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equipped with covers of 
the same material as the 
counterpane, which can be 
removed at night and put 
on again in the morning. 
Or the pillows can be put 
away, or put out to sun 
every day and their place 
taken with a bolster. 
The handiest bolsters 
are made of cardboard, 
rolled and _ fastened to- 
gether, say ten inches in 
diameter, and covered first 
with white cloth and then 
with cretonne like the cov- 
erlid.. They are light and 
can be easily lifted out of 
the way to the top shelf in 
the closet each night, or - 
tossed on the chairs. 
The cushions for willow 
chairs and furniture are 
most attractively covered 
with cretonne. It requires 
very little material to make 
these cushions. and © the 
artistic housewife will take 
great pains in selecting a 
variety of designs which 
will “‘go” together. It is 
more restful. than - the 
repetition of the same pattern too often. 
stered easy chairs, cretonne has no equal. If the springs 
are in perfect condition, and the original cover has not be- 
gun to bag or sag it is an easy task to re-cover chairs. 
Patience and a tack hammer are about all the equipment 
needed. A ADs | 
A charming spare bedroom. may be. accomplished by 
papering the walls with cream tinted striped paper, tinting 
the ceiling light cream and:using gold picture molding. 
The floor is of golden oak and the furniture is enameled 
white. The draperies and bedspread are figured scrim 
with a delicate rose design. The spread must be used over 
a plain white underlining. 
Home-made rugs complete the floor. 
A guest chamber should have only what is necessary for 
the comfort of guests. With little care and pains, windows 
can be made pretty with little expense. One can purchase 
Cretonne cushions are used for 
the willow furniture 
_A divan built of packing boxes and covered with cretonne 
For use in coy- ; 
ering old-fashioned rocking chairs, and the popular uphol- | 
Box couches and bookcases are built in around the room 
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plain net or scrim and 
add a band of lace inser- 
tion and have the edge 
finished with lace. An- 
other pretty way is to buy 
a pretty design in the 
striped cretonne and ap- 
plique. with _ buttonhole 
stitch around the cut-out de- 
sign. One may use sash 
curtains full length or with 
an overdrapery gracefully 
thrown over the curtain 
pole. The edge should be 
finished with cotton fringe 
of the prevailing color. 
The illustration also shows 
a pretty stool which may be 
made from a butter tub. 
The lid may be hinged and 
the top padded with ex- 
celsior and cotton batting. 
Then cover with strong 
cloth to hold the materials 
in place and re-cover with 
cretonne, using _ brass 
headed tacks, and finish the 
bottom with a ruffle and an 
excelsior roll covered with 
cretonne and fastened at 
the top. 
The variety of devices 
for sewing materials which can be made from cretonne are 
unlimited. ‘There is the sewing screen, made over either an 
old or a new frame. It has no fixed rule of construction, 
but the handiest ones are those that fold into the centre 
panel and have pouches for materials, pegs for spools, a 
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- pin cushion, needle book, and hooks to hang scissors upon. 
Picture frames, pin trays, lamp shades, letter racks, pin 
cushions, and all sorts of fancy boxes can also be made of 
cretonne. None of these require much capital in dollars 
and cents, but they do require time and taste. 
It is with such devices that a touch of color can be intro- 
duced into the dimmed drawing-room, the worn-out library, 
or the familiar sitting-room. 
One yard of cretonne is sufficient to cover the largest 
lamp shade, and you can use the old frame and fringe. The 
simplest pattern is a square of the cloth thrown over the 
frame, with a hole cut in the middle for the collar around 
the projecting chimney. 
A rocking chair of excellent 
design 
