THE OOLOOIST. 



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RENOVATING OF PILLOWS. 



How to Fill Them With Feathers 

 Without Losing Many. 



Renovating pillows is of vast impor- 

 tance during tbe house cleaning sea- 

 son. Stuffing in more feathers when 

 your pillows wear soft is a thing most 

 inexperienced housekeepers dread, and 

 with good reason, for unless it is done 

 just so the feathers fly every which 

 way, bits of the soft down clinging to 

 hair and dress and everything in the 

 room with a persistence remarkable in 

 such apparent]5- yielding things. When 

 that necessary time comes around, 

 ihut yourself up in as empty a room 

 as you can get (a small one is best), 

 taking all the pillo"\\'S which need fill- 

 ing, a case full of feathers (or another 

 pillow from which you purpose to re- 

 plenish the others), strong thread and 

 stout needles and a knife for the rip- 

 ping. 



Tuck your hair up- under a cap or 

 tie a big handkerchief over it. Don't 

 wear a cloth dress to do the work in, 

 even though you take the precaution to 

 put on a big work apron— the kind that 

 covers you up from throat to hem. 

 Tliose feathers have a way of creeping 

 along the floor— the slight drafts of air 

 caused by your movements being suffi- 

 cient excuse— and attaching them- 

 selves to the hem of your dress. 



Close doors and windows before you 

 begin your work. Then with your 

 knife rip open the end of a pillow and 

 the end of the one whose contents are 

 to be divided among the others. An 

 old method was to transfer the feath- 

 ers by handfuls, pressing each little 

 lot well down before taking another. 

 But a better way is to insert the ripped 

 end of the pillow to be emptied into 

 that of thi! one to be filled and then to 

 Shake down enough to make it fairly- 

 but only fairly— hard. Then slip your 

 hand inside and push the remaining 

 feathers far back, at the same time 

 •working the edges of the ticking to- 

 gether. When you finally separate 

 them there Avill be fewer feathers set 

 flying around aimlessly than in any 

 other way. 



Pin the seam of the filled pillow to- 

 gether and begin on the next, doing all 

 of them before you sew up any, but 

 seaming them all before yow leave the 

 room. 



How to Renovate an Old Waist. 



Last season's waists were made 

 much narrower in the shoulders than 

 this year's, and the sleeves simply 

 were immense. If j'ou have a waist 

 which has sleeves made of the same 

 material as your waist and which are' 

 too large, it probably also has a yoke 

 of some shape of net. Maj'be your- 

 waist, especially if it is of silk or satin,, 

 is worn under the arms. If you have a 

 few pieces of velvet or silk you can: 

 make your waist as good as new and 

 in a pretty, up to date style. Rip the 

 sleeves out and cut the armhole from 

 two to four inches larger, or enough 

 larger so that all the worn part is cut 

 away. Cut the neck round, if it was 

 V shaped or square, and finish it with 

 a half inch wide band of velvet or silk 

 and sew a band of the same material 

 into the large armhole. This band 

 should be two or two and a half inches 

 wide. Make a belt of the same ma- 

 terial. If the old waist blouses too 

 much it should be let down an inch or 

 so. This will give you a pretty, mod- 

 ern overblouse, which may be worn 

 over lingerie, net or lace blouses. 



How to Amuse Children. 

 When children become restless on a 

 rainy day a good way to keep them 

 amused is to give them an old tomato 

 basket, some white cloth and thread. 

 They can make little rafts, canoes and 

 boats out of the basket, using the 

 cloth for sails, and with the use of the 

 bathtub will keep themselves busy the 

 rest of the day. 



How to Soothe Tender Feet. 



It is a clean and dainty habit to be 

 as particular about the condition of 

 the feet as the hands. In many cases 

 the same preparations may be used on 

 both. Daily baths in camphorated oil 

 or cologne water are refreshing if the 

 feet are tender and sensitive. 



