Twentieth century home cook book

It is well known that many plants, as ferns, orchids, etc., do best in a close, moist atmosphere ; at least they will not thrive in a dry or changeable one, and so Tom promised, when he went away from home, that some day they should have a better case than the one originally improvised. In time it came, and with it the plants to fill it. The stand was of mahogany, lined with zinc and strengthened with brass. The top was of brass and French glass; the panels were painted by Anna. Now, plants cannot be kept healthy at all times in a room without occasional fumigation to destroy insects. Perhaps j'ou would like to see their fumigator. Simple enough, is it not, as shown in the illustration? A muslin cover draped over a wire frame, a little tin box, if you like, for the burning tobacco, a tube leading under the cloth and another tube for blowing to keep up combustion and drive out the smoke. XIV. Ingenious and Useful. While on the subject of simple things, h contrrivances, a water-cooler. Sarah's ingenious con- MOSS WATER-COOLEE. SAEAH'S WHAT-NOT. ALECK'S QUILTING FR.VME. A porous (unglazed) vase was bought,• ss was fastened about it as shown. The water, percolating through the poix's, helped- 1 to keep the moss damp, cooled the water, and, when much evaporation and consequent coolness were wanted, the vase was set in a draft of air. The far.ily have now, and the old water-cooler is now a living vase. It is kept full of wa' ?v, and various"ous small seeds are sown amontr the moss, which is held in phicc with fine silvered wire. Garden cress <ind various ornamental grasses are pretty growing in this way. A modification of the Wardiun case may be had by getting a stand of terra cotta, putting a rim inside, within which a glass shade is set. Inside the shade arc mosses, lycopodiums and ferns ; and between the two rims a living fringe of foliage may be had with a little care; for, the rim being kept filled with water, cut fiowers may be maintained there as shown in the illustration of Plant-case Bottom. Sarah's What-not was a light affair, but heavy enough for the light articles it was to hold. It was made of card-board, small figured gilt wall-paper, velvet bordering, picture-frame cord and tassels. Aleck's Quilting Frame must also be described : The legs, d d d d, were of hard wood, one and one-quarter inch thick, three inches wide and three and one-half feet long; the bar, c, was two and one-half inches "eight square;" the rollers, a a, to which the quilt is attached, two and one-half inches "eight square,' with a strip of cloth on one side on which to fasten the quilt, tiie rollers passing through the legs at 1111; the cross-pieces, b h, were twenty-seven inches long, of inch stuff mortised at each end, which held the quilt stretched. These slipped on and off, and when not in use the frame could be folded up and put away. It has on more than one occasion been made to serve as a cot. FOUR-KOOM COTTAGE. CHAPTER XXVIII. THE DINING-ROOM AND ITS SERVICE. I. DINING-ROOM rURNITURE AND DECORATION. — II. TABLE ETIQUETTE. III. CARVING AT TABLE. IV. CARVING FOUR-FOOTED GAME. V. CAR\aNG BIRDS AND FOWLS. VI. CARVING FISH. VII. THE SERVICE OF THE TABLE. VIII. SOME DISHES FOR EPICURES. IX. QUEER FziCTS jVBOUT VEGETABLES. X. THE USE OF NAPKINS. I. Dining-Room Furniture and Decoration. gN all we have said of the ornamentation of farms, of the home, of household art and taste, and in all we shall say, we wish again to have borne in mind that it is '^' intended for those whose yearly increasing means allow them to gratify their