Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-01-27
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Beautiful.
A bard wooden rocker may
be made into very comfof-
table easy chair with lit
tie trouble. Take an old worn out com.
portable or q feather pillow, IL you have
one to spare, aud fiI it to the back of
the char. Make q cushion for the seat
Ut the Chair out Of any thick soft goods
and cover both with pretty lowered
cbintz or goods suitable for upholstering.
II the chair is to be placed in the dining
room or kitchen, oaiico or yellow linen
will make q suitable covering. Fssten
on To the chair by tapes Of ribbons.
Very dainty little foot.stools may be
made for the parlor at small expense.
Fist purchase two wooden boxes about
foot long and ten inches wide. They
may be bought for five cents apieoeS.
CUver first with an old piece of carpet.
ing-or carpet lining is betfer-and tack
smoothly on. Then cover with crim
son paper muslin, also Inning the insida
of the box. Buy yard and half /
Geep crimson velveteen and q package
of brass headed tacks. Put the velvet
on smoothly and tightly and fasten with
tacks, placing them at equal distances.
A tessel of wool or silk placed at each
corher will improve these dainty little
articles of furniture.
A portable cradle made by clever
mother in Brooklyn has been greatly
admired. The cradle was crochetted out
Of strong brown macreme cord in the
nd nd ~ do in
form of hammonck. Ii WAS run with
bue ribbons and supported on poles OF
pine, varnisheu and Orn amented at the
hook by cluster of blue ribbons. The
whole thing could be folded into very
small bundle, and pillow and blanket
were all that was necessary to make the
baby sleep comfortably.
HOusekeepers who are crowded for
closet room can u:ake very neat anu
pretty Eardrobes in their bedrooms.
First have three boards, foot wide, put
up, one on top four feet long aud the
Others six feet. Narnish these with
sbellac. Make a curtain Of muslin or
chiDtz-or a double curtain is prettiest
aid suspend it from thetop by means
of thick cord. Run the cord through
the top hem of the curtains aud then
secure The ends to the boards. This
permits the curtains to be drawn aside
with ease. A pretty Vatican or Green
away picture done in outline work will
make the curtains more effective.
Napkins of linen are now turned up
on one corner and embroidered with
the initials or monogram. When done
in red or blue cotton the effect is good
and the colors will not run when
wash ed.
Very pretty pillow shams and bed
spreads may be made out Of coarse
mite cotton netting. Make the spread
a, d shams of the exact size required
and work in white embroidery cotton
In some simple design. \ large mono
gram is usually worked in the centre
of the spread aud also the shams. Blue
or pink silesia or camhric Is placed OF,
the BID and pillows before putting Oh
the covers, ahG bows of satin ribbon Of
tie same co'or ornament the shams.
Velvet albums for photographs are
now very fashionable. They are in
tended TO hold from two to six picture.
and open out fiat. One can easily b,
mad Al home at half the expense II
purchased. Take a piece Of plush OF
,elvct any shade you desire, and cut II
an inch and a half wider than the Pho
tographs to be placed in ii and as long
as you desire; if for two pictures ten
inches will be sufficient. Line with
satin, leaving places for the pictures to
he slipped in, and:mske in the form OF
book. Tie with broad ottoman or satin
ribbons of the shade OF the velvet.