Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1914 — Notes and Comment [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Notes and Comment

Of Interest to Women Readers

MAN’S KNITTED SWEATER. It Is Made at Home and is Alt In One ; Piece. Four and cffite-half hanks of German knitting worsted, mixed. Two bone needles, No. 4; four steel needles, No. 12. The garment Is begun in the front and knitted all in-one piece. For No. 36 chest measure, cast on the steel needles 124 stitches, knit 2 plain, purl 2 alternately for 22 rows. Put in bone needles (that is knit off the stitches freftn steel -needles) 1 plain, purl 1 alternately across row. Continue working back and forth in this way till 140 rows are finished. On next row divide the stitches into two parts of 62 stitches each. On the first part work back and forth as follows: Knit pattern as before, decreasing 1 stitch at the. side toward the. centre, every other row, until you have 38 stitches remaining on the needle. Work back and forth on these 38 stitches without decreasing for 8 rows to form shoulders. Now take up the other 62 stitches at other side of front, and knit pattern to correspond. Cast on 50 stitches for neck, in the centre of these two shoulders. Knit pattern across entire row. Continue working back and forth for 188 rows. Transfer to steel needles and knit waist-band to correspond with the front; bind off. Pick up 50 stitches on of centre of shoulder. Knit pattern back and forth as in the body, for 20 rows. On the next row decrease one stitch at each side of needle. Continue working back and forth, decreasing 1 stitch at each side of the needle,, every fifth row, until there are 80 stitches remaining on needle. On the next row decrease 1 stitch at each 1 side of the needle. Continue knitting pattern, decreasing 1 stitch at each side of needle, every other row until 56 stitches remain. Now knit pattern > without decreasing-for 15 rows. ; Transfer to steel needles; knit 2, purl 2, alternately for 42 rows; this is the cuff, bind off. > Sew up sleeves and under-arm ; seams. For the collar: Cast on steel needle 36 stitches, 2 plain, purl 2, alternately until the strip measures 24 inches in length; bind off, sew collar to neck of garment. In making a larger or smaller size add or decrease 5 stitches for every inch chest measure.—Eva M. Niles.

Th« Parisian' idea of the hobble skirt lias provoked ridicule in this country and in Europe but it was worn by the members of the Smart Set