The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-06-29
The HOUSEHOLD.
Suggestions for the Household.

brilliant success OF the affair should be
suggestive to the promoters of the va
rious war-relef entertainments now
rapidly succeeding each other. Some
OF the best known posters of Europe
and America were shown in these
tableaux. 1t is further testimony to
the cosmopolitan character of the
American face that the Plastic Club
young women should have been able,
with slight effects of costume and Golf.
fure, to depict faithfully many foreign
types. Ideal figures, too, such as a
Christmas or autumn embodiment,
were graphically portrayed by these
adaptable Philadelphia girls. Not
every company presenting living pic
lures can be made up as this one was
entirely of artists, and of such artists as
Cecilia Beaux, Blanche Dillaye, Alice
Barber Stephens, Emily Sartain, and
many others similarly well known.
The simplest detail was 10 the hands
OF an expert, but the result would be
doubtless quite as satisfactory if the
general management of the tableaux
was in the hands of a competent and
artistic poser.
A study of some of the advertise
ments in the women's periodicals of
London gives an illuminating knowl-
edge of the thrift of even the aris-
tocracy over there. One seen recently
read as follows: "Lady G. and friends
for years have sent their cast-off clothes,
jewelry, plate, gold teeth.plates, an
tique lace, etc., to Blank" Evidently
much less is given away in these arts.
tocratic establishments than is sold.
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woman bartering for the disposition of
her gold teeth-plate, for example.
However, it is true that much is actu-
ally thrown away in American house
holds that admits of perfectly legiti-
mate sale. There are places where
even old plated silver is bought, and
bits of broken jewelry, gold and silver
are easily sold. The travelling UNI
brella members will take and pay for
handle rods to which are hanging only
broken ribs and shreds of the used-up
silk covers. In these days of closely
watched refuse barrels, it is often i'm
possible to dispose of things that are
no longer of any use in the household.
A little care, however, will usually
show how some itinerant merchant will
find them available.
Steamer letters as fad pure and
simple are losing their novelty to the
transatlantic traveller. They are still
very grateful to the voyager when they
come from his immediate family and
closest friends, but the wholesale writ
ing among exuberant young people of
dozens or scores of steamer letters on
the strength of slight acquaintance,
has brought the idea into disrepute.
A variation of the custom was that il
Illustrated the other day in the going
away for years study abroad of
young woman who rejoices in the pos.
session of an extended family circle.
Her parents and brothers and sisters
arranged calendar-box for the voy-
age, which was was taken on slow
vessel and was to last eleven days. In
this box, committed to the paid care of
the steward, was gift for each day of
the crossing, the articles embodying
the fultillment of some expressed de-
sire of their recipient. The climax of
the treasures, delivered the eleventh
morning out, was a beautiful cabinet
picture of the young girls mother,
taken in the gown and bonnet which
she wore at the ship, so that her coun.
terfeit presentment would appear in
this latest and most familiar guise to
the daughter. The picture was en-
closed in little fiat leather frame that
could be easily carried about, and the
delighted girl wrote back that she step
ped on foreign soil hugging her mothers
picture. In Difference to the war sea-
son, the first day out, as her young
brother wrote in his note of bestowal,
to preserve her patriotism, pretty silk
American flag was bestowed. The
charm of this calendar. box, as OF any
gift, was largely in the thoughtful care
that its contents showed rather than in
their money cost.
1t is noticeable that the beruffled sofa
cushions are again in favor There
was decided attempt to Danish the
long-popular double and single ruff
fies from these ubiquitous comforts,
but cords and ruching seem to fail in
the desired effect, and the spring out
put is fluffy with flounces. Cushions
covered with China silk are edged with
double ruffle of the same material,
the under ruffle being of delicate
shade to correspond with the tone of
the design, whether it be woven de-
sign or an embroidered one; as, for ex-
ample, bunch of yellow marguerites
embroidered on some cafe-au-lait silk
has the under ruffle of the yellow tint
as the heart of the daises. Pink wild
roses in a design upon a pale blue
ground has the second ruffie of pale
pink. A pretty but very delicate sofa
pillow was covered with green China
silk in the bright shade popular this
spring, and over this is fitted dotted
muslin cover, the frill of the white
showing prettily through the green
silk rutfie.
Milk toast, as it is served on nine
tables out of ten, is UNBEATABLE. Prop
erly prepared, it is not only good dish
for the light menu allowed a GONZALES
cent, but is welcomed eagerly by the
children of the family, certainly if graf
ed maple sugar is sent around with it.
To two cups Of scalded milk-and the
milk should be merely scalded, not
boiled, and if there is scum, which
there should not be, it must be remov-
ed-to this amount of milk, stir in q