A pretty ceiling decoration may be made with brass chains, dried grasses, and well-formed glass lamp-chimneys. For the side walls use chromo ...
Entertaining
A Christmas Feast
At this delightful entertainment red and green was the prevailing color scheme. The sideboard held an oddly-shaped dish filled with a mass of...
Sports For Hallow-e’en
October, 1895 The first ceremony practiced by our rural young people on Hallow-e’en is the pulling of a cabbage-stalk. Each must pull...
Games for Hallowe’en
IN this age of serious thought and work and sense of responsibility, any excuse for sport should be laid hold of. For this reason, if for no ...
Dining Room and Chamber Fashions
Dining Room and Chamber Fashions in China, August, 1892 The dinner bell has long since suffered a decadence, and it is rarely now that it sen...
Etiquette Notes – June 1892
For a five-o’clock tea-table to stand permanently in the drawing room or library, a pretty tea equipage is required, consisting of a te...
Clasped Hands And Character
The latest fad of Washington Society, one brought from Europe, is to discover character by the clasping of hands. The Washington Post thus ...
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