Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1914 — DAMASK THE BETTER CHOICE [ARTICLE]

DAMASK THE BETTER CHOICE

Attractive as Is Heavy Linen for Tablecloths and Napkina the Other la Preferable. Plain heavy linen makes very attractive tablecloths and napkins. It is used in a restaurant where the furnishings are all interesting, and it is used by some fastidious housewives. In the restaurant It is quite satisfactory, for the cloth is changed, naturally, for every diner. But in the ordinary household it has this one disadvantage. It does show wrinkles and spots more quickly than a heavy figured damask does. So if there is not a fresh cloth for every meal, damask may be a better choice. But the linen Is beautiful, and in any household it might be used for a special dinner set The napkins and tablecloth may be finished with a fine embroidery stitch, or like the ordinary napkin hem, finely done by hand, or else they are hemstitched in an Inchwide hem. \