The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-01-21
PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE OF
- A COMMON SENSE WOMAN.

This month has its temptations to
-nend money just as last month had
9l,e shop windows are white with bar
ms that every woman appreciates
md 0ur mails bring price lists of white
DDS from other cities. 1t is possible
= make mistakes in buying dress goods,
choose a blue when a brown is what
,.a desire later. TO take d stripe when
,slids are coming in; we all remember
l,.a7 errors But in buying white goods,
mn mistake is possible, for we always
need AN we can get and more of them.
iIouee linens come first, and in these
bargains can be found. There are fewer
,en-stifched pieces chosen this year for
a,nalience has taught thai a trip or 50
,o'fhe laundry cracks off the hem 1t
is NOT easy to repair a sheet or pillow
,.ee a tableClOth of napkin which has
suffered such disaster. "A plain hem, or
line of embroidery, is always in good
st,Ic for a finish. lnch-wide hens.
mined for hemming, turned back again
and seNed overland, are seen. HENS
of that sort do not show stitches and
Il, not whip out as the old-fashioned
hens always do.
If woman has a good stock of house
linens. an annual purchase of one good
10th and a dozen large napkins for the
dining room and d cloth for the kitchen
6Ie and a half-dozen napkins for the
same win keep her supply good. A few
daiIies and fancy luncheon napkins may
h. added every few years as they last
q long time. Sheets and pillowcases
wear out. but an annual addition of one
sheet and one pair Of pillowcases for
each bed viii usually keep the beds in
order However, if there has been ill
ness. more of each will be needed. If d
woman has not much TO do, it is we'll
to put he family initial in solid en-
l-ulicry upon each piece. When we
come 10 towels, the uses they are put
To- makes ii hard to decide how many
small De bought, but i'm ordinary famil-
iee TWO dozen a year and three bath
towels Will be enough. Where the fam
iIy is large, it is an economy in wash
ing to buy for bath, room use in the
daytime a supply of very small towels,
those fiye-eighths of a yard by three
tghts being the choice. These are. of
course embroidered or hemstitched
They are used but once and thrown
down. For roller towels i'm the kitchen.
crash that is all or half cotton wears
we'll thin linen crash is preferred
for dish towels rather than d better
quality. A good supply of these and
plenty of hemmed squares OF cheese
cloth should be provided for the kit
chen.
If a woman is a good buyer and has
little money, she can secure advan-
tageously a few pieces of cambria I'M
derwear. not Only for herself but for
her girlies. And materials for short
waists and white dresses are better
chosen now than later, as there is more
variety. Lingerie waists pronounced
az If spelled lingerie and meaning made
like fine Underwear) are stylishly worn
by fashionable women this winter, the
Leeded warmth being supplied by "a
thick silk Jersey corset cover, to be
worn or left off as the thermometer die
tatas. These thin linen and Persian
lawn waists worn in the depth of winter
predict that they viii be the choice for
summer. So buy lawn and thin en-
bIoideries al the winter sales. but do
not for get that our comfortable sleeves
have swollen and buy too small a guam
lily. \ white waist keeps clean almost
as long as a ColOred one, and has a de-
cided advantage in laundering, there
fore choose the stock IN white, using
c1loTs in 4 few yards of embroidery
presents itself, do not slight it, for it
will come in handy later in the sea-
son.