The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-04-30

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At this season, when door and Win
fown-screens are being put in place, it
should not be forgotten that they are
the best of dust catcherS. 1t is curious
but true that otherwise neat house
keepers ignore their window screens.
Windows are still periodically cleaned,
but the screens are frequently left I'M
touched. The first rain beats the dust
from the screens either against the win
dow pane, or, if the window is up, into
the room.
1t was the suggestion of one among
two or three friendly neighbors, resi-
dents in an up town brown-stone block,
that the awnings needed at the three
adjoining front doors and windows or
the lower floors of the houses should
be provided from the same pattern. The
result is a much better effect for that
end of the block than has heretofore been
the case when blue striped awnings
were set against yellow striped at the
next house, and the plain red OF the
further adjoining one.
1t should be remembered that eggs
should be beaten in different ways for
different uses. For meringues. sponge
cake. angel-food, or any use in Whlcn
the cells are to be coarse, a wire egg
heater that beats the air in is the prop
er one to use. For other cake anu
compounds requiring fine grain, the
wheel egg-beater is better. similarly,
TO whip cream for charlotte russo or syl-
labubs, the former is preferable, Whlle
that which is served with chocolate or
for inl1i m "
be more solid and is produced best by
the wheel heaters.
Furnishings for country houses to be
seen in upholstery shops give delight
fully summary effect Every year the
cretonnes. chintzes, and denims seem
more attractive than ever, and it is
possible to get highly artistic designs
in cotton fabrics at almost incredibly
low prices A woman sent up last week
forty yards of chintz to be used in the
fittings of a simple little cottage built
on the shores of one of the interior
lakes of the State. and she paid exactly
ten cents a yard for it. The ground
was cream color thickly strewn in
graceful pattern with English vlolets-
Even the cretonne-covered utility
boxes are out in a new dress this spring.
They are covered with pattern pieces
of tapestry cretonne, put on in such a
way that the goddess figure is spread
over the front of the box, the graceful
head and shoulders ornamenting the top
as the lid is shut down In denims
the favorite colors are again the olive
green and the cool-looking blue in which
this material was first known. Com
plete sets of bedroom fittings, including
curtains. table covers, bedspreads and
pillows, are offered in these shades, re-
lieved with designs in white. The de-
sign is usually worked out in narrow
bands of bias white lawn, stitched on
in big, sprawling bowknotS or training
vines and outlines of leaves. The edges
are finished with white cotton ball
fringe. Other sets are shown in the
lovely cretonnes, chintzes, and cotton
tapestries. Wallpapers keep pace
with the coverings in beauty or design
and excellence of make.
Covers for asbestos mats may be made
of white or cream-colored sateen. An
outline design in wash-silk can orna-
ment them. The mats are easily Slip
ped out when the covers are to be laun-
dered- Another and perhaps more
tasteful way to conceal the necessary
asbestos mats is to slip them under
the service doilies. A set of these mats
is best provided from the sheets of as
bestos. From these may be cut round
ones for the covers and oblongs to go
under platters and vegetable dishes. No
housekeeping genius has yet devised an
ornamental set of mats.
For the windows there is d bewilder-
ing choice of white nets to select from.
All the old favofites are seen improved
and developed, while fresh combinations
of familiar designs give the appearance
of novelty. Something actually new in
portieres, or to use as lambrequins over
light curtains, is the rush hangings.
These have somewhat the effect of
bamboo curtains, but are made of small
lengths of rushes irregularly strung.
They are shown in several solid colors-
terra Gotta, olive green and ecru. Long
tassels of frayed rope, dyed the same
shade as the portiere finish each upper
side in stimulation of the more expen-
sive OK tails sometimes used
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In an address to a class of young wo-
men who were receiving their diplomas
at a normal school the practical woman
who delivered them put in few eau
tions that may have seemed out of
place with the abstract theories with
which the teacher entering upon her ca
reer is usually loaded One of these
commonplace suggestions was that they
should room alone. No occupation abb
serbs more vitality than that of a
teacher, and she should have hours by
herself in which not the slightest de-
mand is made upon her. The sugges-
ton is one that applies to any woman
engaged in regular occupation which
makes daily demands upon her mental
resources A physician ascribes a part
of the waste of nervous force which