Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1911 — The HOME DEPARTMENT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The HOME DEPARTMENT

DRESSING THE WINDOW

SCHEME FOR DECORATION THAT WILL APPEAL TO HOUSEWIFE. Anyone With Least Bit of Artistic Bense Can Follow These Simple Directions—Very Few Materials Are Required. As windows vary in size, you will have to Btudy the illustration and measure your window accordingly before making your purchases. Three pieces of light wood, a few nails, a pole, a few yards of heavy olive-green doth, thread and gimp tacks, are all the materials necessary. To ascertain the quantity of goods for the curtains measure your window as follows: Place yardstick at center of top of window casing. Find

the distance from this point to the bottom of the window trim. This represents the finished length of your curtain, and if four Inches is allowed ifor the pole opening, you may estimate the required yardage. For windows of the ordinary width, a piece of 60-inch goods may be split, allowing >26 inches to the curtain. Now examine the lambrequin box tin the .illustration. Your first procedure should be the building of this ! box, the ends of which should [be about six inches wide and twelve inches long. The front piece should be a foot wide and of a length sufficient to meet the side pieces when ■they are nailed to the sides of the 'window casings. Before fastening the front to the sides of the lambrequin box, it will be wise to fasten two pole sockets close to the outside edges of the sides, taking care that they occupy corresponding positions on each side. Sockets for a lacecurtain pole may be placed Just back of the pole sockets, If you wish to use laces. Cover the outside of the lambrequin box with the same goods

used to make the hangings. Gimp tacks should be employed to hold It in place, and these may be obtained at the hardware store for a few cents. Take a portion of the curtain goods and boxpleat It by tacking along the lower-inner edge of the box, making a flounce ten inches long. lambrequin Is now ready for the'window and may be secured by nailing to the side of the window casings. Should youjyish, a border may be worked with worsted yarn, or a tapestry border tacked on the lambrequin box as the picture shows. The lambrequin box should conceal all fixtures for window shades, lace curtains, etc.