Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-05-10

mock girl yourself, and are willing TO
win your spurs. get some cortland tie.
Select a quantity of heavy cotton cord
from a shop that gives you great as
sortment. Take a look at the nam
mocks on your way to the cord shop,
and YOU will have an idea OF the size
cord YOU want. If it is as big as your
thickest hairpin, it will be the kind
you want.
Select it in three or four colors, and
be sure that you can replace your pail
when it is used up. This is an occupa-
ton for your grey-green days OF spring,
and it takes a lot of material. knitting
I'D the travelled sleeve of time isn't
comparison to the endlessness OF the
task you have before you-unless you
are industrious and like pretty work.
STRETCHING THE HAMMOCK.
Find a space in your boudoir, or upon
YOUR piazza, wherever you are going TO
work. 1t must be a spot six feet long
and three feet wide. An unused door
way is just the thing, if you have one,
and YOU can tie, sitting upon step lad
der. like the tapestry artists or the Tres
co girls.
Fasten small pegs around the entire
boundary of your hammock space.
They must be strong and tall enough TO
hold the cord when it gets unruly, as
cord will Start the hammock by ruin
ming a cord around the outside of the
pegs. Now run cord diagonally from
corner to corner Never tie at one peg.
and carry the cord to the other end IN
a straight line. Tie at the next peg and
repeat. Keep on until the whole space
lies full of cords that makes squares
as they cross each other. When your
whole inside space is covered and made
into squares, then comes your nice
work.
Get from somewhere a large open
eyed needle. Thread with pretty col
ored cord different from the two colors
with which you have stretched the
hammock and tie at the crossings OF the
cords. Make the knot a firm one and
cut off the ends. leaving little TUFTS
sticking I'D. These make the hammock
prettier because of the bright eolors.
It will take you three afternoons to
tie. If YOU work easily, and more if you
business. When it is done, run whip
or supple, strong wood into each end OF
the hammock and tie it fast in many
places. Your summer lounging place
is now ready for its strings.
The old quilting frame is royal thing
for a hammock frolic. which can De
made into "bee,' like the quilting bee.
The entire hammock is made in day.
Very economical young women gather
together all their cord and make 1t into
heavy rope by twisting it, and many
are ripping out their old macrame
work. now faded and out OF style, 10
get the strong. heavy stcf they want.
The spreading OF hammock Is
thing that needs little study. A tiny
steel rod can be used, instead cf
wooden stick. l. has the advantage or
being invisible, and it will not bend
as easily as the wood. One of these Is
placed at the head and foot, and cush-
ion is fitted to the head and tied. This
gives the comfortable grandfather
hammock what is liked by every mem
her OF the family. Girls are fond OF
Milling the hammock with fancy cush-
ions. and giving ii an air of gay ease
not seen with the stiffened-out pillow
hammocks, though the latter is more
comfortable.
The hammock valance is a heavy,
knotted fringe sewed upon he edge of
a hammock. 1t can be as deep as one
wants to buy. 1t adds prettiness TO
the hammock, and is easy 20 put en-.
Those who want to make every por-
ton of the hammock can knot the
fringe and tie it along each edge of their
| improvised summer luxury.
The canvas hammock is the easiest
| to make Get for it two yards OF can
vas forty inches wide. Sew a deep
hem in both ends of the canvas and