HOW TO HAVE WARM FEET DURING COLD NIGHTS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VI, Issue 25, 21 June 1890, Page 14

HOW TO HAVE WARM FEET DURING COLD NIGHTS.

Take a junk bottle or a slender stone jug, wash it clean inside and outside ; if there is a paper label on the bottle soak it off; wipe the bottle perfectly dry, then make a flannel bag to fit it. First, stand the bott-le on a piece of cardboaixl, and with a lead-pencil mark a line on the cardboard around the bottom of the bottle. Now with a pair of scissors cut out the form traced on the cardboard : this should fit perfectly the bottom of the bottle. Cover the cardboard form on both sides with brown flannel. For the bag, measure the height of the bottle, including the cork, and allow for a frill at the top. Cut the piece of brown flannel wide enough to easily reach round the bottle, allowing for the seam. On the bag work a pretty design or an apt quotation in yellow silk, then sew the bag together, using the covered cardboard for the bottom of the bag. Use narrow yellow ribbons for drawing the bag together at the top, and when bedtime comes, till the bottle with very hot water, pouring in a little first to heat the bottle, so that the hot water will not crack the bottle while it is being filled. When filled, cork the bottle securely, then slip it into the pretty flannel bag, and place it in the bed, where the bottle will prove to be a comfort all night long. Instead of the hot-water bottles, some persons prefer to fill stout bags of cotton or bed-ticking with common sand, sewing up the ends securely. These can be heated in the oven, and then slipped into an outer case of flannel, prepared for the purpose, before placing in the bed. This prevents any possible danger from leakage or breakage, and the outer case may be made as ornamental as the fancy may dictate. Ordinary wine-bottles will answer the purpose as well as the stone jars, if sufficient care is taken to warm them previous to filling.