1914. 
THE RURA.lv NEW-YORKER 
407 
Made-over Handbags. 
There is no accessory that wears out 
sooner than a handbag, and I am sure 
there is hardly a woman who cannot find 
at least one such frame among her be¬ 
longings. Although the bag is worn out 
you have disliked to throw the handsome 
frame away. Now is the time to make 
use of it. No matter what it is, silver, 
gilt or leather, bring it out and utilize 
it for one of the useful and smart little 
fabric bags that are to be all the rage 
this Spring. Two of these are pictured, 
and they are simple enough to copy. In¬ 
deed. the clever woman can originate still 
other and more attractive designs to suit 
her materials and individual require¬ 
ments. 
For the first bag, the scrap-bag yielded 
a piece of heavy pale mauve silk—a left¬ 
over from a blouse. Two eight by 10- 
inch pieces were folded together and the 
four corners rounded. One section was 
placed in an embroidery hoop and five 
clusters of flowers outlined with a pencil, 
—roses, forget-me-nots, violets, or any 
small blossom may be used. These were 
embroidered with dark mauve chenille, 
simply outlining and using lazy-daisy 
stitch. The effect was of flowers that 
could be picked. A side plaiting of inch¬ 
wide black satin ribbon was then basted 
designs with a lead pencil, merely dot¬ 
ting where a bead should be sewed. The 
bag was attached to the silver mounting 
exactly like the mauve silk one, with the 
exception that there were apertures iii 
the mounting through which the needle 
could be thrust in securing the fabric. 
A black silk cord was twisted twice, and 
used for a handle. 
Either of these bags may be varied 
to suit the materials at hand. If there 
is neither time or inclination to embroid¬ 
er or bead a bag, there are lovely tapes¬ 
tries already “embroidered.” and velvets 
with flowers in the most realistic designs. 
It is really not so much a question of 
“lack of time” as taking advantage of 
spare moments. Ten cents worth of 
embroidery silk or beads will be the max¬ 
imum expenditure, unless a tassel or bit 
of cord is required. Personally, I think 
nothing could be handsomer than a black 
velvet bag with a little “seed” bead de¬ 
sign of Crimson Rambler roses, a green 
bead leaf showing now and then. 
LOUISE E. DEW. 
Hospital Stories. 
Grewsome things sometimes happen at 
the hospitals and sometimes very funny 
ones. Two men were In a hospital as 
patients, their names the same. One had 
a fine family grieving over his illness, the 
FTII.IZING THE OLD MOUNTINGS. 
No. 1. Home-made bag of mauve silk, 
combined with black satin plaiting, and 
mounting. 
around the embroidered section to the 
place where it began to curve for the 
mounting. The other section was basted 
to it, and the two sections sewed at one 
stitching. A lining of mauve silk cut 
the exact size of the outer sections was 
then fitted, it having already been 
stitched separately from the outside 
pieces. When the lining was slipped into 
the bag proper, it was secured at the top 
by turning in both the bag and lining and 
overcasting the two, ready to attach to 
the mounting. The latter, by the way, 
had already been freshened by covering 
with black satin to match the plaiting 
around the bag. 
The bag was first secured to the mount¬ 
ing at the corners. The center of the 
fabric was then attached, to the center of 
the mounting. It was an easy matter to 
blind-stitch the remaining portion of the 
hag to the mounting rrom the inside, 
using black button-bob' twist. An inch 
strip of the mauve silk, interlined with 
buckram, was stitched for a strap to 
carry the bag by. It was secured to the 
mounting by slipping the ends through 
the little rings, loop-fashion, sewing firm¬ 
ly in place with mauve silk thread to 
match. A black silk tassel with a bit 
of silk cord garniture was sewed to the 
embroidered side of the bag, giving a 
jaunty finish. 
A rose velour bag is pictured in 
No. 2. The girl happened to have 
an old silver mounting she had 
been saving, for raony years. When 
she saw an imported novelty bag 
in a city shop that was marked at a 
price that staggered her. she decided to 
copy the accessory and utilize the antique 
mounting. A piece of the rose velour 
from an old portiere was folded double, 
and rounded at the lower corners. At the 
upper section, the mounting was placed 
on it. and shaped accordingly. The vel¬ 
our was then seamed, and lined with a 
piece of the brocaded silk from the por¬ 
tiere also, which was left over from the 
loose coat fronts, recently cut away. But 
before lining, the velvet was placed on a 
tiny embroidery hoop, and beaded in a 
floral design, using black and pale rose 
beads for the purpose. It was the 
simplest thing imaginable to outline the 
No. 2. Itose velour bag with flowers 
beaded. 
other seemed alone. The lone one died. 
The name was looked up. getting the ad¬ 
dress of the family man and word sent. 
A sobbing wife soon arrived, almost help- 
loss from shock and grief, accompanied 
by a couple of friends to take care of 
what was left of the loved one. Imagine 
their feelings when they found the dead 
man they were dreading to see a burly 
negro of the blackest type! 
An Italian was ill and went to a hos¬ 
pital. After the usual bath, clean gar¬ 
ments and examination, he was resting 
comfortably waiting the effects of the 
medicine administered. Another Italian, 
an anxious friend, came next day. who 
could not speak English. He gesticulated 
wildly and his face denoted great suffer¬ 
ing, as he tried to make himself under¬ 
stool. Hurried attendants, as liis trou¬ 
ble could not bo learned, grasped him 
and by main force, against struggles and 
resistance gave him a good bath and put 
him in a clean bed to await examina¬ 
tion. Being put in the same ward as the 
first man. who could speak English, it 
was soon learned that he was not ill but 
had called to see his friend, and so re¬ 
ceived an unexpected and unwelcome 
bath. 
In a large city at one of the hospitals 
where there is much dispensary charity 
work done, on Christmas Day over one 
hundred little poor children were invited. 
Seated by tables all around the room they 
enjoyed their beautiful tree. There was 
a present for each, and a stocking full of 
toys and goodies, and in the toe of each 
stocking a silver quarter. The quarter 
was a great surprise, many never having 
had one before. One little fellow said: 
“It’s a real nickel,” another “Ain’t it a 
fake?” CLARA T. SISSON. 
Cost and 
Comfort 
ost of leather is jumping higher. More leather is used 
The automobile makers alone take enough to put the 
That is why leather shoes cost more than ever before. 
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