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1 I fI lYf i THE SALT LAKE HERALD SUNDAY APRIL 2 1893 TTVENTT PAGES 13 tl 7 I lie SpSS i tii MRS CLEVELAND YORK How the First Lady of the Land Does Good to the Poor rretty Ways and Plenty ot Tactthe Char 4 ncterlstics or Mrs Clevelands Undertakings Her Charities Correspondence ot THE HERALD NEW YORK March 28In no country in the world has the first lady of the knd identified herself with more beautiful charities than has the first of cbaritie frst lady our own United States I Madame Carnot does a world of good by interesting herself privately in poor people who come to her notice Mrs Gladstone has a multitude of charitable multtude charitbie occupations Queen Victoria and the Princess of Wales do a great deal of good in their stately way The Empress of Germany is well known for her loveliness to the I ing shall be given away untrimmed or 1 unmade for she wissly reasons that poor women have neither time nor taste to make up neatly and well the articles of clothing even i they had the necessary I material for doing so MRS CLEVELANDS OWN VISIT To go up to one of her free kindergartens and see Mrs Cleveland busy among her poor little waifs is a sight well worth the hour which it takes to reach a locality where a school is located But unfortunately Mrs Cleveland objects to publicity and notoriety and when she is at work the door is barred to visitors The work is really nothing she sweetly said one day to a poor scribbler I who besought her permission to bring a camera to the school and 1 would not like to pose as doing a great deal when I am only amusing myself with the chil dren 1 you were to take my picture here it migut lay me open to criticism mid you would not like that Would you I I MIMIC PIANO PLAYING One of the pretty things which Mrs thing lrs Cleveland does one which shows her I thoughtful is to invariably wear rich clothing when she visits her kindergartens The poor she reasons love to look upou heavy velvets and glossy I satins just as more fortunate people love to look at fine painting I is a real treat to them to see good clothes and for that tI 1tr 1 1 MRS CLEVELANDS VISIT poor mothers of her kingdom and the I Empress Frederick abounds in good i works But Mrs Cleveland has chosen a line of char which is second to none in its far reaching blessings Moreover Mrs Clevelands beneficences are oi the sort which appeal to all young and old They are peculiarly sweet and interesting No matter how pressing may be the social demands upon her time nor how urgent may be the occasion for the wife of the president to he present there is always an hour to spare for her poorHER I HER BABY SCHOOLS IN THE SLUMS The most prominent of all Mrs Cleve lands charities and the one in which she is mostly deeply interested is the scheme of founding free kindergartens through cut the poorer parts of New York for the purpose of teaching poor and neglected children how to live The idea originated with Mrs Cleveland four years ago before ever Baby Ruth came into her life I has grown and blossomed until now there is no more permanent and healthy organization in i New York than the Kindergarten association I of which Mrs Cleveland is I vicepresident and Richard Watson i Gilder the editor of the Century Jajricinc i is president I The first kindergarten opened by the I association was up on First avenue in one of the most wretched quarters of the city and here a little corns of teachers went to work under Sirs Clevelands guidance to show the miserable little ones who gathered round them daily the first steps toward becoming good men and women Teach the children that thereareother words just as good a swear words was Mrs Clevelands first direction to her teacher and then show them the beautiful things which God has put into the world for them just a much as for others So working patiently day by day ragged little creatures ware taught bits of plant life the colors of the ralubow the names of the stars the motions oi the earth and a whole host of very practical things When Mrs Cleveland saw the work succeeding she urged tue association to I start more kindergartens aud now there I are nearly a dozen of these free 1 by schools in the slums of the city 1 Jd money has been provided for the establishment of eight more this spring and probably ten additional ones in the fall HER LAKEWOOD ENTERTAINMENTS NET 2500 During the entire winter at Lakewood Iv in spit oi the duties of the nursery and the throngs of people that flocked the home of tee presidentelect Mrs Cleveland has conducted a very attractive series of entertainments the funds from which will all go to kindergarten work Fully 2500 has been realized this winter alone CHRISTMAS TREES HUNG WITH LOVE APPLES Every winter at Christmas time Mrs Cleveland herself goes personally to her kindergarten schools and inquires into the needs ofethe children Do you not think that a Christmas 1 tree all hung with little red apples would be a very pretty sight she asked last Christmas of one of the teachers and then 4Jo you not think we might place fifty pairs of little shoes around the base of the tree so a give each child something practical as ela pretty I will kj send you 400 rosy cheeked loveapples tomorrow 1 and a quantity of bright candy to make the tree look attractive Then the sweet benefactress drove away leave orders for the fruit and candy and many many other things which she had not mentioned The day before Christmas when everybody was a busy a could be buying presents for those they loved Mrs Cleveland snatched an hour from her home shopping drive up to one of her kindergartens and take the teacher down to gartens tke tlcher one of the stores to buy forty sets of flannels ior the mothers of the little ones who I wet enjoy the Christmas feasts nest day Every Christmas for the past lew years Mrs Cleveland has purchased trimmed hats gloves underclothes and shoes for i the mothers as well us sweets and gifts for the children ILls one of the principles otM Clevelands giving that noth 0 0 reason Mrs Cleveland always selects the I richest street gowns in her wardrobe when she is going to call upon her poor people It does not make them envious I she ha found and it does educate the I sight and the artistic taste besides giving real pleasure When Mrs Cleveland goes to her schools she is apparently very careful to preserve a very pleasant demeanor Surely no White House levee ever sees her in more gracious smiles No matter how forbidding may be the bare little room where the schools are sometimes forced to beheld sometmes held nor how ragged may be the babies there Mrs Cleveland smiles and smiles nodding approval upon every effort to do THE MOTHERS MEETING well She has placed a piano in every little school and there is a nurse 5lrl in I attendance to carry home unfortunate little ones who may be sbund asleep when school is over or who may be too sick to be sent home To try to tell onehalf of the gentle things done by Mrs Cleveland in tho kindergarten work which is avowedly her tavorite charity would be hopeless Her tact shines forth in this just as it does when she is in the midst of one of her White House levees On one occasion there was a little fel ow who must have been five years old 1 id net know his age nor was his i mo ce tin of it who had never lenro to hold up his head and keep his ronjue in his mouth He was bright enoagh but he had been utterly I ueglectel IthnkI can help him said Mrs Clevela id smiling pityingly as she lookdd at the little fellow Fritzie JMa she sweet to him will you not hold up your head so that you can see all of the pretty things that are in this room There are such beautiful pictures on the walls and oh such lovely plants in the windows Fritzie lifted up his head interested by this description of the beauties around him and all the rest of the day he kept it held up looking about and of course kept his tongue in his mouth Mrs Cleveland had many perplexing little problems to solve in her kindergarten work Among them was a supply of baby food for the luckless infants who are abandoned each morning on tho doorstep of the kindergarten schools and must be cared for until their shamed day fired mothers call for them later in the I it was another perplexing question know what to do abput the childrens lunches Often the little ones come to school faint from lack of food beeause they couldnt relish the awful chuck of dark bread given to them for breakfast lunch and dinner In some quarters of the city the wretched babies come to school drowsy with beer or munching an awful handful of spoiled fruit The attempt work reform with the children themselves was of coarse useless for the little ones were the victims of home mismanagement But by talking with the mothers on the subject of lunches and assuring them that the child would be fed in school at lunch time even though he bronght no lunch with him the change for good has been brought about The mothers have had it demonstrated to them that 0 clean loaf of bread I costs no more than a muddy one and tastes much better and that lthe teacher that infallible manager thinks spoiled fruit dear at any price BABY RUTH AND TH KINDERGARTEN CHILDREN Baby Ruth is very fond of the kindergarten children for she has been told all about thentmany a time But dear little 1i 1 lj Ruth is a delicate blossom and i is not I thought wise to subject her to so great a i chance of catching the childish diseases I which are always prevalent among Eastside I I children Even fiveyearold Dorothy i Whitney who was at Lakewood for some mild childish trouble at the time of her mothers death was rarely allowed Ito ito I visit her baby friend for fear of making I her sick But Ruth loves to hear kindergarten stores and kindergarten songs and her most restless moments can be by tales of what thelittle quieted the1ttJe kinder i I I garten boys and girls say and do IlIR CLEVELANDS MOTHEPS BIEET LEGS Next tc her interest in children comes Mrs Clevelands solicitude for poor mothers and this is a distinct branch of her charitable work On certain afternoons of the week twenty or more of the poorest mothers in New York are gathered in little groups in half a dozeu different partsof the city to talk about helpful household topics over a cup of tea and a piece of cake Young ladies specially trainedfor tho I work preside at these meetings and it is they who lead tho talk into the right channels Teach them how to live Tell them that there is a right way and a wrong way of doing things and make them realize that the children which are sent to them are straight from the hand of God I I 1 1 I I GodH I 1 I 1c 2 1S fs I I 1 I jj Ik I of nu TilfiS 1I 1 ir I UNDER THE BRIDGE and must be trained to go back to him said Mrs Cleveland one day while giving directions to the teacher of one of her mothers meetings Praise freely and see i you cannot do your work in i that way instead of by lecturing them I I Mrs Clevelands advice Acting upon Cevelands I I the teacher tried the next day the experiment of adapting this rule to a very ob stina case which she had in hand It was that of a woman who was apparently I of a brutal nature without a particle of anything loveable or motherly about her She came it is true to the mothers meetings But she always came late just before the tea and cake was served and went away directly afterwards Sometimes she brought a wretched little dirtyfaced boy hanging to her skirts whom she threw off roughly often with a bad word as she entered the door The teacher remembered Mrs Cleve lands words about praising freely and she laid for the woman Next day was mothers meeting and the teacher stood by the door to receive her guests Last of all came the woman who was to be experimented upon and to her skirts was hanging the dirty little baby boy crying as hard as he could Let go 0 thim skirts ye dirty little baste snapped the woman aa she reached the doorstep Let go or Ill But the teachers voice interrupted her as in silvery notes exclaimed I Oh what a dear little boy you have I with you Will you not bring him in to the meeting He will like to have a piece of cake with UR Surely he goes to the kindergarten every day No mum He do not Its not me that would be after dressing the like of him good enough to go to wan thim But he is such a pretty child insisted the teacner and how much he looks like his mother1 The womans face softened a little She even smiled She brought the child into the meeting And next day there was another threeyearold boy added to the neighboring kindergarten After awhile the woman stopped swearing and drinking so much and before spring her little boy could come to school without body bearing cruel bruises upon his little So much for Mrs Clevelands method of dealing with very bad cases HER KITCHEN DIET SCHOOLS All of Mrs Clevelandis charities are ex iremely domestic ones She thinks that if the women and the children are properly cared for and taught the men of the family will be in the language of the street all right too One of the things in whicn she is greatly interested is the kitchen diet schools This is a charitable work which teaches I the poor densely ignorant untidy women of the slums how to do housework Like all others of Mrs Clevelands charities it is very practical and of direct benefit The mode of procedure in the kitchen diet schools is this Twelve or fifteen women young and oTd gather round a big table at the head of which sits a teacher who by the way is usually a young society girl who has kindly offered her services for the work In front of each of the women is a small tin dishpan and by the side of the pan there is apiece piece of soap and a dish mop At the other side of the pan there is a plate a knifes a fork and a cup and saucer As in her other charitable workings Mrs Cleveland believes in feeding the body before attempting to train the mind or the spirit Very palatable plain cake is passed around with little biscuit and everyone is given a choice of tea or coffee After this is eaten then comes the work of instruction The teacher begins it I think says she that it is a good plana very good plan always to wash dishes after you lave eaten off of them To my mind I washing dishes once a day is not enough I believe continues she that dishes should be washed in soapy water and then rinsed in clear hot water Suiting the action to the word she washes her own plate and cup and saucer and her admiring pupils do likewise And then all adjourn to the kitchen sink for clear hot water for the finishing process Practical lessons are given upon all I kinds of housework and often positions i are obtained for those who become very skillful at their work CLEVELANDS IDEA OF GIVING Mrs Cleveland interests herself comparatively little in private charities She rarely sees those who apply for aid and she never gives alms from the door She believes in organized charity So aside I from paying her servants and her seamstress very big wages and paying full I I price for everything sno buys she does ittle individual giving But to organized work whether it be for working girls clubs news boys lodging houses or church fairs her purse strings are ever untied Is it not a very delightful thing to have the first lady of the land interested in I even the humblest of her husbands I people And does it not make one all the more glad on this account to read of the elegance of Mrs Clevelands entertainments and the beauties ofher dresses I One does begrudge them to her at all AlthouglOlrs Cleveland has gone to Washington to live for four years she retains her interest in uer New York work And her very last act before leaving in her special car for the inauguration was to read with delight in the morning papers of the very successful lecture given by Toseph Jefferson the night before to help on the kindergarten schools And while the inauguration guns were being fred and the inauguration quadrille was being danced Mrs Clevelands coworkers in New York were counting the goodly proceeds of the fund which she I had so lately swelledAUGUSTA PREScOTT i I HOW TO uSE A FEW PLO WElts I They Cnn 10 3Iulo More Decorative Thai a WZioo Lund of BricaUrac HERE are more Jeeorativa possibili ies in a handful of flowers than in a whole cartload of brica brac observed a very celebrated artist the other day as he stood bpforo a window of Easter blooms charm Q4k ngly arranged But must know how too them rake for example at handful of violets ou have just bought You know from experience that if you put Jt in water in a simnlc vase it will smell sweet and look pretty for a day or two But that will be all The violets will all be crowded heartlessly together and many of them will be crushed out of sight And then all will soon wilt Suppose this time you try putting your handful of violets in hanging basketI mean to say that yon might make awall pocket for them You have of course a coil of picture wire in the house Take i then and using a stiff piece of pasteboard for a back pierce some holes in it and weave the wire back and forth until there is a safe and comfortable sae fortable receptacle for your blossoms Get a piece of moss from the forist and fill the pocket nearly full of it sothat the pasteboard and wirework are hidden and you have just a green mass of moss Now put in the violets one by one wrapping more moss gently around each stem until the whole wall pocket is blue and abloom with the flowers Give them a generous spraying of water and hang them in the shadiest spot in the room Take down and spray occasionally and you will have violets long after your bunch would have withered in its vase of water This flower basket may be hung with a green satin ribbon Another way often tried with excellent results is to insert the violet stems with some of the green leaves into the open pores of a sponge saturated with water A fine sponge will not do But a coarse one frequently wet is both curious and beautiful WHEN VASES ARE PRETTY The decorative properties of a handsome vase are by no means to be despised But all flowers do not show to advantage in vases Others almost require them Take roses You cannot find a vase too gorgeous or too line for them They can be put even in the ponderous jars that stand shoulder high on the floor But i you have only a few roses it is wel to discriminate You often have a dozen or so and you are in the habit of putting them all together in your prettiest vase But does not the doing this often almost cause you pain One rose is so sadly crushed bv the operation Another has its prettiest side turned away A third has to part with some leaves maybe And tomorrow all will wilt together It is disappointing pity But try this way Take the very best rose in the lot and put it in a vase by itself I you have not along narrow necked rose vase get one when you can A dollar will buy two smallJapanese ones of that kind A rose is far too fine to hide its beauty andfragrance under a bushel others Very longstemmed Jack roses and American beauties raSy be bunched Their stems are long enough to allow each rose to rear its head proudly aloft to be admired by itself Round cut glass rose jars come in for holding a bunch of roses They can be bought for from 35 for the small from 3 cents smal common glass ones to as many dollars for the big ones of cut glass One very lovely glass vase designed for an American Beauty rose stood at least two feet high with a base as big as a dinner plate The woman who bought it said it was for the cornerof her husbands library just where his eyes would fall upon it when he lifted them from his work And she added that her Easter Eastl gift to him was to be an order for a big rose every week all the year VASES THAT COME JUST FOR PINKS Pinks are always plentiful and never very cheap They are in too great demand be ever given away Arranged Aranged by themselves they show to best advan tage in a low iar so that the narrow leaves can be seen But pinks have an almost human quality of demanding that their surroundings shall be in absolute harmony with themselves Thev are like women in this way When a woman of taste chooses a dress she selects one which matches either her hair or her eyes And when the woman of taste puts Dinks in water she puts them in a vase which is the same color as the flowers whatever that may be For carnations there is a bloodred vase clear as crystal which with a handful of the lovely red flowers is a noem a thing so beautiful that you do not know how to describe it Then there are white porcelain vases for white pinks and variegated ones for spotted pinks which are so spicily spiciy fragrant Harmony is actually demanded or the sweet beauty of your bunch of pinks will refuse to reveal itself properly ARRANGING VINES Have you ever tried what a little smilax will do for your room Or i smilax is scarce 0 bunch wandering Jew Take la bunch of the vines and thrust them in the neck of glass vase even a quart fruit Jar will do Arrangethe top to cover the Imo of the jar and place it in the cen tre of a mantelpieceso that the stems will show and the vines trail far around Bnfc there are very many effective ways A very artistic florist who makes trips abross the water every year in searcu of novelties declares that in no way can he I get as good effects a with a screen arrangement He makes a network of wire across one end of the room and fastens vines upon the screen The vines start from trays of moss or from spot of earth and hide the wire Mrs Whitney was specially partial to this method of floral decoration and had her ballroom arranged in this way year nfteryear Often at a cost of two or three thousand dollars It can be done simply for a couple cf I dollars and is pretty tor a long time AN ODD HANGING GARDEN I Just now the temptation to buy blooming plants so great that one comes home with pots of flowers instead ol buying the extra spring gown which had been planned To make these trifling purchases quite ornamental it is only necessary to line a common strawberry basket with tin foil and fill it with good soil such as any florist will sol you for 10 cents per I buEhe basket Strengthen the box with wire put the plants in it and hang with a slender chain to the chandelier I you are the owner oi handsome jars which you want to use for flowerpots you may put them to that use at once by filling the bottom of tho pots with small stones and gravel to ensure drainage without boring holes in the jars and spoiling pots for future ue in holding water for flowers DECORATING THE TABLE For table decoration nothing has yet been found more attractive than the old way of placing vases of flowers and jars of potted plants upon a square of beveied lookingglass This is very simple and inexpensive Any glazier will fx a ON THE BEVELED MIRROR I piece of glass suitable for this purpose for a sum inside of five dollars flic larger the square and the deeper the beve the more expensive the glass will be For a dinner table for a family of Live a glass centerpiece eighteen inches I square is large enough to produce a very fine effect Be sure that the glazier put under a firm foundation or the back of the looking glass will rub from being handled much I might be backed with felt A bowl of lilies looks exceedingly lovely upon such a standard as this And roses seem almost to borrow extra fragrance from their beautiful images pictured in the glass below By all means try an ornament of this kind and see if it does not bring forth constant exclamations of admiration from the family circle even though it be accustomed to its use The fashion now is for massing flowerg upon the center of the table instead of distributing them at each plate But amass of flowers is so expensive that one must often perforce read and picture the sight instead of buying A Chicago hostess entertaining recently at a fashionable New York caterers ordered a centerpiece costing just 14GO How many housewives know that it is possible to have a centerpiece upon the table all the year around for a trifling sum The way to accomplish it ia this Go to a florist and tell him what you desire to do and ask him to make the selection for you He will pick out a large pot of blooming plants and you will pay for them As long as the flowers last they will occupy honored place in the center of your dining table When the blooms have wilted the florist will send for the plant and will replace it with another on payment of perhaps a half a dollar He will alternate giving you the use of a beautiful shrub for a week or two then a flowering plant then a pot of something THE SINGLE ROSE trailing It is to your interest to taKe good care of the plants and it is to his interest to treat you well This arrangement is in frequent use by women who endeavor to make the family dliner the feature of the family dayFlowers cannot by any possibility look other than beautiful But sometimes other people have ways of using them which you are glad to try because they are different from your own And there is always something new to learn about the care of flowers PACTS ABOUT CARRYING FLOWERS I is a fancy of yours to carry a flower on your muff or in your hand in the spring time Do you know that a flower cut from the plant in the morning will outlast two flowers cut later in the day when the sun is upon them Do you know that orchids keep better for wearing purposes i given a mossy bed to lie upon when they are resting Do you know that heliotrope has too woody a stem to revive when once wilted Do you Know that a rose will keep its shape oetter i you pin it on your muff lying downwards instead of up Do you know that a rose will not lose its petals so soon i you put only the stem in water not letting the water touch the calyx Do you know that a drop of camphor in water will freshen the most tired violet Do you know that a touch of sealing wax upon the stems of very juicy flowers will keep the moisture from escaping and so preserve the flower Do you know that a rose bought just to carry will keep best i put away in a cool dark placesay a refrigerator one can be so heartless as to do this Do you know that a bath of very hot water for the stems of flowers revives the blossoms very quickly and that a taste cf camphor and a dip into melted sealing wax following directly after the hot water bath will freshen the faded posy and make it beautiful for at least another afternoon And do you know that for this month and next the Easter lily is the most fashionable as well as the most expensive flower you cn carry But flowers are flowers There is nothing like them And as long as women are women they will have their favorite blooms no matter what they cost Avis ELLEN ALDEN How to Lace a Corset Those clever Frenchwomen have discovered a new way of lacing their corsets or rather they have adopted it from the Rus sians Of course it is horrid to lace tight but i you will dolt this new way is the only way that wont hurt becausggit calls for three pieces of lacings and there isnt the old torturing uniform pressure above and below the waist You put the first lacing at the top down in the usual way on each side until you reach two eyelet holes above the waist Do the same thing with the second lac 1 1 ing from the bottom leaving two eyelet 1j holes free below the waist In these four I eyelets four on each sideyon now put the third Ince that which is to be drawn I I Dont you see you can leave the upper I I and lower parts as loose you choose I tying each to your comfort Alter that yon can dawn your waist with themid I I die lacing quite indepently A woman lacing her corset this way I i once will never lace it differently No matter how loose shE wears it this is the only proper method I ANNA VERNON DORSEY STYLES IN TAK1E LINEN Pure Snowy 1Thit I the Vogue Once moro pure snowy white has become the vogue and whether either you or I are prepared to admit that the banishment of color is cause for congratulation Dame fashion asserts that for dinners for formal luncheons and indeed for nil functions save only the 5 oclock tea white and white only must be employed There was a time and that not long ago when we were ordered to serve luncheon on cloths of cut worklined with colored silk when lovely doylies embroidered with dainty floral designs were required as additions to every colorless cloth and when the contra square with its splendid color was a decorative feature of the feast But now i we hope to keep apace with the times we must make doylies no less beautiful but embroidered all in white We must own an assortment of carving cloths and table mats not one with less numerous or less dainty but must banish the lovely pink of the rose the tender blueof the and the of forgetmenot splendid yellow of the buttercup or consent to be ranked among the ignorant and the callous who are content with what is lovely in itself I SIMPLICITY PREVAILS In the cloths themselves that are shown a the very latest style there is much to admire and little i anything to criticise from the standpoint of independent taste For dinners and for luncheons cloths are woven with borders complete and with napkins to match each set For the afternoon tea small fringed nap I kins will be used and they may or may not match the pattern of the cloth as taste and circumstances determine The dinner cloths are all required show a finish of narrow handsewed hem as on the napkins that accompany each The lunch cloths are hem stitched The 5 oclock tea cloths are shown with j1 I iW 1 7 1III lW jt1 4D iO ejle 3d I i 3 blI4eTh bl 1f I fIf Ci A I4eTh cI I I II I i r1f VIIi IVUl i I KTttWfiW tfSw 4 LOUIS XVI PATTERN cutwork centres cutwork edges drawn work borders and as ch elaboration as individual taste may suggest RICH AND SPLENDID POPPY CLOTHS One of the leading importers who is famous for the aesthetic worth of his supply shows cloths and napkins in a lively fascinating variety For the dinner there are rich and splendid poppy cloths and charming and artistic chrysanthemum cloths others have admirable thistle designs and there is one rarely splendid Lonis XVI design that is in perfect harmony with the prevailing taste of the day Alf with napkins in various sizes to match each one PRICES AND SIZES The poppy which is the fad of the hour is shown in costly satin damask only I costs twentyone dollars for a cloth two yards wide by three and onehalf yards long the napkins are threefourths yard square and cost 2250 a dozen But the other designs which are in reality quite as good as the poppy are sold for far more reasonable prices Cloths two yards wide by two and one half yards long which are those most commonly in use range from three to seven dollars an napkins threefourths yard square from three to nine dollars a dozen Luncheon sets which include the cloth and one dozen napkins are shown in somewhat similar designs but with more elaborate finish and can be purchased from 51350 each for really handsome damask up to almost any price that one may feel inclined to pay But as all value over a certain moderate amount means simply additional elaboration or peculiarity of design those sets sold for from fifteen to twenty dollars are as elegant and as serviceable as need be required by any but the very wealthy few The 5 oclock tea cloths have become I I with the establishment of the tea tables quite as necessary to a housekeepers outfit as are the larger and longer established dinner and luncheon cloths The tea cloths range in size to suit the needs of different tables They may be scarcely larger than a dinner napkin but must not exceed two yards square else they become lunch cloths and are out of place For really elaborate embroidered and cut tea cloths the price reaches a high as 1 and even more but for all ordinary use really charming ones can be bought for 55 and according to the quality and the work from that price up to any at which prudence economy calls a stop The supply of table napery required for a wtillkepu house has become much larger than once it was and i you are to entertain at all you will require certain definite sizes both of cloths and napkins as well as doylies and embroidered table the mats day to keep pace with the demands of DAMASK BY THE YARD Good serviceable damask for ordinary house use can be bought by the yard for from 1150 upward to three dollars but in any finer quality the woven cloths are handsomer as well as better style Napkins too vary in price as much as they differ in quality and sizes but good damask can be had in dinner size for 5 a dozen and smaller for as low as 3 The satin damask costs more as has already been stated and are held by the authori sions ties be essential for all formal occa DOYLIES AND MATS Doylies and table mats may be either embroidered or of cut work but for dinner must be of the finest white whatever form the decorations may take The cutwork mats can be purchased from SI apiece for the smaller ones upward to almost anything you may choose to pay and the carving cloths are sold at a proportionate price But for the hand embroidered doylies you must pay a much larger sum unless indeed you do the work yourself They are used in circular shape for caraffes and for the many accessories to the meal such as olives bon bons and the like they are either oval or oblong for the larger dishes 1 carving is done upon the table as despite the prevailing fashion it still often is a large ample carving cloth is used But while for dinner these various mats must be white for informal luncheon or for tea color is allowed ON TiE MAHOGANY Bare table luncheons are still held to by 0 hostesses who an so fortunate astoowa mahogany rich with the color given BV time and for which the doylies have no limit They rest beneath each plate beneath each tumbler and beneath each cup They are placed under each ant every dish the table holds and are of coursa necessary between the finger bow and its plate of delicate glass or dainty China But as the completed sets are costly in the extreme by far the greater number oi householders make their own Linen in either the weight known a bosom linen or the fine lawn is the correct material for all The design may be as elaborate or as simple a your taste and your leisure render best So long as the work is daintily don and the colors are well chosen you cannot go amiss for the variety offered at the few select shops where such work is sold includes flowers all conventional design iwiiai i i i lnl DAn DOYLIES and almost everything we can imagine eicspt the flour de lis and the bow knotf these lovely as they are have had theft day and are now pushed aside lor other of less truly desirable forms forsLAn GROWING A HEALTHY SKIN Dyspepsia ol the Mouth Many women write to me complaining of red noses on exposure to the cold with seat and tingling of both the nose and upper cheeks also of heat and redness on taking hot food soups or drinks at dinner Probably the cause is bad circulation which in its turn is due to indigestion and it may be want of brisk exercise Women defraud themselves of good looks and vigor by compelling themselves to staid movements after they come to years of maturity 1 they were anywhere near healthy they could not keep so demure but nature would break ont and tempt them into running up and down sisira dancing about the house and tbosa quick movements which horrify conventional people out are the secret of spirits and bright looks They need to grow a healthier skin treating it with an emol bent nightly to lessen its irritability When the nose and cheeks burn from eating or cold air they should be bathed freely in very hot water drying softly powder and dusting which with is cooling fullers earth or talc For the indigestion correct the diet and take a charcoal tablet before each meal with a few drops of tincture of myrrh in hot water after eating The teeth should be thoroughly brushed and the mouth rinsed after each meal This cleansing of the mouth is of the greatest importance in dyspepsia of any degree I know a woman who gets up in the middle of the night to brush out her mouth i she wakes with a bad taste in it This is her habit although her teeth are religiously brushed before retiring for the night She says it pays in the sweet wholesome condition of the mouth and breath on waking in the morning and the restful sleep induced by checking incip ient indigestion There is as much dyspepsia in the mouth as in the rest of the alimentary canal for dyspepsia is really ferment with corroding effects on the live tissues of mem braneand nerves To correct acidity after eating let a bit of magnesi the size of a large pea dissolve in the month and swallow it The acidity has everything to do with spoiling complexion and temper The face is the index of the condition of the internal economy Lime water may be beneficial for poor digestion or liquorice drops or a third of a teaspoonful of baking soda in half glass of hot water flavored with tincture of cinnamon which is a good stomachic in itself These should be tried to see which suits the best It is often best to alternate these simple remedies for the same case cae caeSmRL DARE A Charming Occupation LONDON March 12The daughter of one of the royal academicians Frith who painted the famous Derby Day in the National gallery holds the pleasurable position of adviser in chief on home decorations to the British public licFirst First in the ladys pictorial and later in the Gentlewoman Mrs Panton for years has given both rich and poor housewives thebenefit of her advice and experience as to how to make their homes pretty and artistic at a comparatively small cost Mrs Panton was exceptionally well equipped for the kind of work she has made her specialty From early childhood she took keen delight in the practical side of art and had she wished she could undoubtedly have become in her turn a notable artist but like her father she had strong literary tastes and finally decided to give up the palette for the ink pot It is difficult now to understand what a radical change in English art as applied to dress and decoration has been achieved by such workers a Mrs Panton Lewis Morris the Garretts and Robinsons and others of the newer school who believe in the blending of arts and crafts Now scarce a ladys paper but has many columns a week devoted to artistic house furnishings and the Answers to Correspondents dealing with tho subject has become an institution of importance Mrs Panton delights in her work she will take literally almost any amount of trouble to please however obscure the correspondent Were it not that she really liked the work and is never so happy as when designing cosy corners or thinking out a scheme of color which is to make beautiful some unknown womans drawing room or boudoir she would find the tasks set her week by week inexpressably wearisome and tedious She is a very accurate and worker and has a marvelous sure marelous memory scarcely ever forgetting a name oran address she often has the pleasure of welcoming back old correspondents whom she helped to furnish their dwell ings half a dozen years ago and who now turn to her in their perplexities concerning the renewal of their carpets and curtains Besides writing furnishing Mrs Panton is a clever designer very charming writing tables easy chairs and whatnots have been built up from her rough sketches As might be expected her own home i a veritable house beautiful with all tha newest appliances and dodges for making a literary womans life run smoothly and easily She does most of her work in the morning and thus manages to get outa good deal Into society Her sister Miss Frith is a busines partner of Lady Monckton in the latter pretty little shop at the sign of the Spinning Wheel ADELE MARROC I Try Dunfords f0 shoes They your feel and the styles are correct Ii East First South street.