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Show How to Make a Motor Pillow A SMALL pillow that she can use in the motor during the day when oil on trips and at night as a head I rest has been arranged by one .girl who likes creature comforts and yet knows that small space for luggage is allowed her in the car. Have a cushion at her back when driving she will, and also she likes a small one to place beneath her head at night. To be allowed to 'take two she was not, and she found herself confronted by u problem. The reason of this was that the only pructicnl covering for the rubbing and dust of the day wear was soft leuther, and leather, as every one knows, hns n strong uaor and is not pleasant to sleep on. So finally she hit upon the plan of making her own leather over so it would' slip on, and carried linen ones for night. j It seemed a simple matter to buy a leather case, but such a thing was not to be had save by ordering, which would take more time than she could wait, j Therefore the girl set about to make hers. I Kuyiug two soft skins, she cut the .case the size suited to the cushion, adding lan extra inch to turn under. On three sides she stitched it, turning the four corners that those at the edge to be left open should he square and well shafted. Then she bethought that unless there wag some protection dust of the' day would settle in the open side, soiling tbe whito pillow. To uvold this she cut a flap four inches wide, the length of the case. This she basted inside across tho open, mnking It serve as a wide tongue. Then, basting back uudernenlh the extra ipch of leather, sho put the case in the machine and sewed it, using heavy twist, making tho efTect of a wide hein about the whole cushion. At each corner of the "tongue" she sewed u small hook and 'an eye to eoi respond on the inside of the case to 1 hold the corners down when tho cushion j was In ff To dose the two dgcs there were leather 1 button and buttonholes. ' ' I, To slip the pillow Into this was the w;ork of only a moment and the fasten-; ings held it securely protected from dust.' When she wanted to use it in the houss;. the cushion was taken out, the leather; case put aside and ono of white linen sub- J Btituted. |