The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-08-13


Separate book shelves which permit
a bookcase to grow with ones library
have been in use for some time. Deal
ers this season, however, are fitting
on a single shelf with a glass door as
a sort of annex to the ordinary open
case, with three or four open shelves.
The idea is that the extra shelf is Tor
the choicest books. The addition is
permanently fitted to the case, and is,
of course, made of the same wood with
similar finish and ornamentation. The
glass door lifts up and out.
The word is reported in a health
Journal that in Vienna hygienic tele-
phone stations have been constructed
in which, before entering, the girls en-
ployed are obliged to change their
street costume for dresses and shoes
that are dust free and will not stir
UP the dust. 1t has been found, 1t
seems, that dust Injuries telephones and
interferes with their perfect working.
This should be the best sort of object
lesson to women. If the little dust
that is stirred in a sheltered room, by
skirts and shoes, Injuries a piece OF
the wholesale allowance of dust from
the dirty streets do to the delicate
tissues of the human lung. Yet the
trailing skirt of the street costume Will
not go one inch, one-half inch even,
until capricious. arbitrary, and unheed-
ing fashion so DEGREES.
= Sweet spirits of nitre is one of the
best and simplest of toilet waters. 1t
is an excellent deodorizer, and While
possessing no actual fragrance itself,
imparts a most acceptable aroma OF
cleanliness. Many careful housekeep-
ers see that a bottle of this, with a
perforated cork-in order that only
few drops may be used at a time-is
kept on the dressing tables in their
servants rooms.
Salmon sandwiches may be madt
from the canned fish or from a bit
left over from the dinner fish course.
Shred the salmon fine and mix with it
some sliced cucumber pickles, chopped
fine, or capers if preferred. Over this is
poured very little melted butter, and
red pepper and salt are busted lightly
spread with it. This is an excellent
filling for rolled sandwiches. Another
fish sandwich is made of caviar.
These sandwiches are often made
without the covering piece of bread
The caviar is seasoned with lemon
juice, and is particularly good if a lit
tie cream is added before the bread
is spread with the mixture.
In a desire to produce novelties in
the five-o'cloclz tea, manufacturers oc-
easionally overstep themselves. A ia
Bile recently seen was in the shape of
a narrow horseshoe. the center de-
pressed about foot below the rim.
1t was expected that the teacups would
be placed around the curved shelf and
the rest of the service below, but an
arrangement could hardly be made
more unsatisfactory and awkward for
the pouring of tea. 1t was relief to
have the clerk admit that not many
had been sold. Somewhat better, but
still inconvenient, was another table,
perfectly circular in form, the center
where the service should stand being
depressed about six inches only below
lnent has as yet been made upon the
polished wood tray, glass-covered and
provided with handles, which set with
the complete service, may be brought
in to find a resting-place anywhere
1t was noticed in the same shop that
a number of different styles of nest
tables was seer. These used to oe
very popular and the parlors of the
past generation We're hardly complete
without one or more sets. Since then
they have vanished entirely from the
shops. so that a quest four or 1lVe
years ago for such a set was diff
ficult one Fashion has swung around
again, however, and all who wish
may now be supplied.
Select a nice pair of young spring
chickens each weighing one and
quarter pounds: SINCE and split them
through the back, remove the insides,
wash the chickens quickly in cold water
and wipe dry with a towel brush them
over with melted butter, lay on a hot
broiler over a moderate clear fire and
broil them light brown on both sides for
about twenty-five minutes; turn the
chickens three times during that time;
when done lay them on a hot dish; mix
two ounces butter with one even tea
spoonful salt, half even teaspoonful
pepper, spread this on both sides all
over the chicken and garnish with
water cress and serve.
Some July campers were treated one
day to ice-cream that was produced in
fnr
ate enough to have a good supply of ice.
IF we only had a freezer said the
hostess. She set her woman'S wit, how
ever, to solve the problem, and accom-
plished it in this way: A stone water
Jar that was a part of the outfit was
taken for the freezer pail, and glass
fruit-jar, with it's air tight cover, was
used for the can. The custard was
made. what cream could be spared
added and put in the jar, which was
sealed tight and packed in ice and salt.
After about three-quarters of an hour
the Jar was taken out, opened, the con-
tents stirred thoroughly before the
cover was put on, and the jar replaced.
At the end of two hours the cream was
served, smoothly frozen and of fine
grain.
A windowful of pillows for sofas, pi-
azzas. or yachts is as gay as the figures
in a childs Kaleidoscope. The pillows
are of varied shapes-square, circular,
oblong. rolls, etc, and are not very
large. Their covering is some sort of
presumably cotton material of rather
rough weave, and is shown in all the
bright colors, compound and elemen-
fairy. Yale blue, Harvard crimson the