The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-12-01
THE HON E.
Harmony in Colors.


The following general rules on color
effects are good.
Red and violet do not accord well.
| Orange and yellow accord comparably
better than red and orange.
Orange and green do not accord we'll.
Orange and violet accord passably.
Yellow and green form an agreeable
combination.
Greenish yellow and violet blend
nicely.
| The arrangement of yellow and blues
is more agreeable than that of yellow
and green, but it is less lively.
Green and blue produce an Indifferent
effect, but better when the colors are
deep.
Green and violet, specially when
| light, form a combination preferable to
green and blue.
Red and green intensity each other.
Orange yellow when placed by the
side of indigo increases it's intensity, and
| vice versa.
Yellow and indigo combine perfectly.
Red and yellow accord pretty well,
|
| than scarlet, and the yellow rather
greenish than orange.
Red and blue accord passabIy, espec-
Jelly if the red .iHclines rather to scarlet
| than crimson
Blue and violet accord badly.
Black never produces bad effect when
it is associated with two luminous col
ors.
While gray never exactly produces
bad effect in it's associations with two
luminous coIors, yet in most cases it's
assortments are dull.
Blue when placed by the side of
orange increases the latter's intensity,
and vice versa.
Three Kinds of Taffy.
To make cocoanut taffy. take two
pounds of sugar, one-thlTd teaspoonfuI
of cream of tartar, two-thirds cupful OF
water: cook to the hard crack; add one
fresh grated cocoanut: stir until the
batch reaches the soft crack; pour out
into a creased pan, and when nearly cold
pull white on hook, writes Nellie Wiley
in an article on Making Candy at
Homer in the December Ladies Home
journal.
Molasses taffy may be made by boiling
one pound. of sugar, one pound of glu
cose, one-third quart New Orleans mo-
lasses; stir all the time and cook to soft
crack; set off the fire and stir in one
third teaspoonful saleratus; pour into
buttered pan, and when nearly cold pull
on the hook and flavor with peppermint.
Another good receipt for molasses
taffy is the following: One quart of
New Orleans molasses, one and, ones
fourth pounds of sugar; set -on fire and
stir and cook until when dropped in
water it will form rather q hard ball it
gathered up between the fingers, this is
called hard bail; then add one-quarter
pound Of butter and cook to soft crack;
pour into creased pan. let it remain
until nearly cold and then pull on hook.
Black Silk.
A good many housekeepers keep what
they call d" a black boxn and into that
goes every bit of black velvet, lace,
ribbon or jet which is not in use. Such
oddsTand ends are sure to come into nse
because black com bines with everything.
The following advice is good regarding
black pieces: Never throw away
scrap of black silk. An inch strip of
black silk is boon sometimes After
ripping up an old gown take three or
four old kid gloves and put them to boil
in pint of water. Let them boil for
an hour, strain through cloth, and
put in the liquid quart or more of hot
water and a tablespoonful of borax. Lay
your silk fiat on perfectly clean table
that has no seams or cracks in it. and
rub every inch of the silk with the mix
ture till it is thoroughly saturated and
all spots are removed.
Then fix tub of warm water, in
which put liberal quantity of borax,
and pick The silk up by the corners and
dip it up and down in the TIL OF water.
Dip and dip till it is we'll rinsed, then
take out to the line, where you have
pinned a long strip of cloth about foot
wide. TO the edge of this cloth pin the
silk by the extreme edge. stretching it
so that it is not rinkled and does not
droop. Let it drip dry, aud it will need
no ironing. Do this on bright day,
when there IS no wind. Black ribbons
may be cleaned the same way.-N. E.
Farmer.
Hints to Housekeepers.
Common alum melted in an iron spoon
over hot Goals forms very strong &C.
ment for joining glass and metal togeth-
er. 1t is the best thing for holding glass
lamps to their stands or for stopping
cracks about their bases, as kerosene
does not penetrate it.
A correspondent of the Scientific Ameri-
can says: Before being allowed to get
dirty or greasy tie all the broken pieces
in the places nicely with any kind OF
string that suits, then put in an iron
or tin dish that can be put on the fire,
pour in as much milk as will cover the
fractures well, put on the fire and boil,
for ten minutes, and the whole opera
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