Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1912 — Bother the Button! [ARTICLE]

Bother the Button!

AH know the annoying habit buttons have of coming off at a moment when they are most needed, says "Answers." It seems sometimes as though nothing short .of wire thread will keep them in their places; and even wire breaks away from the cloth. When next you are sewing on a button, follow these directions, and that button will never trouble you again. Place your button, take a hairpin—a strong one—and lay it across the button, then sew it over the hairpin. When you have put as much thread through the eyep as they will B’ld, withdraw the hairpin. Then push the needle through near the button, pull the ( hutton up, and wrap the thread several times round between the button and garment. Fasten the thread on the under side of the button, and then you will find that that button Win stay on until the garment is worn out