The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-01-23
FOB MY LADY's BEDROOM.

Every girl nowadays seems to
have a penchant for distinctive per-
fume appertaining to her and her be-
longings, and for this to be in good
form the odor must assert itself deli
cately and not be aggressive. A girl
friend of mine whose gowns suggest
the fresh sweetness of a violet bed,
told me how she attained it. "Look, I"
she said, opening her wardrobe, "here
is my scent sachet, and she produced
an ordinary coat hanger, but one
glorifed exceedingly.
81 covered the frame fairly thickly
with cotton wood,'' my friend ex
planned, and then sprinkled pow
dered orris root, mixed with little
violet sachet powder, thickly over it.
then bought some satin ribbon lit
tie wider than the wool, and this 1
gathered, sewing the double upper
and lower portions together at the
edges the ends were fastened after the
wood was covered, and I wound the
ribbon over and over the hook so as
to conceal the metal, and finished it
off at the bottom with dainty bow.
Mine, you see, is covered with
lowered violet ribbon, but lovers of
a different flower perfume could ac-
cord the color to the flower.
my sister makes hangers from
the wrists of her long evening gloves
when no longer wearable. She gets
the half of a small barrel hoop and
covers it like the ordinary hanger 1
use, with wadding and sachet powder
sprinkled in it. She sews up one end
of the kid on the wrong side, and
slips the hoop in the glove-it should
fit, so to speak, and you can deter
mine whether it will by either adding
or taking away wadding. A ribbon
is put ronnd the middle, terminating
with a loop to hang it up by, and the
other end joined neatly up. Dolly
tells me these hangers are most con-
venient, and, as you will see, quite
inexpensive to make. The two kinds
of hangers are novel and acceptable
wedding presents, we find" !"
"Have you any more novelties to
show me?" inquired.
"Here is a contrivance for my
blouses. I dare say you are wonder
ing how it is made, but it is quite
easy I assure you. l first obtain
wooden grocery box of moderate size
with a lid, and 1 had some hinges
fixed. I then covered the box with
an artistic cretonne, and padded the
lid, which would have to be used
times for seat. ibid all rough
edges with gimp, tackled with small
upholsterer's tacks.
Now comes the piece de resistance,
it is nothing more or less than small
clothes horse. / sand-papered the
wood until it was quite smooth and
then stained and varnishedit it. Inext
bought some darkish soft material
and fulled it very fully on down to
the height Of the box, and hxettit
round the clothes horse firmly on
cord, leaving a good heading. The
clothes horse was next disposed
round the seat and nailed strongly
to it; the result is that after lining
the inside of the box with brown pa
per had a most useful receptacle for
my daintiest blouses, and a comforta-
BILE screened seat as WE'LL" and she
smiled proudly.
''I make the toilet covers for my
duchesse dressing table out of large
lawn handkerchiefs. A cover takes
three of these, and I joined them to-
gether with two colored baby rib
bons finished off with rosettes at each
end of the insertion. Each end of
the cover is edged with widish lace
fulled on, and 1 place it on my dress
ing table. These covers wash excel
lently, and I can often pick up three
handkerchicfs sold together for a
mere song at some of the sales.