The record-union., 1896-12-27

versions of the officers wives VINO IoI-
low their husbands fortunes to west
ern forts In New Mexico, among the
Navajos these blankets are curious
products The designs are original |
with each worker and are interesting |
imprints Of individual impressions. One |
displayed by an army woman, lately |
returned from a considerable stay at |
fort near Santa Fe, has black trains of |
cars wandering over its red ground. |
The Indian who made it evidently ad- |
mired the sweep of railroad train and |
reproduced it so far as possible in the |
blanket. Another in the same collection |
has a queer mixed border of scrolls and |
figures without apparent relation and |
still jumbled together in a sort of har- |
mony. This, the present owner relates, |
was admired by a friend of hers, and |
in consequence a request to duplicate |
it was made Of it's maker. But the old |
sauaw promptly refused. A pappoose |
of hers had died while the blanket was |
being wrought, and in her simple rea- /
soning the two facts were effect and |
cause The pattern had bewitched the
baby, and no inducement could coax
a repetition of the work. The sugges- |
tion is made that an exhibit of Indian
work in its purity, with no attempt to
modernize or civilize it's rude art, would
be interesting and instructive. Such
displays as are occasionally seen are
usually made with view to their COM
mercial value, and the representative
quality is thereby much lessened.
The electric attachment to the kero-
sene lamp is an innovation that has
been cordially accepted. The elaborate
parlor or banquet lamp seems to have
been constructed with view to make
dts lighting as difficult as possible. The
wick is hidden first inside chimney,
then beneath a globe or shade resting
on a more secure frame. The opera
ton of bringing a lighted match in
contact with this much protected bit OF
cotton needs care and deftnesS. 10
touch a button and have a flame re-
epond is a most acceptable advance in
convenience. After the first cost OF the
attachment the expense is trif1ing The
battery viii last six months, and may
he renewed when needed for fifty or
seventy-fve cents. All this, Of course,
is of interest to those who do not have
the advantage of cheap electric lights,
as we do in Sacramento.
"A most dIIfdCllNG uONGIly dllNA OitS
that must remain unique from It's very
limited supply, is the old grog tubs for
Iqerly in use in the British navy. Grog
is no longer served officially to Tommy
Atkins. and the tubs condemned by the
Government have, in consequence, be-
come bric-a-brac. They are made Of
black oak waxed by hand and bound
with bands of polished brass. Mounted
on standards of suitable design and
varying size, they have been converted
into coal or wood buckets, waste-paper
receptacIes, palm or fern holders and
other similarly useful articles. A few
have been seen lately in New York,
brought over, doubtless, for the holi-
day trade.
Augusta Ga, has a woman embalmer
in the person of Mrs. Fannie Garrison
who has charge of the embalming
branch of the largest undertaking es-
tablishment in the city. Mrs. Garrison
became interested in the profession
through her husband, who was an un-
dertaker. She opened a little millinery
establishment in connection with his
business BY degrees she came to
have more and more to do with the un-
dertaking. and at last she decided 70
take llp the business. She entered the
school Of embaming in Indianapolis,
and after graduating practiced in that
city for eight years. She has just gone
South under highly satisfactory COP
tract.
The Home and Training School which
mas been the cherished ambition of that
Interesting club. the only one Of its kind
IN New York the Working Women's So
sciety. Is rapidly developing into a near
probability. Its promoters expect that
Tot later than the 1st Of January
house viii have been secured and the
home be opened soon afterward. The
training school IS a feature Of its useful
ness which particularly appeals 10
them The club membership includes
many housemaids and Mattresses as
well as cooks and other domestic serv-
ants. The maids and mattresses are
most Of them eager 10 learn to cook, and
they understand that opportunity Will
be afforded them when the society has
carried out its plans. \ housemaid can
carr. at most about 500, while the wages
OF an expert cook who still stops con-
sideral,Iy short Of the chef standard
nre from $50 10 $40, and $50 in some
cases.
Not to be outdone by the navy, the
british army Is also 70 be represented
this season in fashionable furnishings.
A neyx square cornered armchair, very
etIr and angular in design, but both
effective and comfortable, IS upholster-
ed in TIE cloth sacred 10 the English
redcoats. its bright hue somewhat
toned by strappings and bindings Of
braid IN genuine military fashion.
The safety OF sterllized milk, II should
be emphasized to those housekeepers
who are having the sterilization done in
their kitchens. lies in the perfection OF
the process. Experiments under scien-
:thc auspices have recently shown that
the temperature al the top OF the jar
OF milk which has been in a vessel or
boiling water for fifteen minutes has
reached the requisite 100 degrees Fab
renheft. while the milk in the lower
part OF the lar "a some thirty degrees
cooler. and therefore not at the safety
point To insure protection the milk
should be brought to uniform tenn
perature Of 100 degrees Fahrenheit. a
rrccess which makes the upper mix
touch 1875 degrees. 1t is only at this