WOMEN’S WORLD

Northern Advocate, 14 March 1929, Page 2

WOMEN’S WORLD

GROWING HER HAIR!

Curled hair will look dainty and becoming when a little band of flowers is tucked in. To make this, buy a long slide, the kind with a little comb inside to keep it in place. Cut a piece of buckram about one inch across t'ho widest part. Then .get a. small bunch of mixed flow T ers and leaves, cut oft’ the stalks and sew .carefully to the buckram; be careful to see that this is all covered. Then stitch this to the slide, verv securely.

THOSE OLD STLIv STOCKINGS

One most practical way of using up the legs of pretty silk stockings is to turn them into little warm weather caps for the kiddies. The top of the leg pulls over the 'head, the lower part being cut oft. Cut .to the length you wish to lit the head, <1 raw the edges together neatly, and attach a pretty tasslo or covered button. A really charming little cap is made in this way and one that will often match frocks and jerseys of children from two to five years of age. / Then again, the leg can be opened down the seam and used in lots of w r ays for covering pin-cushions, redressing the powder pot ladies and generally brightening the dressing table.

Handkerchief sachets can be covered to look very sweet, joins can toe hidden with embroidery or quaint yiedallions.

Perhaps one of the easiest and most delightful plans is to make tiny evening handkerchiefs and powder (bags when you have stocking tops that match or tone with a frock. Baby ribbon and flowered sprays in silk can be used as a finish.

Never . throw' them away. Used as dusters and covers for polishing pads the silk will give a brilliant polish to boots and furniture.

Don’t forget ,that the children can make such dainty dolls’ clothes and mascots from old silk stockings.

WASHING CRETONNE) COVERS.

If you want these to look just like new' again, try this plan. First prepare some bran-water and some soap jelly. For the bran-water put two handfuls of bran into a piece of muslin and tie up. Place in a pan with a quart of cold water and let it boil for half an hour —then remove the bag and use the water when cool. The bran-bag may be used two or three times. To make the soap jelly take a quarter of a pound of soap and shred it into an old saucepan., Odds and ends from, the bedrooms may be used along with a, little household soap. Add a pint of cold water, and put on the fire to- stew r slowly, until the soap has jellied. Do not allow it to boil. Have a tub of tepid water ready, and add the bran-water to it with sufficient jelly to make a good lather.

Shake out the covers to remove the dust, then put them in the water, taking the less soiled . one first. Wash quickly by squeezing and kneading. Pass through two cold rinsing waters, adding salt to the last one in the proportion of a tablespoonful to a gallon of water, if' the colours are likely to run. Fold carefully and pass through the wringer. Pull gently into shape and allow 1 ' to dry a little. While still damp, iron on the wrong side.