The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1900-07-14
"FlOral Bower" Bedrooms.

| The flower room has not been over
done apparently, for the ingenuity o
the art decorators has been taxed
sorely to find some novelty to intro
duce into the bowery hooks for which
they have created a demand by ar
tistic papers and painted furniture
When the fower-room scheme first
came into being roses, forget IN e-nots
| and chrysanthemums were the stock
flowers. Then original maidens with
favorite flowers and indulgent nam
mas ordered their dressing tables,
bureaus, etc., of white enamel, curly
birch or bird's-eye maple, to be dec
Grated with sprays of blossoms,
punches of violets, clusters of corn
flowers, daisies, buttercups, even dan.
delions, and one woman had set OF
white wood painted with exquisite
orchids. Pond lilies made beautiful
another set of white bedroom furni.
ture, and scarlet poppies painted on
background Of curly birch made q
brilliant showing for q room whose
woodwork and hangings were of dull,
soft green.
Wall paper, floor coverings, window
hangings, chintz and cretonne for fur.
niture coverings can all be obtained in
the same colors and designs in these
artistic days. In any case the flower is
repeated in all the Fittings" of the
pretty room. Dimity curtains OF
white colored flowers are charming
for cottage windows, and owing to the
skill with which they are made man.
age to look quaint without being gar.
ish or too highly colored.
Recipes.
Cabbage Salad-Chop one head O,
cabbage fine. Put it in a dish anc
sprinkle with salt and pepper. Beat
ono egg thoroughly and add it to one
cup of boiling vinegar. Rub two
Tablespoonful of mustard 10 paste
in little cold vinegar and add to the
boiling vinegar, together with small
piece of butter and one teaspconful
each OF pepper md sugar. Pour il
over the cabbage while hot.
Piquant Salad-Wash and crisp o
head OF: lettuce, crisp and clean
bunch OF cress, and have ready one OF
two lunches of green onions. Place
on individual plates bed of lettuce,
some cress, carefully arranged; slice
the onions in very Thin slices ano
drop between the lettuce and cress
A few slices Of radishes may be used
If liked. just before serving place
spoonful of rice salad dressing in the
center of each dish.
Pumpkin Pudding-Stew the pump
kin until tender and rather dry; rub
it perfectly smooth. To pint OF
pumpkin add onehalf pound of sugar.
saltspoon of salt, tablespoonful Of
butter, one pint of milk, the beater
yolks Of two eggs and scant tea
spoonful of cinnamon. Mix we'll, the1
add the stifly beaten egg whites ant
beat thoroughly. Turn into a pud |
ding dish and bake in a moderately |
hot oven. 1t may be served either
with or without honey-cream sauce o,
whipped cream.
Pomme Rctis au Homage-BeaI
well sufficient hot, freshly cooked pc.
tatoes, add one Tor two as needed
teaspoon of good butter, two beater
eggs and salt and pepper to season
shape them in a small bowl, ther
transfer to buttered dish, then with
. knife-blade easily handled make
small depressions regularly to initiate
the sorosis of the pineapple; raise
the form to be like this fruit; the1
crate cheese over it, drop melted but
or from the top and bake in q quicl
,ven delicate color.