Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-04-05

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keepers properly manage the exact places
and times, says the Home Queen. To be
sure. many are very methodicai ~ to
wash-day. ironIng-day. baking-day. and
so on through the week; even then they
tud that something has gone wrong with
the household machinery. The sheets get
thin, the piiiow-cases Silt across. and
the table linen shows the ravages Of time
and laundry. all ct once.
This state of things Is apt to appall the
family purse as well a. tho housekeeper
And this IN . state OF things that would
never be were the time for everything
remembered In replenishing the household
stores.
The buying and making of articles
which will wear out in spite of the best
care should be divided between the sea-
sons spring and fall. A portion from the
household purse should be laid aside each
month during the year. Each house
keeper can best estimate the amount
needed for a year. but to the mex
perienced ones would suggest that each
spring. quite early, before the family
sewing for summer Is begun, the house,
wife invest In two table-cloths, half or q
dozen napkins half dozen dish-towels,
half dozen hand-towels, three sheets, and
two pairs OF pillow-cases for each bed IN
constant use. This estimate give for the
women whose husbands get q modest
salary.
N 81 be laid aside each month, Il will
fully cover this expenditure and leave
enough over for a fine table-cloth, some
fine towels, scarfs, or trey-cioths. Then
another dollar should be laid aside each
month for the fall replenishing, which re-
quires one or two warm, new covers for
each bed, and, possibly. a new spread or
Counterpart once In two years. / have
allowed this amount for family requiring
three beds. Two dollars each month can
spared better than the whole amount at
once and a woman making use Of this
manner Of supplying these needed ar
ticles will ever find her closets In con-
dition of plentifulness.
II is better to buy the material and
make your sheets. pillow-cases. and COM
fortables. February and March are
good months In which to purchase and
make up linen supplies. Blankets are
cheaper In March and April; but print
and other material used for comfortables
are usually cheaper In the late summer
or early fall months, September being
the best for making comfortables. They
are then out of the way before the Octo-
Der days bring the winter sewing for
the family. II is wise plan to get q
little more than the required pattern OF
material, and At a case about twelve
inches deep over each end OF the COM
Portable Basic It on, remove, and wash
when soiled. It Is a great saving Of the
comfortable, and will recommend Itself
to all cleanly housekeepers.
There is great diversity Of opinion re-
garding material for sheets and Pillow
cases; some people consider It cheaper
to buy unbleached muslin or sheeting.
sometimes using the unbleached for pill
low-cases. 1 favor a good quality OF
bleached sheeting, two yards wide. at
about % cents a yard and the ordinary
fine bleached muslin, at or cents
yard for pillow-cases. In our mothers
time the seamless sheetlng was almost
unknown, two widths of muslin or linen
being sewed so carefully together In an
overhem stitch as to almost deny the
fact of there being any seam. A great
many women follow that custom to-day.
II may be q good old way. but I have
no patience with the mother OF family.
and only one pair OF hands 10
work for them, who Will sit ana
strain eyesight and back perhaps.
temper, as weld. in the simple overnem-
ming Of a sheet. The seamless sheeting
costs but little more; yet II that little
must be saved, then save yourself as well,
and sew the seam by machine. making 1t
as narrow as possible One used to the
machine can sew on the very edge or the
muslin and not run of the cloth. i use
this method In making over my seamless
sheets. as invariably do when they begin
10 get thin down the middle. ! tear them
down the centre, sew the outer edges to-
gether. and run a narrow hem down each
side. Sheets should have two or three
inch hem at the top and @ half-inch one
at the bottom
The woman who has a large family
will find her pillow cases most satisfac-
tory II finished at the bottom with
three-inch hem Women who have less
TO 10, or have help. can luxuriate In
befrilled, belaced. and embroidered Pill
low cases. A tasty woman Will not overdo
the matter Of trimming them. but they
NAV be trimmed dalntily and yet be neat
The wide. coarse lace sold at and =
cents a yard, called pillow case lace. Will
never be used by a woman or taste. NO
trimming at all Is better than such an
abomination. A pillow case IL pretty with
a three-inch cambria ruffie. not too full
with a very narrow hem edged in narrow
lace. Fine embroidery three or four
inches wide. slightly frifAed into hem
the same width makes a pretty cease, but
"a easily mussed. The prettiest cases OF
all are those with q balf-inch hem edged
with fine lace, or with three-inch hem'
the hem cut In two about an inch below
the stitching, and a narrow inserting Oh
Varnburg or lace added. A neat, pretty
case has a strip of novelty braid set In.
or a single strip OF serpentine braid.
1 have said nothing about pillow-shams
or bolster cases, because the only bolster
I approve of is the kind that goes next
the smattress, having one thin edge, and
gradually getting thicker toward the head
board. This requires no case.
Pillow-shams / do not believe In, and
when one does not believe In thing
they are not apt to see Its good points.
So. let the women who fancy them set
forth their advantages, for to me the
sight Of them on a bed suggests soiied
pIllow-cass underneath.
ty,gb collars are higher than ever, II
such a thing Is possible. The Elizabethan
collar with loops inside Of It next the
hair Is q fair sample Of some that will
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