The Lafayette advertiser. [volume], April 04, 1896, Morning, Image 7

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WOMAN AND HOME.
HANGING FERNERY.
A esautiful Thing for Deoratung a Win
dow or a House.
The hanging fernery is a very pretty
and rather curious horticultural nov
elty. The idea was conceived by a Cal
ifornia woman, and her idea proved
such a happy one that she has reaped
quite a financial harvest selling them.
Only a few have found their way to the
east, however, brought back by tour
ists. The foundation of the hanging
fernery is a terra-cotta pot as nearly
Round as can be secured. Over this is
SHOWI\G TliT MOSS AND NET.
planced a mat ,f moss, ferns and roots.
This is held around the pot with a wire
net, to which is also fastened a wire by
which to hang the moss.
The hanging ferneries can be made
any size or shape required, and of all
the smaller valri-ties of ferns, such as
maidenhair. (.ice started they are per
manent if nvetr allowed to become dry.
These fernerie have remained green
through summer and winter, putting
out young fronds all the time, it being
only necessary to remove the old ones
nOW THE WATER IS SUPPLIED.
as they fade. For table decorations
they are lovely and can be suspended
from chandeliers or from stands made
to support them, only, if gas is used,
they should be removed immediately
after meals to a more congenial atmos
phere. The water seeping through the
porous vessel drops slowly from time
to time; hence it is necessary to keep
growing plants or some vessel under
nesth to receive the water, or the fern
ball can be emptied before placing over
the table and filled again as soon as the
* e4l is oven and placed where the
dropping will do no damage. In green
houses, windows and for almost any
house or veranda decoration they are
very beautiful, and the small amount
of care and attention they require is a
great advantage.
cARRIG FOR GLOVES.
Te Keep Them Ia oat mdUsm Fellow
the Direeti Given.
Always stretch loves ut smooth
and put in a bo witho doubling
when removed fro the han d",ý
iddition to the glove box is a scented
sachet, giving the gloves a delicate
odor when worn.
An error that is commonly made is
that of mending kid gloves with sew
lag silk, as the silk cuts the kid and
sh1ws the mend more plainly, while
dAe cotton thread given a much more
satisfactory result. If the gloves are
torn, put a piece of silk of correspond
nag shade under the torn part, baste
carefully so as not to reveal the stitches
on the right side and then draw up the
sent with cotton thread.
A few good glove cleaners are ree
ommended, but it is generally better to
send gloves to ona whsT makes this his
business than to exper;ment on them,
for, like the mending, it is a trade in
Itself. But, whenever you do, take
warning t t aL°!i * a sice pair of
daiving gi w ne had, and never
try to polish them upwiIit Fench shoe
dapssing. The way I caesn about, we
sead in one of the '~p that an apph
eation of thil liquid would renew the
youth -hnd beauty of old and badly
soiled kid glo and deeming newspa
lore AF ilied tlgon, we pot it
~ato e l at~ sl ti'remalt was a
reelation. To be sure, there were no
soiled spots remaining visible, but the
shine on those gloves made them posi
th"t..tt jU.. 'way sg ath d
bord ' .Is.4.4 d snd'rl4houghts
to agricultural fairs and molasses
sandy. n conclusolun, we have only to
my: Mend, patch, clean or wash your
gloves, ft neaer try French shoe
dressing. It doesn't work.-fit. Louis
Bepublio ,.
DaP ies at Plae Plaing.
A Fre.h scientist of note maintains
that a I n bar of the nervous
maladies I
t .ibuted to he Pl to
slows b j aof 1^00
stagy th r lstruent ore the agt
3a, no 4 than 1a m r from netsa
l " 4 t. 0bdato t
in, int o te prOC eeds only
tboo s a bsoI.o th
teat .a!"rned
As rmouedy sants
y el erInstrsiei t before the age
$ob 4 a es isessi !a whe .
headca. ·1
INEXPENSIVE COUCH.
8omethlng Dainty sad Vetaul to n_14
One's Best Gowns.
A dainty woman who has a passion
for the elusive odor of heliotrope has
evolved for herself an idea whereby she
can impregnate her belongings at light
expense and very satisfactorily. Prom
two clean packing boxes she has made
two boxes of another shape.
One was six feet long by 18 inches
cr so deep, and about 36 inches wide.
Another was made just as long and
just as wide, but not quite so deep.
Both boxes were made quite strong,
and one, the deepest, had short, strong
legs finished with casters. This deep
est box was lined neatly with wrap
ping paper, and over this a lining of
pale blue silesia was tacked. For the
bottom of this box three large sachets
were made which formed a soft bottom,
and this wal thoroughly scented with
her favorite odor.
The second or shallow box had its
bottom also covered with a large sachet
or padded lining, and the top was up,
holstered with springs and filling.
Then the two boxes were joined to
gether, one above the other, by three
stout hinges. A piece of tapestry cloth
was plaited around the edge of the
lowqr box, and tacked with gimps fall.
ing in a rich valence to the floor.
The upper box was covered smoothly
over the upholstering, and the edge
that touched the lower one was also
finished with gimp. Several attractive
pillows completed the outside arrange
ment, and a very artistic couch was
the resul.. A bunch of tassels at either
outside corner served to lift the up
holstered top, revealing a receptacle
for gowns and wraps where they could
rest in scented seclusion with immunity
from creases or crashes, as the box
was fashioned with sufficiept length
to admit of their being laid fn without
a fold. Any carpenter could make the
boxes, and the upholstering will cost
but a little, the tapestry being most ex
pensive, but any other material pre
ferred could be substituted, thus bring
ing the cost even lower.
SWEET PEA DESIGN.
Cup and Saucer Done Ia Violet and Gold
Are Very Pretty.
The accompanying design of sweet
peas for a cup and saucer is charming
if done in violet and gold. After sketch
ing the design in india ink, fill in the
surface first with a pale tinting of vio
let and gold, not in an even grounding
tint, but showing faintly the brush
marks and letting it shade from a deep
tone to a paler. When this is finished
dry it in a hot oven until perfectly
hard, so you can work over it. Then
with violet of gold moistened slightly
with turpentine wash in the sweet pea
petals, adding a bit of black with the
violet to make a grayish violet for the
conventionalized stems and .the leaf.
like figure that finishes the edge. After
you have done as much work on it as
possible without smudging, send it to
be fired. When it returns you can
work over it further, adding a touch
of deeper shadow wher it is not in
tense enough. Then me your gold,
carefully outlining the sweet peas, the
stems and the border, with a touch
here and there whenever you think a
bit of gilding will improve it. Gild the
handle and edges, only be careful in
using gold that it does not come in con
tact with unfired color, else it will turn
black and unsightly.-Amcrican Agri,
culturist.
WINTER FURBELOWS.
The Frou-Frou collar as worn by
ElMen Terry is very dainty in appear,
ance and finishes up a costume beauti,
fully.
The Trilby frill.earks anew em in
neckwear. It bringi up tiehigh col
lar, the stiff ruche and the tailor-made
necklet.
An evening ficha, fashioned in Eliza
bethan style, in lavender asd white, il
one of the new additions }o the ball.
room toilet. .
Beaded and sequin nets -e dnding
favor for wa(st trimmings. bhey give
a brightness to a costume wlch is well
worth striving for.
The following antiue al modern
laees are iP vgrue: Tambo r, Florn
trne, Japanese point, Point Alencon.,
guipures and Valeneiennes.
Now ft Dike a
In giving litt di rll cro- 1
quettas miaked k exceile etree. To
prepare them take one pou of crab
meat, gently press out the juie and put
it in a bowl with a tables1 onful of I
fsne crumbs, half a teaspoonl of salt, l
half ssltspeanful of pe ~ dash of
. yteWyg y espence, the yo as wp eggq
and a very little cold wate. If the -
eggs are enough to makeit e proper
consistency bind tie . atp to
Ssand a'i "nted
a dip
dip
is hays' dturtion. ut d
f . to iay It, as ..
of the smart et hat c
.people shapld. ever I
to t er. there .,foe
I ttancee. three UU25tbj li r
socle y,or a mother has two f
daugnters, the three a di " ita
fosres in some way, belt they m not d
descnd upon a tricAd's drairiaA
FEELING IN A DEAD FINGER.
S ngalar Sensations Experienced by a Man
with a Withered Digit.
Several years ago "D. W. W.." a well
known citizen of Oskaloo.a, Ia., was so
unfortunate as to have the little finger
of his left harI badly mashed in the
r cogs of a corn sheller. Dli. Iloffman,
the leading surgeon of the little city,
was called to attend the injured man
and forthwith amputated the finger at
the knuckle joint. The severed member
was then carefully preserved in alco
hol and when the injured man had so
far recovered from the hurt as to be
able to view what had fornmerly been a
portion of his framework, the surgeon
presented him with the ghastly relic.
The accident occurred in warm weath
er, but as autumn approached "D. W.
W." often complained of a chilly sen
sation in the stump of his finger. As
winter gradually came on this sensa
tion of cold became so unbearable that
life was fast becoming a burden to the
Nictia! of the cogwheel accident.
Everybody in the neighborhood knew
of the peculiar case and many com
ments were the result. Finally it was
hinted that probably the bottled finger
had been buried and that the cold had
penetrated to its resting place, a sus
picion which an investigation proved
to be correct.
About this tine (the weather having
turned tiry cohld) the injured man
claimed that thelI dead and buried finger
aplpeared to be in place as naturally as
it was before the corn-s.hnller minishap.
but, that it had thes -ensations of beintu
frozen from the knuckle to the end (d
the nail: and furthermr,re- that there
ap1pearedl to be something under the
nail. Thims a-;s too rulch for tile supller
s-titious people of the neighborhood.
They hield a council of war and, with
the cut-off-fingered man as leader, re
paired to the spot where he had shallow
ly buried the amputated nienmber in
Slthe mold of an old cornfield. The work
of ditinternment was begun and in a fewx
morients the bottled finger was dis
cotcred surrounded iby a semi-frozen
stratum of what lproved( to be badly
adulteraterated alcohol. On the sugges
tion of one of the "ghouls" the bottled
finger was carefully wrapped and
placed in a warm place as soon as the
investigating party reached home. The
most curious part of the story remains
to be told: As soon as the liquid in the
bottle became thoroughly warm the
chilling and freezing sensation which
had troubled the injured man for weeks
entirely disappeared and did not again
return as long as the amputated finger
was kept in a warm place. However,
the sensation of some foreign sub
stance under the nail continued until
it was found upon investigation that
a thread had been tightly tied in the
exact locality where the paiti appeared
to be, the object being to hold the
"specimen" upright in the bottle. As
soon as the thread was cut the pain
disappeared, just as the chilling and
freezing sensation had done after the
disinterred bottle bad been thoroughly
warmed up.-St. Louis Republic.
HOTELS AND INSOMNIA.
A Palace Loses Its Attractions If Sleep Is
Impossible.
The beauty of the new hotels erect
ed daily at health resorts, seaside
1laces, and on the Riviera cannot be de
nied. The windows are light and airy,
the ceilings high, the reception room
superb, the appointments or bedrooms
and bathrooms luxurious and costly.
I No reasonable expense is spared, and
yet these splendid, palatial abodes are
under a sounding board or being com
fort lovers for the more homely and
dowdy hostelries. The reason of this
is not far to seek. Most of these hotels
are intolerably noisy. They are run up
lightly, the walls are thin, the roofs are
neither fire nor sound proof, so that
to dwell in them is rather like living
under a sounding board, or being com
pressed into a box with voices all
around you. The new spring locks
of the doors sound like miniature can
nons going off, ther3 is the inevitable
man overhead who goes to bed late
after a cheerful bout of boot-throw.
ing and dragging of portmanteaus
while he whistles loudly or talks in a
high baritone to his friend next door.
Then beside you is the early riser,
who takes a walk before breakfast,
and is preparing for a pedestrian o"
bicycling tour. The waiter whispers
in hoarse tones to the chambermaid
outside, while she pertly rattles cant
and baths as a flirtation accompani
ment in response. To the weary in
valid in search of rest and sleep these
things are unspeakably annoying.
What is a palace in which you cannot
close your eyes in comparison to tht
humble cot where gentle slumber
eourts the weary eyelids? Insomnia i.i
the growing malady of the age.
Thomas Carlyle began the agonized
moan of rebellious nature, and it ha.,
gone on ever since. Sleep is the one
boon, the one comforter, for which
wet of these latter days crave, and
when we go faint and weary to the
seashore or to the glowing southern
land of oranges it is pertinaciously de
nied us.-London News.
Flogged the Wrong Ma..
The law officials of England some
times make mistakes, but we do not
know that flogging has ever been ad
ministered to the wrong man. But
this is what has ;ust happened in Bong
Kong. One of the prisonersin the Eng
lish jail there had been sentenced
to receive 19 lashes for miscon
duct, and in'some way the wrong num
ber was set down on the flogging sheet.
On the day fixed a coolie who was in
j1il for gambling was led out to the
"*ooden horse," lied up. and given the
dose before he could get out a remon
strance. Thewstarer subsequently dis
covered the mistake and communicated
it to the governor. His excellency im
mediately signed an order for the man's
release, and the warder gave the suf
ferer ten dollars as compensation out
of his own pocket. Freedom and ten
dollars, however. were not overliberal
compensation for 18 cutting strokes on1
the back.-Westminster Gnazette.
FATTENINGO HOO COSTS ONE CERT.
The editor recently heard of a farmer
fattening hogs at less than one cent a
pound. This was made possible through
the sowing of Salzer's King Barley,
yielding over 100 bu. per acre, Golden
Triumph Corn, yielding 200 bu. per
acre, and the feeding on Sand Vetch,
Teosinte, Hundredfold Pens, etc. Now,
with such yields, the growing of hogs is
more profitable than a silver mine.
Salzer's catalogue is full of rare
things for the farmer, gardener and cit
izen, and the editor believes that it
would pay everybody a hundred-fold to
get Salzer's catalogue before purchas
ing seeds.
IF YOU WILL CtT THIS OUT AND SEND it
with 10 cents postage to the John A.
Salzer Seed Co.. La Crosse, Wis., they
will mail you their mammoth seed cata
logue and 10 samples of grasses and
grains, including above corn and bar
ley. Cataloguealone, 5cpostage. (K)
"How NIcE to get such a hearty encore!"
The said, as the half-back was called back
after an SO-yard run.-Harvard Lampoon.
How's This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that can not be
cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEEY & Co., Props., Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known F. J.
Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations mado by their firm..
WEsT & TIRAX, Wholesale Druggists, To
ledo, O.
WALuINtO, KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the systeum. Price 7he'. per bot
tle. Sold by all Druggists. Testitfonials
free.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
"BLYKINS has his own way In his house."
"Yes. llit his wife alwa. s tells him what
it is going to be bcfrchaiAd. -Washington
Star.
very Awkward Indeed.
This is lprec'isely the kind of mistake a
man makes if he 'turns out" on the wrong
side of the i oad when a vehlcle comes to
ward him. No less absurd is the error of
the individual who takes drastic medicines
to relieve his liver. That organ is on the
right side, and the road to its relief is Hos
tetter's Stomach Bitters, a medicine also
adapted to the relief of dyspepsia, constipa
tion, kidney and rheumatic ailments and
malaria.
REVOLt-iONS are not made, they come. A
revolution is as natural a growth as an oak.
It comes out of the past. Its foundations
are laid far back.--Wendell Phillips.
The Modern Way
Commends itself to the well-informed, to
do pleasantly and effectually what was
formerly done in the crudest manner and
disagreeably as well. To cleanse the sys
tem and break up colds, headaches, and fe
vers without unpleasant after effects, use
the delightful liquid laxative remedy, Syrup
of Figs. Manufactured by California Fig
Syrup Company.
"Ix Italy," he was telling her, "they make
flour out of chestnuts.' "Do they I" she
answered, sweetly; "what a bonanza you
would be to them."-Detroit Free Press.
FITs stopped free by Dr. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer. No fits afterfirstday's use.
Marvelous cures. Treatise and $2 trial bot
lie free. Dr. Kline, 931 Arch St., Phila., Pa.
HE-"Charlotte, I love you: can you not
return my affection? " She--"'m afraid I'll
have to, as I have no use for it."
RALS's Honey of Horehound and Tar re
lieves whooping cough.
Pike's Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
HE that resolves upon any great and good
end has by that very resolution scaled the
chief barrier to it--Tryon Edwards.
Ratt1esnakes, Butterflies,
and....?
Washington Irving said, he supposed a certain hill was called
"Rattlesnake Hill" because it abounded in- butteries. The
"rule of contrary" governs other names. Some bottles are, sup
posedly, labeled " Sarsaparilla " because they are full of . .. well,
we don't know what they are full of, but we know it's not sarsapa
rilla; except, perhaps, enough for a flavor. There's only one
make of sarsaparilla that can be relied on to be all it claims. It's
Ayer's. It has no secret to keep. Its formula is open to all
physicians. This formula was examined by the Medical Com
mittee at the World's Fair with tl. result that while every other
make of sarsaparilla was excluded from the Fair, Ayer's Sarsapa
rilla was admitted and honored by awards. It was admitted be
cause it was the best sarsaparilla. It received the medal as the
best. No other sarsaparilla has been so tested or so honored.
Good motto for the family as well as the Fair: Admit the best,
exclude the rest.
Any doubt about It? Send for the " Crebook."
It kills derbasad crss doubters.
Address: J. C. Ayer Co., Idwell, Mass.
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Othcrs
There is no soap in the
world that stands so high
in the opinion of thought
fnl women as
CL.AIRETTE
SOAP.
washing clothes or doing housework, it can't be
equalled. Try it. Sold everywhere. Made only by
r The N. K. Faklbatk Company, - St. Louis.
I iism vuaa~aAs u I WSIo
teeevlae..e. till or 1·e and vigor. That'e the
*dSAt ttio!Will eacylmo the nest doEobttL
eohei Wholeeasi. Hater laoke, gardenet. Sand
soda 35*55 at a esew wataermelon eenCo.
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"Your ATTL x orour ife"
" Must have i" I
PLUG
The largest piece of good
tobacco ever sold for 0 cents
and
The 5 cent piece is nearlu as
large as you get of other
hih grades for io cents
A Perfect Food
That is what Baron von Liebig said;
of good chocolate. All of Walter
Baker & Co.'s Cocoas and Choco
lates are good,--the best, in fact.
Walter Baker & Co., Ltd., Dorchester, Mas,.
The Greatest Medical Discovery
of the Age.
KENNEDY'S
MEDICAL DISCOVERY.
DONALD KENNEDY, of ROXBURY, ASS..,
Has discovered in one of our commom
pasture weeds a remedy that cures every
kind of Humor, from the worst Scrofula'
down to a common Pimple.
He has tried it in over eleven hundred
cases, and never failed except in two cases
(both thunder humor.) He has now in his
possession over two hundred certificates
of its value, all within twenty miles of.
Boston. Send postal card for book.
A benefit is always experienced from the
first bottle, and a perfect cure is warranted
when the right quantity is taken.
When the lungs are affected it causes
shooting pains, like needles passing
through them; the same with the Liver or
Bowels. This is caused by the ducts be
ing stopped, and always disappears in a
week after taking it. Read the label.
If the stomach is foul or bilious it will
cause squeamish feelings at first.
No change of diet ever necessary. Eat
the best you can get, and enough of it.
Dose, one tablespoonful in water at bd
time. Sold by all Druggists.
BH CaRUL.p
When buynlag a Cookling Stove or Range
roget one with an established repu
tation. The test oftime
ha stamped the
$,. : y C$R1TrR OAR.
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