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Show 4- RiithWyethlpears A Dressing- Table Skirt With Corded Shirrings ery type of room and purpose. Making lampshades, rugs, ottomans otto-mans and other useful articles foi the home. Readers wishing a copy should send name and address, enclosing 25 cents, to Mrs. Spears,"" 210 South Desplaines St., Chicago, Illinois. -r- '"THIS dressing table has a curved front and hinged arms on which to mount the skirt so that it can be opened to permit access to the drawer. To mount the skirt it must first be sewed to a band of covered buckram. Cut the buckram in a strip 2 inches wide. Cover it with a straight piece of material as shown here at B. Make the heading at the top of the skirt just the depth of the thickness of the table edge so that it will cover the edge of the table -when the arms are closed. Use Yi-inch Yi-inch cable cord for the shirring. This is sewed to a safety pin and run through tucks stitched in the material as shown here at C. The top of the ruffle is also shirred with cords. When the shir-rings shir-rings are all finished, sew the top of the skirt to the covered buckram buck-ram strip as shown at D and then thumb tack it in place as at A. Every Homemaker should have a copy of Mrs. Spears' new book, SEWING. Forty-eight pages of step-by-step directions for making slipcovers and dressing tables; restoring and upholstering chairs, couches; making curtains for ev- r in What a difference good bowel y habits can make! To keep food 1 wastes soft and moving, many n doctors recommend Nujol. INSIST ON GENUINE NUJO C Jav 0 , 'Research Professor of Economy"'. SHE'S not a Th.D. or sn LL.D. Sho liasn t a diploma er a cap and gown. Hnr research in not dotio in tho lahoiatoiv or tlu Hbiarv. As a matter of fact, her limliiKjs aie mado, usually, in the sheet ear, in the subway, iu tli oubuiban commuter's tiain. Slo reads tho ndveitisements In this paper with caio and ivnsideia-Hon. ivnsideia-Hon. They form her research data. lv means ot them she makes her purchases so that nho well deserves the title ol "lieseau-h fiolessor et Kooiioiuy .'' Sho diseeveis Hem alter item, as tho years loll on, combining combin-ing huih quality with low. It is clear to you at once that you . . . and all who mako and Keep a homo . . . have tho samo oppoitiinilv With the help ot newspaper adveilisinci you, too can tjtaduato tiom Hi school ct indisctiinin.il buying Into tho faculty ol fastidious puichasesl '? i |