The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-10-23
THE HOUSEHOLD.

bureau are covered with line silver
tracery.
Among the colors seen in the new
faced cloths are mixtures of green,
garnet, blue, brown, cadet gray and
heliotrope.
The enameled watch and the
rabbits foot charm are the latest
jewelry fads.
Some people can get up an ap-
petite just looking at the label on a
bottle of tonic.
The jet passementeries this season
are unusually fine. The beads are
almost microscopic, and the show
ing is brilliant.
Up-to- date dressmakers are ad-
justing slender whalebones at the
edges of revers between lining and
interlining, to keep them firm.
If you can't afford an expensive
winter wrap, have a tailor make
you a jacket the fit of which will
rival the becomingness of the richest
fur.
Hair combs and pins are now
made and sold in sets; some are of
amber, some of tortoise shell and
some of jet, to suit the color of the
hair.
Mohair braid, although naturally
less elegant than jet, makes quite
stylish bolero. 1t is also used in
fashioning notched revers and
yokes.
Storm shoes are decidedly man
nish-they are made of calfskin,
with double soles, and low heels,
are extra high and are invariably
laced instead of buttoned.
Tailor suits show braiding,
buttons, cord frogs and "olives" to
correspond. Gallons in open dc
signs and mohair braid edgings are
much favored for canvas weaves,
cloth and cheviot.
A sensible high shoe for the
house for women who are suscepti-
BILE to colds is the cloth-top boot
with patent leather vamp. Indeed,
patent leather is the foundation of
all dressy footwear.
Loose bands of fur have replaced
the short, narrow cuffs that were
worn at the elbow last season.
Sleeves having these bands are
close fitting to the elbow; under the
bands the sleeve is full, ending in
a point or curved tab over the hand.
"Filling-out work" on canvas is
a new and popular sort of fancy
work. The filling-up stitches may
be used either for the pattern or
filling up the interstitches between
the same. Although it is requisite
to count the threads the work is
not nearly so tedious as it would
seem, the use of proper materials
making it both easy and rapid to
execute. When finished it has a
very lace like effect.
Samplers are being revived. We
have heard much of the popular
fad of resurrecting the old fashioned
samplers for framing and display
ing among other antiquities, but
we were surprised to be told re-
Gently by an authority on fancy
work, that it is now quite the thing
for mothers to set their little girls
to working these old time articles,
which are the means of teaching
them needle work and their letters
at the same time.
Professor Fisk, official physician
at Yale, gives as page from his
experience that of a class of 147
students the II who did not use
tobacco surpassed the 20 who did
by 10 per cent. increase in weight,
"a per cent. increase in height, 26
per cent. increase in chest girth and
II per cent, in lung capacity. The
highest fourth of the class in
scholarship were almost all non
smokers, and the lowest fourth
almost all smokers.
Unless you have a ruche some
where upon your new gown or hat
you are not strictly in fashion this
year. 1t is a season of ruchings,
and very pretty and useful they
are. Those made of changeable
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