Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-15
THE HOUSEHOLD.
Some Hints for Home Decorations From
"Martha" How to Make the Living Rooms
Look Artistic Sleep Without Plow-Some
Facts Concerning the Making of Pickles.

| light,
For She never. can get it to ,rise
But then you should see, as she breakfasts
The light that iIlumines her eyesi
No skill can she boast in preparing roast,
| And in pies her successes are few,
And i'll she fares when soup she prepares,
For she's sure to get into a stew.
But no fault do find, for she's lovely and
And when bachelorship 1 forsook.
Twas to, wed sweet wife, companion
It wasn't to marry cook.
/ New York Commercial Advertiser.
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A table should not stand in the CEN
tire of any but very large room, and,
generally speaking, the effect is more
pleasing in such one when it is placed
at the side
A mat should be used between rough
ornaments, or a wrought iron lamp, etc.,
and the surface OF a highly polished
table 1t may be only Urge enough
to receive the lamp or ornament, or it
may reach nearly to the carved border
or beyond plain border and be simp-
ly made of plush, of other rich fabric,
finished at the edges with heavy lace
Or tassel fringe.
In strongly-lighted room, with a
large amount of gold in the wall deco
rations, browns ranging ranging from
soft tones to real or olive tones, with
a little dull pink, would be far more
restful and pleasing than any gaudy
or decided co1oring used to give brill
liant effect
The taste for deer heads and various
skins to be used for interior decorations
seems to be on the increase. 1t has
been customary for some years past for
fishing and hunting clubs to decorate
their camping houses with trophies of
the chase, but the rooms and walls in
our homes are now decorated with ant
| lers, and the floors with costly furs.
There is a congruity in the serving
and garnishing of dishes that is often
| lost sight of. To be very neat, very
simple and good of the kind is gener-
ally all that is wanted in a moderate
| household. There never can be any
excuse for untidy serving, or food set
away, grease in the wrong place, sauce
split over the edges of the dishes or
| dirt. Such things look worse on an
elaborate dinner than plain one, just
as a soiled collar and unclean hands
| look more badly with smart dress and
| jewelry.
Oysters to be eaten on the half shell
should not be opened until just before
serving. Five or six are allowed for
each person. Place the oysters in a
circle, the small ends toward the cen
tire, and fill the space with lemon
slices. Sometimes an empty shell for
the vinegar or other condiments is
| placed in the centre, or when it is not
convenient to obtain shell oysters very
nice ones can be purchased in bulk and
served on oyster plates, which, with
their contents, should be placed on ice
an hour or two before serving.
A pretty way to serve raw oysters at
a formal dinner is TO select a block Of
! ice the size of the platter and make
cavity in it by placing dish of hot
water in the middle of the block. Drain
the oysters in a colander, place them
in the cavity, garnish with parsley, wa
ter cre@, celery or flowers.
Here are some facts, taken from an
Eastern paper, about the pillow that
our girls should read and try to follow,
that is, if they want perfect poise of
the head.
1T is hardly,likely that the pillow
was invented by any one in particular.
1t was in the first instance, there is
every reason to believe, very rational
institution and consisted of small pad
upon which to rest the head when beds
were by no means such luxurious affairs
as they are to-day.
The pillows in use to-day are respon-
sible for many evils, which you may
be willing to admit when they are
pointed out to you, and if you would
but test the efficacy of their disuse you
would become as ardent an advocate
of the custom as is the writer.
There is no greater fallacy than the
belief that a big, downy pillow con-
duces to restfulness and health in
sleeping. You sink into its embrace
and delude yourself that you are COM
Portable, with your head resting upon
the dear, soft, coy mass OF feathers.
Yet, if the pillow slip away from you
in your sleep, do you miss its seeming
ly soothing influence? No. And if you
can sleep thus comfortably and not
know it, why should you not have the
courage to put it away altogether
The pillow may seem to breathe out
! beautiful dreams to you; but, while it
is beguiling your attention with its
seeming restfulness, it may. be push
ing your ears out of shape, and it Is
certainly making wrinkles in your neck
and deepening the hollows over the
chest by forcing the head forward Il
t.