PILLOWS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21147, 3 October 1930, Page 14

PILLOWS.

Most housewives use the American style of pillowslip nowadays, but there are many who do not find these perfectly satisfactory. The pillow has a tendency to work itself out of the slip, and the loose end often shows itself untidily in the morning. The alternative of ordinary buttons and' button-holes is even worse, as the pillow slips and buttons are oftened ruined when they come back from the laundry, and the pillow nearly always bulges out in an unsigntly manner. A good combination of the two methods , fastening is an idea which comes from the Continent. When the pillow is made a double separate strip of the same material, about two inches wide and the same length as the' narrow side of the cover, should also be made and a row of buttons sewn on to this. The linen elip itself should have two rows of buttonholes in corresponding positions on each open end where the fastening is to be made. To fasten the slip the buttoned strip is placed through the two buttonholes, The buttons and buttonholes, should, of course, he placed 'equal distances apart. This makes a firm and neat fastening, with the buttons quite separate for laundering purposes. There are no broken button or torn pillowslips, and as the buttons do not go to the laundry pretty buttons to match the counterpane can be used.