The record-union., 1896-06-07

If you wish to lay japanese mating
In a Japanese fashion first cover your
floor with the thickest carpet lining
you can buy. That will soften the
sound and keep the mating from wear
ing unevenly and quickly. Cut
breadth of the mating a half or a
third of the length of the room where
it is to go and bind it with carpet
binding of a solid color not only across
the ends, but also along the sides Cut
the next breadth the same length and
fix in the same way. If it is proposed
to use three lengths the space should
be so divided that there will be two
long and one short length. But each
one is to be bound on all sides. In lay
ing the next breadth of mating 50 ar
range the pieces that a long piece in
one breadth each time will come next
to a short one in the next breadth.
After the whole room is covered, get a
thin, very fiat molding about an inch
wide that is stained or painted black or
dark brown and lay it over the places
where the breadths and the different
pieces intersect. Tack these holdings
firmly in place, and you will have the
irregular effect given by the mats used
in japanese houses. This arrangement
is not very sanitary and not very easy
If the American custom Of taking up
each floor covering once a year is fol-
lowed But it has the merit of being
truly Japanese and there is no danger
that the mating will fray or ravel in
the process.
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uncooked should be washed in plenty
of salted cold water The salt will kill
any germs that may have settled upon
them in the dust of the market, or any
parasite that has fastened upon them
in the garden.
Ingram or Brussels filling in plain
cclor, finished by border combining a
number of harmonious colors, one of
which matches the color of the filling,
makes pretty, tasteful rug for a din
ing-room that has hard wood floor or
a stained border. A Brussels or ingram
carpet i'm a fine mixed pattern that is
an all-over design, and finished by a
border, makes a rug that shows dust
and crumbs and footmarks less but
that is not as tasteful as the rug made
CT a solid color. When carpet Is worn
about the table, large crunb cloth
of linen which is woven with a border,
or a crumb cloth of denim, looks we'll for
summer, covering the wear and looking
cooler than a carpet
Those who devote a corner of their
garden to flowers for the sick should,
If the blossoms are to be sent any dis
tance, raise such blossoms as sweet
peas, which are quickly revived, lilies
of the valley, phlox, candytuft, lark
spur, hyacinths, daffodils and narcissus,
pinks and rosebuds.
A clever woman who has no doors be-
tween the communicating rooms in the
front part of her house. so that sweep
ing is a care, because of the dust that
will go where 1t should not, has had
dark gray window shades that are very
wide fastened to curtain rollers that
are concealed under the top of the
f1angings between the rooms. When
the rooms are swept the shades are
drawn down, and act as a wall or door.
When the room is swept and garnished
they are given a touch and roll up out
of sight.
The beef balls of chopped meat that
are so often prescribed for invalid diet
may be improved for well persons by
occasionally seasoning them with
chopped almonds or with pine nuts in
the proportion of two tablespoonfuls to
the half pound Season the balls with
paprika, salt, and, If you like it, a
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being broiled these balls may be
Drowned in very hot butter and served
with brown sauce. The cooking may
be done in a shallow saucepan or in
q chatting dish.
Nearly all the outing and simpler
afternoon costumes are made with a
seven or nine-gored skirt and very
short jacket bodice.
Cravenette grows in favor for cycling
and utility costumes generally. 1t is
undeniably waterproof and at the same
time is devoid of the unpleasant rub
Der odor Of most waterproof garments
and fabrics.
Thin grenadines, etamines and can
vas goods IN SILK anu WOOL Indue uE
over black, white or colored taffeta
elk, form some of the most stylish
dress costumes of the coming season.
SiIk-wrap etamines in sage green,
gray, pale brown or reseda are much
used for brides travelling dresses, and
the most effective costumes are made
UP with plain gored skirts and the
bodice portion trimmed with cream
white satin or silk, bordered with rows
of handsome gimp.
Capes of every dainty description
maintain their own vigorously against
the innovations Fashion would intro
duce. The very smartest shoulder capes
are formed of black Brussels net or
mousselaine de sole over silk or satin,
with appliques of rich lace as a finish,
and the edges are completed by a
pinked-out frill of glace silk or satin
matching the foundation. A full ruche
of net or mousselaine de sole edged
with rows of tiny satin ribbon is car
ried around the neck and very often
down the front
Sleeveless jackets are enumerated In
the list of summer garments. 1t is
curious that the sleeveless jackets
should have come in just when very
full sleeves are going out. A year or
six months ago even, we should have
hailed with great pleasure any sort OF
a sleeveless garment that was designed