Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-09-18
Kennebec County Women
Much Interested In
The Gaming of Chairs.

! Chair Gaming is new household
mana gement project in which the
! women of Kennebec county are taxi
! ing much interest. Mrs. d. L. Foster
of East Augusta is the County
! Household Management Project
/ Leader and has worked with the home
| demonstration agent in arranging
work on this project.
! Chair Gaming is not difficult to learn
and is well worth while if one has
! chairs which need this sort of re-
| pairing. The cane. is made from
palm called rattan which plants grow
, in India, China and Japan. 1t is put
J up in bundles or hanks which sell for
usually s1.00 to $50 depending upon
! the size and quality of the cane. U.s.
ually one bundle will be sufficient for
| three to five chairs The distance
/ between the holes in the chair to be
caned determines the size of cane
! needed. There are seven sizes of
/ cane known as the super fine, fine,
| fine, medium, common, narrow bind
/ er and wide binder. =,
! An awl. scissors or knife and wood
en- pegs are all the tools that are
needed. Sometimes a Gaming needle
is used. The four pegs should have
long though not sharp point on one
end. The hand woven Gaming de-
mands a frame with holes. Some
articles of furniture have the machine
woven webbing. If one desires to put
the hand woven cane into such a
chair holes should be bored In the
frame.
The instruction on this subject has
been given by the home demonstra-
ton agent at training classes. Two
delegates were appointed by the local
a, t~,f N,,x1
in the subject to attend training
class at some central point. At these
classes the delegates were taught
how to cane chairs by. the use of
, small frames, 1t being much easier to
learn on the frames than on chairs
though the principles taught can APP
piled easily to the furniture.
Six classes were held. The one
held at the Grange hall in Readfield
was attended by Mrs. E. S. Gordon.
Mrs. Milo Hubbard Of Fayette; Mrs
Sylvia Allen, Mrs. Cora Clough of Mt.
Vernon and Mrs. Laura Cooper, Mrs.
class at Belgrade was attended by
Mrs. A. p. Watson and Mrs. Leslie
Damren Of North Belgrade: Mrs.
stephen Judkins, Mrs. Eva McDer-
mott of Belgrade and Mrs. Alice
Morse, Miss Grace Graves of Sidney.
At Augusta the class was attended by
Mrs. D. E. Foster, the county leader;
Mrs. Hattie Cross, Mrs. Geo. L.
Weeks of Weber Pond and Mrs. w. |
Fl. Brookins and Mrs. Mary Hether-
ington Of Farmingdale.
At the Winthrop class Mrs A. N.
Gosline, Mrs. B. u Gordon, West !
Gardiner; Mrs. G. e. Plimpton, Mrs.
Elsie Southworth of Litchfield; Mrs. |
w. P. Briggs, Mrs. c. F. Longfellow,
: Winthrop; Mrs. D. ]. Neale, Mrs. c. |
L. Pierce, Manchester and Mrs. w. H.
Burgess, Mrs. A. H. Stinchfield of
Wayne were given instruction. An
other was held at Waterville with
Mrs H. S. Howard, Mrs. S. r. Smiley
of Winslow; Mrs. E. D. Besse, Mrs. |
Lillian knight Of Oakland and Mrs.
Blanche Young. Mrs. Anna Wood of
Albion in the class.
The last class was held at South |
! China and was attended by Mrs. Alb
bic Perley, Mrs. Everett Brann, Vas
salboro: Mrs. May coiburn, Mr.
Hazel Millett of Windsor and Mrs
Rose Ellis. Mrs. Ralph Taber of
! South China.
"Smythe is live wire"
He touched me this morning for
$50" ' "
With what result?"
Il was shocked"
I want a couple Of pillow-cases."
Salesman. ''VVhaf sixa