The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-10-22
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How lovely those white orchids are
pressed, and how Old you ever manage
to have them retain their delicate tints."
/ asked Of a fair young graduate of one
OF our colleges OF pharmacy. whose col
lection Of pressed mowers was certainly
beautiful.
Ibid you use oxalic acid?"
mo" she replied. use salieylic
acid"
So I begged of her to give me the Sc
cret Of her suceess.Es
go to your druggist and have pre-
pared a 20 per cent. solution of s~aIicyiic
acid in alcohol or. II you wish TO pre-
pare same at home, take one part acid
n three parts alcohol, or about one
dram of acid used 10 every three tea
spoonfuls of alcohol Then buy a quire
Of white tissue paper. With a brush, APP
ply a 10 per cent. solution of this acid on
the tissue paper. and hang the paper
Mp to dry.
For whitenhowsrs, soak them in the
acid from one tbNehree minutes, taking
care not toaimmerse the green stem and
leaves. Put the flowers between a sheet
of the tissue paper, and do not lay them
in stiffly but rather carelessly. Having
filled your sheeb-of tissue paper with the
white flowers or those OF very delicate
tints, j. e., light pink, blue and gray.
place the tissue paper between several
folds of newspaper and put in a press for
one or two hours.
Repeat this several times, changing
the newspapers after each removal from
the press. AS the flowers become more
dry change the papers less frequently.
Fragile flowers are well pressed in four
six days. those having more thickness
in their leaves and petals take eight to
ten days.
Brilliantly colofed flowers, red, yellow,
dark blues and pinks. require a weaker
solution of s~aiieylic acid both on the It's
sue paper and sshen immersing them. Di-
Lutte your 10 per cent. solution one-half or
one-quarter. The stronger the solution
the more apt it is TO injure these bright
colorx.
Now for the press. A good one can
be made at home. Get two smooth,
thick boards. Hxis inches, and have them
fastened together with six TO eight
clamps; or if clamps are not proeurable
use ordinary house bricks, using as many
as will cover your boards, and adding to
the weigh according 10 the size of the
tettG( II Il q
press is excellent, bur for flowers Will
thick stems it is apt TO crush them too
much.
when desiring ii weaker solution of
s~alieylic acid for The richer and darker
tints, it is only necessary to measure out
a portion of the stronger solution and
add sufficient alcohol to bring it down to
the weakness required
Hare are a fex don,fs which she gave
me for pressing the flowers
Don't put the green leaves with the
white flowers in the strong solution. Dip
only the white in.
Don't press thick caves too heavily,
and thus crush them.
Don't be saving with your newspapers
when changing them the first two days.
Don't handle the flowers too much; the
heat from the hands of some people is
often apt TO wilt them, but touch them
lightly
A reaction long hoped for, and indeed
expected, by all those whose interest in
bicycles has not destroyed their early
love for the horse. has undoubtedly made
itself felt this fail. says Harper's Bazaar.
In the last few weeks not only rave more
horsenlen and fofsem omen been met upon
country roads and city parkways. but
there has been an Increase in the num-
Der OF pupils at the riding academies.
This fact speaks We'll for the future, be-
cause it proves that, besides the old
riders who are returning to their alleg-
lance, a new generation is arising, still
inspired with the desire to master the
good old art Of equestrianfsm. 1t would
rave been a great pity, certainly, if the
sport had been allowed to die out be-
cause of the inevitable rivalry which
sprang up at first 1t and the
newer pastime of wheeling. There is
plenty of room for both. Horsemanship,
because of the greater expense connected
with its pursuit in most places. can never
become a popular amusement in the
same sense as cycling. and consequently
the two need not seriously conflict with
each other. People whose means will not
permit it can. and frequently do, enjoy
both amusements. The many qualities
which horseback riding possesses of a
kind entirely different from those of any
other exercise, and the host OF historical
and romantic traditions which cling to it,
make it deserve to be cherished and pur-
sued as a desirable accomplishment.
Mr.. Ernst Carl Won Gilman, an ex-
1 oAa C1ttA dlh
master. who has taught in this country
for ten years, and who is now superin-
tendent of Dickels Riding Academy, the
Oldest establishment of its kind in the
city, talked with me last week about the
revival of horsemanship which has set in.
He says that it's depression in the last
two or three years. due largely to the adj
vent of the safety bicycle, was discourag-
ing, but thar here, as has been observed
in other partssofs the country. there is
now a change.
In regard 10 the decline In single-foot-
ing and pacing, Mr.. Won Gilman says:
"A few years ago, when people rode
more for the sake of being moved from
place to place than for the art itself. they
wanted to be carried In the easiest pos
sible way. and SO they preferred those
rocking gaitss which did not JOLT them at
all. Now horseback riding is a pastime
and an exercise, not merely a means of
locomotion, SO the more stylish trot and
gallop nave been developed"
In the South. where nearly all the wo-
men and girls are ut home on horseback.
riding is suIl used ~ a means of travel.
and, as a ma tsxti r. result. singis-footing
and pacinsfare far more common there.
,rhis il also frfJa ff tic fhtnfe xeft1ed die.