Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1912 — COMPARTMENTS IN THE BAG [ARTICLE]

COMPARTMENTS IN THE BAG

One of the Newest and Most Welcome of the Many Recent Fads of Fashion. * If you once have owned a fourfold bag you will never again be without one. Into the separate compartments can go buttons, hooks and eyes, thread and sewing utensils and a small piece of work, and there is no wild hunting for the article needed as in a onepiece bag. These bags may be made in any size, but a convenient size is made from a yard end three-quarters of five-inch flowered ribbon with colored satin edgeß. Cut thAibbon into four strips of equal length, double each strip and overcast the edges together to form a small bag. Turn in the top to the depth of an inch for the heading and run with a double line of sewing for a casing. Use two yards of number one or baby satin ribbon for a drawstring, cutting ip separate yard pieces. Rip the stitches on the outside of the casing between the line of sewing, and run the drawstring through the outside of each of the four bags, tying the. ends in a fluffy bow. Start the other 'drawstrings at the opposite end with two bags to each side and run around the four, using the inner side of the casing. Tie ends in a bow. To keep the bags from sliding on the drawstring, tack the two on each side together, running a stitch or two in the frill Just above the casing. This makes them draw easily on one string.. ~