Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1914 — LITTLE THINGS THAT HELP [ARTICLE]

LITTLE THINGS THAT HELP

Dainty Boudoir Accessories Need Not Be Costly, and Will Take Only a Short Time to Make.

Do you know how quickly one of the big hanging sachets for the dress closet can be made? All there is to it is a cretonne bag, 12 by 9 inches, easily opened for the renewing of the perfume, and hung from a cretonnewound coat hanger. This need not cost more than a quarter, and can be made in an hour.

Have you seen the sachets made from a yard of five-inch gauze ribbon —a bag for the sachet powder made from the doubled end and the rest used fer a big bow and hangers? Use rose-colored gauze for dried rose leaves and lilac ribbon for holding dried sweet lavender. The drug stores sell both. Have you examined the little hook racks for the back of one’s dressing table chair? Cover with cretonne two strips of pasteboard about 9 by 2 inches. On one sew a row of large hooks, such as are used on fur garments. Overhang the two bits of covered pasteboard together, attach a strip of folded cretonne for a hanger —and there you are!