The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-12-10

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A physician who is an authority on
dietetics urges that when work must
be resumed Immediately after a. meal,
that meal should be as light and as
digestible as possible; better still, too,
If the half-hour preceding the meal can
be filled with some diverting occupation
or perfect idleness. Children should not
rush from the schoolroom to the lunch
con table, eat with one eye on the clock
and hurry off again to begin study al
once. This is done all over the land,
and is one of the reasons that the
health of children suffers during school
life. The mother of a family must dc
what she can to counterfeit it by steal
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meal to pass in pleasant divertlng talk.
Another care of hers should be that
easily digested food be a sine qua non
of the luncheon table. Fried meats
and other fried food. rich salads. cake
rich preserves, pastries, ETC., are all
out of place at this time. The speaker
further stated, in commenting upon OBJ
servations taken at the working
girls clubs, that, while the
entail much brain outlay sui
fer from the commoner causes of indl-
gestion-i. e., indiscretion in dlet-those
whose occupations are on a somewhat
higher level, demanding close attention
and often considerable responsibility,
the typewriters, stenographers, book
keepers, ETC., are sufferers from nervous
indigestion. This can be traced largely
to the haste with which the midday
meal must be consumed, and the fact
that business of a kind demanding care
and thought must Immediately be re-
sumed.'
If poached egg is to be served to an
invalid, added digestibility will be Sc
cured by first foaming the white, v0ch
is placed in a small bowl or deep saucer
and the yolk dropped unbroken on the
top. The bowl is then set in a pan oil
boiling water, the whole covered, and
the egg allowed to cook for two min
uteS.
For candelabra and individual candle
sticks. somewhat larger shades are be-
ing used this season than heretofore
For Thanksgiving plain white shades
or white fluffy shades sprinkled with
little gold tassels together with shades
of pumpkin yellow were shown, the
rich holly red and white and silver
shades being left for the Christmas
table A very pretty and decorative
effect is secured with single candle
sticks by using the large mushroom
shade. This is fiat and of the circum-
ference of a breakfast plate. 1t is some
times edged with a deep fringe of rib
bon ends. ending at the point in tiny
button A late notion in candelabra L
to place one branching candlestick in
front of the hostess, the rest of the
table to be decorated with single can
dlesticks. This is particularly effective
where the round table is used.
The small tailor-shops that are to be
found around the corner" from almos
every residence block in New York are
now quite as useful to the women OF
the family as they have heretofore Deer
to the male members of the household
Not only are tailor made jackets ano
skirts cleaned, pressed, or darned IL
most satisfactory fashion at these
places. but the women have learned
too, that the alteration of sleeves OF
collars of last seasons jackets is done
much better and more cheaply by these
tailors than if undertaken by dress
maker Many fresh-looking suits ap-
parently conforming to a late mode are
left-overs that have received the sea
sonable touch at one of these small
shops.
Nowadays the paint brush in the
hands of the experienced and artistic
house decorator stops at little. In 9
beautiful home the room devoted to the
use of a library has long been an OBJ
ject of dissatisfaction to the housewife
its small dimensions and poor light con-
trasting provokingly, in her mind, witt
the spacious apartment given over tt
the occasional and formal services of {
drawing-room The library was fin
ished in reddish mahogany, the mantel
piece was heavy and dark. The mistress
of the home undertook, this autumn t
carry out her plan of making an ex
change between the two rooms, ane
there was at once a protest. dec
orator was called and undertook Tho
transformation. The woodwork of the
old library was painted over in ligh
cream. with light line tracings of gilt
The manteipiece was Invested of soms
of it's heaviest ornamentation and thei
done over in the cream and gilt, ths
light open work brass fireplace fittings
that had been in the drawing-room be
ing transferred to the new white ant
gold chimney piece. A deep beautiful
frieze of white and gold met at the
molding-line rose-colored brocade, with
which the walls were hung. Portiere!
and window draperies Of the same ma
terial replaced the heavy dark-gree1
hangings, and with an Aubusson rug O
delicate tints on the floor, gold anc
cream furniture, pictures and orna
ments of corresponding light effects, tn.
former dull and contracted apartment
was transformed into a light and ap
parently much larger room.
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