The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 14, 1901, Page 11

THE SUNDAY CALL. 11 MAR® sig ty w mist a forzet-me-not! a batt i dropped then but the yrget-me-not my s with a touch | mistortune pink ed to = in same rs. Perley, nother or . she showed was don went on i butter to put into ouths. The the majority herein their talent 1d always been te P of work, but, st overtock me of thread rk to find the decoration. , I ¥ it ‘see me prom- ey ny of the pieces were in ed Perley iaid the pink vle and began putting the covers on tha ve-like looking little tin ined the powder paints in the kiln,” she explained, Come, T'll show you.” into a back room where Two big, important-loc boxes which s stood. rich the kil tespoke of beaten bis- yo hours’ steady heat to * b the desired effect. Then I put out the flame and allow the oven to cool, which takes usually about twelve hours, The slightest change in the tempera is, quick changewiil sometimes k or chip the china 1 sat the corner sked questions. on of the table and And after the first firing?” “Many others. You see, sometimes—yes, alway the firing we lost some color. Different s of heat bring out spoil different For instance, pur- i greens take the frongest heat, white pi vellows the most delicate; consequently they are lost in the first fir- 2. while the purples and greens are por- degre or col ected ‘Then the colors lost are strengthened, whole design retouched. Intensified here, suftened there, and then the second firlng with heat not so great as for the rst. And so on and on untii the work is pertect. You be succ have no idea the time it takes to sful in this line of work. The has not yet been found in which will take the same degree of heat and until then each piece must be worked over and over and fired and re- fire “Speaking of pecple not appreciating the amount of time china decorating c sumes, reminds me of a young woman Mrs. y jaughed heartily, ““who gume to her first lesson followed by her coach- man, on whose shoulders rested an i I wondéred what the girl process all colors Perl mense hamper. had, but waited, thinking it best not to ask. Out of that hamper she took half a dozen cu d saucers, half a dozen dinner plates, the same number of dessert plates and three cream’ pitchers. ‘There,’ she said, looking triumplantly up at me, ‘these arc for my first lesson. That shall 1 b g for to-morrow She soon learned, however, that the days spent on one small piece were With a heat was good, many.” n'to see if the nt back to the long table with its brushes and bottles. Mrs. Perley to a delicate tracery of gold and I to my forget- “Perhaps you w were rohbed at me q “Robbed!” row escape. Imagine a burglar burgling for hand- ast look at the w we t !wlie§e it, but we \ erley lopked once. ioningly. The cup had another par- “We were, and a sor time we had getting the things back. See those,” pointing to six exquisite plates al!most covered ‘with gold work, ‘those were taken with the other things. He almost cleaned out the shop. We were months getting them Dback. Thé police fournd them in every and any old place. That tankard yonder was found in a five-cent beer joint hobnobbing with a lot of empty beer barreis. Been sold for 25 cents and I valued it at the same number of dollars. Those plates were scattered all over town. And cups and saucers! One cup and its saucer were disposed of in different places and it was two months bBefore we found them. How the escaped breaking or chipping I can't imagine, but not one piece as injures It consoled me to know that even burglars have an eye for the beautiful, but since then I have been the least bit careful about locking doors and wi No, we never found: out Do you know that man ast ten trips to carry How he es- who took them. YASE WITH FIGURE Mrs. Perley held up a bell-shaped vase in turquoise blue, with a deep Orlental looking border of many colored enamels. “It is the most difficult line of work, ex- cept figure painting, and takes so much time that it cannot be handled success- fully in class. You see, first the design has to be traced, then it is fired, then the colors are put on and again it is fired. The colering and firing is repeated until each color is perfect. After the fifth fir- ing the enamel is put on, and it is then that I nearly burn my poor old nose oft watehing the heat. It must be just so or thé enamel will melt and run off and hours of work will be.lost. “This Persian work, the miniature and the figure painting are the highest lines of keramic art—the hardest to do and do well.” I looked at the vase with its exquisits coloring and thought of the years of work, of thought, of experimenting along dif- ferent lines by different students, it had taken to reach such perfection. ¥From the dentist, who, because he needed an oven in which to bake the porcelain teeth he made, spent the better part of his life ex- perimenting with kilns to the woman who made the study of making gold paint hef profession. Each color, its application; each brush, its use, all have been studied carefully to ©obtain the best results. TANKARD WITH PURPLE GRAPES The bit of cloth ,my forget-mé-nots adorned was fast assuming an all blue appearance and the surface of the cup was as it had been when lifted down from the little brass hook, and its chances were good for going back to its spick and span brothers and sisters who hung from the shelf just over my head. China paint- ing was certainly not for such as L “Contented?”’ sald Mrs. Perley, looking up from the book of designs through which she was searching for one suitable for an expected student; ‘“‘don’t you think when one has something to show for the efforts of a lifetime they would be the least bit ungrateful if they were other- wise?"” Mrs. Perley looked about .the studio with a satisfied expression which bespoke & heart’s dearest desire accomplished. =4\l that is reauisite is the true artistlg SOME PIEU:) spirit, the desire of knowledge and pa- tlerce—emphasis on patience.” Bo says Mrs, Perley. Students of keramic art in San Fran- clsco owe to “the desire of knowledge and patience’’ the existence of the cosy flat in which they pursue their studies; its completeness in its every detail and the perfection of the work done. And it is perfect—beautifully perfect, with the kind of perfection that makes me envious and wish that they, too, could do such work. But patience It takes and patience yon must have to succeed. GCenius without work will not avail. LAURA MEIGGS. Fish Is always best for breakfast when prepared in small quantities, either cream- ed in little baking dishes or made into a simple souffle. Little fish are also good, from the ordinary pan fish to the delicious brook trout. The commonplace flounder becomes most aristocratic if its bones are removed, and it is cut into strips four inches long and one wide, rolled into tur- bans pinned with wooden tocothpicks and fried in deep fat. A bed of watercress with a garnish of lemon adds still more to its appearance. At most flsh markets this way of preparing flounders is under- stood, and for a cent a pound more than the regular price it will be sent home ready for cooking. A pleasant accompani- ment for a breakfast dish of fish is either rmbers with French dress- & szlad of e ing or cucumbers and sliced tomatoes with ing, or tomatoes dipved in fried or brofled potatoes these 1 making the meal the same dre: crumbs and egg and Either with or witho vegetables go far tow attractive.— TO TRKE CARE OF CATS. are by nature dainty, even n C There is all man- e in the way they Cats suffer much less from nt housing than dogs, although they run wild much more read- and never ¢ efr mur- derous i ts. A cat of breed, as Maltese, Angora. Coon-cat or Manx, is 2 possession more fashionable than precious. a ral they are no end decorative, but in affection, In- telligence and playful low their black, gray, tortoise-shell brethren. s they rank be- 1 marked a White cats are in general more savaga and less intelligent than gray or torto! shell. Many o ana all such are sald to be stone deaf, hence they are less desira like dogs, cats req meat raw, but they much of it. Milk least a third of their food. e bread in the milk, beat hem have blue eyes ble in the house. Un- 3 e to have must not have should constitute thelr too at Crumple now and A bit or a and again in of raw liver as big as two fingers, up raw fish head, is meat enough for a day tions. Supplement it with milk and bread, or milk and mashed potatoes, a cracker or two or a bit of hard bread, lightly buttered, and a few small bones, as from chicken. game or chops. Cats as well as dogs suffer a plague of flees. Oddly enough, cat fleas are unlike dog fleas, if the two sorts of sects meet upon one poor beast there i3 a fight to the finish, ending commonly in victory for the cat, fleas, wh ra- and h are much bigger and more voracious than those found on the dog. If left to ravage un- checked, they soon reduce a sleek, healthy cat tc a miserable skeleton, suf- fering all over from eczema. To get rid of the fleas, wash with sulphur soap— any good brand which the nearest shop affords—comb out the fleas with a fine- tooth comb while the hair is still wet, then rinse the cat well in milk warm water, dry it with soft towels, give it after the bath a saucer of warm milk with a teaspoonful of brandy or whisky in it. A kitten should have only a few drops of spirits, and kept snug In a clean basket for an hour after the bath When the ha 3 blow in all alorg the backbone some sort of fine insect powder—either larkspur or pyreth- rin. Rub behind the ears with the sul- phur ointment directed for dogs. Next day brush out all the powder with a fine, close brush, comb the coat lightly, then part it along the backbone, and rub with the sulphur ointment. For mange, rub all over with the sul- phur ointment. Keep the cat confined so it nnot lle in the dirt.and after twen- our hours wash it well in hot soap- suds—just ¢ srtably hot, not scaldin; rinse dry, and ieave alone. In three days, if the mange persists, repeat the ment, and after the treatment give cat plenty of ¢ elther green or d with milk and bread diet. Catnip indeed ought to be giv always twice a week. Burn infected bedding. and fumigate sleeping baskets, or else wash them well in bichloride of m . Let them stand oint- the hours after washi then scald plen- tifully with boiling water and dry well before letting the cat sleep In them again—Washington Star.