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DETROIT, NOV. 12, 1892.

 

THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

 

PRIDE VS. LOVE.

 

BY MARTHA E. DIMON.

 

A well had grownbetween the two,
A strong. high wall of pride.

Upbuilt by thoughtless. selfish acts
And trifles magnified.

But time in passing. brought to them
An innocent young soul

Who wakened feelings in each heart
Beyond false pride’s control.

The tiny fingers of that child
Tore down the barrier grim;
Now he is all the world to her
And she the world to him.
CHICAGO.

 

' one. PHYSICAL POSSIBILITIES.

The family of which I had the honor
of being an inconspicuous member dur-
ing childhood and early youth held
very decided opinions relative to the
pronriety of the circus as an entertain-
ment for young folks. The bareback
riding, the dizzy vaults through tissue
paper hoops, and the feats of the trap-
eze performers were held to savor of
dreadful impropriety, and even the
venerable jokes of the clown possessed
an element of immorality when spoken

in the sawdust ring which was entirely

lacking when read in the highly es-
teemed family almanac. “The circus
was no place for girls,” I was told over
and over again, hence it was not until
I was awoman grown that I witnessed
the stock feats in the arena. I often
looked at the pictures of men standing
on each other’s heads, and the like, and
thought them freaks of the artist’s pen-
cil, not believing that the human figure
could be bent into such seemingly im-
possible anatomical positions. fiBut I
have learned differently, since I have
seen what it is practicable to do by
training and skill. Not long ago I wit-
nessed some exhibitions of skill,
strength and agility, and I want to tell
you about them, just to point the moral
which I mean to draw.

Five men stood bent over in a row,
and a sixth shot like an arrow in a leap
across their backs. One man stood
erect while a second “walked up”—I
cannot express how it was done in other
words—and stood upon his head; then
a third walked up both and stood upon
the head of the second. The man at
the top turned a double somersault for-
ward, the second ditto backward, and

 
   
  

 

thus the livrng pyramid was reduced to
integers again. The three resumed
the position, when the man at the top
turned a somersault; at the same in-
stant the second man did the same,
alighting on the floor, while the man
who was at the top alighted on the
head of the first man, thus occupying
the place just vacated by No. 2. How
nicely, to a fraction of a second, must
the time of all these movements be cal-
culated l A moment’s hesitancy by No.
2, and he would have been in the way
of No. 3, and an accident might have
resulted. I confess a thrill of fear
chilled me when, after building the
pyramid again, it fell, just as three
piled-up blocks might fall, describing a
segment of a circle, a beautiful curving
line, but the nimble performers vanish-
ed in a twinkle of spangles, tights and
limbs as they turned somersaults to a
point out of view.

Then some wonderful balancing was
done. A man balanced a heavy pole—I
am not sure I could have lifted it with-
out the exertion of considerable
strength—and another went up it like a
monkey. Once at the top, as clambered
about, tied himself in knots around the
iron prongs at the top and untied him-
self, and finally stood on his head on
top of the pole—a space I am sure my
palm would have spanned-then held
himself horizontally, full length, at
right angles to the pole three feet from
its top and entirely unsupported. This
seemed perfectly wonderful, but he did
it. What nice discrimination, what
careful yet rapid adjustment of equi-
poise, and above all what fearlessness
and confidence in themselves such ath-
letes must possess! To have perform-
ed such feats on a pole firmly planted
would have, been remarkable; to do so
while it was balanced by a man who
did not touch it with his hands, the end
being thrust within a loose sash around
his waist, was wonderful.

I might speak of the agility and flexi-
bility of the professional danseuse, of
the contortionist, whose body seems
made without bones and of India rub-
ber, and many others who are examples
of what may be done by human muscles;
and then ask why, with such great
possibilities, it is so hard for the aver-
age man and woman to hold themselves
erect, and walk easily and gracefully?
Men shamble and women waddle; they

 

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go bent over with chins protruding ;
they move as if they were jointed dolls,
so stiff and unyielding do their bodies
seem to be. There is no comparison to
be made between the ordinary woman
who just “gets around” any way it hap.
pens so she gets there, who moves by
jerks and starts, and always in angles,
and the woman on the stage whose
every movement is grace and beauty,
because she has been taught she is full
of muscles and tendons that only need
use to enable her to take all sorts of
graceful, charming positions. An
actress who moved on the stage as nine-
tenths of women move in their parlors
would be laughed at for her awkward-
ness and angularity. The green girl,
she who is to make people laugh at her
uncouthness, needs only be natural ; she
has not to study awkwardness.

Physical culture is a “fad" just now.
It is a much better “fad” than women
especially have had for some time, if it
is not carried too far. Some of the
“movements” ad vised by physical cul-
turists are absurd and not calculated to
produce the and sought, and the time
demanded for exercise is often more
than women can or ought to devote to
it; yet physical culture promises to do a
great deal for those who enter into it
with zeal tempered with discretion.
Anything that will straighten back-
bones, get shoulders to their proper
level, draw in chins and make us walk
as if our knees were not in plaster jack-
ets, will do us good.

The agent of an agricultural machine,
asked once how he so unfailingly select-
ed the farmer in a crowd and at once ap-
pealed directly to him as most interest-
ed partv, said in reply:

“I tell ’em by their walk. They al-
ways go shambling along as if follow-
ing the drag or bent over as if hold of
the plow-handles. It’s no trick to pick
’em out.” A country physician com-

: ments on the fact that nearly all farm-

ers’ children are more or less round-

’shouldered. He ascribes as a reason

their broad-brimmed straw hats, so
easily blown off that it is almost in-
stinctive to hold the head and shoul-
ders down, that the wind may strike on
the top of the hat instead of under the
brim. You see there’s something in
this solution of the problem, when you
reflect, and hence I would advise all
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both boys and girls, at least while thev
are young and at home. Another rea-
son is that so little notice is taken at
home and at school of improper pos1-
tions in sitting and standing. The
child doubles up like a jack-knife over
book or work, unnoticed and unreprov-
ed, and half the time, even if warned,
doesn’t fully comprehend what "round
shoulders” mean.

There’s a good deal of benefit to be
derived from as simple athing as try-
ing to stand straight and hold one’s
self erect in a proper position. To
“straighten up” does not mean to throw
the shoulders back into an unnatural
position which throws the abdomen
forward, but rather to hold the chin in
and the chest out, and this naturally
brings the stomach to a proper and less
prominent position. This seems weari-
some at first; it is hard to remember
and maintain the position, but it soon
becomes easier; and aside from the
“bracing up” sensation and the improv-
ed personal appearance, speedily exerts
a beneficial influence on the health. A
bent-over, doubled-up, cramped posi-
tion, which observation shows is com-
mon to thousands of both sexes, is more
prejudicial to health than that awful
corset which Miss Willard says (with-
out her usual regard for accuracy) has
“filled more graves than whiskey.”
The lungs have no play and are never
half expanded, while the stomach is
also crowded by other Organs and the
digestion interfered with. If you do
not believe.me, try it and see with what
a sensejof relief and pleasure you walk
and sit, and how much more freely you
breathe. after you once get in the way
of straightening the curve of your back-
bone.

Mothers should take time to teach
their daughters these things, and to
practically illustrate, before a looking-
glass, the difference between the ap-
pearance when the body is properly
hald and when it is not. Girls are
often susceptible to such a demonstra-
tion, something they can see for them-
s :lves, when all the talking you can do
is unavailing, for they have pride—and
a right pride too— in looking well.

And when we think of what wonder-
ful things our bodies are capable

when trained, surely it seems a very
little thing to learn to stand and walk
properly. BEATRIX.

HELP W AN I‘ED.

 

 

I greet the HOUSEHOLD from the
Pacific Coast, from the capital of Wash-
ington. but it is not so far away but that
I still have an interest in our paper and
also come to it for help as in times past.

It has been my fortune during the
past summer to have a real outing—a
vacation deserved I think, after ten
yearsof workon the farm. So in April
we left the farm, stored our household
goods and departed from the southern
tier of counties to the extreme northern

county of Michigan. Oh, ye of Michi-
gan who know not your State, get ac-
quainted with it! Never, never will I
say a word against “Michigan. my
Michigan,” for to know it well, is, I
might say, a “liberal education.”

The Northern Peninsula is in great
contrast to the southern. In the latter
we have fine farms, fruit, and a damp
atmosphere. In the former some of the
finest mineral lands in the world, pine
forests and a perfectly dry atmosphere.
The climate here is lovely; no foggy
mornings, no depressed feelings, but
bright, heal th-promoting days. the skies
of Italy and air so sweet with the odors
of the different evergreen trees that it
becomes a pleasure to breathe it, to
draw deep long draughts. '

I feel that the summer added not
days but years to me, for I lived much
longer in the four months spent in the
pine lands than in an ordinary summer.
No hayfever to hold me in its clutches
as for years past, no summer colds to
care for, no hired men, no milk pans;
nothing but a sweet coutent, a most
astonishing appetite and at night wrap—
ped in the embrace of a Lake Superior
sleep. Then we, who had never walked
before, now walked miles through the
woods, carpeted with the fallen leaves
of many years; the streams made
beautiful by their clear waters, always
with tiny waterfalls running with a
sweet musical sound gave us their trout,
too pretty to eat and spoiling the taste
for other fish after one has once eaten.
And by the lakes which are found here,
there and every where, the pitcher plant
grows naturally, having a pretty fra-
grant blossom.

Here we meet the homesteader and
he bears acquaintance, too. Great in-
genuity and skill are shown in the mak-
ing of their houses and furniture. Some-
times a house will be built and fur-
nished without any outlay of money
otherwise than for nails and window
glass and will be found comfortable. I
quite fell in love with a cottage made of
peeled birch logs, with a shining roof
of pine shakes and home-made table,
couch, easy chairs (which for comfort
proved equal to an easy chair from the
furniture store) and fine four-post bed-
stead.

But I started to ask you for help in a
time of great need. I find that some of
my goods have become infested with
moths—in a carpet and in an upholstered
chair—and I want a remedy and a little
treatise 0n the subject of moths. Do
they propagate of themselves or only
by the moth miller laying its eggs ? If
I knew the nature of them it seems as
though I might wage was with them
more effectually; and will not those who
have had these pests and have gotten
rid of them successfully please tell at
once the way to do it, which informa-
tion will be eagerly and gratefully re-
ceived by DOT.

Omnru, WASH.

 

{The moth-miller is a small whitey-

gray moth, which is usually seen most
frequently at twilight, or in darkened
rooms. Its eggs, which it deposits by
preference in woolen garments, carpets,
etc., hatch into small larva or worms,
which do the damage, eating the tiny
but numerous holes which are the
housekeeper’s despair. In upholstered
furniture a liberal. bath of benzine is
effectual, and does no harm to the ma-
terial. Use generously, because the
larva gets into the excelsior, beyond
the reach of aslight application. If the
carpet is on the floor, the moths will be
f lund around the edges. A wet cloth
laid over the carpet and ironed will kill
them by steam. Pepper and tar paper
are recommended as good to keep them
away. If the moths are in acarpet that
has been stored, I should saturate it
with benzine as the most effectual and
expeditious means of disposing of them.
Never use benzine in a room where
there is a fire. And do not be afraid to
use plenty. It is cheap, and will not
injure the most delicate fabric. It is
most easily applied to furniture thrOugh
a fine rose sprinkler on a common water-
ing—can.-ED.]
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MY GEN‘I‘LEMANLY MAJ lR.

 

Sister LSensible is very kind to sug-
gest I borrow her Tige to save me from
tramps, but my dog will as far outshine
hers as a tower electric light is beyond
a tallow candle. Major is too much of
a gentleman to have any intercourse
with tramps, Indeed, he disdainfully
retires under the porch when one comes
in the gate, but as a companion, and
an all around good dog, he has no equal.
Let’s leave the “family pocket book”
and the complaint of “down trodden
wives” for awhile and tell stories about
our pets. Dogs do not get half the
praise they deserve. Time may come,
ages hence, when the bark may be turn-
ed into speech, and they will be able to
express in words the love, joy, hatred,
jealousy, and other little sins and pef
culiarities that they have in common
with their often unkind and thoughtless
masters. That Maior had the good and
bad qualities mentioned and plenty
more, I have seen proofs too often to
doubt. Here is alittle instance show-
ing how he fell, was sorry, and yearned
to be forgiven and taken back into favor
again.

He was generally a very trustworthy
dog. I have left hits on the kitchen
table repeatedly, when he could easily
have eaten them, but he scorned such
conduct. However, one evening just
before supper, Satan must have entered
into him, for my little handmaiden ran
into the dining room where I was seat»
ed, and exclaimed, “O! dear dear!
Major has eaten all of the meat
I sliced for supper and left on the
kitchen table.” I never whip him, but
this must be dealt with seriously. I
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door under cover of the chairs and table.
All the lordly wag was taken out of his
tail that was drawn up under his body
out of sight. “Major! come here!” said
I, sternly. The dog slowly dragged
himself to my feet, and looked as if he
would expire on the spot. “You miser-
able low-down dog; you thief ! Don’t I
always feed you? And isn’t there a
piece of liver this minute in the pantry
for your supper? Get out of my sight l
and don’t let me see you again till you
can apologize for your outrageous con-
duct.” He rolled over on his back and
feebly moved his paws for mercy, and
then slowly crawled to the door as if
he would hardly live to get there. Out
under the porch he kept himself for
hours, but finally came in, put his nose
into my hand, looked up into my face,
and held his tail ready to wag, or drop
it, according as I spoke to him. I pat-
ted his head, said, “Major! be a good
dog now,” and he actually sat down in
front of me and howled for joy. To
this day if I ask, “Major! Are you a
thief?” he remembers, and shows morti-
fication, and now I can trust him
entirely, If I forget after meals to give
him his meat he will take hold of my
apron and gently draw me along to-
ward the pantry, and I am ready to say,
“I beg your pardon.” Why shouldn’t
we ask pardon of a dog if we wrong him
in any way? If we treat them as brutes,
they are brutes; if we treat them as
friends, they are friends, and go beyond
their masters sometimes in truth and

affection. SISTER GRACIOUS.
Dx'raorr.

 

“BUSY BEE’S" BUSINESS.

 

As the pocket book question is beirg
discussed, I will tell what I think upon
the subject. At “ our ” house we have
two (lately there are four as the little
boys each have one). Sometimes they
do not look very plump, but my own
generally has a little in; my husband’s
is oftener empty than mine. He comes
to me for money as many times as I go
to him, but as long as either of us has
any, the other is welcome to use it for
neither of us would use the last we had
unless it was necessary and we knew we
had ways to get more soon. When
my husband takes money from mine he
usually gives back more than he takes.
I scarcely ever give back what I take,
as he has so much more through the
course of a year than I do that it does
not make the case the same. He puts
in his pocket book the proceeds from all
the grain, stock, vegetables, etc., while
the proceeds from butter, eggs, poultry,
bees, fruit, etc., go into mine. When
we buy anything the one who buys it
pays for it, no matter if I buy him a
pair of rubber boots or overalls, or he a
corset or pair of gloves for me. I certain-
ly know he does not spend money fool-
ishly (unless it is taxes on two hounds
as he loves to hunt foxes, coons, etc).
He does not use tobacco in any form,

never tastes liquor, never has anything
to do with games of chance or patent
rights men. I do not think I do either.
Last Christmas I gave him his tax re-
ceipt as a present. I had paid the taxes
out-of my poultry money. I had intended
to buy a two-seated buggy but thought
we could get along, as we had two single
rigs.

Last year I raised nearly one hun-
dred dollars” worth of poultry to sell.
This year I did not try to do much at it,
so my pocket book will not‘get so much
as it has for several years back. But
we have one “little chick ” that Gould’s
millions could not buy of us, a little
baby girl that came to us just six weeks
ago, which weighs just twelve pounds
today, a gain of nearly four pounds.
She is not much more trouble than a
chick either; she has yet to take the
first dose of anything; she never has
had any crying spells; our hired girl
said she did not know a baby could be
so little trouble, and added she would
not know we had a baby if she did not
come in and look at her once in a while.
I think it is the way I use her and the
way I dress her that makes her so much
better natured than were the little boys
when babies. I am doing my own work
now, and it seems nice to be alone al-
though I had a good girl.

Honey Bee’s description of “City vs.
Country Living " makes me like the
farm still better than I did, but there
are advantages in the city I admit.
Schools are better, and there are lec-
tures and entertainments not to be had
in the country.

Evangeline always brings something
good when she comes to the HOUSE-
HOLD. A. H. J ., in theHOUSEHOLD of
October 27th, has told of the key to a
wife’s happiness more truly than she
herself knows perhaps. E, L Nye I
have admired for years. I remember that
a number of years ago I read in the
FARMER, when ~the little sheet was not
“in it,” abouta visit from an old school-
mate, her husband and baby, coming on
a visit one morning just as she and
“Bob ”—-whom I took to be her hus-
band—were ready to take the first
sleigh ride of the season. But I think
the letters from those who travel are
interesting, as I am a stay-at-home bod v
I like to read about what I cannot
see. I will tell Little Nan my key to
success in poultry raising if she does
not think she has been told enough al-
ready. BUSY BEE.

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THE TOPIC OF THE TIMES.

The great question of the day is
“How are you having it made? ”
Chilly winds and a hint of snow in the
atmosphere make us think of winter
things. The goods brought on for cold
weather wear are both smooth-faced
and rough, with preference for the
latter, which show heavy twills, cords
and bourette efiects. Plaids are also
much worn, especially for house gowns,

 

 

in combination with a plain material.
Changeable goods are in vogue, both
in wool, velvet and silk; diagonals
woven in dark red and brown are made
up with blue or brown silk or velvet
sleeves, vest, crush belt and perhaps
skirt panel. Silk is more in style this
season than for along time; the ser--
viceable black silk is restored to popuv-
lar favor, except for street wear, for
which wool goods remain in highest
mode. Plain silke are the newest
thing out.

There are few changes in general
efi'ect, but infinite variations in detail
in the new gowns. The bell skirt is
good for another season, but is made
more full at the top and more daring at
the bottom than last summer. Of
single width goods six breadths are re
quired. The front breadth is moder~
ately sloped to the top, there are two
gored widths on each side, and the
straight breadth is gathered in French
gathers—alternate long and short stitch-
es. Such skirts are no longer mounted '
on foundation skirts but are lined
throughout. For double width goods,
this model may be retained, or the
skirt fitted by the usual darts at the
top, in front and on the sides. It may
be worth while to remember there is
more fullness allowed around the front
and sides of a skirt than when the bell.
skirt first came "in.” Other skirts
have a pleated effect, gained by arrang-
ing one deep box pleat directly in the
back, which is defined to the foot of the
skirt; or two narrower pleats are made,
with most of the fullness where the two
pleats meet in the centre of the back,
and one shallow fold on the side toward
the front to define the pleat. Skirt
trimmings are still narrow and as
varied as one’s fancy indicates. Nar-
row rufiies, folds, ruchings and pufis
are employed, and are of velvet, wool
or silk, as one pleases and economy
dictates. One of the newes. is a bias
fold of velvet, gathered into pufis at
intervals by perpendicular rows of
shirring; another is a standing bias
fold of velvet, on the lower edge of
which the ruflis or pull is set. And
skirts, for everything except carrage,
reception or visiting dresses, are short-
ened to just touch the ground. This
still necessitates the use of one hand to
produce that remarkable appearance
gained when a woman clutches the
back breadth of her gown and pulls it
round her to the front, disclosing glimp-
ses of petticoats and hosiery ; but it is
at least a point gained in decency.

The chief ornamentation of dresses
continues to be placed upon the corn
sages. It is impossible to be too fanci-
ful for fashion, yet occasionally one sees
a plainly cut, smoothly fitted waist
which challenges admiration by its very
simplicity. Such are the double-breast-
ed coat basques, which lap from the
shoulder down, or are cut away over
the bust to disclose a silk or velvet vest,

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and laps below ; the back being finished
in postiliOn style, either very short and
narrow. or quite long and rather broad
like a man’s dress coat. Other waists
are cut in four mat-like tabs in the
back and round in the front, but the
majority-are out either round or pointed
both back and front. S‘eeves are of
two styles, the large qigot or mutton-leg.
which are made to stand out, not up,
from the shoulder (this effect is gained
by two rows of gathers at the arm hole);
the other mode fits closely from wrist
to elbow, with adeep full puff above;
this puff is sometimes brok 3n one-third
its lengh above the elbow by being
caught to the plain lining, giving the
effect of a double puff.

Trimmings are “warious,” as Sammy
Weller said of his feelings Fur is per-
haps the mist stylish because newest
and oh so high priced I You can‘t
touch it for less than $1330 a yard for
half inch widths mounted as edgings,
up to $250, $3, $4 and ever so far beyond
for bands of differing widths. The
short curled black Persian lamb is very
popular, but one is inclined to limit
one’s dressmaker’s suggest-ions at $1.50
a yard ; marten is the same value and
is prettier, seal at 33.50 and black or
brown hear at $3 are elegant, especially
upon green, which is, by the way, a very
stylish color this season. Russian bands
range from 75 cents up, and gimps,
moss ruchings, etc., can be bought at
almost any price. according to quality
and width. There is a worsted mossy-
like gimp which trims very prettily
and sells at 50 cents a yard. Jet- holds

. its own, especially for silk.

A stylishly simple model for a black
silk, one which would remain long in
style it ithout looking like a “back num-
ber,” has a perfectly plain skirt, slightly
gored and cut with a demi train. The
round corsage, with seamless bias back,
has the upper part of the front covered
to the tens of the darts in the lining
with silk laid in perpendicular pleats
about two inches wide. From a point
two or two and a half inches from the
point of the shoulder (not the shoulder
seam, but the top of the shoulder), folds
ex tend diagonally across the front,
those on the left side lapping over upon
the left; these folds are part of the silk
that forms the lower part of the waist
and are wrapped round the figure with-
out darts. Three handsome jet orna-
ments in leaf patterns finished with
heavy rain fringe are set in front at the
waist line, the fringe falling below it;
there is not another bit of trimming
on the whole costume. Sleeves mutton-
leg, collar moderately high.

A new fancy is for the crush belt, a.

bias band of silk six inches wide, lined

but not boned, which falls into natural
folds when worn, and may end in a
rosette or be finished under sash ends
of the silk. The stock collar is another
novelty; a piece of bias silk like the
dress. or its trimming, five inches
wide, is drawn in folds round a collar

 

of the dress material. It, as well as the
crush belt, may be of velvet.

Another model gown in wool has a
bell skirt, with round corsage, cut to
disclose a vest, no darts, the fullness
being folded under at the waist and the
left side crossing diagonally upon the
right, low down. The vest, deep elbow
cuffs and officer’s collar, also a band at
the foot of the skirt, are of plain cloth
which may contrast or harmonize with
the material of the gown. embroidered
with soutache in a simple curving pat-
tern; outlining the band round the skirt,
framing the vest and round the sleeves
where the cuffs and puffs meet at the
elbow, is an edging of fur—if you can
afford it, if not, any flufiy trimming,
moss edge, etc.. or flat bands may be
used though not with the same effect.

Rivers. wherever used, are very
broad, and often slightly pleated into
the neck near the shoulder seams.
There are quite as many plain vests as
there are full ones. Jacket fronts are
still extremely fashionable; they are
great aids in remodeling partly worn
gowns.

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DECORATIONS FOR THE HOUSE.

 

A pretty photograph frame is made
at slight- expense in this manner: Get
a sheet of heavy paper, such as is used
for water color paintings. Cut your
frame the desired size, and two or two
and a half inches wide; notch both
inner and outer edges in wavy irregular
lines. With gold paint give the edges
a coat of gilt, shading it toward the
centre of the frame, and making it
broad at the corners and narrowing on
the sides. Between the borders trace
the indentations of the paper in fine
lines of gilt. Secure the frame to the
picture with a few stitches at diagonal
corners, and cover with full bows of
yellow satin ribbon. This is very pretty
indeed. A water color paint of any
desired color can be used instead of gilt,
making the bows of the ribbon to suit
the color. A delicate mauve or pale
green would be very pretty.

Another style, rather more “fussy,’.’
is furnished by a correspondent of the
New York Tribune: Take thirty medium
sized brass rings, six for the top. 12 for
the two rows at the bottom, and six at
each side. The rings should be of such
size as will outline the picture when
fastened together. Cover the rings
with pink embroidery silk in double
crochet; sew them together in shape for
the frame, and slip the picture in and
fasten‘to a piece of pink satin ribbon, five
inches wide and 24 inches long, with
both ends fringed out to a depth of five
inches, leaving two inches of plain rib-
bon below the frame. At the top slide
down a ring large enough to gather the
ribbon a little, four inches from the
frame, to hang it up by, and let the
fringed end fall over. This lsimproved
by lacing a narrow pink satin ribbon
through the rings and tying butterfly
bows at two diagonal corners.

 

An ingenious girl who had a number
of the small photographs (minettes) now
so popular among the young people,
arranged five of them upon a slip of rib-
bon. chasing a so uare one for the centre,
and placing one diamond fashion at
each corner. She then made tiny
frames of rings, covered as above, laced
narrow ribbon through the rings, and
had a very pretty ornament tor the wall
of her room.

A pretty pillow for the sofa or divan is
made with little expense and less trouble
and quite ornamental. Make your pil-
low the size you choose, and of china
silk of any pretty tint, and figured in a
large conventional design if you can
obtain it; make a slip considerably long-
er and wider than the pillow. You will
have to use “ judgment” in choosing
your dimensions. Pass ribbon of the
proper color around through the centre
each way—both length and width—and
tie in a large full bow in the centre.
Pull the silk out into puffs over the
corners. and you will find you have
something neat and tasteful.

 

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WE have received the October and
November numbers of the new Godey’s
Magazine, a rehabilitation of the first
”ladies’ book” published in this coun-
try, which originated with the late L.
A. Godey in 1830, was well established
when Harper’s Magazine was born, and
has seen the Atlantic. Scribner and
other popular periodicals make their
beginning. The new Godey begins
well. Its publishers have adopted the
Lippincott idea and instead of serial
fiction furnish a novelette complete in
each number. This is well, for more
and more an intelligent public rebels at
having its literature provided on the
installment plan. The October «novel
is by John Habberton, the November by
Molly Elliot Sewall, and if December’s
piece do resistance is as much superior to
Mrs. Sewall’s as her’s is to Habberton’s
then indeed is the new Godey on the
high road to success. The other de-
partments are well edited, and promise
to be interesting, while the fashion de-
partment, with its four colored plates
(Godey was the first to introduce color-
ed fashion plates) caters to an ever
present want of femininity. We are
pleased with the appearance and con-
tents of this new-old ladies’ book, which
will be welcome to all the family, and
hope it will be popular and prosperous.

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THE latest additions to the HOUSE—
HOLD Albnm are pictures of A. H. J.,
of Thomas, received some weeks since,
and “Little Nan,” of Mt. Clemens, for
which thanks are returned. There is
still plenty of room in the Album and
we would be glad to be remembered
when HOUSEHOLD contributors have
their pictures taken. And too, we want
more contributors, more letters, and
more readers, “All favors gratefully
received."