Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 255, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1910 — HANDY HOOK-AND-EYE BOX [ARTICLE]

HANDY HOOK-AND-EYE BOX

If You Ever Hunted in Vain for Needed Fastener, You Will Appreciate This. Have you ever hunted in vain for the special size of hook and eye you needed? If not, you are an abnormally neat woman, cr one given to buttons or pins. During that mad hunt through a badly mixed box of sewing utensils you doubtless vowed to have a separate hook-and-eye box forthwith. Then you promptly forgot. The next time Immediately hunt a number of card envelopes, and on the flap of each one sew a hook and eye to show the size and color within. Put these envelopes neatly in a small box and your miserable fishing days are over. There should be separate holders for cards of hooks and eyes, detached ones that have not been used and for those that have been ripped from a dress, as is the habit of some economical women. Small boxes with the hook sewed or pasted to the lid may take the place of an envelope, but take up more room and are less easily handled.