The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-08
Odds md Ends.

a few drops of alcohol mixed with a lit
tie olive oil in the proportion of two and
one-half parts of oil to a half part alcohol
is a better mixture with which TO rub pol
ished tables than the plain oil. The alcohol
cuts and takes off any grease, dust or trif-
ling stain.
a hin in the use of hot-water bags is
gained from a trained nurse. Very little
water is used, not more than a coffee cup
full in a three-pint bag, but ii is very hot.
Before the stopper is screwed in, the air
is pressed out of the bag by a quick
smoothing of the hand toward the opening;
in this way the weight is considerably
lessened. This particular nurse in attend
ing a pneumonia patient kept in use during
the severity of the attack six of the bags,
three of them upon the patient at one time.
During periods of the critical two or three
days the bags We're changed every fifteen
minutes, but so light were they that their
weight did not in the least inconvenience
the sufferer.
the expert way to patch wallpaper. Never
cut the paper for the patch, for then II is
sure to show where it is Joined. After the
paste has been applied tear the paper, pull
ing 1t away from under the right side. This
leaves the paper thin at the edge. and all
the color on top, and. when smoothly past
ed over the break, or DETACHMENT, the join
ing viii not show. If the paper Is torn
before the paste is applied. the edge, being
thin, gets too wet from the paste, and is
apt TO rub off on the wall, leaving a streak.
If the paper which it is desired to patch
has become faded. put the new paper in
the strong sunlight for a day or two, to
tone down its colors.
The empire and vatican styles are being
! pushed into special prominence for use dur
ing the coming summer, says a New York
writer. A few models in vatican fashion
have already appeared, the panniers being
not much more than pretty suggestions of
the style, produced merely by outlining
gimps, fringes or by means of a deft man.
ipulation of the skirt drapery from the
hips towards the back of the gown. Neither
of these forms of dress, the writer thinks,
| appeal to women of our time. as a%ppropri-
ate for any but special occasions. For day
uses, there is now a certain brisk, bust
ness-like air about the gown that suits the
women of to-day who 90 not live the Sc
cluded lives their busy grandmothers did.
Somehow the rowing, golfing. cycling, fenc-
gown.
Elbow sleeves appear again on many. of
the French models designed either for full
dress or demi-dress wear, and these call
for either the new lace mitts with leaf
points reaching well over the back of the
hand or for suede or glace kid gloves of
much greater length than has been neces-
sary with the long-cut sleeves for some
time past. Later on we shall see these eI-
India muslin, organdie foulard SILK, peau
de sole and the pretty summer silks in
black and white. green and violet, gray
and old rose. The gowns are made with
f1ounced skirts and bodices with Marie
Antoinette fichus frilled at the edge like
the elbow sleeves. They are finished with
long scarf ends, which cross at the waist
line on the front, and are carried to the
back and knotted or tied as best suits the
figure of each wearer.