The record-union., 1897-02-21

! in pieces of muslin kept for the pur-
pose. Pictures are to be brushed ON
| their faces with soft brush, uhelr
| backs wiped and brushed, and they too
| folded in muslin, the ends tucked IN
| around their frames. Upholstered fur-
niture must be brushed out carefully
and covered with similar cloths, all
| small pieces set out of the room. Br1c-
| a-brac is busted and also put aside IN
! a protected place. A stiff whisk takes
| the dust out of the corners of the room,
and then the carpet is sprinkled with
crumpled pieces of newspaper, wet but
| not dripping. and swept with the nap.
| After this first sweeping the corn1ces
| and door hntels are brushed free from
dust, the walls are busted down with
| a cloth wound round the broom or
| special brush, and the Dashboard is
| brushed clean with a rather Stln mar
| brush. The dust thus dislodged is
| gathered by means of a second going
| over with a carpet sweeper, and finally
| the carpet is polished by being wiped
] over with a cloth wrung out as dry as
| possible from clean, tepid ammonia
| water, two tablesuoonsfm of ammoula
to four quarts of water. Wet paper,
| it was stated is to be preferred to salt
| or tea leaves; the former cannot be en-
| tirely removed, ano the grains left alb
sorb moisture, ruSting the carpet nails,
while tea leaves injure and streak
| delicate carpet.
| New York City is center for gen.
uine old-fashioned furniture. 1t is sent
| from there to purchasers in all parts OF
| the country the extremes north, south,
east and west. Wealthy people, even
! in the large cities, have antiques sent
them from New York, and old desks
and tables go to places like Philadel-
phia and Boston. The supply of warm
| ing pans from New England has appar-
emily given out, and many of those to
| be found in the shops are Danish, the
bowl made of copper and the handle of
| iron.
The secret of smooth ice cream, which
| the experimenting housekeeper VIII DO
we'll to remember, is that it shall be
| frozen slowly. Five and ten minute
freezers are freely advertised, but, for
| tunately fer the success of the dessert,
| they do not accomplish the work in
| any SuCll SIlOlG IL lhCS Nia IiA~
| texture of the cream would not be
perfect. The crank of the freezer should
| be slowly turned, and half an hour,
certainly twenty minutes, is none too
| long to manipulate it. If the cream
is heated before it is added to the rest
| of the mixture, taking care that it is
not scalded, the smoothness and rich
ness of the final result win be in
| creased. After heating the cream the
whole must of course be thoroughly
chilled before freezing-this to save ice
and also to prevent granulaton-
|
AT a dinner recently, the somewhat
| bizarre scheme of using many shades of
| the same color was carried out. Can
die shades and ribbons were of every
tint of violet from palest lilac to royal
| purple. and the gamut was similarly
| run in the floral decorations. These
| showed variations in the same way,
exemplified in different colorings of
| English violets, heliotrope, and the
| darkly purple pansy.
! There is fad for old jewelry at the
| present time, and quaint, old foreign
buckles, clasps, and anything that can
| be utilized in a way to suit the present
| demands of my lady is highly priced
| Many of these old pieces show beauti-
full workmanship in silver, and others,
while crude in design, show wonderful
| effects in old corals and semi-precious
OF imitation jewels that are charming
| A novelty in the treatment of poker
| work is to varnish and polish it--a pro-
cess which much hightens it's effect.
| Glasses in penmanship announced to
be conducted at a woman's club show
a commendable wisdom. Last winter
in a talk on the proper education of our
! girls, the speaker made her hearers
| laugh first, and think afterwards, by
| saying that she would, to begin with
have them (the girls) taught to read
| pronouncing their words distinctly and
| having a fair understanding of the
matter OF the subject; she would also
have them taught to write. forming
their letters decently we'll and a rea-
sonable degree of legibility insured; !;
she should insist, too, that they be
| taught to speak, using their native Ian
guage without undue effort and with
moderate dignity and purity. The little
speech was, in fact, a plea for the COM
monplaces of education. whose neglect
| in these striving times is palpable and
| to be deplored.
The day nursery conference TO be held
in Boston in March promises interesting
| and suggestive proceedings. 1t is ex-
pected that day nurseries all over the
country will be represented, at least by
report, and from this material valuable
comparative studies in the work will be
possible. A list of questions relating to
| the functions OF day nursery in gem
eral and in detail have been widely dis
tributed, and the discussions at the con-
ference viii be opened by short papers
presenting the consensus of the replies
received.
A very large and exquisitely embroi-
Gered Canto crepe shawl is utilized by
being draped over circular center
table. The ordinary cover is left on,
and the shawl. of a very light ecru
color is arranged over it in irregular
festoons. which beautifully display the
embroidery and heavy silken fringe The
undercloth is quite CONCEALED, but serves
to hold and give body 10 the slippery and
falling crepe.
| Over in England they are beginning to
make souvenir silver to commemorate
the celebration next June of Queen Vic
toria's completion of sixty years of SOW
ereignty-the longest English reign on