The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-07

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Household Decoration.
The artistic, altogether satisfactory BIZ
reau cover is the one that is home made.
The fine colored linens SO popular this year
may be used effectively. for everyday bu-
reau covers. They are particularly well
suited to the bureaus and chiffoniers in
country houses. The linen can be used in a
variety of ways. 1t may be cut in the shape
of the bureau top, neatly hemmed end fin
ished with a Grecian design border worked
in white floss. A band of coarse lace inser-
ton sewed to the linen a half inch from
the edge of the covers also looks very eff
fective. Have the linen. If possible, the same
color as the other furnishings of the room.
White linen also makes a desirable cover.
Such a pretty one recently was of pure
white, with ox-eyed daisies embroidered as
If they were growing about the edge. Only
washable fiosses were used. Very exquisite
are the bureau covers made of boiling
cloth. For a green room have the bureau
cover of boiling cloth, hand~painted, with
delicate ferns arranged in a careless border.
Line the boiling cloth with pale green silk.
Pink clover blossoms and leaves might be
substituted for the ferns if a touch of clover
IS desired. Channels bureau covers are not
to be despised. They paint admirably and
also look well trimmed with coarse, cream
tinted lace. Pretty home made covers are
composed of alternate bands of lace inser-
ton and ribbon. with a full frill of lace as
a border, but for everyday. purposes they
are not as desirable as the linen.
Denim is one of the best of all fabrics for
a ~portiere in rooms constantly used. 1t may
be washed and will look quite as well as
new. If you want a variety put one entire
width in right side out, and split another
and join to the first section, putting the
then fell them and feather stitch the out
side of the seams in colored linen. Then
;ntersectine Or iapping at one edge. WORK
these with linen in long stitches and make
eccentric lines or spider web lines from the
central design. The edges may be hemmed
or feather stitched, or done in button hole
and cut out in scallops. 1t is better to have
the edge of the facing instead of making a
turned-in hem.
Brass bedsteads are no longer the most
fashionable variety, They have grown too
silver and white metal and plain silver now
to a great extent supersede them. The new
pink to match the other furnishings. Silver
curtain poles and andirons and draperies
to match the bed canopy are the correct
For the toilet table silver and tortoise
shell are being superseded by porcelain
backed articles. One might imagine them
more fragile than they really are, but. they
are not easily broken. This fancy IS an
English one and has become SO. popular that
a recent gift of the Duke and Duchess of
York consisted of a toilet table with all its
t apP be- eRtremel " bpe oafafaia' The hne mirrors ars s are
wreathed with roses, from the hearts of
which tiny electric lights shine forth and
light the mirror at night.
Things N Nurse Must Know.
New York Times.
A woman who is a trained nurse, occu-
plying, after years OF practice, a superior
place in a London hospital. has been giving
a course of lectures on her profession. Her
first proposition at a recent talk was that
there is no such thing as a born nurse; the
habit of observation was a duty and the
basis of nursing, which was an art only to
be learned by practice.
Among some practical utterances of the
speakers were: A sunny sick room, one
that was entered by the sun once in TWEEN
ty-four hours, is desirable; patients placed
on the south side in a hospital ward re-
cover sooner. by from ten days to a fort
night, than those on the north side. Plenty
of light Is beneficial, except in cases OF
brain disease. The less furniture in the
room the better. and to keep it clean a
damp buster should be used instead of a
dry one; The ds air s must be kept @p as pure
no risk about having the window open, top
and bottom, If the patient We're we'll COW
burning. Night air is not Injurious: it is
purer in a city after 10 p; m. than at any
corner, but accessible from all points. In
fever and surgical cases, a cradle" had
sometimes to be used TO Keep or the weight
of the bed clothes; an inapromptu cradle
could De made out of a bandbox, with the
bottom knocked out. Bedmaking was the
grammar and keystone of nursing. many
regular nurses could not make a good bed.
1t was important TO act with decision when
the time came for any office, and not to
of what was to be done; to tread quietly,
but firmly. not on. tip-toe, and never. to
whisper to a third person. Every effort
ought TO be made to secure. for the patient
two hours sleep before midnight. Amateur
nurses often broke down through neglect
Ing 10 take food when keeping watch through
the night.
How Fashion Sets the Dinner
Art Amateur.
Inquiries made of the leading caterers, es-
pecially Mr.. Louis sherry, and also of the
dealers in the most expensive glass and
chinaware. reveal the surprising and de-
lightful fact that among the leaders of
fashion the pendulum has begun to swing
back from the elaborate and sumptuous
style to the severely elegant. We are to
be simple once more The reign of the
ribbon, the set piece. the overdressed and
overloaded table is past. and there Ii to be
and already Ii. In fashionable circles, a
return TO quiet. moderation and simplicity.
To be sure, It is not q QuakerIsf sim
plicity: everything Is 10 he Of the best-the
glass to ~ cut. the chlnn to be Ut the
most beautiful deaign, the linen soft as
&tfu. and the embroid&red mououram ar