1939-02-16 — Page 16

Fastidious Points About Bed Linen

By Elizabeth Macrae Boykin

The next time you get involved No, times have changed, and I with a sheet, just thank your lucky have no complaints on the whole. stars that you don't have to iron For sheets, to-day seem like pure sheets for beds of olden days- luxury if you compare them to for that "Great Bed of Ware most of the bed coverings of the mentioned by Shakespeare, for past. And they're getting hand- instance. It was 12 by 18 feet and samer as well as better. could sleep twelve people at a time. But then sheets were differ. ent in those days 'too they were

usually used to wrap up in, for nightgowns and pyjamas hadn't come "in" then.

Kitty

(0 1936, by Dell Bradkato; 11-2

When an efficiency expert be gins to wrestle' with a household budget he finds that even the most trained run into snags.

Here is the news of sheets the pasteltints are back in and more popular than ever, say those in the know.

AND WELCOME!

Reinforced hemstitching for hems is a new note and I for one bid it welcome, for if there's one thing that makes me feel futile, it's a hemstitched hem that's worn through. This new reinforced hemstitching makes wider more decorative hemstitch- |ing practical too..

The tapered-weave sheet is an- other thing that a lady with a house ought to know about. It has extra threads woven into the centre where the wear comes. Blessings on whoever thought of that.

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 16, 1939

Here are ways to personalise your sheets-buy good percale or muslin sheets in white, then a good grade of cotton print (colour-fast and pre-shrunk, of course) and applique as shown here.

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THE IDEAL NUMBER

sprig percales that are being used | satisfaction, and it is advised for for sheet borders.

economy,

practicality and long wear. Percale is made from longer The real luxury in sheets, staple cotton-so that it can be finer though, is in having plenty of them in weave and less bulky, while it and in the right sizes, Ideally, is equally strong if not stronger; percale sheets are silky in texture

The permanent projecting index it tabl is another bright idea enables you to select the right size sheet. from the pile without unfold- ing a whole batch of sheets.

But nicest of all are the hand-six sheets to each bed is the num-

ber that is nicest to have with and luxurious to feel but they cost some monograms if you'll find time three pillow cases for each pillow. more. Linen sheets are lovely in- for them. Big and dramatic they As for size, you'll find that the deed but expensive. Whatever you are they're that personal. My 108-inch length will save you a lot buy, make sure that there isn't a pet has a broad hem of flowered of wear and tear. And in width, lot of filling in it. Rub the fabric percale, then below it a monogram you'll want a 63-inch width sheet and if a lot of starch powders out, of the flowered percale appliqued on for a single bed, a 72-inch width it is "filled" and will be a very the white, percale sheet. Illustrated!

for the twin bed, an 81-inch width limp flimsy fabric after washing. also is an embroidered monogram sheet for the double bed, a 90-inch in pink on a white sheet, with ap- width for the extra-wide bed. pliqued scrolls of pink to frame the monogram. There are ever many other fresh and pretty calico

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What sheets to buy that is the question? The expects say that a good muslin sheet will give full

I always believe that you should spread a bit household linen, for a nice array of "purple and fine linen" if you like nice fingernails and fine handkerchiefs.

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“The idea of most of the world to-day," says, soliloquising Elizabeth, “la to keep a chip on a child's shoulder until he is big: enough to carry, a gun."