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of the additional comfort they bring,
but because of a desire on the part
of the dwellers of the house to ex
press through them an appreciation
of the beautiful. In order that our
pictures may do thlB we must know
something about the great pictures
of the world, for upon reproduction!
of these must we depend, if good
taste Is the rule in the selection of
our pictures. None of us, prabably
can hope to own an original master
piece, but all of us secure beautiful,
inexpensive photographs and prints
of the best pictures that are to be
found anywhere.
Pictures should always be chosen
with reference to the place they are
to occupy. Children like pictures of
animals, flowers, scenes which repre
sent life and action, and their de
sires should be considered In the
selection of our pictures. Those used
In the decoration of the dining-room
should be such as will arouse only
agreeable thoughts. Good photo
graphs ef our immediate family and
near friends are the greatest satis
faction to us personally, but I have
often felt that we sometimes use
pictures of our dear ones too largely,
especially In the rooms where we
receive only casual friends or strang
ers. Have we a right to use In orna
mentation of a room through which
we hope to give pleasure to the out
side world, pictures that are of in
Inrn.l nnl. i_ ---.
A good portrait la always a satis
faction. and If a casual friend Is not
Interested In the subject he may
often admire the workmanship, but
there Is frequently nothing to ad
mire In the cheap, crayon portrait
set off In a cheap ornate frame, that
the good housewife has been led Into
buying from the agent who goes the
rounds of a neighborhood preying
upon the sentiment of his patrons
that he may reap a full profit.
A teacher In a prominent college
once told me that the most trying
work of her profession was In the
effort to persuade the young girls
who came to college that to make a
crayon portrait of a member of her
family was not studying art or learn
ing art. A portrait hastily done by
an Immature school girl Is not likely
to be a worthy piece of work. "Art
Is long.” The great masters In art
have supplied us with great pictures.
I/«t us then acquaint ourselves with
them and use them In benutlfying
our surroundings.
Claud/ Picture Frames and I'aeless
Ornaments.
« V/IU nuuui muiUMK pic
tures. I might be persuaded to for
give tbo agent who sold the poorly
made crayon portrait If he had put
the picture Into a tasteful frame, but
that highly colored over-wrought,
gaudy frame has destroyed all that
we might be led to ndmlre In the
picture. When the frame attracts
more attention than the picture It
self the object of the frame Is lost.
Pictures are framed, tlrst, to protect
them, secoud, to make them dur
able, and, third, to bring out the
good points In the picture. Frames
without ornamentntlon, or nearly so,
used with a mat that tones In with
the predominating color In the pic
ture. enhance the good points of the
picture, and this In a frame 1b what
we nre striving for.
The law of harmony and appro
priateness In furnishing our homes
would doubtless remove many things
—the lace lambrequins and tidies
that do not decorate and do not pro
tect, the glided spoon tied with a
ribbon and hung In the parlor, the
glided toaster decorated with ribbon
and used ns a picture holder, the use
less bric-a-brac on the sitting-room
mantle that must be dusted every
day, and the meaningless pictures,
the cheap, over-wrought chairs and
tables. In their places we Bhould
have a comfortable chair, a table
NEW BEAUTY THAT OUR LANDSCAPES
MIGHT HA VE.
°* the Sruih can noi do better ihan io jo** hands,
. r r , uheT?'Jn ° crusodef°r more beautiful homes, more
JT U[Auh°° h°U3*S °nd *rcUT'ds’ more beautiful towns and
A /** „Ar*VV vt,lo^es darting, let them begin in time
to lay off brood streets and parks, and let young trees be set
out, even on avenues where no one may live for twenty years
° f°me; and on our farms, of course, there is no excuse for
not having all the glory flat iree, shrub, vine, flower and
grasses can bring to a duelling place. And here there comes
to my minei a picture cf the beoutifui roods in Frflnce# Hned
,!fl tall Lombardy poplars waving in the bre* ze, and especi
ally the memory of an humble village out of which for a mile
runs one long magnificent avenue of such trees—an avenue
which strikes the traveler as beirg little less than a master
piece of art, giving a glory and distinction to the town such
as once seen can never be forgotten. And yet almost any
Southern village-any farm roadside for that matter—might
have such a vision of beauty within a comparatively shor>
lime if the proper trees were planted now.—“A Southerner in
; Europe
that will hold things, a good lamp,
one or two beautiful pictures, and
thus add simplicity and comfort to
the house.
NEAT WAYS OF SAVING MEAT.
Sausage Is nicely kept in glass jarg.
It may be tightly packed in the jars
In a raw slate, and melted lard pour
ed over the top to the depth of half
an Inch, or made into “cakes" and
fried, then packed In the Jars, and the
gravy, with lard added, if needed, to
cover the sauBage, after the jar has
been filled. Heat as needed to use.
instead of “salting down” the beef
which farmers often butcher for
home use in the fall of the year, we
have found a much better way—one
w hich makes so much delicious soup,
which Is all deuted us in the old way
of salting heavily or covering with
brine. Cook the beef until tender,
Balt it, remove ail bones and cut in
pieces of as large size as will go In
the mouth of a glass jar. Pack well
and fill space with broth in which
beef was cooked. This for the "fore
quarter" and flanks of "hind-quar
ter." The best way to get the sweet
ness of the hind-quarter of the beet,
If not butchered until cold weather
has set in steadily, Is to hang up the
hams In a convenient place in the
meat house, without any salt, and
place a bag over it, and keep it well
tied. We suspend ours from wire,
n-liinh nui l;ou If Ltau on a v nruv f a
rats; then tie bag securely around the
wire each time after cutting beef.
We use a meal saw, and cut through
the bone euch time we cut the beef,
leaving no bone exposed. We have
kept beef thus for the aud tlx weeks,
and the last cooklug was better than
the first. Of course, It Is uol every
winter it can be kept this long, but
If the weather becomes doubtful we
can It the same aB the "fore-quar
ter," keeping out one large roast,
which will save a week In any winter
weather, if roasted thoroughly.
Another very fine way to save sau
sage Is to remove the "strlfien"
(membrane) from the kidney lard,
sew this Into u bag, regardless of the
shape, moisten the bag with warm
water to stretch It, and pack It full
of sausage, uud hang It up until need
ed. Sausage may be thus Baved until
spring, aud is delicious.
A better way to save "backbones
and ribs" than the old way of salting
heavily, or pluclng under brine, is to
hang them up, without salt aud keep
covered similar to the beef hams.
They are thus just as fresh last as
first, and none of their sweetness lost
by "soaking" to get the salt out, and
all the broth may be utilized In mak
ing meat pies, or cooking vegetables,
or If not needed for this the Juices
may all be cooked into the meat, mak
1
Ing the meat much sweeter than
when It must be taken from a pot of
water to prevent its being too salt.
MRS. J. C. DEATON.
THE CASH VALUE OF GOOD SOCI
ETY.
Has it ever occurred to our readers
that there is immense cash value in
good society In the country? Has It
ever occurred to them that there
may be as much as twenty dollars
difference in the value of the same
kind of land, due solely to the good
society. In town, if a man does not
like the society in his neighborhood,
he moves to another. If he wants to
circulate among the "four hundred,”
he can move to a fashionable street
where the "four hundred” congre
(Contlnued on page 762.)
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