Feather Flowers.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1848, 10 May 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

Feather Flowers.

It requires a certain amount of patience to achieve success in making feather flowers, while satisfactory results are sure to add a smiling beauty to the adorning of an artistically appointed household. Fashionables rusticating in the country oan easily procure a bunch of white geese feathers and amuse themselves an hour or bo by cutting out of these feathers leaves like the flowers that are to be oopied. Make the bulbs of beeswax and rosin mixed together in equal proportions, to this stick the leaves, the stamens and centre parts of wire and zephyr. In painting the leaves a nice delicate touch should be had in order to give a natural effect. Get tube paints, such as aro used for oil paintings. After painting the leaves lay them aside to dry. Do not use them for ten or twelve hours at least. A tube each of chrome yellow, rose madder, clear white and Prussian blue will be all the paints required to produce ft lovely bouquet. Mix the yellow and blue to obtain green for painting the leaves. With a little practice in mixing paittts, they can be made as beautiful as wax. There are several ways to use feather flowers besides clustering them. A wreath, a cross, an anchor and birds are often made and placed in boxes with a rich velvet backgronnd and fine glass in front, bordered with a frame-work of velvet, or wood exquisitely decorated with water color pictures, making an elegant parlor ornament.

DiphtheriaPhysicians ascribe the prevalence of diphtheria at the present day largely tji badly-trimmed, smoky, kerosine lamps, whibh are sometimes left burning in chambers ,all night, turned down low, filling the room -with their poisonous fames. A specific for diphtheria is sulphur, a teaspoonfuK mixed in- a wine glass of water, with the finger to mix it more thoroughly, used as a -gargle. In recent cases this will bring immediate relief . Some of the preparation shpuld be swallowed. A Xibndon I^?^ IfW' 1 " ™#V< glycerine, jWd^gaye^tabl^crohf^ul^^^

four times ft day, applying the same remedy to the nostrils with a sponge, and did not lose the case. Before this he had lost several.