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March  25,  1916. 
From  Day  to  Day 
Reprieve 
Tlio  other  flay  it  dawned  on  me, 
A  sudden  shock  across  our  play ; 
He  is  so  old — the  miracle 
May  happen  any  day! 
This  miracle!  at  any  hour 
This  small  man-comrade  at  my  knee 
May  grave  upon  his  soul  his  first 
Clear  memory  of  me. 
Some  trivial  moment,  slackened  mood. 
Imperishably  there  may  trace 
My  picture,  as  at  heart  I  bear 
.My  sweet,  dead  mother’s  face. 
I- — I,  unworthy.  Let  me  bow 
( Like  kneeling  page  of  old.  to  feel 
Laid  on  his  shoulder,  stiff  and  shrewd, 
The  consecrating  steel ) . 
Abased  in  utter  thankfulness 
Before  the  mirror  of  his  eyes: 
lie  is  so  little  yet — I  still 
May  make  his  memories! 
— Charlotte  Wilson,  in  Scribner’s. 
* 
Patchwork  quilts  are  restored  to  favor 
nowadays ;  we  see  them  in  some  specialty 
shops,  or  advised  by  interior  decorators. 
We  have  been  interested  in  the  old  pat¬ 
terns.  and  have  planned  an  article  to  tell 
more  about  them  shortly,  illustrating  the 
descriptions  with  pictures  of  famous  obi 
designs  sent  us  by  a  Tennessee  corre¬ 
spondent.  We  were  interested  recently 
in  a  book  entitled  “Quilts — Their  Story 
and  How  to  Make  Them.”  by  Marie  D. 
Webster.  It  discusses  all  sorts  of  patch- 
work,  from  early  historic  records  to  the 
present  day,  displays  colored  illustra¬ 
tions  of  many  beautiful  designs,  and  gives 
the  names  of  468  patterns.  Some  of 
these  patterns  are  doubtless  duplicated 
under  different  names ;  we  do  not  find 
“honey  dish”  among  them,  which,  as  sent 
us  by  our  correspondent  in  Tennessee,  is 
known  in  New  Jersey  as  “the  wrench.” 
Miss  Webster’s  book  has  a  “piclcle  dish,” 
and  among  the  quaint  or  grotesque  quilt 
names  given  we  find  the  following :  Hair¬ 
pin  catcher,  hearts  and  gizzards,  tangled 
garters,  drunkard’s  path,  robbing  Peter  to 
pay  Paul,  fool’s  puzzle,  steps  to  the 
altar,  widower’s  choice,  Virginia  gentle¬ 
man,  way  of  the  world,  devil’s  claws. 
More  remarkable  oven  than  the  piecing  or 
patching  (applique  work)  of  the  quilts 
was  the  wonderful  quilting.  Our  modern 
woven  Marseilles  bedspreads  are  really 
an  imitation  of  the  elaborate  quilting, 
puffed  by  its  filling,  done  by  these  skilled 
household  workers.  Indeed,  in  looking  at 
this  old-style  work,  one  wonders  how 
women  ever  found  time  enough  with  all 
their  other  occupations,  to  do  it.  Any¬ 
one  who  possesses  these  elaborate  old- 
time  quilts  will  do  well  to  preserve  them 
carefully,  for  soon  the  finer  examples  will 
only  be  found  in  museum  exhibits. 
Little  pillows  of  various  sizes  are  a 
great  comfort  to  an  invalid  or  convales¬ 
cent,  in  resting  tired  muscles,  or  soften¬ 
ing  the  resting-place  of  aching  joints.  A 
little  pillow  TxlO  inches,  or  one  30x15, 
will  fill  up  many  chinks,  while  little  7x0 
pillows  may  be  use  for  elbow  rests  in  an 
easy  chair.  Feathers,  floss,  hair  or  lamb’s 
wool  are  suitable  for  such  pillows :  of 
course  down  is  the  acme  of  comfort. 
Many  of  us  who  have  been  working  for 
the  American  Red  Cross  have  been  snip¬ 
ping  up  the  fragments  left  from  our  sur¬ 
gical  dressings  into  filling  for  fracture 
pillows.  Present  Red  Cross  regulations 
call  for  a  mixture  of  raw  cotton,  shredded, 
mixed  with  the.se  snips ;  it  makes  a  soft 
pillow  that  does  not  mat  down  readily. 
The  same  idea  may  be  utilized  at  homo, 
for  it  makes  a  very  cheap  filling,  using 
any  soft  cotton  material  or  ravelings, 
mixed  with  the  raw  cotton,  a  pound  of 
cotton  going  a  long  way.  We  intend  to 
try  this  filling  for  porch  cushions  in 
Summer,  and  nearly  every  home  circle 
must  include  some  one,  aged  or  frail,  to 
whom  a  soft  little  “comfort  pillow”  would 
be  as  welcome  as  to  a  wounded  soldier. 
A  little  bag  of  old  but  clean  material, 
softly  stuffed,  and  with  -a  removable  cover, 
would  cost  almost  nothing,  but  mean 
much  in  comfort. 
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New  Spring  shoes  are  seen  in  a  light 
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picot,  4  double  stitches,  fasten  to  second 
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thread  left  from  the  other  clover  leaf  and 
pull  through  and  fasten  the  same  as  when 
fastening  to  picot.  Repeat,  being  sure  to 
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