Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-06-13
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81 wonder what / can do with this love.
ly little piece Of crazy patchwork, said a
pretty girl to her dearest friend.
"Make it into handbag ~ exclaimed
the best friend. "[ saw one last evening
at our fair, carried by girl in a white
dress. It looked ever 50 pretty, and was
Just as big as yours will be-about seven
inches square. Hers was hung from the
waist by broad red satin ribbon. Then
saw a lady out shopping with one.
There was an outside pocket to hers, and
she had a short dark-blue ribbon about
it,"
Every we'll, said the pretty girl. THAT
is good idea / will make one to keep
my fancy work in. Now, perhaps you
can tell me what to do with this stiff tur-
ley-red cotton, two yards, that have left
over from my curtain borders.
"Why certainly replied her friend,
who was Il very clever young housekeeper,
1T will make several pretty things. If |
we're you would make two panels of it
to hang up IN the dming-room against
HAT dark Eastlake paper. They will
make a handsome contrast. Make them
half yard wide and yard and quar-
ter long. Then put a curtain stick in the
bottom hem. IT you embrolder clus-
| ter of daisies and grasses on them IN
WOOL they will look lovely. 1t wont take
vOu long, because the work is not fine and
| YOU can buy bunch Of daisies for Il
model so cheaply just now.
"What is this for - exclaimed the init.
nate friend, as she lifted up a half yard
| # pretty blue sateen, sprinkled witt
pink moss buds,
"That ?" said the pretty girl. "Why
is left from my new dress. Don't you
recognize the pattern p
| "Well, why don't You make foot rest
out of it Take that little soap-box
law downstairs and pad it nicely. Thel
cover it with this. tacking it down witt
,ilver-headod tacks. 1t will look quite
pretty for your bedroom, and foot
stool Is such comfort.
MY drossmollcr and myself are Away
getting scraps over the floor said thu
pretty girl, as she stopped to PICK up
white thread And don't care to picl
them up, because put them down agal
md the first I know they're all on th'
floor"
you don't mean to say said the init
mate friend, "that you haven't got
'catch-alr bag? Why. everybody ha
one in her bedroom, Mako one out o
that white piqUo you were showing mi
the other day, or crotchet one. 1t shoul,
be about twenty inches long and close n
top and bottom with draw string. o
course you can have it rs fancy as yol
want, but you should make Il plain on
right away. Your room will look so mucl
cleaner if you DO, and saying "Good-by,
the intimate friend took her departure.
Homo Decoration.
Handsome and most effective border
ing for small tables, mantels, valance
and curtains are urnamented by cutting
red twill out in the form of red popples
appliQued with red ingrained cotton, an,
a center formed by raised knots Of crew
els. The leaves are of crewel also tn
stalks. Another way is to arrange feI
artificial poppies, as a spray or border
remove some of the petals so that tn
flower lies tolerably fiat, and then appl
que them with red silk, in long stitche
like veins the stalks are done in silk
, the leaves in crewel yeined with silk.
, & Some Of the fashionable new sachel
; for holding night dresses and for til
brushes on the toilet table are arrange
(, in the same way. On white, dark blu,
/ cream or old gold colors these poppie
d are very effective
A pretty table, and even an elegant on
e may be made at no great expense. HAY
n carpenter make you Il stand with
Q square top and four small straight legs
d cover the top and legs with royal plV