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Your Sewing Scrapbook

Mary Brooks Picken (

Pretty Hostess Aprons for Entertaining

APRONS can dress up a dress make it goy and pleasing A truly dainty and colourful one can give the guests as well

as the hostess a lift,

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Turn on diagonal edge of tape * and baste, turning all in same direction,

drawing shows. Place the pickets on the apron, beginning at a line 7 above bottom edge. Pin these so they are spaced on even distance apart. Stitch each side and the ends of each piece of

Lupe.

Turn the 7 at bottom up on under side so top edge comes to within 1° of top of picket points; turn narrow hem on this edge, Siltch tape ucross pickels, be- ginning! 11⁄2", from bottom and stitching through the pickets.

Arrange flowers by shoping. ick-rzek in round and round chapes and sewing these to place by hand. Cut green tape Into arrange as stems and lings and leaves, as shown.

Place stems between pickets so

when Inst band of white tape in stitched on, all raw edges of the stem will be caught under this. band of tape. Stitch second lape across pickets, beginning about 1 below picket tops and stitch- Ing through plckets, flower stems and the turned-back hem. Hem sides of upron, using a 1⁄4" hem. Gather

the top to tre the bana Centre measure 15. and stilch it on. Hem raw edge and me

tie. Catch ends of each

under unhemmed end of ties ends of waistband and stitch band on both sides and ends to make it secure and to conceal nil raw edges.

Pleated Nylon Apron: We used 4 yds. of 50 nylon net for the apron and 3% yds, each of 3 dif- ferent pastel colours of ribbon for the trim.

make. To turn one 50" edge of the net over and stitch bottom edge of your first and lowest band of ribbon over this, then stlich top edge of this ribbon. Add

more rows of ribbon above this, spacing each 112* apari. Make a 4 hem on both xides, catching all ribbon ends in hem so they cannot fray.

Luy seven 1 pleuts each de centre front, bringing the edges of each pleat tog

together. (Your canvas pleater will do table, weighs only 844 lbs.uch pleats in a jiffy.) Stitch 3 smartly detailed, so

remaining strips of ribbon, 10-that 处 has become high Kether

and silich la of fashion. Especially is this so of

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the pleated

complete De to

desigra by leading houses, the apron.

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To make apron, cut two 3* wide strips for ties (one from

selvage edge), then one 2" wide strip for band. For ple- kets, cut 15 pieces of white tape, each 8" long at longest point of picket. By cutting tupe into 10"

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HANGING SHELVES are useful and decorative. plants and cosmetics, hold small terry guest towels,

to the wall.

display uses them to This homemaker

Bath towel monograms key their colours

By JOAN O'SULLIVAN

WHY is it that when decorating's being

done the bathroom is the

one

room in

the house

that's likely to be overlook- ed?

It shouldn't be. Pretty up your bathroom. Make it bright and attractive.

Colour comes first. If your bathroom is already tiled in a colour, your scheme is more or less decided for you. But, it

to choose you're free

a new wall colour, you might experi- ment with a neutral shade. which will enable you to change your bathroom colour scheme every week by using towels in Clfferent shades.---

One homemaker has a bath- 100m with grey walls in which she uses black-and-white striped drapes and shower curtains, One week, she puts out cherry reti and emerald green towels; an- ather, petal, pink with flamingo accents; a third week, she uses Krey towels wtih citron accents, Her bathroom always looks. umartly different.

4.

And

framed don't forget pictures; they help eliminate the stark white look of most bath-

rooms.

DECORATIVE touches here include a window draped with a swng of two towels stitched together, looped In contrasting

colours.

guest towels

means a to practical,

Опе are

When it comes to accessories, consider not only the family's terry Yolande does this entrancing comfort but also guest answer, They're colourful and nightgown in nylon crepe and con

This convenience. garnishes it with shadowy, ex-thoughtfully. planned guest You'll also want to keep a quisite nylon Alencon lace for towel bar or shelf with a gener- gonerous supply of facial tissues, the bodice and shoulder straps,ous supply of usable-cot too small guest puffs, and some centred by a flower applique. fancy-towels. The average cosmetics on hand. There are a We never cease to be amazed visitor, and mea especially, just few provisions that really show nt how nylon takes to the tub hate to dirty one of those fancy you're thoughtful hostoj8, In- and scorns an iron.

guest towels. Small fringed terested in your guests.

F-I-R-S-T

A-I-D

FOR SUMMER

*

of

NOSE BLEEDING: Nose rubbed to bring blood to the oll of cloves in the cavity with bleeding is common in sum- surface and to avoid shock, he toothpick. If treatment must be mer. To stop the bleeding, may be wrapped in cold water through the gum, use absorbent

spirits towel or put in cold ball. No cotton, soaket in. the afflicted person should slimulants should be given. camphor as emergency measure. be placed on a chair, head downwards, clothes loosen-. TOOTHACHE: Toothache, Children in summer should be water; ed, cold applications placed though occurring in all seasons, given plenty of barloy to the · back of his neck seems to be a little more com- lemon-barley mixture, or other refreshing drinks. This besides by cloth wrung out in cold man in the hot months.

When Impossible to get to a cutting down the chance of water: A roll of paper placed dentlit, at once, clean out the summer illness, also prevents, under the upper lip, between and gums may help If the cavity if accessible and place a prickly heat and bolls develop

so Irritating to children. bleeding continues, salt and small piece of cotton-dipped in Ing, s

water, one teaspoonful to a cup nf water should be

be stuffed up The nose. If continued plug the nostril, with a piece of cotton gauze and the soft part of the nose below the bone. Don't give stimular RES

SUNSTROKE. If Sunstroke

·la afflicting a person, the faco Is hot, - - flushed wand- dry. He should be cooled as quickly as possible. Cracked ice is appiled with his hond, #jightly raised, while the pâilent le lying: If cons

CHOCOLATE GROUND RICE

THIS LOOKS RATHER NICK

MIX 202 GROUND RICE AND 1-TABLE- SPOON COCOA SMOOTHLY WITH PA LITTLE OOLD

“WATER.

POUR

OVER IT

2 PINT

HOT

MILK

Stain Removers

By ELEANOR ROSS

WHILE wo highly recommend sending cut good wardrobe and household effects for professional dry cleaning, we Bke to Irrat chains on Unens and washable clothes as soon as possible after they occur. Some housewives are. puzzled about the classification Ef ain removers into three-gen-. erat groups and want to křtw the whys and wherefores.

of

The three classes are, course, bleachts, absorbents and alvents. Each has its own job to do and deck well if proper-

1. COMMON bleaches

for

hougthald use are hydrogen peroxidc.

lemon Acid, jubee and sa Before using Kolarch

coloured or fine fabrics, t Is wise to make a fabric tert. If the bleach changes the colour of the fabris, u30 a weak cukin Τα use themical bleach such as hydro-

peroxide, stretch the stained fabric over bowt of steaming

hot water. Moisten sirined ares with water: Drop chemical on rtain with medicine dropper; let rland П minute. The rinse

thoroughly by pouring water-

through fabric, · Do not allow. uny breach to remain in fabric, If it is warhable, then wash and rinre directly stain is removed.

With an acid, such as oxalic held, apply an akali such as ammonia water or borax solu ilen to

to neutralise the weld and prevere fabile damage. K an alkali is used, neutralise pro- perly with an acid solution. Rinse well,

2.

ABSORBENTS. are sub- stances that take up stains Hike a blacter. They have, the advantage of not leaving ring so can be used on. fabrics that may water spot. Absorbents are most effective when used greasy or moist fresh stains. To use un doserbent such as French talcum powder, lay therelained fabric on a flat ruz- face and spread the powder ever

Inta.

ne said. We powder. In a

ain with a spatula or

Angers, brushing it off as it be- comes colourless, and repeating process until stain is gone,

3.

WATER, carbon teira- chloride, benzene or alcohol are advents, that is, they dis- clher substances. то sponge with' a solvent, Jay the fabric, spot-side-down, elean bleiter er pad made cf folds of clean, absorbent cloth.

an

Then ply the scvent with . cloth, using light strokes and working from the outside to the centre of the spot. To avoid ricis, do_not_use 200. much. ventnta time, and pread mixture unevenly at the cages. Work rapidly. Change pad when It becomes soiled. If the maitrial la dark, wat an inscmpicurus --

as the hem of a past, such dress, ant use to sponge the Mpal.

Water spots may be removed by robbing febris between handa when dry, Belling wetze may be used for removing frukt, coffee or tea elaina from white cotiona or linens, Streich fabric over a bowl and pour water, from a height of 2 or 3 feet.

A FLOOR STAND for towels provides the extra storage upado a-large family, negde.-- This autodern two-tone towel:monogram

Tattenative.

(BOILING,

BIMMER

_VEZY

GENTLY

"MINUTES

SPREAD A LITTLE APRICOT JAM, APPLE JEHLÝ OR

AND WHEN „COLO, DECORATE

-THE TOP AB

MARMALADE IN AS YOU -

CLIH, POUR, THE MOITURE OVER IT/

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