Morning journal and courier., 1893-02-25

delicately frosted

it has q delicately frosted effect
which Is very pretty, but If
clear and distinct outline of the de-
sign IL preferred, this frost work can bs
easily eersped away with the sharp blade
of a pen knife. Sometimes the line which
the hot point has grooved in the class Is
filled in with gold. when the decoration,
which is done upon the back OF the glass.
shows through with q rounded effect as If
in relief. Turpentine is used to remove
any gold that sticks to the glass In places
where it Is not needed.
Photograph frames, panels for the doors
of cabinets, the sides and tops OF glass
boxes, anything for which fat glass can be
used, is decorated in this way, and bunch
es of simple flowers, ferns and leaves,
make the most effective and graceful de-
signs.
PROMISING WEATHKR.
If there is any truth in old saws this
snowy February will bs followed in due
season by mild and genial Spring. 1t
has certainly up to this date given us as
much variety as we could expect in the
shortest of months. Such weathery
weatheri snow and mist, sunshine and
rain, blizzard and gale. bitter cold and
spring-like mildness, slush and drift, slop-
piness and snpperyness, star Lit and moon.
lit nights and such crisp, clear mornings,
driving winds and swirling wreaths
of snow, autumn, winter and spring wealth
or, all mixed in one grand conglomerste,
ought to satisfy the most exacting lover of
change in weather conditions.
More than three hundred years ago, ono
Thomas Tusser wrote q book on "Hus-
bsndry," heading his chapter for February
with the distich,
February, fll the dixie
With what you like
that is, fill up the bitches with snow or
rain. But the agriculturist's preference
was for snow, as proved by these old say
ings:
"Under water, famine;
Under snow, bread"
''Snow In February is the crown Of the year"
"If February give much snow,
A fine summer it doth foreshew."
"February fill dixie be it black or be it white,
But if 1t be white, it's the better to like
But if snow could not be had rain was
welcome, for
'sIr in February there be no rain,
'Tis neither good for hay nor grain"
Thus the popular rural idea seemed to
by pleasant spring, good for the young
other hand, If the month is mild, winter
may return in March or April and make
havoc of all arrangements for the rest of
the year.
"All the months of the year
Curse q fair Februeer,''
says another ancient adags, and here are
two more:
"When gna's dance in February, the husband
man becomes beggar."
"a February spring is not worth pin."
Surely this year there is bright out
look, since it has 30 often been a white
one, for the sQriculturist. The snow upon
the fields has been beautiful to see. Some
times they have been glazed over like q
great bride-loaf, glitterirg in the sun;
sometimes they have been covered with
the downiest of fleecy blankets that looked
as If woven in magic looms and softly
dropped upon them from above to keep
warm and safe the life that Nature hides
in her bosom until the sprlngtime.
The farmer should rejoice, for if these
old rural proverbs are true there is sunny
and pros psrous season before him, when
the fields shall lie dressed in living green" I"
The city weller has no such consultations,
yet he need not 60 comfortless, for the
dreary month is nearly over, and his pro-
gress will, possibly. not be again impeded
by snow drifts or by the procession of
carts passing to the dumping ground with
the dingy and disagreeable substance
which has lost all claim to its title of "The
Beautiful " And there will be delightful
weather, o sisters, for the display of Easter
millinery. Let us rejoice, therefore, even
in a blizzard, remember that
Snow in February is the crown of the year.
HILARY.