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THE GAINESVILLE NEWS, WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER ’> 10, 1902
ALL OVER Trig HOUSE.
: Teach!ng the- Housemaid How to Do
Her Work Properly.
Teach your housemaid never to
enter a room without tapping at the
door, except, of course, a parlor or
dining room. If she rises early, her
work is more sure to be done on
feme, and insist thait her bed shall
(fee aired as well and her room as
ixeatly kept as your own.
Give her a tablet and pencil to be
fang on a nail behind ‘the front
door, that she may take the names
of callers who have no' cards and
write down messages. Near the tab
let find a place for a silver waiter,
on which all cards, notes and bun
dles are to be delivered.
Train her to punctuality. Cer
tain duties at certain hours obviate
a world of thought.
If she has not been taught clean
liness, you have a struggle before
you, but she must learn that this
virtue requires never ceasing care
and oversight and conscientious
ness. %
When she sweeps a room, let it be
done thoroughly. Show her how to
take every ornament from its place
and put it dusted and clean on
the bed cover with a dusting sheet;
to open the windows, to put all mov
able furniture out of the room, to
sweep hard, to dust every bit of
.woodwork, to wash the panes and
f lasses and finally to restore the
usted furniture and bric-a-brac to
their places.
If you can instill these habits
within three or four weeks, you need
not despair of the greenest maid.
* "Stained Glass" Pillows.
Take an ordinary long needleful
of any shade of wool, begin at one
corner of a square of canvas and
work either irregularly or other
wise as long as the wool allows in
ordinary cross stitch, then fasten
off the thread and edge the worked
section with a line of cross stitch in
black; take a thread of another
shade of wool and make another
section, edging it, like the other,
with black. Continue this method
- till the square is covered, varying
v occasionally the length of the nee
dleful. When the square is finished
and backed with silk or other mate
rial, the edge seam may be covered
with a heavy cord of twisted black
wool.
If one has the wish to do it, a me
diaeval saint, copied from a Berlin
pattern, may be embroidered in the
center of the square and the ground
covered with v the colored sections
described above. If in this case the
outlining is done with stone gray
instead of with black, in imitation
of the leaded setting, the stained
glass window effect will be more
realistic, although the colors will
be shown out with less brilliancy
than where black is chosen.
Lighting a Dark Hall.
A mirror will lighten a dark hall
if properly placed. Place the glass
opposite a door, and the light from
that apartment, falling on the mir
ror, is reflected back from it to the
hall, to its much greater lighting,
while the apparent size of the little
place is greatly increased. The mir
ror is untrained and is fitted in be
tween cornice and baseboard and
finished at the sides with a flat
molding that seems a part of the
woodwork. The value of this treat
ment is not realized until it is tried.
Often a blank stretch of wall that
seems a hopeless shutting in of
space may offer the transforming
opportunity. Gare must be taken
not to overdo the treatment in such
a. way as to create the effect of a
hotel corridor or public hall, but
judiciously used upder the care of a
good architect the plan is to be
commended.
Pillsbury,the great chess expert, is
noted for always coming in second in a
match. No matter-now, many contest
ants there may be. His naval name
sake can sympathize with him.—Au
gusta Chronicle.
Mrs. L. S Bisby and daughter,
of Savannah, are in the city as
the guests of Mrs. C. H. Backus.
The family of Mrs. L. L. Alien
of Jefferson, have moved to
Gainesville and are residing at
Mr. N. C. White’s house on Syca
more street.
GEORGIA CROP REPO:
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Issued by State Agricultural
- Department.
COMPARISON OF CONDITIONS.
Some Counties Report Crops Unusual*
ly Fine, but the Great Majority Say
They Are Considerably Below the
Average.
The crop report from the Georgia de
partment of agriculture represents the
crop as it stood in the field Aug. 20,
1902. It is made up from nearly a
thousand blanks sent out into differ
ent sections of each county to parties
who are considered capable of giving
the desired information concerning the
conditions and prospects of the crops
in their neighborhood. Most of those
were returned with the desired infor
mation.
The conditions t. -s year have been
peculiar. Over large areas of the
state hot, dry winds have prevailed,
affecting very materially the condition
and prospects of all crops. Some
times there is marked difference in
the reports coming in from different
localities in the same county, in some
of which a long-continued drought is
reported, while in others the seasons
and conditions are said, to he good.
The general complaint is drought and
rust. A few of the counties report
crops unusually fine, but the great
majroity state them to be considerably
below the average. In a few instances
complaint is made of too much rain,
in August. The general outlook dis
closes conditions and prospects less
favorable than at this time last year.
In the Three Sections.
The condition of the various crops
compared to an average for the vari
ous sections is as follows:
Northern Section—Cotton, 62 per
cent; corn, 62 per cent; upland rice,
81 per cent; sweet potatoes, 64 per
cent; tobacco, 52 per cent; cow peas,
67 per cent; ground peas, 68 per cent;
forage crops, such as shredded corn,
hay, etc., 63 per cent; number of hogs,
76 per cent; conditions of live stocK,
83 per cent; sugar cane, 70 per oent.
Middle Section—Cotton, 71 per cent:
corn, 65 per cent; upland rice, 78 per
cent; sweet potatoes, 69 per cent; to
bacco, 50 per cent; cow peas, 71 per
cent; ground peas, 79 per cent; for
age crops, such as shredded corn, hay,
etc., 68 per cent; number of hogs, 82
per cent; condition of live stock, 90
per cent; sugar cane, 75 per cent.
Southern Section—Cotton. 81 per
cent; corn, 77 per cent; rice 88 per
cent; sweet potatoes, 80 per cent; to
bacco, 81 per cent; cow peas, 89 per
cent; ground peas, 91 per cent; for
age crops, such as shredded corn, hay,
etc., 83 per cent; number of hogs, 87
per cent; condition of live stock, 00
per cent; sugar cane, 79 per cent.
Averages for the State.
The total averages of all these crops
for the whole state is as follows:
Qotton, 70 per cent; corn, 68 per
cent; rice, 82 per cent; sweet potatoes,
71 per cent; tobacco, 61 per cent; cow
peas, 76 per cent; ground peas, 79
per cent; forage crops, such as shred
ded corn, hay, etc., 71 per cent; num
ber of hogs, 81 per cent; condition of
live stock, 88 per cent; sugar pane, 75
per cent. ,
The total average of these same
crops for the same date last year was
as follows: Cotton, 75 per cent:
corn, 77 per cent; rice, 86 per cent;
sweet potatoes, 91 per cent; tobacco,
87 per cent; cow peas, 88 per cent;
ground peas, 90 per cent; forage
crop®, such as shredded c<m«, ha^,
etc., 88 per cent; number of hogs, 91
per Cent; condition of live stock, 90
per cent; sugar cane, 86 per cent
The Treasury Department received
in its mail the other day the stomach
of a dog, which had been foolish
enough to eat a twenty dollar note
The treasury experts found the muti
lated fragments and in their place sent
the owner a fresh certificate of the na
tion’s indebtedness. The incident
should afford a warning to all canines
troubled with a longing to transform
treasury notes of large denomination
into fractional currency.—-Savannah
News.
Rev. G. B, F. Stovall, of Bir-
mingham Ala., is visiting his Sto
vall relatives in Gainesville.
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