The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-11
CHEST FOR NAPERY.

How an Up-tO-Date Woman Takes Care
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 embrae-
ure of a dining room window, and
served also rs q window seat. II was
made of pine, finished with yellow
enamel paint, ornamented with extern
sive brass hinges, handles and key
hole. A fiat hair cushion covered in
gay Matteau chintz fitted its top. Il
moved easily upon rollers and opened
readily to the insertion of the key kept
in the good woman's possession.
A wooden tray, five inches deep,
greeted the eye inside. This held nap
kins, doyliss, carving clothes and GEN.
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 chest is readily made out of
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 table
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 70 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,
invieorating 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 &C.
casionally.
For breakfast and luncheon napkins
our good woman tells us she uses I'M
bleeched muslin. Suitable quality msy
be purchased for six cents a yard; one
yard will make nine napkins of useful
size
Breakfast napkins have an inch hem,
hsmstisched 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
Luncheon napkins NAV be fringed, the
fringe being overhanded or caught in
lunches by means of needle and thread
for durs bility. An initial outlined in
one corner finishes napkin nicely.
Cloths 20 match these napkins are
made OF ozenbnrg, which !
is as cheap and as dura ole and comes in I
and matches il well in texture I
and surface
Fresh-laundried and neatly-kep.. /
such homespun napery viii have 4
charm OF its own, for it is pleasant 20 4
use and 10 touch I
The hostess explains that being 81 .
German extraction. since her little girl /
hood she mas been accommodating and /
for hsr own future house
hold linen, towel and napery, feeling
that anything so closely approaching 4
the personal needs as these are b4s,
and most delicate when providsntIy 4
prepared against the future. This
aad been her training, she added:
nat while living IN the country. each
Sunday she brings forth the best OF her
home and her lsrcer for the general
family use and saves nothing better
for company a. she wishes 20 rear
her children IN touch with the very
oest she knows, that later, when they
20 into the world mayhap, they viii