The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-23

die Of a round flower bed. A pretty trailing
vine that had white blossom was placed
where each wire rib of the umbrella came
and tWined around. Low towering plants
were placed around the remaining portion
of the bed to keep it in good form.
The lowered muslins intended for dresses.
bouses and Marie Antoinette fchus are
particularly fine in quality and exquisite in
design and coloring. Surplice or crossed
bodices are very desirable when transpar-
ent materials are used, and fashion is for
once consistent and fayors this graceful
form of bodice. When the figure is high
the slightly bloused front is approved. The
dropped textile should be transparent. In
this case, While giving apparent length to
the waist the airiness of the material does
not impart an appearance of thickness
to it.
An old family recipe for ginger beer that
is easily made is this: Put one and one
half pounds of graduated sugar in large
crock or bowl add two ounces of pure
ground ginger and one lemon sliced thin.
Pour over these eight quarts of boiling
water and occasionally stir until the liquid
becomes lukewarm; then add one-quarter
of yeast cake that has been dissolved,
mix well, and when perfectly cold strain
into bottles and fasten the corkS securely.
Keep the bottles in moderate temp 81
ture twelve hours and then put them in
cool place. This beer will be ready to use
in four or five days.
Miss Parloa says that one OF, the secrets
of the genuine French bread. which 1t
seems to be the ambition of many house
keepers to duplicate in their kitchens, lies
in the fact that the dough is worked with
out too much dry flour. 1t is not kneaded
very much, and what little kneading there
is is accomplished with less flour than the
average bread-maker would consider pos
sible. This scant kneading accounts, too,
for it's quick drying. French bread, Ike
French butter, is for this day only. The
more dough is kneaded the finer grained 1t
will be and the longer il Will keep. An
other caution in the attempt to make
French bread is that it must not rise too
long.
1t is literally true. says a writer in the
New York Tribune, that the feeling OF being
perfectly wei dressed gives a moral support
next only to that of a good conscience, and
to some women it is decidedly greater Il can
conquer any world in a Doucet gown" re-
marked a society belle recently, but l go
all to pieces if l wear anything am not sure
Of. Il do not care for Mrs b. asserted an
other purely feminine creature. She al
ways succeeds in making me feel at dis
advantage, no matter what / have on. She
is one of those women, don't you know, that
always make you imagine the back of your
dress didn't fit. You know what ! mean"
Her auditor said she understood the feel
ing perfectly.
No one can dispute the fact that the new
tight-fitting sleeve is unbecoming to women
who have long thin arms, even when fr1lls,
tuckS and other decorations are reSOrted TO
to conceal the defects. Sleeves Shirred from
wrist to some inches above the elbow with
puff on the shoulders and full lace col
larette shaped with Vandyke points to part
ness as we'll as any style now popular
among summer toilets, and in this manner
art is made to overcome natures neglect in
a very satisfactory manner. Thin women,
however have but little more to regret in
this matter of the great change in sleeves
than their heavier sisters, Tor while they
deplore the departure of full puffs and vol
luminous sleeve effects generally, very stout
women whose huge arms were covered and
concealed by these draperes have an equal
ly good reason to regret the invasion of the