Daily Tribune, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 28 November 1915 — Page 22

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I" ""1 N darning on the machine it I doeB not make any difference what the piece may be, table cloths, napkins, socks, stockings, or anything that has a hole in, take the foot of the machine off and run the stitches all the way across the hole just as you do by hand, then across the other way, juBt as you would if done by hand, only it is done so much neater. Use an embroidery hoop to hold the goods firm and even, put it oyer the hole, and slide under the foot of machine whatever color the material is, use the same color thread.

VERY girl should have at least one pair of silk stockings given her at Christmas. They are so dainty and Christmasy. One girl has devised a pretty gift for a friend by embroidering her a pair of silk stockings. This is very easy to do a little flower, a tiny design of some sort, an initial in the favorite color of the person for whom it is intended. It should be done on a darning egg, with a fine needle and a fine thread. The stocking must be held very tight otherwise when it is put on it will tear around the embroidery. One -should be careful to see that the design is put on in the right place, in the exact middle of the stocking, and starting at the bend of the ankle.

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washing colored goods add vinegar in the proportion of a tablesponful to a Quart of water. It will brighten blue,

green, red and pink goods which have faded, and prevent the color from running. Tumblers usually contain about ten ounces liquid each tea cups about six ounces wine glass, two ounces a tablespoon, one-half an ounce a deseertspon, two drachms, and a teaspon, one drachm. Salt and water will prevent the red borders in towels, etc., from running if the towels are steeped in it for twenty-four hours.

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sewing buttons on a little child's dress run a tape down the wrong side first, then sew on buttons the desired dis

tance apart. You will find the buttons will never tear away from the goods, no matter how hard wear it is given. Worsted sweaters are much more easily made by hand than those of silk.

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as silk Is very much more difficult for an amateur to manipulate. A ready-to-wear sweater may be made very smart looking by adding collar and cuffs of blue or rose-colored broadcloth. A hood or scarf intended for outing wear may be decorated across the front and ends with crocheted flowers, which will give it a very original touch. When embroidering a piece of work which requires shading, the sewer will find it very convenient to have a needle for each color used and use them in succession as each color is required in her work. You will never find an experienced embroiderer confining herself to one needed where a number of colors have to be used alternately.

PIECE of thick white flanuel is the best material for malting a knife and fork holder. Take a piece about eighteen inches

long and fifteen inches wide, sew two piece of tape through the center, stitching the tape in sections so that each section will hold a fork or knife. Over the article lay a piece of flannel, roll all together and tie with the tape fastened at one end. These little affairs can be made of flannel, covered with cretonne and finished with wash ribbons, making neat presents.

CLEVER Wellesley girl is making all her pocket money painting silk belts for fellow students. These hand-painted belts

are the rage in the east and college girls have adopted the craze because it permits of distinctivenes in this necessary adjunct to feminine fixing. Grosgrain, or watered belt ribbon, an inch or an inch and a half wide, is used and the design chosen may correspond to the frock or it may form a dainty color touch in an altogether white costume. Flowers are tha favorite decorations. Wild roses, buttercups or daisies, arranged in clusters or in a conventional design, are done in water-color paints on the ribbon, which is preferably white. The design can cover the belt or simply form a central decoration in the back, Another painted belt can be made of taffeta ribbon, with violets, forget-me-nots or any favorite flower scattered over it. A cloisonne or gold buckle is used to hold the ribbon together.

Later in the day, however the words of the first girl came back to the older woman, and she wondered how many of the friends who had been so dear and so necessary to the popular girl under discussion a few months previously she now corresponded with.

Some of us make so many, others make so few. Some people are so hard to make friends with, and we discover, when it is too late, that they have really been wanting to be friendly all the time that they appeared to be avoiding our society. Lonely people have a way of erecting a kind of thorn hedge betwixt themselves and the world about them, and then they wonder, not a little plaintively at times, why no one is brave enough to force a passage through the prickles.

There is the person who professes an undying friendship for you, and keeps it up for perhaps six months. There is, on the other hand, the friend who never admits that he or she feels anything in particular for you—who appears on the surface to be devoid of

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THE VALUE OF FRIENDSHIP A Lasting Variety Is Not Easily Obtained In These Swift-Changing Days*

BY EDNA EGAN. NEVER knew such a girl as Miss Aubrey!" exclaimed a girl the other day, as the subject of her remark went out of

the front door of a woman's club. "She is simply smothered in friends. You can never get her for half an hour at a stretch. She has to go and see this one, or go home to receive that one. I think there is something rather wearying in having such a number of people always about one." "She is a very delightful companion," another woman remarked. "Every one likes her, and I suppose she likes every one. At all events, people never seem to bore her." "Wait," said the first girl, "wait and see. They will soon, or I am very much mistaken. It is all very well for a little while, but when she has been settled here for a year or so, you will find her wanting to drop some of these people." "I don't think so. She has always had a great many friends wherever she has lived," the other woman answered, handing her friend a fresh cup of tea. "Oh, indeed!" exclaimed she. "And is it permitted to inquire whether she corresponds with all these one-time friends, or whether she has dropped them for a new set?" "I am not sure. She has possibly dropped some of them," was tho answer, and then another visitor entering the room, the conversation was changed.

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There is another type of this kind of friendship, or rather of friend. This is the person who uses people, not consciously, but all the same uses them, for her own benefit. All the way through the lives of some we can see the person who has to be made use of sitting waiting. A friend, this willing helper, and often one who is quite unconscious of being used. But the fact remains all the same. And when the need for this friend or that has passed with the years, what of the friendship? Does it outlast the period of usefulness or not?

This depends on the user, but more often than not the friend is slowly but surely "dropped." it is as though we took an orange and sucked it dry and after a time the empty skin would be thrown away, having served its nurpose.

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enthusiasm for you. There is, again, the objectionable individual, who is friendly with a purpose. This is perhaps a bald way of putting it, but we are, as a rule, only too painfully aware of this person's ulterior motive in being so nice to us. We do not like, if.we are honest, to see him approach our door. We wish, if the person happens to be a woman, that she would not always be "dropping in," but it is hard to know when to be rude enough to say "go away." We often delude ourselves in trying to believe well of this friend or acquaintance. We try to think that he or she is really disinterested in his or her efforts for friendship, but it is usually something of a failure.

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friendships, so they endure. The undying affection of one schoolgirl for another is too intense to last It has no wearing power. The friends of a lifetime are not those people we should address as darling" on a postcard. Friendship is a slow growth. It has its foundation in respect, and it is knit together with the fine, yet strong web of association. There can be no suddenness about it, if it is the real thingno ease, no haste.

It comes creeping slowly, often with difficulty, into our lives, growing from month to month a more perfect thing, becoming stronger, more able to withstand the tests which assuredly await it in the future. "Perfect knowledge is perfect charity," and friendship depends very much on charity. Very many of our so-called friends are merely acquaintances, and it may well happen that more than one real friend is unrecognized by us because he makes no proclamation of his friendship.

COMFORT IN FASHIONS

BY MRS. KINGSLEY.

LIKE from the practical and the picturesque point of view it may be well to congratulate ourselves upon the prospect which is offered by the new fashions for the autumn and winter season. On all sides a spirit of reasonableness prevails, while certain regrettable vulgarities and exaggerations which prevailed not so very long ago have vanished entirely, never to return.

In their place there are long flowing lines, full skirts which leave to the wearer a most desirable and delightful freedom of movement, cozy fur coats which can be fastened up closely at the throat when occasion requires.

Two typical walking costumes were seen a few days ago, designed for the winter season, one intended for ordinary every-day wear, and the other for smart occasions. In the case of both these gowns, however, the coats are carried out on novel lines, and made very much longer than those which were worn this time last year, while the skirts remain exceedingly full and yet sufficiently short for perfect comfort when walking.

Fine navy suiting is the fabric chosen for making that novel coat and skirt which is trimmed with black silk military braid. The upper part of the coat fits closely to the figure, while the basques are very wide and full. Three straps of broad military braid, held in place by crochet silk buttons, adorn the front of the coat, while at the waist there are crossing straps of serge trimmed in the same way with braid. Three rows of braid in graduated widths, appear also on the lower part of the coat, and are repeated on the full skirt and also on the cuffs.

Recognizing this fault, some of the designers have arranged the collar so that from a high, close, velvet choker it may be unbuttoned and turned over into a lace faced, rolling collar.

There are quantities of three-piece velvet costumes with short coats reaching only a little way below the waist line and either belted or very loose and flaring and there are, too, innumerable velvet frocks that have no accompanying coat. These frocks may be of the elaborate sort, part chiffon or lace or silk much trimmed, or almost untrimmed, save for mere touches of fur or embroidery and buttons, made, in fact, with almost exaggarated simplicity, but with careful attention to line.

It is curious to note the revival of fanciful velvet and silken fabrics, also the fine cloths in the shades of our grandmothers, either trimmed with ribbon bands, pinked-out ruches, or fur edgings.

Velvet Is the material used for

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ETTERS of this maiceup are intended for bold designs and, if you will recall It. you remember how difficult it was last year to find the right letter for embroidering college, pennants, church placards, banners ctc. You needed a plain, simple letter which could be read across a room. Here you have the whole alphabet.

In making pennants, of course, you cut the letter from broadcloth and stitch It on the machine to the desired article. If you arc making a bandy cushion, embellishing it witb initials, you will transfer the letters, pad them in bright floss.

These, too. aro letters which you can use to make a stencil. Outline them An waxed cardboard, them out and you can print your own Merry Christmas greetings in litters of gold, white, blue or black—any color, you sec.

In tho usual embroidery the letter should be padded, then covered with what t» known as ropo silk, a silk of extra heavy weave, coarse and sbowy. If the finer letters arc desired, you can do no better than finish the work in satin stitch, or fill in the wide «paccs with "seedlings." better known as miniature Frcnch krots.

Such letters fill a. dozen needs this season, and we believe you will be pleased with results obtained from these, whether plying tho needle or a tiny paint brushy Sipjcrely.

This is a practical item, given by one who has endured almost endless torture as a result of tender feet and corns. To remove the corns, soak the feet in tepid suds. Soap a toilet pumice and rub over the corns until the callous parts are worn off. Continue this every day until the corn disappears. Keep it soft with oils. If the corn is too sore in the beginning for this treatment, apply turpentine for several days to kill the pain. If the feet are afflicted with soft corns, powder prepared chalk, without making it too fine, and sprinkle between the toes. This does not absorb the moisture or become caked like talcum powder, and by being coarser than the powder it separates the two portions of the corn. Always use white wool

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to cotton to place between or under the toes, because it is springy and will not harden like cotton.

Oils and tonics should never be used on a child's hair. Cleanliness and the mother's conscientious care in the matter of brushing, trimming and dressing will insure its beauty for later years. To shampoo a little girl's hair, use warm and pure soap suds. Lather the head well and rub gently, always remembering that the skin is more tender than a grown person's. Let the child sit in a low-backed chair, her back to the bowl. Her head thrown back, her hair falls in the basin. Rinse thoroughly, gradually cooling the water. Wring the hair gently with your hands, then dry with hot towels, rubbing so that the strands will not be unnecessarily tangled. A sun bath next is good. Wrap the child up warmly so that she will not take cold. Do not let her sit in a draught.

While it may be questioned whether any powder is entirely harmless, a celebrated skin specialist recommends this formula for face powder: Rice flour, six ounces rice starch, six ounces carbonate of magnesia, three ounces pulverized boric acid, one and

the beautiful evening cloak. The luxurious folds of rose panne velvet that fall from the shoulders and form roomy sleeves are a distinctive feature of this elaborate evening wrap. Tassels in self-colored silk lend :i finishing touch and the large gray fox collar combines beautifully witb the rose velvet

To reduce a double chin and to tighten the muscles which have become loosened in a flabby neck, try this simple but efficacious exercise: Throw the head back as far as it will go, drawing the muscles taut. Now turn the head slowly as far to tho right as it will go, theu as far to tha left. Repeat ten times, increasing as you become accustomed to the strain. Bathing the neck frequently with a piece of ice is excellent for keeping the flesh firm and for removing flabbiness.

For any inflammation of the eye which comcs on suddenly cold water soothes the pain. After persistent trouble very hot water will relieve the pain and reduce the swelling. The eye cup is the most convenient way of bathing the eye, for the eyeball is washed directly. The mouth of the eye cup is oval, which fits around tho eye at the margin of the orbit. The eye may be opened into the lotion. A weak solution of boracic acid, 3 per cent, may be safely used. The acid must be fresh and clear, however tears are the natural method of cleansing this organ.

For softening rough or coarse skin on the hands common yellow cornmeal is an excellent cure. It should be mixed in the proportion of one ounce of orris root, powdered, to a pound of meal. To apply it the hands should be washed as usual, taking care to use a soap that is not drying theu the meal is poured into one hand and this is rubbed over the other with the same motion used in washing, using again the grains that should have fallen on a towel, box, etc., until the skin is quite dry. The operation is much more thorough in its drying effect than can be secured with a towel and the action of the meal is beneficial.

a half ounces powdered orris root, one and a fourth drams cssence of citron, fifteen drops essence of bergamot thirty drops. Mingle the essences with the magnesia and then smoothly rub all together. Apply the powder over a light coating of cold cream well massaged into the skin and put it on generously, so that it may sink in. Then, before going out, wipe off the superfluous white with a soft cloth. In this way the powder is kept on and the skin protected from wind and dust.

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