St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-09-22
HOUSEHOLD NOVELTIES.
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There is one department in which
the clever woman with ideas need not
fear competition with man. and that il
in the designing and invention OF ar
ticles intended for household use, says
the Washington Star. The heads OF
great houses engaged in the manufac-
ture of silver say that of late they de-
pend for their best patterns on women
designers. The most successful de-
signers of wall paper, Of silk goods pat
terms and of china decorations are
women. and each year women are TAX
ing out more and more patents on c.eS-
er devices for tightening household Ia
Dor.
In silver plate II seemed as though
we had everything that was useful, but
now some one has designed handsome
silver pie dish. the intention being tnas
the pie should be sent to the table IN
the ordinary pie dish, which is quite
concealed by the silver receiver. when
there is no pie, the same silver disn
NAV be used as an entree dish or for
fruit.
A novelty whose usefulness may nos
be so generally recognized. yet which
will be appreciated by persons VINO
strive after artistic table effects, is
breakfast set of silver, including tray.
egg cups. butter dish, toast rack and
salt and pepper bottles.
An oddity in Jam dish il glass one
with a silver butterfly poised at the
side of the dish. The dish is lifted more
easily by means Of the outspread wings.
A Asilver egg boiler has been contrived'
by means of which the breakfast eggs
are cooked at the table. The a.cohoi
lamps are placed just beneath the egg
shaped silver receptacle into which the
eggs are dropped for boiling. On the
stand are little side projections. on
which egg cups to match the set are
ranged and into which the eggs are
dropped as they are cooked. Some OF
the sets are provided with little glasses
filled with sand and marked to show
the three, five and ten-minute limits for
boiling.
For very fashionable folks are dishes
fitted with electric lamps, which may
be shaded according to the prevailing
color at the table. Wires are attached
to the electric current in the dining
room. and when the dishes are used are
easily connected with the lamps in the
dishes. One of the handsomest OF these
dishes is a fruit basket with five hang
ing lamps.
In cooking the present tendency is ia
use earthenware dishes and send the
food to the table in the dish in which
it has been cooked. This is particularly
true of those dishes which have beer
baked in the oven, such as beans. maca
roni. potatoes au gratin. pies and SINH
lar dishes. The earthenware dish may
be hidden by deep silver or china dish
Sometimes no attempt is made to dis
guise the fact that an earthenware disl
is used, for each year the manufactur
ers are making these in more and NOR
ornamental patterns.
A new idea in the culinary line Is
frying pan ingeniously supplied will
an asbestos lining. which prevents thu
contents from burning while cooking
With this frying pan goes basket at
tachment in which food needing specia
care is placed for cooking. There are
side pieces, so that the food in the bas
ket may be easily drained. and the han
die is put on so that it is not heated Will
the other food.
1t is now fashionable to serve tea Of
coffee in glass cups and saucers. Mos
people, of course. will always prefer
china; still. this is mentioned as on,
of the erratic fads that go to make lif'
tolerable to people who like to spent
their money and like to do things lit
tie differently from their neighbors
A frame of silver that will accommo
date six cups and saucers has a handl'
like basket. 1t is a convenient ar
rangement for five O'Clock teas. Their
are saucers for the cups, each one stand
ing in little silver rack on the frame
Whether you like sweets or not, it i
now the proper thing to have hone.
pot on the breakfast table, and as hand
| SOmc q ObC as youA hCohS Will pei III
These pots are of glass and silver ant
are shaped something like Germa1
beer mug minus a handle. When no
used for honey pots they may be conse
Grated to the use of jams.
A useful arrangement is a sauce hold
er. with two racks for sauce bottle
and rack for a glass dish intended Z
hold gravy. This is much better thai
the usual haphazard way of putting tn
sauces and the gravy upon the table
The foreign fashion is to serve frui
sauces with meats. and when curran
jelly. cranberry sauce or plums are L
accompany any dish they may be pu
on the table in these sauce trays.
For the ornamentation of the Dime
table may be bought a candlestick sc
upon a block with electric connection.
so that when small spring is presse
an electric light is produced. The car
dies are topped by tinted shades s
: that the effect is that Of lighted car
dies.
. It is interesting to note the ingeniou
little contrivance which some cleve
: spirit has introduced for the purpos
ofaerating water which has been boile
to render ii free from germs and m
I Icrobes. Boiled water is never palat:
, BILE, but by means of this simple col
: trivance the water is oxygenized an
) made sparkling and palatable. TIL
2 aerator looks like wicker inclose
: bottle and is capped with a bulb and
; small piece of steel mechanism.
, Italian FPittePs.
/ Beat up an egg with a pinch Of sa
\ and stir into pint of milk. Dip ii
: slices Of bread in this mixture and fl
/. nnfil golden brown in deem fat as "