OCR Text |
Show THE HOME This Department is Edited by Miss Hazel Love of the Agricultural Agricul-tural College. A SWEATER FOR THE ICE PITCHER. By Agnes Overton. The sweater is not for winter wear only. In the summer it may serve to keep out the heat, at least, that is the purpose of the one that is worn by the ice pitcher. Cool water may be kept in the cooler; cool-er; but sonic people prefer iced lemonade lemon-ade and other fruit drinks to just plain water, and no one would think of filling fill-ing the cooler with lemonade. A big pitchcrful is quite another matter, and it will not grow warm and stale if it is covered by a sweater. Should the housewife happen to have, among her possessions, the lining lin-ing of an old opera cloak, she can make sweaters for herself and several friends. If there is no such convenient conven-ient piece of quilted satin in the attic, at-tic, she will have to purchase, a piece or use ordinary sheet cotton and any desired outer cover. It need not be quilted. First, a pattern must be cut, shaped like half of an eclipse, and both high and wide enough to cover the pitcher for which it is to be used. With this pattern, cut two pieces of the cloak lining (or the substitute for it), two pieces of thin oil cloth and several sheets of heavy paper, such as soft manila. The satin is the outside of the sweater and the shiny surfaces of the oil cloth must come next to the pitcher, pit-cher, for it is more than probal)lc that it will perspire, on a warm summer day when it is filled with some sparkling, sparkl-ing, iced beverage. The sheets of paper pa-per arc to be placed between the inner in-ner side of the oilcloth and the cotton. cot-ton. When each side of the sweater has been laid together, it must be basted all round to hold the various layers I in place. Put the shiny surfaces of r the oilcloth together and sew the cur- ved edge of the two halves together ' with stout thread. J The raw edge may be finished off I with ribbon or cord, and the sides may be embellished with monograms or any desired ornament. The sweater is quite as useful if its sides arc left plain. Even when the materials have to be purchased new, this cover for the ice pitcher will pay for itself in a few days in the quantity of ice that is saved. And a refreshing beverage may be kept on the sideboard all during dur-ing the hot summer afternoon, with the use of very little ice. |