Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 311, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1910 — LACE BAG LATEST NOVELTY [ARTICLE]

LACE BAG LATEST NOVELTY

Great Saving of Time and Lace Effected by Country Woman's System. A morning visitor at a country house found her hostess busy with mysterious little dimity bags, that were about ten inches square and fastened with a draw string. In answer to her query she was told that these were “lace bags,” and that samples of the kind of laces they contained would be sewed on the edges like tags. She was furthermore told that although the proceeding might seem fussy, it was a great saving of time as well as of lace, for these fragile bits of trimming get tangled and torn if put in a box, even if folded at first. After a few hunts for a particular piece the loosened ends seem possessed to knot together, and it requires great patience to undo them without tearing the edges. The samples show just what kinds of lace are bundled and safely pinned at ends, and just the one bag need be opened. All the bags are put in a large box, labeled “lace,” and this has a particular space in the sewing room closet.