Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 302, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1912 — PRETTY FUR COAT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PRETTY FUR COAT.

A novel fur coat in slightly draped seal-musquash, trimmed with white fox and bordered-with black and white -velvet broche.

Most every woman knows that it spoils the shape of a skirt at the hips to hang it on an ordinary coathanger. This difficulty can be overcome by driving two small tacks (one e&ch side of the wire hook), leaving the heads protruding only a little bit Put the tacks just as far apart as the loops on the skirt. A coat can be huhg over this without in the least crushing the skirt

Keep a box with a Blit in lhe topon the sideboard. Each member of the family is allowed a special wish for the week, and may mail it in the menu box at any time. On Saturday the housekeeper opens the box, tabulates the wishes, and with these as a help makes out a satisfactory menu for the next week.

Skirt on Tacks.

Menu Box.