JAPANESE EMBROIDERY. Br the KurcUf of Some Clfvfrne»» . Iteully Stnrtlinu Kffti'ln Can lie I*ru«lneed. For anyone with artistic instinds end a fair knowledge of drawing Jap anese embroidery is a most fascinat ing employment. The secret of the ■wonderful effects prod uced by this ki nd of handiwork is that the Japanese hesi tate at nothing which promises to pro duce the effect they aim at. If they desire to imitate an evening sunset even, in textiles, they attempt it.and the result, although it may be a weird combination that requires an explana tion to be understood, is likely at all events to be a rich commingling of tijits that is agreeable to the eye. 'Jake for instance the accompanying sketch, which is taken from a state saddlecloth that belonged to the rid ing outfit of h Japanese noble. The proa/idwork is of light blue cloth, rep resenting sky; the birds are cut out of thick, soft, white flannel; these are applied with a chainstitch of white embroidery silk which covers the edges. The eyes are putin with black beads, and curved stitches of white silk are used as the markings of feath ers. which, sinking deep into the flan nel, give a rounded effect to the birds, that are supposed to be fluttering over waves dashing up against rocks. The THE POPULAR INSERTION WAIST. T. mely Hinta Apout the New Material Which Comes for Decorating a Summer Dre3S. For $1.50 yau can pet a yardof insertion. of It la aliout a yard wide, sometimes wider, and is sold by the j-arii exactly like dress goo(J»-. You can buy a yard of It ai.d make a very nice little neck bodice to wear over one of your silk vests. These little lace bodices can be «o made that they can be worn over any waist. The favorite color is black, because it goes so well with everything. But you can *pt green, mauve, mouse color, and in fart any other of the new shades. To b« very fashionable you c.c/a make elbow sleeves of bright velvet, which can also be adjusted to any waist. These sleeves hook with safety hooks all around the armhole, and may be fastened at the shoulder with a big fancy pin. HELEN GREY-PAGE. latter are cut boldly out of black satin utid chainstitched on with gold thread, and the former marked out on the lines indicated with a chainstiteli in heavy white silk. The whole thing is most simple, but really decorative, and anyone would know at once what was the motif. A woman who has carried the Jap anese idea into American subjects has produced some wonderfully artistic conceptions simply by having no fear in either her use of materials or the difficulty of her subject. One of the panels represents the side of an old (South Shore farmhouse, against which DETAIL OF JAPANESE EMBROIDERY. prow stately hollyho"Vs, pink and white, and yellow, and crimson. The tilver look of the shingles is carried out with light gray silesia cut in the thapc of the shingles themselves, and each one is finished with irregularly buttonhole stitchings and marked like the streaks seen in old wood. These elabsare then literally shingled on,like those on the side of a house, and against this background the holly hocks are lealistically carried out in embroidery and applied work. Another successful conception by the same artist for one must be an artist to obtain such results—is a group of white sailboats in a summer blue sen in the distance, with a reedy foreground and a group of pink marsh nutlowa as the salient feature. The possibilities for such conceptions are boundless; all that is required is the cleverness to produce them. —X. V. Tribune. DAINTY LITTLE SACK. A GllnipM' «112 «'•«■ Ulrl «■ »•>« l.oakN Whfn She* Halchei Hie Pnnatr-By. A young woman who lias just com pleted lier summer trousseau and who will, by the time you rend this article, be strolling along the shores of a fash ionable watering place, showed it to SMART LTTTLE DRESSING SACK. three of lier friends when they called on her to bid her good-by. "This is the prettiest piece in the lot," said she, showing them a charming little dress ing sack, "for when I stand behind the blinds with it on, I shall be seen only in a rather indistinct way. which is sure to make me attractive." Tlie little sack was made of pale pink lawn with a pin stripe of emerald preen running through it. It was cut very long with the side seams shaped just enough to make it curve to the figure. The neck was cut t-o form a V.and was finished with revers bordered with a deep ruille of white embroidery. The sleeves were of the bishop pattern gathered at the wrist. The belt was of emerald green ribbon and the sack could be worn on the in side or outside of the skirt, as desired. Embroidery like that used on the revers finished the front. 1 low to Se«Mire Krculi Air. A lecturer upon health topics said once: "If you have not a cross cir culation of air in your bedroom it can be ventilated or the air changed, for the time being at least, by taking the edge of one of the doors in the hand and swinging it briskly to and fro 22 or 23 times." This advice proves to be satisfactory when taken, and if anyone desires the best authority for it the man who raises bees will give it. It is only a returning to nature's first principles. One of the important functions of some of the bees is tc keep the hive ventilated, and this they do with their wings, fanning and keeping the air in motion. In warm weather they reduce the temperature in this way. ItecMjie fur Nail I'umadr. One-half ounce white wax, one-half ounce spermaceti, four ounces almond oil. four ounces rosewater, two or drops of cochineal, or a small teaspoonful of beetroot juice. Shred the wax and spermaceti, put them in a jar with the almond oil and let melt, then add the rost water and coloring, ami beat till nearly cold; then pour into small pots, and stand aside tc cool. This quantity will last some time. More Important. "Mrs. Gladstone always listeneo when her husband talked." "Of course; but how did he behave when sh-j wanted to talk?"-—Caicag'j Record. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1898. COMFORTABLE STALLS. A S> nielli li>- Which Kneh Cow In Pr#- tected from I'OHHIIIIC Injury U 11.11 Lyluu Dunn. There is excellence in the plan of tying cows over the stanchion plan, as shown herewith. The cow has 3% feet in width of stall, and perfect liberty and comfort of position. Uecause of the bar across the stall floor, shown just forward of the hind feet of the standing cow, the animal has always a dry, clean bed to lie in, thus keeping her as clean from manure in winter as though she was in a June pasture. By this system each cow is protected while lying down from having her teats and udder stepped on by her standing neighbor. This is one of the most productive sources of injury that is known, and of itself should condemn the rigid stanchion. A closely-boarded partition about four feet high forms tlie front of the stall. Each cow has space 3y g feet in width. The floor is made tight, and there is no drop in rear of the cows, ex cept the thickness of one plank, which is the double floor of the stall. The style of feeding rack secures two pur poses. It contains hay or roughage, and slats are placed wide enough so the cow can get her head between them. Their slant forces the cow when erect to stand with her hind feet in rear of the cross-bar across the sfall floor. Tn making the feed rack, nail a piece of two by eight-inch scantling edgewise against the board partition. A COMFORTABLE COW STABLE. This makes the bottom of the rack and should be placed 30 inches from the floor, l'lace the top scantling about two feet from the partition. This makes the rack eight inches in width at bottom and two feet at top. In center of bottom scantling fasten a ring screw to tie the halter to. Fasten the cow with a common web halter, she wearing the headpiece all the time. The halter end of the rope has a safety snap to fasten into the ring of the halter and under the throat. The grain and ensilage box is placed on that side of the stall opposite to the one the cow usually lies on. The box is for grain and ensilage and is reached i y an opening in the partition, l'lace the box slanting and the feed will eas ily work down to the lower end next the cow. In placing the bar across the stall firing tlie cow's head square ly up against the feeding rack; then just forward of her hind feet nail down u two by three scantling. Fill the space " >rward of the bar with bedding, which, being without waste, will last till nearly worn out. —Ex-oov. YV. L). Hoard, in Farm and Home. DAIRY SUGGESTIONS. The cellar in which butter and milk is kept must be dry and well ven tilated. If the average herd of cows should be tested, one. two, three or more would be found unprofitable. If you are making the dairy promi nent on the farm, you should have ice, a milk house and a separator. Simply because a cow is a scrub, we say once more, is no reason to dis card her. She may be a fine cow. Hut she cannot be depended upon to reproduce herself. If you have a clay, solid scil, dig a hole and put the green corn into it whole. It is a slovenly way to make ensilage, but better than nothing. The ensilage must be covered. Nothing is more important than to accustom the heifer to being handled. Handle her all over. Accustom her to the touch of the hand. It will great ly help breaking her to milking. Keep good cows or none. The poor cow eats feed without giving the re turns that a good cow would. You throw away both labor and feed with such a cow. —Western Plowman. Literature of Horticulture. It will be necessary to use very nice judgment in applying the principles which goiern tree growth and fruit production; but in these days of abun dant horticultural literature and ex cellent books ou orchard economy, no> one ought to be at a loss to know what to do for the best under his own con ditions. No two cases are exactly alike. Advice for your neighbor would be wholly inapplicable under your conditions. Every man must work out his own salvation in temporal as well as ixi spiritual things, and the plum will goto the man who applies a lib eral dressing of brains to his land.— Northwest Horticulturist. Economic* H«»u« Conntrartlon. Three essentials of modern road building are the road-macliine, for grading, shaping and preparing the road-bed; the stone-crusher, which may often advantageously be portable, with outfit for breaking the stone, and an efficient road roller, preferably a steam roller of about 12 tons' weight. These are at the bottom of econom ical macadam road construction. —L. A. VV. Bulietiu. FRUIT ON THE FARM. Every Man Inlying In (lie Country feliotaltl Hnlur tin A ui|»l«* Supply fur Home I ie. The greater value of fruit growing to the farmer is not primarily in its commercial aspect, or how much money it will bring in, although the receipts from the sale of the surplus are not to be despised, either; it is rather the "health of good living" that comes from an abundant supply of all kinds of fruit that may be readily grown in that locality, so that all the year 'round the family may have all they can consume. There are fruit specialists, the Homestead remarks, of course, just as there are specialists in other lines of farm industry, who make a handsome income out of the orchard and small fruit plantings. They like the work and therefore learn it easily and keep on learning until they are gray, and their knowledge lie comes more valuable every year by accretion. Any young farmer who be gins on a scale adapted to his home netds may into a specialist of this kind, but thousands never do. This is 110 reason why the thousand* should not have all the fruit their fam ilies can use. Beginning with the most useful kinds and those most easily grown, the farmer can gradually sur round himself with a good home or chard and small fruits of all kinds, that improve his living and reduce its cost, thus adding to his comfort and independence. We do not find it necessary to do much in the way of urging horticulture. Those who are already fitted for it know enough about it to determine for themselves whether or not they shall engage in it, while those who are not sufficiently informed must work their way to it, if at all, by beginning at the bottom of the ladder; and there is no better way to do this than by beginning with a few good trees in a home orchard, and small areas of small fruit for home use. We do urge this upon every farmer. If tio cash income ever comes from it, it is still worth all the expense in time and money that It costs. PEA-VINE WIRE REEL. A Great Lnlior Saver Where Much \\ Ire HUM to lie Wound at Clone of the SeaMon. I have found a pea vine wire of great help in my truck gardens for winding the wire after vines are re moved. The standards (aa) are of two-bv-four-inch material, 2y 2 feet long*; foot pieces (bb) are two-by-four and iy 2 feet. An old fork handle is used at c, two feet long. The reel sides (d) are of one-by-four-inches and iti) inches long. Four fork handles PEA-VINE WIRE RBKL. are used at e, 13% inches long. Iron pins are inserted at ff. The distance between aa is 14 inches. Any handle may be attached that is most con venient. The reel barely plays be tween aa and when 60 or 75 pounds of wire has been reeled it is slid off and tied. 1 use No. 14 wire.—A. 12. Harts horn, in Farm and Home. CLEANING WET SEEDS. After llelnjc Thoroughly Dried They Should He Kept Inn Moderately Warm, Dry I'lnce. For preserving seeds in fleshy fruit* they should be mashed and placed in barrels to sour. In the place of cucum bers, melons, etc., the interiors only are scraped out. In from 30 to 100 hours, fermentation will have ad vanced sufficiently to admit of the ready separation of pulp from seeds. The mashed fruit is placed in coarse sieves and suspended in tubs of wa ter. The seeds will drop to the bottom, while the light pulp will float and can be thrown out; tliey should be then Bent through a finer sieve, and after three or four washings can be taken out, spread upon cloths and dried. With many seeds it is well to wring them in cloths, and thus remove the surplus water. Many persons do not take the trouble to wash seeds, when growing a few for home use, merely scraping them out upon a piece of cloth and drying them in their pulp. Most vegetable seeds keep best, after being thoroughly dried, in a moderate ly warm, dry place. Paper or cloth sacks will answer to hold them if hung up or placed in boxes, where mice can not get at them.—Farm and Home. Trelllw for Tomatoen. While the tomaio can be and often Is grown with its vines on the ground, the fruit ripens more evenly and per fectly, besides j roducing a larger crop, if the vin< s are supported by a trellis of some kind. It may be noth ing more than a stick forked like a "y," and with long enough stem to set firmly in the ground. Hut if the soil is rich and the tomato vines are heavy, a row of strong stakes with a wire wound around each at the height of 18 inches will give better satisfaction. When the vines turn to grow down wards the part below will blossom and fruit more abundantly than before. A DOCTOR'S DIRECTIONS. They save a daughter from blindness. When a father writes that vours •• is the best medicine in the world." you can ellpw something for seeming extrava gance in the statement if you know that the medicine so praised, cured a loved daughter of disease and restored to her the eyesight nearly lost. The best med icine in the world for you is the medicine that cures you. There can't be anything better. No medicine can do more than cure. That is why John S. Goode. of Orriclc, Mo., writes in these strong terms; " Dr. Ayer's Sarsaparilla Is the best med icine in the world. My daughter had a relapse after the measles, due to taking cold. She was nearly blind,and was obliged to remain in a dark room all the time. The doctors could give her no relief, one of them directed me to give her Ayer's Bax saparilla. Two bottles cured her com pletely." The thousands of testimonials to the value of Dr. Ayer's Barsaparilla repeat over and over again, in one form or another the expression: "The doctors gave her no relief; one of them directed me to give her I)r. Ayer's Sarsapan 1 la. Two bottles completely cured her." It is a common experience to try Dr. Ayer's Sarsapanlla as a last resort. It is ALL MEN LOVE BEAUTY. 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