Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23
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, newspaper and then in flannel. This keeps
them cold for several hours.
This is a good list to follow: Chicken
broiled or fried baked ham, sliced ham
sandwiches, biscuits, cake, fruit, potato
salad, sailed nuts, olives. fruit juice, may
onnaise, cheese, fresh eggs, table cloth and
paper napkins, wooden plates and tin cups,
salt and pepper, corkscrew, comb and brush,
towels and soap. hammock. two or three
shawls arnica, court plaster.
An Out-of-Door--
Lounging place is never furnished with
stuffs or hangings that may be injured by
the damp. or available materials straw
chairs and cotton fabrics the safest.
All sorts of goods are manufactured ex-
pressiy for the purpose, and to them may
be added any Indian hangings and embroid-
cries, Navajo blankets or Egyptian stuffs
which one may be fortunate enough to
have.
Most people like brilliant colorings for
their porches and loggias, but care must be
taken in choosing a dye, since some OF
them, like blue have unpleasant odors when
wet.
Bath chairs, when lined with cotton, make
agreeable acquisitions to the appointments
of the porch and especially useful for
people who are sensitive to drafts.
Flowers always are part and parcel of the
decorations. and of all the flowers popular
for the purpose none scores such successes
for hardhood amiability as the gera-
mum, which gracefully lends itself alike to
the windows of rich and poor When COM
bined with vine 1t makes the prettiest
and most satisfactory of boxes, although
not only personal taste but questions of lat
itude and longitude and of general envi-
ronment must govern the selection of flow
ers and vines to be used any special
porch. One sure rule is TO choose the vine
or green peculiar to the particular neigh
borhood.
1t is convenient to have a separate set of
wraps. cushions rugs for the floor and rugs
for the knees especially provide I'd for the
porch, and kept exclusively for 1t, together
with a hammock furnished with a mattress
for the cool nights to keep off the chill.
Unless
The house is supplied with two sets of WIN
dow shades-light-colore ones for winter
use and darker ones for the summer-it is
wiser for the all-the-year-round service to
have them of dark green holland. because
these protect the interior from the sun in
hot weather and make an agreeable shade.
Sash curtains of some washable goods re-
curing no starch wear longer and are pref
tier than anything that must be stiffened
and therefore would need frequent launder-
ing of the most troublesome kind.
Plain white scrim, hemmed. makes dura-
BILE and pretty sash curtains. Fine cream
white cheesecloth is cheaper, dainty looking
and wears well. After serving Its time out
as curtains 1t can be utilized as busters
straining cloths or window polishers.
Heavy stuff window hangings are neither
artistic, healthful nor pleasant. They
gather dust. and, If wool, harbor the earli-
est moths. Spotless window hangings of
some sheer, inexpensive material are more
satisfactory to the dainty housemistress
They add to the attractiveness Of the ROOM
and screen the interior sufficiently, while
admitting light and air.