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Would cost $5 to manufacture. — _ _ 
Size 5 to 15. Fifteen months 
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Army Gauntlet MITTS 
29c 
These are heavy lea¬ 
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with extra knitted 
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Satin Striped Bed Spreads 
$1.79 
72”x90 ’. These 
are basket 
weave, white 
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Shipping .wt., 
3 lbs. 
each 
plus parcel 
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weal lWi j 
$2.48 
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17’ xl 8 ’’ — No More Than THREE To a Customer. 
19c EACH-THREE FOR 55c 
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United States Government 
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Size 8^2 to 15. Plain, smooth 
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per pair, plus 
parcel post. Shipping wt. 5 lbs. 
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Some Workable and Profitable Ideas for 
Fairs 
It has been my privilege for several 
years to work in fairs for churches, and I 
have found some very simple, workable 
plans, any one of which is within reach of 
the women who read The R. N.-Y. 
Bean bags are always salable. We 
raised a good many beans, and there are 
always some that are stained and for 
other reasons are unfit to use. I save 
these and make bean bags which sell 
readily at five cents each. The bag itself 
is made from pieces left from dresses, 
aprons, shirts, etc. 
Save all the glass jars in which mus¬ 
tard or mayonnaise dressing comes. Soak 
the labels off, wash well and you have a 
nice clear container, with a screw top. 
Fill these with jelly beans, which can 
be purchased in the chain stores for 20c 
a lb. One lb. goes quite a way and the 
jars sell for 10c or 15c each, according 
to size. 
I make my own hard soap for the 
kitchen, cut it into convenient squares 
and wrap it up in dish cloths, which can 
either be knitted at home or bought, and 
will bring 15c each on the utility or 
domestic table. 
Last, but not least, rag rugs. Now, 
when I say this, perhaps some readers 
will sigh and think—that takes so much 
time. Let me tell you how our ladies did 
last year, and are starting in again the 
same way this year. In January we is¬ 
sued the call for each lady to sew a pound 
of rags and as much more as she could, 
and in May we collected them, and sent 
them to the weavers to be woven into 
rugs for our fair in July. We had over 
50 lbs., and with some rugs we had 
donated we had 26 lovely rugs and our 
profits on these were possiblv .$80. They 
sold each for $1.00 to $1.50 and $2.00 
each. They sold readily. I have found 
the following a very easy way to start 
the ‘‘ball rolling” (I mean the carpet rag- 
ball). When I sit down to look over my 
stockings, and find some unfit for wear 
again, I cut out the feet for the rag bag 
and then cut up the remainder in strips 
and sew, and wind into a ball. When 
once started, it is so easy to add to it. 
If these hints are as helpful to the 
readers as they have been to me I shall 
be very thankful. minister’s wife. 
“Why didn’t you play 
when he asked you to? 
/ think your boss is a peach — I'm mighty glad you 
invited him out here. He seemed to have a good 
time, didn’t he?” 
Yes. But why didn t you play the piano when he 
asked you to?” 
Its this way, Jack. Everything had impressed him 
favorably. You wouldn’t have had me spoil it by play¬ 
ing on our jangling piano, would you? Why, he’d have 
remembered that and forgotten everything else.” 
yj 
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Do any of the readers use their woolen 
scraps to make crazy patchwork com¬ 
forts? They are quickly and easily made 
by taking an old sheet for a foundation 
and sewing on the scraps, “hit or miss,” 
with the sewing machine. Be sure to 
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they do not pull apart. After all the 
pieces are on take a darning needle, 
thread with bright-colored yarn and 
feather-stitch, or use any fancy stitch, 
along the seams. Try to distribute your 
pieces so the colors will not run in a 
bunch. If you have different colored 
yarn it will look better than one color 
alone. _ You can use embroidery thread if 
you wish, but this does not show up so 
well when it is finished, and is slower to 
work with. Your scraps need not be new. 
If you have pants, coats, vests, skirts 
or any clothes that are past wearing, cut 
out the good parts. They should be well 
washed and pressed. Old velvet or cloth 
hats should also be ripped apart and used. 
After you finish your top you are ready 
to knot your comfort. Stretch the top in 
first, place your bats next and lastly your 
lining. Dark blue, brown, red, or gray 
plaid outing flannel makes the best 
linings. Now take yarn or carpet warp 
of a shade to contrast with your lining 
and knot so that the knots will be on the 
lining side when used. Of course if you 
prefer you may have the knots on the 
top, but it does not look so well with 
all the knots, embroidery, and different 
color pieces mixed up together. I am 
making a cover at present for the living- 
room couch out of the children’s Winter 
coat scraps. And their coats and hats 
were made of my old ones! 
I have a comfort of this sort that I 
use in the car to bundle the babies in 
when w r e go out during cold weather. 
We can’t afford a closed or heated car, 
but we bundle up and visit our city 
friends, anyway. Some of them get real 
“fussed up” when I drop in on them un¬ 
expectedly, like they do on me during the 
Summer months, but I always tell I 
know how it feels to get company when 
you are not looking for it, because that’s 
rhe way folks visit me! Some of them 
have taken the hint, and are showing 
more consideration than formerly, and 
I’m hoping some of the rest will do like¬ 
wise. I got enough experience in one 
Summer in getting up quick meals for 
folks who dropped in at mealtime to 
run a quick-order restaurant. “mom.” 
I F they had only owned a Weaver Piano! Then they 
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