The National tribune., 1895-05-23

| Never before has it been possible to fix up
beds so prettily and so cheaply as now. In the
first place. brass and iron beds are almost if lot
quite, as cheap as tho wooden Ones and are 10
times as clean and fresh and easy to make.
In tho second place, linen and muslin makers
arc now weaving their goods in more convent
ent widths for the housekeeper. She can get
doublc-widtll sheeting and save herself tho
! seam down the middle that was necessary 10
years ago. Pillow-casing also comes in several
forms; one double, so that it only needs to be
sewed together at one end and hemmed at the
| other to be ready for use. The cheap ready
made pillow-cascs arc frequently too narrow for
ordinary pillows. So most housekeepers who
cannot afford to buy the best of the ready made
ones manufactures her own. Blankets are used
more than the old peced-quil;s, but for extra
warmth or prettines5 quilts are fashioned from
silk, silkoline or cheesecloth knotted with baby
ribbon. The knotting is an easy matter to ac-
complish in one afternoon with long, smooth
bgeyod needles, that will carry the baby rib
bon, and friend to help one. For spreads
there are neat honeycomb quilts or spreads
fashioned from widths of covered silk sewed
together, with strips of narrow lace insertion.
crepes may be used in the same fashion. Boil
sters are more popular than pillows With
them the spread need only be made long enough
to be drawn up over the holsters, and the
| abominable, detestable, unworthy, uncivlized,
cantankerous, awkward, unpleasant pillow
shams can be done away with.
So
An elusive, slippery thing is handwriting for
most people. There are some few who always
write the same, but there arc many who un-
consciously copy the script that they have last
seen or that of the person to whom they are
writing. A queer way of writing d or
will attract the eye Immediately, and the
nimble fingers set to initiating il before the
stupid brain is aware. A correspondent will
make ID after the German script for no reason
whatever except that she dropped into that
habit while she was doing her German and
English exercises, using the German ID all
the time. Now, in answering her letters one
uses the same queer d Often although it never
becomes habit. Another funny thing about
handwriting is that husbands and wives soon
writo alike, no matter how different their
handwriting is at first. The one whose hand
writing is Of the more decided character will
weaken the script littleand the other will soon
adopt all of the peculiaritics of the character
istic enc. In a collection of autographs Of
Cabinet members and their wives this fact of
similarity in writing was very evident. Mr..
and hrs. Carlisle, Dir. and Ms. Hoke Smith,
Mr.. and Mrs. Lamontg and Mr.. and Mrs. Olney
all furnished proofs of the theory. A charac.
teristic dash or flourish in the husbands sigma
ture would be found more delicately wrought
in the wife's. A printed $ or c in the middle
of word, the generous or skinny manner of
crossing is or dotting is. the capital letters,
and the varying characters in every way were
faithfully reproduced by the sympathetic
spouscs.
4Ss.
Later bulletins as to the new sailor hats state
that the crown is three inches high and is
belcd ive-sixteenths of an inch. For hat from
n swell establishment this new symmetry costs
$3.50. Last years sailors may be had at the
stores at greatly reduced rates. Every year the
hat makers change the shape of their sailor hats
4 little in order make femininty buy them. 1t
one style of sailor remained lin moro than
n year the women would wear their old ones,
and where would the hatters be? So they
must, in order to live, change the styles con-
tinually, and the woman who wants to be styl-
ish has to invest her three four dollars year
ly, although she knows she has hat at home
that only varies few sixtecnths OF an inch
from the approved style. This makes the few
sixtecnths of an inch right expensive; but tho
woman says she is at least SO worth happier
in the up-to-date hat. perhaps it is all right
after all. aud the hat makers manage 10 make
living thereby. which helps out the economy of
the arrangement.