Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-09

lighter soled slippers or ties. 1t also makes
a great difference in ones comfort, and Is
perfectly permissible in q sleeping coach,
either to sit without a hat or to wear a
soft cap or hat.
Don't carry too much hand luggage.
Don't wear an elaborate travelling gown or
carry in your bag an deliberately trimmed
night dress and a conspicous dressing sack.
The people who are most accustomed to
travel dress most simply and reserve their
dr1 nrh
dress Is easier packed, and the dressing
sack or wrapper which many women wear
at night as well as in the dressing room, is
in the better taste when It Is quiet In
colors.
Don't in any circumstances neglect to
pack a night dress in your bag. Trunks
often are delayed when one Is certain they
will arrive in time, and 1t Is much better
even among intimate friends to be free
from the necessity of borrowing.
Don't carry much money In your pocket
book. A larger sum may be carried in a
linen or channels bag fastened around the
neck, but the pocketbook should contain
only small sum.
After year the builders make window
holdings and frames Of parallelograms of
plain wood even to the sashes, and they
turn over the frames to the upholsterer to
cover and rig in draperies. The sellers Of
draping stufrs are quick to seize their OPP
portunities. The windows in a house which
sold for $275,0 900 from an esthetic viewpoint
were monsttosities Each looked like a
trumpery show case for costly laces. There
were. three curtains Of white lace besides
an old rose velvet within, and the conven-
tional linen a shade next the close-ftting
lace screen.
True art always subordinates stuffs to it
self. This window decorating was mere
vulgar display of expenditure. Architectu-
rally the windows of the house looked like
square portfolios.
Quite different, happily different. would
have been the result had the architect Or
dered these drawing room window frames
of some fine wood cunningly wrought In
rosevines or clematis. or cape jasmine or
Virginia creeper, and had left them beau
tiful and worthy entrance for light and
airI
Library window frames might be carved
with busts, crests, monograms or adorned
with incidents from family history or from
literature. For the dining room window
there are grapevines. the wild cucumber,
blossoming apple boughs or wheat in fine
colored woods. To the carver of window
castings designs are practically limitless,
and the delicate conventional flowers of
the East Indian worker.
bacteria, or invisible animal life, and as
dust Is nothing more nor less than the sur
face of the earth in a powdered form It
can readily be seen how important an item
is the elimination from our households of
furnishings that tend to collect and retain
dust.
Carpets-expensive items in themselves
should be done away with and Stunned as
a plague. They are refuge for micro Or
ganisms of all kinds. They are the dump
ing ground for dust and dirt brought in on
wearing apparel. They have to be swept
indoors, thereby distributing their disease
laden germs about the rooms to be
breathed into the nose, mouth, throat and
lungs of unfortunate occupants.
Much more artistic is the hardwood floor:
falling this, plain wood floor, stained or
vanished. wherein ones choice In the Sc
lection of rugs is unlimited and ones taste
is free to play. Rugs may be taken into the
open air daily il necessary to be beaten and,
exposed to sun and air, which are death to
the insidious germ.
Floors furnished in this manner are not
easily kept clean. but to the woman, with
one maid. or none at all, are a boon when
compared with the back-breaking task Of
carpet sweeping.
Too much stress cannot be laid upon the
insanitary use of the dust brush, feather
buster and articles Of kindred nature, so
essentially accomplishments of the domestic
menage, and yet one Of the omnipresent
evils that should receive remedial attention
Instead of performing their intended opera
ton, they scatter germ-laden dust about
the premises to resettle in new quarters or
he breathed into the lungs, thereby invit-
Ing the incipience Of disease or augment
ing tendencies thereto. soft cloth wrung
out of warm water can be readily substi-
tuted. which at once serves it's purpose as
dust oblterator and as germ eradicator.
The Rainy Day
Box contains a choice variety of rags, gay
wooden and cotton rags, half-worn lace.
embroidery, silk and velvet scraps. 1t also
holds old-fashoned books whose pictures
cut out make fine paper dolls, all sorts of
color prints, advertising cards, artificial
flowers. worsteds, cardboard, hammer and
lacks, pieces of soft wood such as cigar or
starch boxes yield, sheet celluloid, gliding
a knife and a pair of blunt-end scissors
On some plain visiting cards boy or girl
may write or print the various occupations
that can be devised from the rainy day
box, such as paper dolls, bracket, ring toss
dolls hat. boat, rag mat, etc.
For ring toss the end of a, broom handle
two feet long is to be set firmly in a thick
piece of board about a foot square. The
whole is painted some gay color. The rings,
prepared by girlish fingers. complete the
game. They are made out of whalebone or
any thin substance that will bend readily
into a circle. Bind the ends strongly to-
getnef with cora ana Win0 the hoops with
bright ribbons or woolens from the rainy
day box. The hoops ought to vary from
five to ten inches in diameter, the smallest
being most difficult to throw over the pole,
counting most
Making a scrap screen is delightful rainy
day work. The foundation is miniature
clothes horse, which costs about half a
dollar. Over each fold are to be laid long
sheets of cambria muslin as wide as the
fold and twice long as the space between
the top and bottom bars. On these sheets
are pasted pictures to suit the children's
fancy. AS each is finished 1t is hung over
a fold of the screen and secured there by
tacks which are removed easily when a
new sheet is to be put in place. AS many
sheets of pictures as desired can be put on
each fold of the screen. and of course the
sheets can nave pictures on both sides. As
sheets can have pictures on both sides. As
back over the top bar of the screen.
The whole becomes standing scrap book
which children enjoy showing their sisters
1t is an excellent gift for a children's ward
in hospital.
Give
A dog exercise even in the coolest weather.
If he runs at will he need not be clothed
If the walking must be slow dress parade,
put on a warm blanket and see that 1t fits
snug. In warm weather the more a dog is
outdoors the better.
watchdog should be taught to refuse
fond and drink from any ono Int hie roer,,