The San Francisco call. [volume], July 27, 1913, Image 11

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THE IDEA FOR THIS NOVEL & PRACTICAL DESIGN WAS ORIGINATED BY "WINIFRED WORTH"
ODDS
AND
ENDS
FOR cleaning tinware try dry flour
applied with newsnaper.
TURNIPS are improved by adding
one or two tablespoonfuls of
sugar when coßking.
TO keep the water fresh and sweet
In vases of cut flowers add to
it a small bit of sugar.
A VEIL rolled each time it is taken
off will keep neat much longer
than when folded; gloves pulled
out and smoothed will wear twice as
long as if they were crushed and
tossed into a drawer.
IF a rug is placed on the dining
room floor or the floor is just
varnished the pushing back of
chairs will wear out the carpet or
scratch the floor. It is best to pur
chase rubber tips and have them
tacked to the chair legs. It will cost
about $1 to get enough tips for a
half-dozen chairs and the $1 will save
many dollars in wear on the floor or
rug.
"DRESSING" A
DINING ROOM
MRS. McCUNE
PLACING dress as the first and
most important medium to
charm the world individually
and collectively, I would say that the
fittings and furnishings of her house
afford a woman her second opportuni
ty. The responsibility for the archi
tecture of his home is usually accred
ited to the man, but on the woman
falls the onus of a successful or un
successful, an effective or an ineffec
tive interior.
Her house, we may say, stands as
a background against which she shows
to her world; if it is refined, if its
coloring is soft and harmonious and
if it is unworried by useless and su
perfluous decorations, she is corres
pondingly attractive to her friends.
Assuming that the woman is aware
of the fact, it often happens that she
Is uncertain what to do to attain this
result, though she may covet it. It
is my purpose in these articles on the
ethics of house furnishing to practic
ally demonstrate the simplest ways in
which it may be accomplished. The
idea which obtains with many that
money is the only necessary requisite
to a beautiful house is a fallacy. The
Our Magazine of Fashion
DESIGN for CORSET COVER
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WHEN beating up the whites of
eggs add a tiny pinch of salt
You will be surprised to find
how much better and faster they whip
up.
NOTHING is more useful as a fire
side log basket than one made
of willow. These are especial
ly attractive, inasmuch as they can
be stained to suit one's taste.
WITH rubber gloves, as with oth
ers, the right hand glove
usually wears out first, leav
ing the other practically whole. To
prolong their usefulness occasionally
turn the glove inside out, which trans
fers the right glove to the left hand
and makes them wear evenly.
WHEN" it is necessary to make
several cakes at once save
yourself the tiresome beating
of the butter by putting the required
ingredients in their usual order into
a small ice cream freezer. A few
minutes of turning the crank results
in a fine smooth batter necessary for
a successful cake.
woman who makes this excuse for an
unattractive home is utterly in the
wrong, and I hope through the me
dium of these talks to be able to make
it clear to her.
One of the first things that she
must realize is that there is as much
beauty in certain simple schemes of
furnishing and decorating as in the
most elaborate French style of roco
co art.
The real satisfaction to a critical
artistic sense is not so much in the
quality of the thing used as its pe
culiar fitness for the place assigned
it and its harmony in color and de
sign with its surroundings. In treat
ing of dining rooms there are certain
general rules to be observer in their
decoration that it would be well to
speak of before going into detailed
schemes.
In even the most unassuming house
the dignity of this room should be
preserved. At the same time, we
should be careful in designing an
elaborate and expensive one not to it
overawing in the magnificence of its
decorations or severe in its elegance,
for then psychologically the dining
roon\ is ruined. It should be so de
signed as to promote to the utter
most the feeling of geniality and good
cheer, and the decoration can actually
go far toward furthering this most
desirable result.
The colonial dining room is apt to
W EYELET Sf OUTLINE EMBROIPEMY
it hi > * f f m/ it
IHAVE always considered this one of the neatest of all patterns to em
broider upon underwear In the first place each design Is so small
> 'hat there need be no complex needlework Each leaf can be covered
*-i*ith the satin-stitch which even a child can learn to make, since it is an
over and over atitch. sometimes called a spool-winding, so smoothly are
the threads wound over and over a figure from tip to base Or. perhaps
you prefer eyelet That work is for professionals I prefer eyelets in
waists, but soltd embroidery is necessary in garments needing tbe week
ly laundry work
Note in my diagram how to cut scallops for curves. Do not trim your
scallops close to the edge, but between rows of scallops as you would
cut insertion Sincerely yours.
BUSINESS GIRLS
ANNETTE ANGERT
PROFESSIONAL women audi busi
ness men have clubs, societies,
little groups of friends, all tre
mendously interested in their work,
who came together to talk about it.
Women who write like to talk to oth
er literary people. A man smokes
with another man and closes new
deals or thinks up new ones.
A business girl has little time at
her own disposal. She can't hunt up
a congenial soul on the first sunny
afternoon, take a walk on the bluffs
by the lake, in the clear, crisp air,
have a good talk and come back re
freshed. She would love to, but she
can't afford it.
She has her personal friends, but
they are not often conversant with her
conditions and work. Nevertheless,
there are many times when she needs
discussion of ber work, a general
clearing up of her mind and inspira
tion.
Aren't there a good many times
when you are tired at night and no
one knows Just what is wrong? When
you would like to talk about your
troubles with some one who would
understand? Perhaps, then, the next
thing wouldn't be so hard.
I think that the "next step" in the
direction of some sort of co-opera
tion and helpfulness among business
women is in the printed word.
Business is opening more and more
widely to women. It is a strenuous
life for even the girl who taken it
lightly. Perhaps you come from the
country, where there was no chance
to do the things you wanted to do;
or maybe you are a city girl, with a
pleasant home, or a room in a board
ing house. Your business problems
are practically the same, but your
background is different.
Sometimes we are so busy in busi
ness that we forget to remember the
warm, sunlit hill that wound up the
road between the trees, or the smell
of the bread as your mother took it
out of *the oven, or the blaze of a
cheerful wood Are on a winter night.
The dear, homely things are what we
forget and it is the memory of them
that we need most when we work all
day for our living.
Perhaps, if you will help, we can
remember together, and work out
some of the little problems that per
plex us as business women.
be cold In Its suggestion, and I have
often corrected this fault by a dis
oreet use of potted plants, inside
window boxes, etc. The Dutch dining
room sometimes degenerates into a
oromidal use of steins and platters,
and I have seen a French room that
was wearisome in its tapestries, gild
ings and rococo effects. The correc
tive for all these failings, it goes with
out saying, is good taste.
Figured goods are seldom as effec
tive for window draperies as plain
material, and a chintz dining room Is
an offense against good taste.
WILD ELOWERS
EDNA EGAN
NOW is the time for lovers of the
shy wild flowers to invade the
haunts of Nature and bear away
the lively blossoms to make a wild
garden. You can successfully trans
plant wild flowers If the proper soil
awaits them. They must also be prop
erly shaded, for these children of the
woodland depths do not thrive in the
brilliant sunlight.
The perfect location for a wild gar
den is a sunny nook bordering a
grove of trees, so that the garden will
accommodate the flowers that require
sunshine as well as those which thrive
in the shade.
To prepare the soli for a wild gar
den, dig out the earth to a depth of
one foot and spread over the bottom
a layer of broken shells and ashes or
of clay to a depth of three Inches.
Over this place good soil and leaves
and fill up the remaining space with
rich leaf mold from the woods or
florists'.
Should the soil be naturally heavy
and rich, add several inches of leaf
mold and allow stones to abound.
The flower garden should be raised
two inches above the surrounding soil.
When the season for cleaning up ar
rives, never remove the dead leaves.
In the wild garden can be used
such beautiful plants as bloodroot,
hepatlca, violet, spring beauty, jack
in-the-pulpit, false Solomon's seal, co
lumbine, honeysuckle, laurel, anemone,
flags, rhododendron, queen's lace and
other varieties.
Columbines belong to the wild gar
den rather than to the cultivated bor
ders, where they are sometimes used.
The yellowish red bells produce a
beautiful effect when massed in one
spot.
One of the loveliest of the wild
plants Is the brilliant orange milk
weed. This will grow and flower
magnificently In rather dry, sterile
soil, exposed to the sun. The large
yellow primroses also thrive In al
most any soil.
Soma nurserymen sell packages of
wild flower seeds which, can be scat
tered in the wild garden, but after
ward some of the seedlings will have
to be transplanted.
Jack-in-the-pulpit will thrive in dry
or damp soil where it is shady. Visit
the woods as soon as the weather per
mits and dig up the plants before
they are very high above the soil. In
fact, all the wild plants should be
transferred to your garden while they
are yet young. If you follow this
suggestion, the plants will blossom in
your garden the first year.
The shrubs, such as laurel, honey
suckle and rhododendron, should be
transplanted to the wild garden in
the fall if you do not wish to retard
their growth. All summer long you
can have a wealth of bloom in the
wild garden if you arrange it prop-
THE STAY
AT-HOME
LUCILLE DAUDET
IT doesn't make the smallest differ
ence whether the woman who
stays at home all summer does
It as a matter of choice or from
reasons of economy she is going to
take it out on her sister who spent
the season out of town if it bespeaks
her last breath.
It is, therefore, with a mocking and
incredulous smile that she listens to
the rhapsodies of her who has accum
ulated a sufficient coat of tan to
prove to the wayfarer that she has
not languished in town all summer.
"Really, I have never met such
charming people in all my life," cries
the enthusiast. "So cultivated, so lit
erary! They didn't talk personalities
as we do here at home. They talked
ideas, and such ideas, my dear! Real
ly, I am sorry you should have missed
the opportunity of meeting them and
getting outside of the narrow home
rut."
"The Whoopems were there, I hear,"
remarks her listener with a little in
dulgent smile curling the corners of
her Hps.
"Well, yes," admits the other re
luctantly.
"I am told they literally ran every
thing,"' pursues her tormentor, "and
that their party was large and so ex
cessively jolly that they took posses
sion of the whole place, except the
swept corners in which a few old
tabbies gathered* to pursue fancy
work and discuss the latest novels. I
suppose, of course, you saw very lit
tle of the Whoopems, as they are
proverbially Philistine, and you con
fess to having had a literary sum
mer."
It takes but a pin prick to collapse
the gayest balloon.
"I've bad the liveliest sort of sea
son," says another to the friend of
her bosom; "one charming entertain
ment after another until I am quite
exhausted."
"You must be. I heard the girls
had to tie handkerchiefs around their
arms at the cotillons because there
were not enough men to go round,"
is the sweetly sympathetic reply, fol
lowed by a vivid account of the at
tractions of one's own home as a
summer resort.
Stunned, bewildered, the poor crea
ture whb has made it her duty to
bear with the discomforts of her out
ing and conscientiously enjoy every
moment of it, falls into the pit digged
by the friend of her bosom. Her gay
ety vanishes, her feathers become limp
and draggled, her pallor asserts Itself,
even under the veneer of tan, and
subserviently she sinks into second
place beside the conqueror, who has
not gone abroad to find new worlds,
but has been content to stay at home
and keep a keen eye on her own and
others.
A FETCHING MOTIF