The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-11-17
A CHEST FOR NAPERY.
How an Cp-to-Dato Woman Takes Car
of Her Table Linen.

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How An Up-to-Date Woman Takes Core
of Her Table Linen.
a country woman up to date gave US
some clever suggestions about napery.
She kept her generous supply in a
wooden chest, about one yard long,
two feet high and two feet wide.
The chest was placed in the embras-
ure of a dining-room window. and
served also as a window seat It was
made of pine, finished with yellow
enamel paint, orna mented with extern
Sive brass hinges, handles and key
hole. a fat hair cushion covered in
gay Matteau chintz fitted its top. 1t
moved easily upon rollers and opened
readily to the insertion of the key kept
in the good vvonan's possession.
A wooden tray, five inches deep,
greeted the eye inside. This held nap
kins, doylies. carving clothes and cen
ter pieces. Beneath was ample space
for good assortment of table linen
used in the home. The bottom of the
tray and that of the chest was nicely
padded with a sachet bag made of yell
low cheese cloth .perfumed with laven
der and orris root.
Such a chest is readily made out Of a
pine box, and its position in the dining
room has the extra advantage of being
directly at hand in case of emergency,
Or upon the advent of an unexpected
guest.
Housekeepers usually have care to
expense; they set their dinner ia BILE
with fresh napery and use the same for
the breakfast and luncheon following.
The digestion is usually weak after the
nights inactivity and one likes to be
greeted in the morning with fresh
napery, whatever its quality may be,
glassware and silver. a sparkle from
hot water and ammonia, crisp fruit.
invigorating coffee and hot rolls as a
stimulus to the days work.
The laundry will attest that fire.
quent washing of slightly soiled nap
cry is much better in results than
hard washing of really dirty linen oc-
casionally.
For breakfast and luncheon napkins
our good woman tells us she uses un
bleached muslin. Suitable quality may
be purchased for six cents yard: one
yard will make nine ma pl<ius of useful
size.
Breakfast napkins have an inch hem
hemstitched about their edges; a half
inch inside of the hemstitching threads
of the material, producing decorative
border. This is the simplest process OF
drawn work and easily mastered.
fringe being overhanded or caught in
punches by means of needle and thread
for dura bility. An initial outlined in
one corner finishes Il napkin nicely.
Cloths to match these napkins are
attractively made OF Ozenburg, which
is as cheap and as dNra BILE and comes in
greater width than the unblcached
muslin. and matches it we'll in texture
and surface.
Fresh-laundried and neat1y-kept.
such homespun napery will have u
charm of it's own. for it is pleasant tc
use and to touch.
The hostess explains that being OF
German extraction. since her little girl.
hood she has been accommodating and
mbellishing for her own future house.
hold linen, towel and napery. feeling
that anything SO closely approaching
the personal needs as these are best
and most delicate when provilently
prepared against the future. This
had been her training, she added:
that while living in the country. each
Sunday she brings forth the best of her
home and her larder for the general
family use, and saves nothing better
for company" as she wishes to rear
her children in touch with the very
go into the world mayhap, they will
not underrate the simple home and its
tender memories and sacred associa-
tions. because overa wed by finer quail
ties.
Economy in household matters must
rise from Judgment and in its pursuit ::
wise wife and mother will not forget |
that the familiar associa tions about |
the home are observation-disclosures Free
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