1909. 
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Baby’s Handkerchief Cap. 
I have not seen an answer to the in¬ 
quirer who wished directions for mak¬ 
ing a baby’s handkerchief cap, and as 
1 have first finished one for a neigh¬ 
bor I decided to tell about it. I did 
not make it from a handkerchief, as 
the name would imply, but from a 
wide piece of embroidery left from a 
fine corset cover,* and I doubt if any 
fine-embroidered handkerchief would 
be large enough, though two exactly 
alike could be put together. First I 
took a piece of old cloth and made a 
cap to fit the baby’s head for a pattern* 
so I would run no risk of spoiling the 
embroidery. I took a strip of the em¬ 
broidery long enough to go around the 
baby’s head, measuring from beneath 
the chin up, and about two inches wider 
than the measure from the face to the 
center of the head in the back. It will 
look about like this: 
Q 
& 
I turned it back at the dotted line 
A. B. and cut it at the lines C. D. I 
hemmed it all around the ends and 
sides, making the hem Cl D. Id. C. a 
little more than a quarter of an inch 
wide, and the hem A. C. and R. C. 
wider. I then worked eyelet holes in 
the hem from C to D, making a piece 
that looked like this: 
I laced the eyelet holes- together with 
baby ribbon, tying it at C, and ran rib¬ 
bon through the hem DD, tying at D 
where I passed it through the first 
eyelets, drawing it to form crown. I 
then made strings from the plain cloth 
cut from the embroidered part, and 
trimmed them on the ends with the 
embroidered edge, which I sewed on 
with the seam on the right side and 
covered this with fine feather-edge 
braid. The cap is much daintier than 
I can show in a picture. When it is to 
be laundered the ribbons can be taken 
out and the cap spread perfectly Hat to 
he ironed, and as the baby grows the 
part turned back can be gradually made 
narrower mid the lower hem let out, 
which will make it large enough for a 
long time. mrs, s. r. Johnson. 
A Sewing-Room Hint. 
One of the neatest ways of trimming 
wash dresses is to stitch on, by ma¬ 
chine, bias or straight bands of the 
goods, or of a contrasting color or 
white. For a variation the same trim¬ 
ming may be applied as a binding or 
piping, if it is desired to make many 
garments by this plan. I find it an es¬ 
pecially desirable way of trimming chil¬ 
dren’s dresses, as it accords well with 
the popular styles and is very easily 
ironed. The prettiest every-day dresses 
my little girls have are of blue and 
white checked apron gingham, the small 
check; one trimmed with bias bindings 
of white lawn, and two with bias bands 
of the gingham, edged with bias pipings 
of white lawn. Hamburg edging or 
lace would appear fussy with such ma¬ 
teria 1 .. Simplicity always makes for 
elegance, especially in working out 
color effects. In making up a mixed 
plaid of various colors the trimming 
or plain goods used with it should al¬ 
ways match the darkest color. 
Percales are very useful, as they 
wear so well, and keep their color to 
the end. Tn trimming them with bands, 
if they are dark grounds and white 
THtK RURAL NEW-YORKEK 
patterns the bands should be of white, learning anything about home-making, 
and if light grounds and dark pattern The sewing bureau therefore encour- 
the trimming preferably matches the ages them to use the needle, especially 
pattern in color. A bright red polka-dot in making baby clothes ,and gives them 
on white, trimmed with bias bands of helpful instruction. I hey are thus 
the goods edged with pipings of plain taught to make the most of their means, 
bright red, makes a veyr dainty com- and rendered more efficient, without the 
bination for a little girl. The bias 
band of the goods should be cut so- that 
a row of polka dots runs directly 
through the middle of the band. With 
percale of a red background and white 
pattern, a- plain red band matching per¬ 
fectly,. is much better than white, as aroum i a three-inch card 400 times; tie 
the red-bodied percales are not itsttally j n the middle, clip the ends, and then 
of a bright red I one time trimmed surround the rosette with loops of baby 
loss of self-respect that comes with so- 
called “charity.’* 
A handy safety pin cushion has for 
its foundation a round flat satin cushion 
filled with bran or sawdust. A shaggy 
rossette is made by winding silkateen 
ribbon; put this on the top of the 
cushion, and hang it on the wall. Fasten 
large safety pins around the lower half 
of the cushion, and put a chain of small 
ones, looped one within the other, hang¬ 
ing from the center of the rosette. 
Ffuckleberry Breakfast Cake.—One 
quart of flour,, one pint of sour milk, 
half a cup of butter, one even cup of 
sugar, three eggs, three cups of ber¬ 
ries, one teaspoonful of soda sifted 
with half a teaspoonful of salt twice 
through the flour. Rub butter and su¬ 
gar to a cream, beat in the eggs, the 
milk, the flour, then the berries, which 
should be first picked over, washed, 
dried and rolled in the flour until well 
covered. Stir in quickly and lightly 
and bake in two broad pans. Cut into 
squares with a sharp knife and eat 
warm. 
Here is Mrs. Emma Paddock Tel¬ 
ford’s recipe for Nebraska corn bread: 
Put two rounding tablespoon fuls of 
lard into a frying pan and melt it. Make 
a batter with two cupfuls of cornmeal, 
two beaten eggs and one level tea¬ 
spoonful of soda dissolved in two cup¬ 
fuls of sour milk. Pour one-half of 
pretty” stopped short of the melted lard into the batter, beat 
n and pour the batter into the frying pan. 
_ J ' Set the pan on top of the stove where 
- T ... . TT it will cook slowly, covering with a tin. 
1 he Needle As An Uphfter. When the top seems firm turn the 1 pan 
There is. one sewing establishment in over on a trn plate and lay the loaf 
New York which will not employ skilled 
such a dress with the goods wrong 
side out, because I could not match it 
perfectly. A poor match is worse than 
no trimming; a contrast is always bet¬ 
ter. 
With a dress of navy blue percale, 
bands of white percaline are a very 
dressy finish. Of course, percaline is 
a lining material, but it looks so pretty 
that no one asks its name, and with a 
rich, fine, navy percale it looks at a lit¬ 
tle distance exactly like ribbon trim¬ 
ming. I was making such a dress for 
myself one time, small white polka 
dots on fine navy blue percale, trimmed 
with bands of percaline. My honest 
little four-year-old was watching very 
intently, and finally gave her verdict in 
a serious earnest way. 
“Mamma,” she said, “when you put 
that dress on you’ll be awful, awful 
pretty, clear up to your face!” 
I had to look very pleasant when I 
wore that dress, so the folks would for¬ 
get that the 
my face. 
workwomen, and which loses money 
every year as a matter of business. This 
sounds like poor judgment, yet it is 
really a deliberate and thoughtful in¬ 
vestment. The establishment in ques¬ 
tion is the sewing bureau of the Asso¬ 
ciation for Improving the Condition of 
the Poor. The sewing bureau is a part 
of its relief department. There are 
many cases where a woman who is des¬ 
perately poor wants some work, which 
will enable her to care for her children 
and keep house while earning a trifle. 
The sewing bureau gives her, ready cut 
out, baby dresses or aprons, with thread 
and needles for making them. She gets 
four garments at a time; when they are 
finished she receives 80 cents for the 
work, and 10 cents carfare. She can 
then get four more, though a limit is 
put on the number for a week. The 
finished garments are sold to the very 
poor for the cost of the material, thus 
causing a loss on each garment, but it 
must be rbmetnbered the money paid for 
the sewing has helped supply absolute 
necessities to a family in distress, while 
the garment itself has covered a naked 
baby. Only those who have seen such 
cases as one coming under our personal 
observation, where a baby nine months 
old had never had a single garment in 
the course of its short life, being 
merely wrapped in an old piece of cot¬ 
ton goods, can understand the need for 
such clothes among the very poor. In 
one year the sewing bureau gave out 
2f>,170 garments, the making of which 
aided 491 different women. For sewing 
and carfares, $4,285.80 was paid, and the 
material cost $2,558. The total sales 
amounted to only $1,048.82, but 11,357 
garments were given away. Seven thou¬ 
sand one hundred and sixty-nine other 
garments were made without charge for 
the hospital. It is a surprising fact that 
many of the women who apply for this 
work have to be taught the simplest 
kind of sewing; they have not the least 
idea jiow to use a needle. These are 
women who have drifted along without 
any proper bringing up, working in a 
factory, and finally marrying without 
back with the top down in the pan. 
In a few minutes this side will be 
browned a little. 
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