Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1914 — KEEPING DRESSER DAINTY [ARTICLE]

KEEPING DRESSER DAINTY

Highly Desirable Point, but One That Needs Exercise of the Utmost Vigilance. Every housekteeper knows the difficulty of keeping dresser coverings spic and span and appropriately dainty for a cretonne hung bedroom. An unconscionable amount of dust seems to collect dn every dresser overnight and to the dust are added siftings of talcum powder. It is well nigh, impossible to remove all the dresser belongings each day and shake, out the covers, but going over the dresser top with a Wall whisk broom will help matters amazingly. The .brushes, frames, bottles, etc., should be carefully dusted” every morhing, for nothing is so distressing as dust on a dainty dresser. The idea of having a slab of beveled glass over the embroidery or lace coyer does not appeal to some women. Tt has a coldly neat but obviously la-bor-saving suggestion that implies ecpnotny exercised in housemaid service. So most dressers are graced with spreads of cretonne, lace, embroidery or swiss, entirely unprotected by glass. Cretonne covers are serviceable, but they are not as dainty as covers of embroidery, dotted swiss or lace trimmed organdie over a lining of colored sateen. This lining should be exactly the size of the sheer cover and not the size of the dresser top. If small metal snap buttons are attached to sateen lining and cover at the four /corners the tw pieces of fabric will not slip apart or “ride over” the edge of the dresser at the front as covers sometimes do. If cretonne to match curtains or cushions is used to cover the dresser a strip of white net. first shrunken and pressed out agaiit. should be laid over- the cretonne and attached to it around the edges under a failcy edge banding or ball trimming. The veiling . of, net softens and blends the cretonne colors into a beautiful harmony of delicate tints.