The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-07-23
BUSY IS Bees
Pretty Social Functions Cluster
Round the Shining Needle.
CARD PLAYING IS PAssE.

CARD PLAYING IS PASSE.
t,mpIs Dresses Of ths Tub Variety 81
or by Dainty Lace Trimmed Muslin
Aprons Ars Proper Attire 70 Wear
For These Sowing esss.
Hand needlework Of al sorts is 20
much admired nowadays that It is not
surprising that women who go to the
country for the hot weather and their
less fortunate sisters who are CON-
PEELED to spend most Of the heated term
in the city always have handy nome
bit Of fine sewing for the rainy days
and the hours spent on the great hotel
piazzas or the little stooplike porches
of the city. And more than one hostess
bored with the usual round of country
or city life, with it's interminable card
playing, has made the needle an ex-
cuse for very pretty little social func-
tons.
OF all these functions the preference
Is for the porch bee, for It gives one an
opportunity to look at the good sky at
least in the city and, in the country,
also at the changing LEAKAGE and all
the rest of the rare and radiant out
doors. Then, though it is very pleas
ant to sew in a cool living room, and
even though you know something good
to eat Is coming after awhile, you
know very well that it won't taste half
so good as If you had 1t out where the
air could blow on you.
Indeed, judging the whole thing by
experience, a porch sewing spree is
about the next best thing to a picnic.
and where n is carried off well the
little function certainly helps to while
away the mOnotonous moments that
are bound to come. with a long stay
away from the things to which one is
used.
First, there are the invitations. And
why not make them as prettily unique
as possible2 One little card which
was used last summer read, ~ r in,
vited to a sewing bee." but the bee
was the buzzy things picture, drawn
from life, in yellow and brown. Then
came the Information that one corner
Of the hotel piazza would be used on q
certain afternoon and that there would
be a bite and q 'stinging'' good time.
All the lettering on the card. which
had been prepared by hand, was in
brown and yellow, the bee colors, with
the exception Of a delicious little red
rocking chair drawn In one corner, and
80 deity was the little affair done that
it really had almost the effect Of high
art.
The written or printed invitation,
though, is entirely a matter Of prefer
ence, and, Of course, when the fnnc-
ton occurs at q private house all the
arrangements a be made much more
attractive than at a hotel, where eti-
quette would not permit the workers to
appropriate more than q small corner
Of the veranda.
The home bee should include every
device for prettiness and comfort. Sew
eral small tables should be placed
along the veranda, these holding big
crOckery bowls or pitchers filed with
the country flowers Of the season. The
chairs should be low sewing ones or
small armless rocking chairs, and there
should be several fiat cushions for
those who want them, and the ham,
mock should be securely swung and
heaped with more cushions for the
lounging moment somebody is bound
to want.
Then every pair of scissors in the
house should be put into commission,
and there should be a work basket.
with all the other sewing utensils need
ed, for some fair worker is bound to
come without her needle or thread or
bOdkin. If by chance, too, some very
imprOvident guest appears without her
work let the hostess bring out the table
napkins or frilling Of her own that
need to be hemmed.
In fact, it is quite possible on coca
sions for the hostess to provide all the
sewing, for this move constitutes the
real bee, and It Is no unusual thing
when opening up a country house to
invite ones friends In to help get the
small furnishings ready.
In the old days bed comforters were
made this way in a single afternoon.
down even to the quilting, while patch
work quilts grew like magic. Some
sewing Of a simple order a hostess
might now provide would be the tear
ing up and sewing together Of the cot
ton strips out Of which r made the
vag rugs which are so much In vogue
now. Better still would be the doing of
some charity sewing.
The dresses worn by the hostess and
guests would be % in keeping If
they were of a simple sort, say smart
little wash gowns. set of by dainty
aprons of muslin or cambria trimmed
Mt the pockets with knots Of ribbon.
A pretty little apron for sewing can
be made Of a gaudy bandana hand.
kerchief. One corner Of this is torn
of and sewed at the bottom for the
big pocket which is so convenient to
hold the working tools needed.
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