Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1882-03-24
Bags.

| The great convenience, the one fash.
ion that makes life easy and housekeep.
ing simple, IS the bag. There are PEG.
pie who look for deliverance to a
Sweede or Chlnaman, to graduate
of the cooking school or to some
patent, or new soap, but they are all
mistaken and deluded. 1t is the bag
that delivers US, and gives us time to
do our sewing, or to study the true
end the beautiful. All hail!
In the first place there is the rag-bag.
1t used to be made of dingy calico and
hung in some remote closet, with a
coat or an old basque hung on the
same hook. When the women sewed
their cuttings fell on the floor. and by
twelve O'Clock they would have gone
to the stake rather than admitted a
caller INTO the room. When night
came they cleared up, and rolled the
scraps into newspaper and packed
them into the closet. Behind the bu-
reau was wrapping paper and busters,
and the lower shelves of the closet
held last weeks newspapers. When
the "clearin up" came the rags went
to the bag and the newspapers into 4
bundle. Everywhere the debris of
wear and tear had to be collected; but
this climaXlng, agonAing upheaval was
matter of course, as every good
houSekeeper cleaned house as she
bought spring bonnet or prayed for
h er relations, and the more there was
to do the more praiseworthy the doing.
Now the rag-bag comes as an or
ganizer. 1t is not dingy, it is not held
tightly by drawing strings, and 1t hangs
n each room on hook Of its own. 1t
5 pretty and capacious, and the little
brass rings hold it open and ready. 1t
hangs on the sewing machine and
gathers the clippings as they are made.
1t is made a thing of beauty for the
parlor, and all the sllreds the mistress
once carried away in her pocket get in
to it. There is newspaper bag or
box, and that keeps the closets and ia
bles clear; and as for the buster it is
not keeping company with the apron,
gloves and capt in bag of its own?
In the kitchen is bag for strings +
and a set of pockets for grocery paper.
In the bedroom are bags for hair. for
,rent matches, for brushes and whisks
md slippers, and it is so easy 20 put
Kings in their place at once that it can
De done from pure laziness.
There is no trouble about emptyiig
he bags, and it Is never done all at ,
nee, and there is little cleaning out of
orners or closets. When moving day
ONES child can carry them or they
an be given to the charwoman, for
ext to the emancipation offered by I
ags-yes, even before it's the joy
making them. LOUISE r. STOCKTON
Cheap .SbiaMes:-I will tell how l
AXE very nice splasher apI cheap
ne. Take white oil cloth (Which l
refer to coloD 50 inches in length i,
I'd IS in width, pink all around. Take Il
hatever color cloth you wish, cut in
rips and pink, fasten togather in each l,
tie leaf with cross stitch yarn same u
,lor as cloth. Make five pockets,
he larger than the rest IN the center, n
% close to bottom corners little larger
an the upper ones which go opposite p,
ose at tie bottom, one straight piece
out 10 inches long to be placed
tween the top pockets and caught :,
st, making three puffs. The pockets
d straight piece are to be pinked
ound and bound across the top,
her with ribbon or braid; if with rib Mn
n finish at corners OF pockets with
VS.; if bound with braid finish with D.
I'd and balls made Of yarn. Any one 'o
shing to ask any questions about
S, or desiring patterns for pockets
/ address me. will give all inform
on desired. G.. Go
Box I76 Rossvihe, Vermillian Co, Ill.
-.- EG