They are very largely SO
covered, or I should not be advising as to
choice. The explanation is full of signif-
canoe. Here it is, as made by leading i'm
porters American women will not buy
japanese or any other good design! They
do not understand what good decoration
is, and make the mistake of yaluing it in
proportion as it looks like picture. And
the reason they can find these denominations
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y
sold them to country dealer for 80 cents a
yard. 1t is now explained why the Oriental
silks in the Japanese and other stores do
not look in the least Oriental.
The Styles to BE Avoided,
Do not understand that all the designs in
the market are bad. 1 am only warning you
what not to buy There are very beautiful
silks in the spring importations, but you
must know how to select. Look first at the
contrast of colors to see whether that is
agreeable; consider next the form of design.
See that it merely breaks the surface agree
ably without obtruding itself as likeness
of ANYTHING Above all avoid the small
flower sprigs showing several colorS They
are bad because their colors only contrast
among themselves to show off the sprig.
Among good designs now to be had are
those whose ground and figure are Of two
tints of the same color, as light heliotrope
on dark; single colors on black and on white
grounds; also mixtures, OF black and white,
and of white on colored grounds. Choose
those figures that make clear-cut outline
against the ground, and reject the fine
sprays that straggle over much surface, Tor
thew cut up and injure the beauty of the
texture without giving the effect of positive
color contrast, cheaper the fabric, and are
without character or elegance. The change
able grounds now in vogue are an Easter
idea. A verv elegant one has the figure, a
flower form blocked out in straight lines,
changeable on dark ground. Red and blue
shift over these spaces as rose clouds shift
along the horizon, suggesting, in its mex
rensive fabric, the variety and mystery Of
the sky. Others are changeaDle on one side
and show only one of the colors on the other,
an effect seen heretofore only in surahs. A
beautiful one of pink and pale green, broken
with clusters of white dots, is wholly green
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have wardrobe put into his room. Now .
wardrobe was to his artistic soul, as IL Ii
to many others, thing abhorrent, and he
pleaded to be allowed to mitigate his suf-
ferings as much as possible, by having his
own idea OF what q wardrobe might be,
carried into effect. And he was. Tho re-
suit is given above. 1t is Of plain oak and
in each Of the doors mirrors were set, so
that the worthy designer might view bis
irreproachable person from various angles
while dressing. And all the comfort he got
out of it, which he declared to be great, he
certainly deserved, because the wardrobe
was all that wardrobe should be-artistio
convenient and out of the way.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-28
DESIGNS IN SILKS.
The Favorite Fabric of China and
Japan Will Be in Great Demand
for the Warm Weather.
SUGGESTIONS AS TO PURCHASES.
Lessons to Be Learned From the Costumes
of the Fair Creatures Who
Grace the Orient
SPRING FRocKS FOR THE MISSES.
uey Must Bsre Plenty Of Cotton Gowns and the
Simpler Trimmed the Better
SPRING FRoCKS FOR THE MISSES.
rhey Must Bsre Plenty Of Cotton Gowns and the
Simpler Trimmed the Better.
rwR1rTEN FOR THE pIsrArcH.I

HE fabric called in
differently Japanese,
Chinese and In dia
silk, will form an i'm
portant part of the
warm weather text
ures. 1t has the ad-
vantage of being thin,
yet of sufficient SUBJ
stance for common
wear; soft yielding
and beautiful in quail
ity, yet at the same
time durable. The
bulk of the i'm
port at i ons com e
from China and
Japan, and India silk
ii
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SPRING DRESSMAKING.

Cotton Frocks for the Misses-How to Re
neve Young Girls Of the Feeling Of
Awkwardness = The Goods That Are
onered-The Trimmings.
TwRIrrEN FOR THE pIsPAroH.l
The term, "a miss is applied to girls
between IL and 16 years OF age, which is q
most awkward time for them in feeling and
appearance Much of the latter may be
avoided by dressing them in becoming
manner, according to the needs of the figure.
Do not aim at straight outlines on slender
weedy girl, and As, carefully avoid fussy
trimmings on q roly-poly figure. ''The
eternal fitness" of all things is to be studied
when dressing girl of IA as well as one of
"a
Give young girls plenty Of cotton dresses
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THE LIBRARY TABLE,

Pretty Leather Mat Is the Proper Thing
to Put on Top of 1t.
The correct library table must be of pol
ished wood, matching or harmoDizing with
the rooms fittings, and preferably of
darker tone. It should have brass mount
ings, too, and clean feet of either wood or
metal. Size and in some measure shape
must be determined by its environments,
but it must not be so pig as to have bnt a
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An ORIENTAL PILLOW.

Brilliant Bit Of Decoration That d Cheap
and Easily Made.
The pillow of which the illustration In
black and white can give but slight sug-
gestion is Oriental in both color and treat
ment The body of the cover is old blue
surah satteen and in that delightful back
ground the embroidered lace of the center
makes q striking OBJECT. The square is of
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Excursion to Now Orleans, La, and Mobile,
Ala. ON Account Mardi-Gras

The Queen and Crescent route will sell
tickets, Cincinnati to New Orleans, La, and
Mobile, Ala, and return, at one fare for the
round trip, on February 26, q and %, ac-
count Mardi- Gras, which begins at points
above on March l. The Queen and Crescent
rouse is running solid vestibuled trains from
Cincinnati to New Orleans without change.
Ask your ticket agent for tickets reading
via the @. 3 G. route 81
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Largest in
the World.

In the department Of flavor
ing extracts, the Price Fla
yoring Extract Co. has tho
largest and most completely
equipped laboratory in the
world. Thousands Of pounds
of the true Mexican Vanilla
Beans are consumed every
year In DR.. Prices Flavoring
Extract of Vanilla. This i'm
mense business Is accounted
for by the purity and excel
lence of their production, tho
result Of effort-a deter
mined effort to make articles
as perfect as can be made
free from hurtful materials
Of the highest strength attain
able, and at a price within
the reach of all. With push
honest success is achieved
and held.
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FURNITURE upholstered and repaired
HAUGH & KEENAN,, SO Water street.
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yard. He thought they would be bought
for house robes. But after two years he
sold them to country dealer for 80 cents a
yard. 1t is now explained why the Oriental
silks in the Japanese and other stores do
not look in the least Oriental
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-09-04
"married and settled

one Of the proprietors Of The Reflector. His
bride induced him TO learn typesetting,
and he has been with The Reflector ever
since, having passed through the stages Of
apprentice compositor and foreman TO
chief editor and part proprietor.
Judge Wickham has had thirteen chill
dren, thiriy-six grandchildren and nine
great grandchildren. Ofthis large number
OF offspring all are living but six, and
these died in their infancy. One of his sons
Is Hon. Charles l.. Wickham. ex-judge Of
the court Of common pleas and cx-membcI
Of Congress. The judge himself has been
frequently honored by the people Of his
section. Many years ago he was an asso
ciate judge OF the county court, and when
he was more than seventy the voters OF
Norwalk elected him mayor. lie would
have been reelected at the expiration Of
his term, but he declined to serve again
Inder any circumstances.
During the war he WIS "A member Of tho
state - nate for one term lie is as expert
at sticking type and making up" now
as he was half century ago. lie never
writes AN editorial, he simply goes to the
case, stick" in hand and composes the ar
ticle and the type at the same time The
lady To whom he was united in 1885 Is still!
alive and well, and rs much OF belpmeet
and sweetheart Us ever. Judge WiCkham
enjoys a reputation for the most scTupu.
lous honesty and fairness in his dealings
with his noigiihors, and il is perhaps the
luster Of his unsullicd probity which has
caused the very name Of Wickham to he
regarded about Norwalk as n synonym for
integrity.