American Agriculturist, February 17,1923 
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The Home Maker Learns How to Cut Glass 
Up-to-date Housewives Know Many Arts Besides Cooking and Sewing 
153 
A FILE, a poker, and the kitchen fire 
make a complete glass-cutting outfit 
for any home. With them—and the 
knowledge of how to use them—you 
can trim a pane for that odd-sized cellar 
window, or cut a glass for that oval 
picture frame you always forget to 
take to town with you. 
I learned how to use them through 
an acciden^. I hadn’t been married 
very long, and dinners and oven doors 
seemed much more important to me 
than they do now. Of course, I realize 
that no really experienced housewife 
would ever set a pan of water on top of 
her oil stove oven in the first place. But 
I did. Then I opened the oven door too 
quickly, and the water slopped over on 
the hot glass, cracking it in a dozen 
pieces. _ 
I couldn’t have it happen that morn¬ 
ing because my mother-in-law and my 
sisters-in-law were coming to a dinner 
that had to be cooked in that oven. As 
I say, I couldn’t have it happen. But 
it did. 
At the sound of the crackling glass, 
and my cry of dismay, the handy-man 
of the house hurried into the kitchen to 
learn the cause of the trouble. One 
glance assured him that there were no 
fatalities, and his first words were com¬ 
forting. 
“That isn’t the only glass in the 
world.” 
“I know it, but we have none that 
will anywhere near fit this door.” , 
“Oh, well. I’ll cut it to fit.” 
“Cut it? I thought you had to have 
a glass cutter or something like that 
to cut glass.” 
“No. All you need is a file and some 
kind of a poker.” 
We hurried out and got the glass, a 
file, and an old soldering iron in place 
of a poker. Then he put the soldering 
iron in the flame of my stove and 
turned his attention to the glass. 
“I don’t suppose you have any 
chalk?” 
Of course I hadn’t. 
“Well, J guess I can use this file for 
a marker.” 
The opening in the door was 7 x 14 
inches. Beginning at the corner of the 
pane, he marked off 7 inches in one 
direction and 14 inches in the other. 
'Then he measured the other two sides 
with a yard-stick and scratched the 
boundaries on the glass, using the yard¬ 
stick as a straight edge. 
Before the actual cutting began, he 
lifted the glass edgewise, and drew the 
file harshly across the upper comer of 
the edge just where the cutting began. 
That made a well-defined notch to serve 
as a starting point. 
By this time the soldering iron was 
red hot, and he took it from the fire. 
Holding the point just above the glass, 
he began at the notch and moved the 
hot iron very slowly along the line on 
which he wanted to part the glass. A 
tiny crack followed the poker. When 
it seemed to lag, he waited a bit till it 
caught up again. When he reached the 
corner on one line, he began again 
where the other boundary met the edge 
of the large pane, and led that crack 
right down to the corner again. Then 
my new oven door dropped away 
straight edged and exactly the right 
size. 
We have often used this simple 
method since that day. When a head¬ 
light breaks on the flivver, we draw a 
TO WEAK AT HOME OR WHEN YOU STIR ABROAD 
T AVO widely different styles for the woman, and a design which can be used 
for either school or “dress up” for the young girl, are shown this week. The 
blouse and skirt call for soft, figured silks, crepe or brocades; the house 
dress, since it needs a combination of materials, might be used for new goods 
or to rescue an old dress for make-over. 
If you can sew up a 
seam, you can make 
blouse 1653 and it 
takes only 2Vs yards of 
36-incli for the medium 
size. We advise the 
new printed silks—riot¬ 
ous colors or more sub¬ 
dued rich figures as 
you prefer. Three 
sizes, small, medium, 
large. Suitable for the 
large figure too, Pat¬ 
tern 12c. No trouble¬ 
some waistline with 
this pleated skirt! No. 
9826 is attached to a 
neatly fitted camisole 
with elastic instead of 
a tight waistband. The 
pattern comes in sizes 
16 years, 36, 40 and 44- 
inches bust measure. 
Size 36 requires SVt 
yards 36-inch. Pat¬ 
tern, 12c. 
“The boss of the 
house” must dress ac¬ 
cordingly. Gone are the 
sloppy mother Hub¬ 
bards of other days! 
Enter the trig smart¬ 
looking housewife of 
1923. No. 1543 is a 
work-frock which might 
easily be a play frock 
too. It has a modified 
bolero, becoming to al¬ 
most all women, com¬ 
bined with the loose 
long-waisted line which 
(thank heaven!) fash¬ 
ion decrees for all 
dresses now. Use ging¬ 
ham, chambray, ratine 
—almost any wash fa¬ 
bric. No. 1543 is, 
cut in sizes 34, 36, 38, 
40, 42, 44, 46 and 48- 
inches bust measure. Size 
36 requires 3 ’/j yards 
36-inch material, % yard 
36-inch contrasting, 
yards binding. Price 
12c. 
'T-a>*s . 
Slousc 
i(oS3) 
No. 1581 is the newest 
thing for the girl of “the awk¬ 
ward age!” Whether it be a 
schoolfrock in ratine, poplin or 
serge, or a party gown in crepe 
de chine, velvet or challis, trim 
it with embroidery in gay con¬ 
trasting colors and accent the 
neck (which may be square or 
round) and front side-closing 
by big buttonhole stitching of a 
bright shade. 
No. 1581 comes in sizes 4, 
6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. Size 
8 requires 2 yards 30-inch ma¬ 
terial. Pattern, 12c. Trans¬ 
fer No. 626 (blue) 12c. 
Going like hot cakes! 
Our spring book of fashions 
with its pages crammed 
full of useful and pretty 
designs to tempt the home 
dressmaker. The well- 
dressed woman cannot af- 
ford to miss it, for every model is stylish and up to date. 
The catalogue is 10c. Each pattern is 12c. We 
prefer to receive remittance in stamps as coins often are lost. If you send 
currency, wrap carefully. Be sure of exact numbers and sizes, write your 
name and address very clearly and mail your order to Fashion Depart¬ 
ment, American Agriculturist, 461-4th Avenue, N. Y. C. 
circle of the proper size on paper, and 
lay a piece of double-strength window 
glass over the pattern and cut out a 
new one. Indeed, for curves, the hot 
poker is better than the ordinary glass 
cutter, for the latter needs a solid pat¬ 
tern to work against, and the poker can 
be made to follow any design. 
MAKE TUESDAY WASH DAY 
JESSIE WALKER 
Why SO many women prefer Mon¬ 
day for wash day is beyond my com¬ 
prehension. In ,my estimation, it is 
the most undesirable day of the week. 
Tuesday is a much better day. Mon¬ 
day should be the day of preparation. 
The first thing on Monday morning, 
after the usual work is done,,! care¬ 
fully brush and put away all the 
garments worn on Sunday. Grease 
spots are removed and torn, places 
carefully mended. It is much better 
to patch a garment before it is washed 
and ironed as the patch then shows 
less, while it is also much easier to 
mend a soiled garment than a gar¬ 
ment starched and ironed. When the 
mending is all done, the clothes are 
assorted and put to soak or put into 
a tub ready for the water to be added 
at night. This takes only an hour 
on Monday morning, or sometimes a 
little more, and knowing that every¬ 
thing will be ready for the wash tub 
on Tuesday morning relieves one’s 
mind greatly. On wash day we do not 
dine on left-overs or at the side table, 
for the washing is all on the line be¬ 
fore time to get dinner. A good wash¬ 
ing machine and wringer and a man 
or big boy to manipulate them is a 
good help, but if you have none of 
these, use a good washing powder. 
Your paper is very popular.— Philip 
Menges, Chautauqua, N. Y. 
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Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer 
Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester of 
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