THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, Bll. BASTING THREADS. Notes of Intorest to the Amateur Dress | [| | | No, 734. 8, 10, 5, a small insecot, 16, 9, 1, “a gentle blow.’ 4, 15, 7, a title of POSH ’t. 18, “firmly fixed.’ Numerical Enigma, ndent, nging to him." The whole heart, dear to every patriotio A Holiday Numerical, 11 3106 {713 —Golden Days. A Riddle. | the te | and if not very neatly made { | ly. maker, The amateur dressmaker rarely knows | the value of a good deal of basting, & writer in Farm News For instance, dress skirts, especially henrietta or oth er weaves of silk apt to wrinkls near the foot. side goods seem to slip away from the lining. This can be obviated by basting outside and lining lengthwise every five inches in stitches three to four inches long. Always use good thread—70 will bo strong enough. This season the stif fening is put about five or six inches deep around the flaring bottom between the outside and lining, The out by this journal at 10 cents are excel lent), put the chamois fiber on the lin- ing and stitch it at the top. Then put on the outside, basting it from the bot- | tom up at intervals. of not more than | all around and | If the edges are to be whipped | ~a8 they must be unless the goods are | five inches. Then baste rut out. very closely woven—now is the time to do it; next put together, commencing at p. Fit the skirt to the wearer be- fore sewing the seams. As the present fashion requires the skirt to fit as neat ly at the waist, this is done by pinning up wrong side out. In making over , where the gkirt is too short for the present fashion piece the material at the bottom and cover the piecing with rows of narrow velvet ribbon-——these rows are now very stylish—braid or one row of wider rib bon. Bias folds of the material of the dress are also stylish, but they are diffi cult for the home dressmaker to adjust are unsight 3ias bands are not used th A pretty dress seen lately was of wool ge and had been light color. It dyed at hom y was about three inches te pieced at the bott by a two in back, which cost (I am told that often used by dressmakers on the parts of costumes which will not be subjected to hard usage.) The back of the waist was good, but the front soft dresses 3 SOAR0N. goft tan kirt hort and was woneealed tton per yard. part cotton ribbons are ds a was m and h satin faced rib {§ Or 8 oonts 5 were silk 11 it and dark rith caded figure hic jac ket of and lined v —- the a green Was ove Ferting ax blot i under the edg The five large stars at the the points name a constellation Of the rows of flve stars, each reading outward, and forming the flve poisis, the first is one of the ond, a uth mn adjoining at after which a star of the an English as large reflecting astronomer who nth. one of the junction of sie te) Lit ots [] 1" " atl small s Sagittarius; all sh first magnitude; the fif tronomer who owned a taloso« pe; the sixth, the first saw Nept the sove fort {4 four riv "1 ve } at N +) 11d strive ] consieil A certain a Gers emarkable he third, an erranenan sea; the to a new star; the + 3A ite ft y before close 1 fY JQILS were large and velvet ffs + and eaten, | to a f thought, and Why 40 we call yh, don't somewhat | one of them these few ‘two’ you know?’ ¢ child, blushing at her « thus presuming to enlighten the oldest of the company. ‘'It is because they are the ‘two’ when we have '"» Thel inquire d, ‘ : ar ‘tot wn boldness in lots of ‘one.’ round of applause which greeted this re- mark almost took the little maid's breath. Hidden Names, (Ce mmanders of the Revolution.) 1. All will please put names on this list. 2. A righteous war nerved our soldiers to do their best 8. Look at my coat and see all this tar, Kindly let me have something to remove it. 4. Tell Eliza she will have to go to New York. 6. Are you able, Edward, column for the new paper? 6. Butler's dog ate so many eggs that he bad to be punished for a month No, 741. to write a Punania. Emblemn of Thanksgiving —the tur quoise. Got Aging rapidly A blunder-bus- the kiss. Hides his wealth- Painting the town red-—sunset. a hump on himself the hunchback. ~the two weeks old baby. when papa overhears the tanner Rey to the Puzzler. Acrostics: Chl rn. 3. Inverness Japan: 1, Jersey. the Giant's Cause , 8, 4. Av Niphon. A Literary P or? unny bank, 4) the lea, al ot (le The soar {But I love The wunst (But I kiss thee.) No. 781.—A Riddle: Cans No. 782. —IUustrated Rebus: handsome parogquets No. 788. Connected Diamonds: P Y A A L NSBYE 8 P A v 784, ~<Final Metagram leak, lean, leap, lear, No. 786. A Cage of Birds: Partridge, sandptper, lapwing, magplo, wagtall, par rot, crow(n), (th)rush, sea gull, sparrow. ter--castor, A pair of A D R K A R N R E Tead, | 4 Na. leaf, eagerly inqt ulred a sweet faced | per make and t ake the p> wdered dry. Dates in exactly the same other coanut, mol and when Ios To } 4 nets iv. LAER i ANAS FUG k Id cut into squs walnut candy, when the oréam is ready t« a small portion and j be two halves of a nut, roll in sugar and set on a platter to zs can be used y knead tween TORS | and fig way. Perfumed Rutter. long with other luxuries that ema- nate from the rich man’s table is per- fumed butter. First the butter is stamped in floral design and wrapped in cheese cloth. Next it is placed on a bed of ruses, carnations, violeta or whichever flower it represents on its stamped sur- face, arranged in a flat dish. Over these is placed a layer of flowers, so that the butter patties are imbedded in flowers They are then placed on ice, where they are allowed to remain for several hours. Fur Trimmed Hood. For tiny girls the silk fur hood is ex- ceedingly becoming. To make it bay sufficient and puffing, both of into bands of silk galine, which is nice full crown which gathered are HOOD POL LITTLW GIRL, passomenterie. The outer edge is also of nilk, covered with grebe or beaver fur or feather trimming. The whole has a buockram foundation, is lined with kilted silk and completed with some ribbon strings. If silk is beyond the means of my readers, lamb's wool, cash- mere or cloth may be substituted, of a material (known as ripple cloth, which bas a wavelike surface. What the fabric Is to be depends ou the coat. Says | and wool goods, are | Always cut the | lining first by the pattern (those offered | three-quarters of a yard of cream ben- | to insure a | | shuffling, evasive policy has passed all NTE, THURSDAY, JANUA RY 16, 1896, THREE BLIND MICE, eC Te 4) all ran aft i She ot oft Pin Dod yom exev ce Al & i! (aly with a carve i Pa fn In your like IRE THE GREENBACKS n Perpetual Danger, Says Secre. tary Carlisle. nt of ractical man stude ry I hat the monetary al vice iz legal tend by the gover r the law fundament m is the F BYEL« 1 the g ntitled unless it provides for the y { cancellation of the r United States notes. my opinion legislation in this di- | 1 at the earliest possible day is demanded by every sub- stantial interest in the country, and iw postponement upon any pretext of polit- ical expediency or upon the assumption in advance that no satisfactory result | can be acomplished would be, to say the least, a very grave mistake. There is no other single subject upon which there 80 little real conflict of | interest among our citizens. In fact, i concerns the material welfare of all the of the men who work for wages | legal imperatively is people and expend their earnings for the neoes- saries of life no less than the men who live by trade or on the profits of invest ed capital.—Hon. John G. Carlizgle, Nov. 19. Would Issue | pion in congress of free and independent t | lar,” { He belonged to the school of statesmen ! who disdained to consider the world’s | abroad to us?"’ JEMAY SIMPSON'S PLAN Certificates Against the Sil. ver In the Mountains, When tho sockless an of Kan hich part is stored room in which | gilver dollars | Looking at the be issu hills? iver certificates 11 on the silver in the ve the o a OKs, 1t YY condemning Sensible people whe noney want neither | ates based on silver ore nor on pig | Either would mean a great an nual loss through the wasteful employ nent of labor which ought to be en- gaged in producing useful articles A Dying Craze. The failure of ex-Oongressman Bland of Missouri to command an audience of more than one person in Savannah is | gignificant of the dying out of the free | gilver craze at the south. Mr. Bland has been for many years the most persistent and prominent cham- coinage of silver at a ratioof 16 to 1. He was the father of the ‘Bland dol- which the people refused to use, but permitted to accumulate by the hundreds of tons in the treasury vaults standard of value and asked, ‘“What is He asserted the omnipo- tence of congress in the matter of money | making, and insisted upon giving 100 | How to Start (he Flow, Appealing to the pickets of the sil verites in the south, the Louisville Post { Dem, ) tolls them that ‘if Texas will with Kentucky, Georgia Fennessee and Arkansas with Lou- in cue determined effort to end r wll this craze for a debased cur- nd so end it, we can turn with ntenances and welcome incom which will begin to flow ward us as soon as this im- and settled 311 P| i" with hands rency, open con ng capital, steadily portant question is settled, giohtly " No More Cowardice, the great parties, by straddling | ver issue, ‘have given encourage to delusions which have worked mischief,’ says the Pittsburg nicle - Telegraph (Rep.). *‘This toleration, and any party that fails here- after to meet the financial issues fairly and squarely will suffer fo its coward- ice,’ Nine Cont Cotton Medicine, Nine cent cotton and a little clear thinking have so far cured the free sil- ver craze at the south that but ote fioket was sold to a lecture on '‘ Free Silyer'’ by ex-Congres an Bland, adv in Bavonnah for st night. As a’ conversation wv not what Dick” "was out the enlled off. New . Wor | cents of value to 50 conts’ worth of &il- ver by a fiat of that body. Last year the voters of Missouri cluded that they had bad enough of Bland and his vagary, and th at home. Now he takes % tho lecture | field and in a southern city of 60,000 | inhabitants, in a state to which Mr. | Crisp has made an appeal for tho sena- torship on the same issue, Mr. Bland’s agent sells one ticket to a lecture. The defeat of Hardin in Kegtucky and of free silver candidates in Illinois and Nebraska are indications of the samo nature. ~New ¥ ork Warla. May Require Herols Treatment, Whatever is attempted should be en- left him | tered upon fully appreciating the fact that by careless, easy descent we have reached a dangerous depth, and that our ascent will not be accomplished without laborious toil and struggle. We shall be wise if we realize that we are financially ill, and that onr restora- tion to health may require heroic treat. ment and unpleasant remedies, —From President Cleveland’ “ Message. Even Up. When we make 50 cents worth of sil. | ver a dollar fer the benefit of the gold. | bugs who own al of the silver bullion, | let us even matters up | a little for the Safire and make 30 pounds a bushel | of Shoat and 8 ounces a _potind of wool. | —Ciettysburg (8°D.) Courier. 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