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.
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ALL MEN LOVE BEAUTY.
Mrs. Pinkham Counsels Young Wives to Keep
Their Attractiveness—A Letter
From a Young Wife.
men in this world mar-
she is beautiful in their
fading away before a year J
passes over her head! w / 1 v ' 11 r^\Vjß
I feel as if Iwould like to ' ' /
say to every young woman who is about / Jj.
to be married—" Strengthen yourself in Y _
advance, so that you will not break down ft \ ~.y^f \
under the new strain on your powers." // J I \
Keep your beauty, it is a precious pos- 112 )
session! Your husband loves your beauty, '
he is proud to be seen in public with you; try to keep it for his sake,
and your own.
The pale cheeks, the dark shadows under the eyes, the general
drooping of the young wife's form, what do they mean? They
mean that her nerves are failing, that her strength is going and that
something must be done to help her through the coming trials of
maternity.
Build her up at once by a course of some tonic with specific pow
ers. Such as Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. You can
get it at any druggist's.
Following we publish by request a letter from a young wife—of
her own accord she addresses it to her "suffering sisters," and while
from modesty she asks to withhold her name, she gives her initials
and street number in Chambersburg, Pa., so she can easily be found
personally or by letter:
To my Suffering Sisters: —Let me write this for your benefit, tell
ing you what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done
for me. lam but nineteen and suffered with painful menstruation,,
leucorrhoea, dizziness, burning sensation back of ears and on top of
my head, nervousness, pain and soreness of muscles, bearing-down
pains, could not sleep well, was unable to stand without pain, and
oh! how I longed to be well!
One day I wrote to Mrs. Pinkham telling her all, knowing I could!
do so in perfect confidence.
She wrote me a lovely letter in reply, telling me exactly what to
do. After taking nine bottles of the Compound, one box of Liver
Pills, and using one-half package of Sanative Wash, I can say I am
cured. lam so happy, and owe my happiness to none other thart
Mrs. Pinkham.
Why will women suffer when help is near ? Let me, as one who
has had experience, urge all suffering women, especially young
wives, to seek Mrs. Pinkham's advice.—Mrs. R. S. R., 113 E.
Catherine St., Chambersburg, Pa.
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