The record-union., 1897-11-14

tacings of your shoes from the first holes
nearest the toe all the way uD. In the
first five pairs of holes the lace should
go over To do it have one string a
little longer than the other. Let the
short string rest in the center on the
tongue inside the shoe and with the
long string lace over and over those 1lrst
five pairs of holes, each time the string
is carried across, crossing under the idle
string. With the sixth pair of holes
take the two strings and lace across,
as is customary. There is nothing a man
considers so sissyish''-and what
wouldn't a woman do not to be sissyish
las a shoe laced with the two strings
crossing each other from top to toe
The next time you are in a room or IN a
car with number of men if you Will
notice their shoes you will find that II
they are we'll dressed every shoe mas
the lace crossing over and over at the
first five holes.'' And when the girl
who knows was first initiated into TINS
secret, being in the country, she sat
down then and there in the country roao
and laced her shoes in the proper man
ner.
Mrs. Emma P. Ewing devotes a Whole
lesson to the cooking of apples in SIM
pie ways. She begins with apple sauce
which, she says, is almost never prop
erly made. The delicate flavor of the
fruit is injured by coming into contact
with tin or iron, and consequently II
should always be stewed in a porcelain
lined kettle or Graniteware saucepan
A dusting Of salt and very little water
should be added before the apples are
taken from the fire, put one-half of the
sugar that is required to Sweeten them
into the bottom of a china or earthen
bowl, pour the hot apples over it, add the
rest of the sugar, and cover until served
Doctoring with spices, diluting with
water, dosing with sugar, beating with
iron spoons straining through tin colan-
ders, and serving cold, Mrs. Ewing says
is process that robs the delicious fruit
of all flavor and most of it's nutritive
quality.
The safety pins men are wearing for
scarf pins this fall have certainly the
merit of being unique, but safety pins
have too long been the lower servants
in the pin family to have an aristocratic
air now that they are elevated to orna-
mental masculine uses, albeit they are
made of the precious metal.
A pretty bib for a baby is made of an
oblong square of linen not too fine, en-
broidered with small scattered flowers OF
pink or blue, single blossoms, worked
in wash silks. The edge of the linen is
hemstitched with silk to match the
flowers, pink or blue. the hem about
half an inch wide or less. To make the
opening at the neck a cut is made down
the middle of one end Of the linen the
proper length and the edges of the open
irg also hemstitched and turned back
in little lapels which have enc or more
of the tiny flowers embroidered upon
them. To prevent the linen from tear
irg down at the end of the opening il
is worked across with heavy buttonhole
stitching with the silk. Ribbons of the
pink or blue secured to the bib with a
bow tie around the neck and hold the
bib in place This is a dainty and easily
made gift for somebody's baby.
A useful and convenient little belt
rocket is made from five-eighths of a
ward of three-inch black, double-faced
satin ribbon. Make a narrow feather
stitched hem on each end OF the ribbon
taking care that the right side of each
hem is on the opposite side of the rib
bon. Turn each end up the depth of the
width of the ribbon. keeping the right
side of the hem on the outside, and
overland the edges together with stout
black silk. to form the pockets Folc
40 hang
above the other, and make narro"
shirr at the fold. Through this insert
strong black safety-pin, attaching ms
pocket to the dress band. THESE Ltut
bags hold a handkerchief, eyeglasses
or tiny change purse and memorah-
dunn tablets. They Will be fouho re-
markably convenient with mousse ol
street gown, and are made Whlle oh'
tells of il.
In preparing celery for the table it L
advised that only enough be used for tins
meal. as it spoils quickly after beihs
wet.
-rbara is much said about the strair
70 the nervous system of the constah
noise and friction of city life, but II i
seldom that anything like facts can ~
given in relation TO the matter. NOV
members Of family which has recent
lv taken up it's abode in the supuro'
for good and all believe that they cai
say absolutely that the city causes o
greatly increases the severe nervous al
fection OF one of the children ifh'
child. a boy. has had St. Vitus' dance
and the trouble had become so SERIOUS
that the parents were alarmed Tor Tea
the little fellow would injure himseif
Eating was almost an impossibility tn
Jerking hands carrying knife ana fofi
into dangerous proximity to the eyes
A year ago this past summer the lam
ilv took up it's abode temporarily il
the suburbs in the northern part o
New York City. There the boy hat
plenty of fresh air and exercise, and b,
the middle of September he was appar
emily as we'll as any boy could be, an'
tbte family returned to the city. Blu
there the trouble began again, and b,
the end of that month the boy was II
as bad condition as ever, and the othe
members of the family, in sympathy
began to move in jerks, which soon be
came distressing.
II don't know how the boy came t.
have such a trouble" said the father
speaking of the subject recently. "ans
I cannot tell why we should have beer
affected by it; there have never beel
any diseases of the nerves in our fam
tlv before. But there was one simpl
remedy for it all and We accepted