CORNER FOR BUSY BEES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 97, 26 April 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)

CORNER FOR BUSY BEES.

SOME COAT HANGERS. BOTH USEFUL AND PRETTY. Dear Girls, — I don't know how much importance my busy bees attach to trifles but I'm sure that it is the little things that if properly done make for the real things—the big things that everyone talks so much about With almost every famous man the little things in his home life give him much more satisfaction than do the great tasks that he accomplishes; with us it is the little comforts that we have that create a happy or unhappy atmosphere about us. A girl living in a room furnished with expen sive bedstead, dressing table, wardrobe, etc., could not possibly be happy without the various little knick-knacks and scraps of beauty here and there that, combined with neat but inexpensive furnishings, would make a room feel really comfortable. So it rests with busy bees just what their surroundings are like. A plain wooden dress hanger, for instance, would look unsightly in a tastefully decorated room. Ordinary coat hangers, "too, are liable to crease costumes in a way that is most undesirable, and many girls know the value of a padded coal hanger.

This is made very simply from an ordinary wooden hanger. First strips of material are taken from the scrap bag and are bound about the wooden shape as shown in. diagram A. The outside covering of the dress hanger shown in the diagram is made from two strips of ribbon, each twice the length of the hanger, sewn together and, having been fastened to the hanger, drawn up into pretty little gathers. A binding of ribbon covers the metal hook, whilst three little bags made from scraps of the ribbon and filled with lavender or pot pourri are hung by narrow streamers to the centre of the cross bar. Another novel coat hanger is showr in Fig. 2. The wooden piece is bound as before, whilst to the hook' is fixed the doll's head. This is made from a piece of flesh-coloured materia! stuffed with cotton wool, the edges being gathered together to maktt a tightly packed round bag. The features are marked upon the fleshcoloured base with cotton, the eyes being blue, the eyebrows black and the lips and nose red. Black or brown wool is sewn into place for the hair. Make the sleeves from pieces of coloured silk and sew these into place, fastening the shoulder ends about the doll's neck and gathering the other ends about the tips of the hanger. A frilly collar covers the join and a bow of ribbon completes the article. 1 hese dress hangers make useful and pretty extras for any girl's bedroom, and busy bees should set to work at once to make them.