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Show MO W EjSj O wash knitted or crocheted mMi shawls, fold them as flat as K possible and lay carefully In a pillow case, run through at intervals with basting thread to keep flat. Then they should bo handled like other flannel or woolen goods. If washed separately, observe the ueual precautions for woolen goods, gently squeezing through the hands and keeping keep-ing the suds and rinsing water of tho same lukewarm temperature. Take out of pillow case, but do not hang knitted goods up to dry. Put In tho 01 en on a big platter, shaking and turning occasionally, or lay on a clean cloth in the sunshine. jyrgl N apron with pockets to hold fiy toilet articles. Make of blue l linen, have the pockets bound with whlto tape and the pocket flaps fastened with small white buttons; but-tons; pockets for soap should be lined with rubber and the powder case with chamois. In the different pocket piace a bottle of toilet water, a manicure set, a paper of pins, powder box and puff, soap and wash cloths. This apron will provo a blessing In a crowded sleeper dressing room. A kimono could also be made with pockets grafl WOMAN whose son was about fi Vj to marry a sweet girl sent with trJ her congratulations these lines, so well known: "Bo to his virtues very kind; Bo to his faults a littlo blind." And this is about the best advice a woman who knows her own son as no one olso can know him can give to his prospective wife, says a writer. And she might make up her mind to ubs her own advice in regard to her treatment of the girl when sho becomes her mother-in-law. SFgj T is not every one who knows SS -nat there is a Blmplo and easy rJRJB 11 way of sowing lace to a plain edge when tho lnco has to bo gathered. Thero is in almost every lace stout thread on tho plain edgo of tho laco, and this thread is for tho purpose of gathering tho laoo. Simply ' pull tho thread until tho laco has been ' gathered sufficiently and thon stroke It to get tho gathers oven. Tho lace is then ready to bo sowed to tho edge. " Thero aro a number of pcoplo who gather tho laco by hand becauso thoy 1 do not know of thiB thread, which t gathers it more evenly than it can bo t dono by hand. flfjTJl F you wish to braid your dres1 -, B K or those for the chlldron, 1 JJ B i' a braider which will flt your B machine, and if it has a t6nd- B ency to slip, uso the gauge as a clamp, B by fastening it at the right of the ,B pressor foot. Screw it tightly to tho B machine and you will And thc braider M will hold firmly in place. Insert the B braid so that it will not turn over in 'H the stitching. Press the material be- jB fore basting on the paper pattern. Put iH the pattern on the wrong side of tho H goods. Baste it well to prevent the H paper from slipping, or the design will H be crooked, for thc pattern will bo H turned hundreds of times in designing MMU even a small space. Use a fine cotton Mu thread and tho same In the bobbin and W on thc machine. Guide tho pattern to H always bring the needle down upon jH thc outline and watch all curves. H HP vou And upon your return IH home from a vacation that the 'jmm mahogany looks grayish and H grimy, don't be afraid to glvo jH it a good bath. Housewives do not H realize the value of soap and water H on old mahogany. It cleans the wood M as nothing else docs. Take a bowl or H a bucket of warm water, Into whien H has been put a tablespoon or more of H olive oil and a few shavings of castilo H soap. Use a soft spongo or a fresh H piece of cheese cloth. Wring it out in tho water, so that you will not ruin H tho carpet or the floor. Go Into all tho jH crevices of tho carvings with tho H cheese cloth wrapped about a Bmall H pointed stick. Be suro that every H piece of tho wood is dried with fresh H cheese cloth or a bit of soft flannel. H 0N attractive case for holding H ribbons is made of an odd- H length of silk or satin or a H strip of ribbon. A piece of H material, flowered silk or ribbon, 9M twelve Inches long by six incheB wide; W a skoln of white silk, a yard of whlto H ribbon, one-quarter-inch wide, and H twolvo yards of narrow ribbon suitable MM for,drawIng through underclothing are H required. Baste a narrow hem around MM tho matorlal and fold ovor the lower H edgo to within ono and one-half inches jH Df tho top. Featherstitch the hom and H JIvlda tho turncd-up portion into four Mm Dqual sections with tho white silk. JH From plain whito cardboard cut four H pieces to flt tho soctionB of the rib- jl ion case. Ovor these wind tho ribbons H md slip each Into its particular sec- IH ;lou. Fold over tho case and tia to- jM jether with the whito ribbon. JWM |