THERE'S SOME GOOD USE FOR ALL YOUR WASTE PAPER.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2643, 28 August 1906, Page 2

THERE'S SOME GOOD USE FOR ALL YOUR WASTE PAPER.

Strictly speaking there is no waste paper in a well-regulated household. Some good use can be found for every scrap of it. A very comfortable stuffing can be made for cushions intended for rough wear by saving up and keeping clean the sheets of paper in which parcels have come from the shops, cutting them into strips three or four inches long, and rolling them into neat spirals.

It is particularly suitable for use for the chicks who, suffering from measles, scarlatina, or chicken-pox, arc passing through that miserable after-fever stage known to doctors as desquannating. livery mother is aware of the troubles of the disinfecting process, and how hearty the universal desire is to see the last of all the adjuncts of the sick-room. The careful housewife will hesitate a little before destroying a feather or down-stuffed cushion, but no one will grudge a bag full of paper. Some people make their stuffings by tearing the paper into tiny fragments, in which case there is no fear of any crackling sound even from the stiffest material. All sorts of paper may be thus used, and one girl of a romantic turn of mind has utilized her love letters to stuff the pillow on which she nightly rests. A cushion, stuffed with bits of paper lasted for years in a tropical climate, and was much preferable to the othodox feather or down one. We all know how much warmth there is in a sheet of newspaper or brown paper, and most of us are acquainted with the brown paper quilts with their ventilation holes, which really do add a great deal of warmth to the meagrely-furnished beds of the poor. But have you heard of the brown-paper stays for children some thrifty mothers make? This is now they are managed. Cut out the shape in stout brown paper, and prick it up and down finventilation. On both sides of this foundation arrange applique wise, and securely tacked down, bits of; brightly coloured flannel cut into , various shapes, such as diamonds and triangles, covering the joins with fancy stichery in embroidery thread Flannel strips for the shoulders, and. buttons and loops to fasten the front, complete an original and very warm and pretty article of dress.