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Show I Woman's Page Lore For the Trousseau How to Buy and What to Buy for Your Trousseau New Trick of Buying Machine Scalloped Towels and Going Over Them Yourself Bath Towels With Initial in Cross-stitch Four to Six Dozen Towels Needed Care of the Egg Beater Care of I the Piano Pretty Things for Baby Substitutes I For Cream and Butter. tO RE FOR THE TROUSSEAU. To the girl who has never learned that useful trick of embroidery, that almost every one else seems to know, , the Idea of collecting a trousseau ap-; ap-; pears quite appalling, especially if she' cannot afford to pay some one else to embroider towels and linens for her. But if she really wants pretty towels and lingerie enough to work If over them and will undertake the task Y in a sensible manner, choosing only simple designs, which may be made quite as effective with a little lace and hand-sewn seams, she will have , i just as pretty a trousseau as her ac-; ac-; complished sister, who has acquired more skill from years of practice. ; In the first place, towels done in i cross-stitch are in great favor just 5 now, and if one chooses a certain . style of letters and uses them on - ' various sizes on all her towels, she : will find her bathroom will look most I ; attractive, quite as much so as if her i ; towels were all elaborately embrold-'. embrold-'. ! ered in white. j 1 It gives a very much prettier effect if one will decide on either pink or j r blue for her bathroom and then use i : only that color, or If blue be the fa- ', vorlte shade, blue letters with tiny pink flowers and green leaves will h give just enough variety to add a r touch of style. Cross-stitch is very easy work, and requires only a little care before one becomes quite skill- ff ul. Another little trick is to buy towels '' in a good quality with the scallops done by machine and then go over it by hand, the machine work furnish-r furnish-r ing the best kind of padding. After a little practice one will find that li even initials are not difficult, the large f ones being much easier than small ones. If she can draw a little trall-i trall-i ing vine with dots for flowers and i simple leaves, winding around the i letters, it will add greatly to the ef-5. ef-5. feet and will also detract from the ; " severity of the letters themselves, ; , so that any uneven stitches are less '. 1 apt to show. ', Bath towels especially are effective .; with one big letter in cross-stitch, j! while if one wishes it is very easy ?? to buttonhole a big scallop along the 1, edge, and thus have a wonderfully t ! good looking towel to hang up for , "looks," a thing every bride thinks i . much of. Quite a little money may be saved ' by buying remnants of huck and damask dam-ask in, the shops and scalloping the ends at home. A scallop, of course, requires less material than hemstitch's hemstitch-'s Ing, and as towels vary from a yard ' ?i long for an ordinary size to forty-! forty-! two inches for a large one, one can s cut the "remnant into the size -one ' i prefers, taking into-consideration, of ' x course, the width of the material, f while guest towels are generally about I twenty-four Inches in length. 1 Scallops may be drawn around a I quarter or half dollar or indelible pail pa-il per designs purchased in the shops that can be transferred to the material by pressing with a hot iron. For padding the letters and scallops scal-lops there is a cord that comes for this purpose in several sizes and makes this work much eaBior and also gives a better effect than a beginner can possibly do otherwise, for it id on the padding of the letters that the finished work depends. As to the number of towels required, re-quired, it depends, of course, greatly on the amount of money one can afford af-ford to spend, but four to six dozen towels are plenty for any two people; peo-ple; and if one watches the sales, which take place constantly, good huck towels may be picked up for 25 cents apiece, bath towels for the same price, while damask and fine huck may be purchased for 35 to 60 cents each, when soiled. A dozen damask or finer huck towels, tow-els, a dozen bath towels, a dozen guest towels and a half-dozen each of fine "dress-up" towels, will give a good supply, while an extra dozen each of huck and Turkish ones may be added If one can afford It. In the huck towels one often finds a good style with a small blue or pink dot woven in the border, which 1b very effective if the letters are done in cross-stitch In a corresponding shade, and bath towels, too, come with blue and pink lines woven in wash cloths may be purchased to match. |