Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-11-28
If Straw Can Tickle Man
1t is an Instrument a Happiness--Dryden.

leo, or blue, if you like. You just love
blue, don't your"
May, tell you it won't do. We've
GOT
"Ch, but | know it will! And over
the calico you put the loveliest white
muslin, and tie it with the dearest little
ribbons you ever saw; and the top bas-
ket's lined"
mo. no! It's out of the question.
In future all peach baskets
George, what nonsense are you talk
ing? | tell you the upper ones lined
with blue, too; and there's broad top
covered with calico and muslin, of
course-that lifts off, and gives you the
snuggest, cutest little place to put your
brushes and shaving things in you can
imagine. l knew you'll just love 1t
when you get it done"
but, my love, the great trouble I
see with your scheme is that in the flu
ture all peach baskets have to be kept
to make you bonnets. I've just heard
of a way of fixing them up that's per-
fectly splendid.
Mrs. Courtney's pretty brown eyes
opened wide with surprise. and her scis-
sors dropped with clang to the floor.
You take the basket" went on the
long-enduring husband. with twinkle
in his eye that, fortunately for him, his
wife did not catch, land cut it off at a
point to fit the owners head. If too
large, pad with newspapers neatly
sewed in place with strong linen thread
-waxed is best. Then twist daffodils
and roses all around the edge, and pour
~
a bushel and half OF sea-green spin
ach, according to the taste of the
Wearer."
Mrs. Courtney gasped feebly and
opened her eyes, if anything, trifle
wider
Next" continued Mr.. Courtney
warming to his work, you take from
ten to twelve yards of Virginia creeper
and arrange them gracefully around SO
much of the sides of the basket as the
spinach hasn't covered"
"Indeed," almost shrieked Mrs
Courtney, now fully alive to her hus-
bands iniquity. Perhaps
mo perhaps about it. Wait till tell
you about the inside. You line the
whole thing with cabbage leaves, alter
mating them, though not too regularly
with a row of hollyhocks sticking out
at the bottom. But, oh, | forgot! you
crown the whole thing with something
that looks like a miniature flag pole
emerging from any place but the cen
ter of the basket, and sticking up at any
angle but right one"
Permit me to
Mention the lace? OF course, you
must have lace, and a ribbon or two
Well, then, take the gauze that forerly
covered the fruit basket, tear j. into
strips from two to three inches wide
notch one edge of these in irregular
scallops, carefully hem the other, and
dye the whole thing in strong coffee till
your next door neighbor know it from
your great grandmother lace if she
were to see it under microscope. Now
run these strips Of lace on band from
the top of the miniature flag poe to
about two-thirds Of the way down the
peach basket, and end in little clusters
of ribbons daintily fastened in place
with the strings used to sew on the
cover of the basket"
George"
Feathers? To be sure! How stupid
of me to forget them. They come in
imitation birds running up and down
it."
Might /"
might you have squirrels instead
Certainly! And if it's intended for a
theater hat, you can change the peach
basket for piano case, and have
stuffed elephants on top of it,
If
eff you want anything further just
look it up in Hooper's latest fashion
plate and let's not say another word
about it until dinners half over"
Dinner was nearly wholly over before
Mrs. Courtney fully made up her mind
just what she wanted to say; but when
once she had babe up her mind she said
it with force and clearness that SO sur
prised Mr.. Courtney that to this day he
views a woman's bonnet with rather
more awe than Turk with a not toe
thick neck might the Sultan, or po-
liceman with not too secure situation
an economic alderman.