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Show FOR THE BEDROOM ARRANGEMENTS THAT MAKE FOR COMFORT AND LOOKS. Proper Way to Wash Heavy Coverings Cover-ings Roll for the Bed How Blankets and Comforters May Be Lengthened. To Wash Comforts. To wash comforts, com-forts, have a strong suds with half a cupful of borax in the bathtub. Fold the comfort with all the edges outside, out-side, lay it in the hot water, and leave for an hour. Then, with a brush not harsh enough to injure the cover, go over all the soiled . places; take the washboard, inverted, and pound thoroughly, thor-oughly, turning the comfort, but keeping keep-ing it in folds. When it looks clean, put a couple of sticks over the tub and hang the comfort to drip while the water in the tub is changed. Lay It In again and pound again. Hang up again to drip. Have two lines parallel in the yard and put the comforts over both. If there is both sun and wind the drying dry-ing will be easy. I have dried one successfully on a stepladder close to a hot radiator. The hotter it becomes the more fluffy the cotton. Roll for Bed. Material: One and one-half yards of cambric of any color, 36 inches wide; two and one-fourth yards of white dotted mull, or any other oth-er thin material; seven and one-half yards of lace, three inches wide, or a ruffle of white dotted mull edged with lace may be used; live and one-half yards of beading; five and one-half yards of ribbon; two and one-half yards of wide ribbon. How to make: Sew the colored cloth on selvage edges to form a tube. Sew the white cloth in the same manner. Sew' lace and beading around white tube, leaving back half of ends free. Tie ends of tube with wide' ribbon after placing pillows in tube. Run the aarrow ribbon through the beading. The colored tube may be buttoned at j I 1 |