The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-03-14

Scientists have discovered that a wo-
mans perception of color is considera-
bly, greater than that of mans. On
the other hand, men have as a rule a
much keener sense of smell. A Wo-
mans non-color- blindness is undoubt-
eGly largely due to her education, while
she may also have some innate faculty
to aid her in that direction. From
childhood, howevtr, a woman, in her
feminine love of dress and attention
to its details, rs trained to distinguish
not only colors but shades. AS a result
few women are really color blind, though
many have less power of perceiving
some one or two colors than they have
of others. This well-known fact has
been utilized in a color party where the
prize was bestowed on the person who
correctly named the shade shown.
An Englishwoman, according to a
London paper, adds very appreciably
to her income by the sale of hardy ferns
and other growing greens for table GEN.
er pieces. She is simply a woman with
a "knack at flowers" and her scheme,
so far includes only the usual house
facilities for indoor plants, no green
houses, hotbeds or other florists acces-
sories. Her plants have acquired a
reputation for hardness which is de-
MED to many of those of hot house
growth, even of the common varieties,
and to this she attributes her success
Rock candy, powdered, to sweeten
Turkish coffee, is used in American
drawing rooms when 1t is desired to
serve the drink very much la Turc.
A gardening school for girls is some
thing of an innovation, but such one
exists in Berlin, with a most satisfact-
DRY history. The students do all the
gardening work of the institution, and
grow large supplies Of fruits and vege-
tables, which are sold in the city. Sew
eral of the graduates have obtained
posts as gardeners, and at the Board
of Agriculture examinations the pupils
have several times beaten eheir male
competitors. A uniform of dark gray is
the school dress, the skirt of which is
shortened while the wearers are at out
door work.
Excellent sweet sandwiches are made
from nuts and stoned raisins chopped
fine and moistened with a very little
icing. These are used best with brown
bread or crackers. Candied fruits, cher
ries, plums or pineapples make deli
cious sandwich filing minced fine and
moistened with wine or lemon juice. 1t
it a golden rule of all sandwiches that
the filling should be minced if possible,
and moistened into a paste with some
suitable sauce, juice or other amalga-
mator. a tablespoonful of whipped
cream is useful for this purpose or plain
cream may serve. If the cream is used
with meat, it should be sailed; If with
fruit, sugar may be added.
Although it seems almost a crime to
cook tender. crisp celery, heads of this
vegetable often find their way to the
kitchen that are preferred to be served
hot Cut such stalks into two-inch
lengths, and blanch in boiling water
for five minutes. Pour off half the
water adding a cupful of white stock,
and boil the celery for fifteen or twenty
minutes longer, or until tender, sea-
soning with salt and white pepper.
Drain and set aside in a hot dish while
the liquor in which it has been boiled
is converted in to a sauce by the addi-
ton of a little thickened butter and
-four and a wineglass of Madeira pour
ed in at the last moment. Pour the
sauce around the celery and send to
the table in a covered dish.
A beautiful sofa pillow, pair of
them indeed, though both did not APP
pear in the same room, was made from
the fine pieces OF wrought work on an
old lace curtain. which was Worn TO
shreds so far as the net was concerned.
The lace designs We're appliqued on a
rich shade of brown velvet, the cush-
Sons backed with plain cream silk and
edged with a frill of lace.
A convenient laundry bag for the
buffers pantry is 40x36 inches and has
a wide, deep pocket occupying its
length and width. This pocket is in
tended for the soiled tablecloths. on
the outer side, below the deep slit
through which the inner and big bag is
reached. is sewed piece of linen twen-
ty inches deep and stretching across
the bag. This piece stitched down
through the center forms two smaller
pockets. for stained and unstained nap
kins The bag is made of gray linen
bound with cotton braid. A hem
at the top permits it to be shirred on a
short shadestick into each end of which
is fitted a screw eye. From these eyes
a cord passes by which the bag is sus-
pended.
lady who has spent considerable
time in the Hawaiian Islands brought
home with her some fine specimens OF
the Towering vine of that luxuriantly
blooming part of the world. These she
had copied and enlarged, the color OF
blossom and leaf being exquisitely re-
produced, and the paintings mounted
as a fourfold screen. The panels are
at least seven feet high and two across
giving opportunity for good showing
of the splendid blooms. The frame OF
the screen is of plain gold sufficiently
massive to suit it's size, but unadorned
except on the outer panel, where the
Hawaiian word Aloha" the islanders
greeting, Welcome, 1 love you,' set
sn heavy raised letters. The idea, which
in this case is most sumptuously and
decoratively carried out, is a suggestive
one Too often a screen is tawdry and
incongruous. AS a setting for some dis
IS added the charm of association OF
historical value, it offers itself as a
hitherto toe little appreciated accessory
The beautiful wall papers shown in