The record-union., 1898-06-19

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Deft t-handed women find that it pays
them to take few lessons In straw
sewing The woman who learns saves
many a penny by making her own hats.
The hand-sewed hats with lined rims,
if made in the fashionable designs, are
alwavS extensive There are no
marked down sales of them until they
become cheap by being out of date. 1t
is here that the amateur straw-seWer
finds a chance for thrift. For few
cents she can pick up a hat sewed
in an old seasons style, and with this
supply Of braid she can quickly reseW
it in any shape she elects.
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Before fine laces are immersed in
naphtha or benZine or even alcohol, for
this, too, will clean them. although IL
takes longer, they should be basted
with a fine needle and thread on piece
of very thin muslin or old linen. Some
of the most expert professional clean
ers still use the powdered French
chalk to cleanse these valuable pos
sessions. The lace is thickly sprinkled
on both sides with the chalk and
spread on thick sheet of writing
paper, covered with a second sheet and
placed under a heavy press for several
days. In most households the una
bridged dictionary is considered the
requisite weight When the lace is
taken out, it is lightly shaken to dust
off the powder. and its soil will be
found to have gone with it.
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To splice out a chafing-d dish service
of creamed fish, some leftover aspar-
agus will be found particularly useful.
A cream dressing is made for the fish,
and the cold asparagus cut in two-inch
lengths and added with the cold fish.
The two can be heated through and
served on oblongs of toast.
The trained nurse exhibit at the
Health Exposition in New York attract
ed wide attention. 1t was an admira BILE
object lesson in sanitation, and as a
study of comparative nursing it was
most valuable and suggestive. The
converting of room in private house
into the sick room or operating room
is worth more in its practical teaching
than reams of printed explanation The
banishment of all draperies, absorbent
rugs, pillows and upnolsteries, the ease
of adequate protection of fine furniture
and withal the preservation of the
daintiest and cosiness secured with
washable screens, muslin sash curtains
and the like. is one that every house
keeper ought to see. Another place
where she may stand and learn is at
the hospital kitchen, where is carried
on the preparation of food for the sick.
The remarkable cleanliness and conven-
ience. the absence of all dark, unwhol-
some corners. should make her realize,
if she has never done so before that
kitchen sanitation is an important part
of invalid treatment. The whole eX-
hibit breathes one word-cleaniness
but the degree to which that word is
carried is a revelation Perhaps moth
ing in the whole display was more i'm
pressive than the little glass boxes in
which, secure from the microbe laden
air, the safety pins for the bandages
and bedding are kept.
A woman packing her trunk for the
summer was noticed to lay in two or
three stifiy starched square linen dol
lies. To an inquiring observer she ex-
planned that these were for catch alls
when established in her farmhouse
summer rooms. II fold two ends to-
gether. tying them at three places with
ends of narrow ribbon to make cornu-
copia. Sometimes for an especially
elaborate one / work eyelet holes down
one side with pink or blue silk, and lace
my horn into shape with narrow rib
bon or cord Of the same color. This
largest one / shall hang the day / ar
rive at my summer quarters on the
piazza, and it will save many a bit OF
paper and embroidery silk otherwise
tossed over the railing on to the grass"
One of the speakers at the recent
Mothers Congress protested against
the abuse of children by the most we'll
meaning mothers. He spoke against
the practice of sending little babies out
in carriages all of whose fittings were
of dazzling white, and urged his hear
ers TO reflect for a moment how they
suffer in a snow landscape, with the sun
shining brightly on it. The speaker
might have gone on and told of nu-
merous other ways in which mothers
sacrifice the comfort of their children
picturesque or conventional prin-
ciples. The little MILDLY suits. for ex-
ample. in which the small boys are ex-
ceedingly effective. are anything bu.
comfortable for the sturdy legs which
they envelope. II is almost hard to
run in the wide Tapping trousers as in
skirts. and more than one hghspirit-
ed boy has been known to mutiny
t. against this swathng style of dress A
few years ago little girls in their ar
tistic Kate Greenaway gowns We're sub
jected TO similar penance. If anyone
is entitled to freedom. it is certainly ar
active child. to whom the bondage OF
clothes spells misery.
War munitions are the correct things
in the way of ices at the moment Any
device that stimulates an implement OF
the international conflict is hailed by
the fashionable caterer. He turns out
his creams now in cannon and KNAPP
sacks. in field hat or sailor cap: he
shows us the marine, the artillerymar
and the trooper cleverly wrought il
frozen sweets. There is even the Rec
Cross of the hospital service and the
coat-of-arms of the country. with flags
large and small in solid white or tint
ed as we'll to show the red and blue
AT a luncheon the other day given by Z
young woman to a company of her cir
friends. the ice was brought on as
balls piled upon il on the serving plat
ter in exact imitation of the three cor
nered piles which are q familiar sigh
at a fort. Everybody was served Will
q slice Of the cannon and two or three