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Show Novel Use For a Clothes Basket If you do not want to go to tho expense ex-pense of a bassinet that baby will soon outgrow it is a good idea to utilize an ordinary clothes basket, Which may bo turned over to Its original or-iginal uso when baby Is ready for a crib. It pays to get a good quality wicker, for if handles givo way the contents will come to grief. Select n gwd slzo too, largo enough to accommodate ac-commodate an ordinary bed pillow simply flttod in for a mnttress. Tho sides should rise high enough above the pillow on tho sides to keep Master Mast-er Pnby safely ensconced. Lino tho bnskct with doublo layers of cotton wadding and after basting this in placo cover it with pink, bluo or white satin or cambric lining. The bottom of tho basket should bo put In hist to cover tho rough edges of the sides. Now tho basket Is ready for the third and Inst covering which may bo sheer muslin or point d'esprit or plain net shirred with a heading along tho top to hldo tho top edgo of tho basket. It is n little, troublesomo to stitch this Ino placo but you soon learn to find tho spaces In tho woven wov-en wicker, and heavy thread nnd n carpet needlo will do tho rest. Tho pillow should havo Its ordinary ordin-ary white linen or cotton slip, which can bo removed every day whon the pillow Is lifted out to air. A rubber and quilted mat will protect tho pillow, pil-low, and all can bo frequently lifted and renowod. The advantago of such a basket Is Hint tho baby Is protected from draft, and yet the basket Is easily carried from ono room to nn-othor nn-othor or to tho porch If necessary. Tho outsldo of tho basket is hotter loft uncovered becnuso it would soon got musty und dirty from usago and tho heavy willow g sufficiently or-lamented or-lamented in Itself. |