Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1915 — PRETTY CARD-TABLE COVER [ARTICLE]

PRETTY CARD-TABLE COVER

Best Way to Make and Embroider Them —Always Use the Finest Colors and Materials. The best card-table cover is made of a big square of linen, several inches larger than the table, with the corners cut off. Then eight tapes are sewed firmly to the eight corners made when the four original ones are cut off, and the cover can be neatly tied in place, leaving the four points of the table bare. This shape is more neatly and easily adjusted than the full, square, which usually is awkwardly arranged at the corners of the table. Linen of a rather coarse, heavy weave, in oyster white, cream or ecru is a good choice for the cover. Colored line, too, can be used. Sometimes these covers are made in sets, and a very attractive set is made with one.cover showing a 1-spot of some suit embroidered in one corner, the second cover showing a 2spot, the third a 3-spot, and so on, the set to include as many covers as one wishes to make. These covers indicate the number of the tables when a large number of persons are playing. Anybody can see that this is a far more convenient way of indicating the table numbers than the usual one of turning a card up on each table; for, just when one most wishes to know where table three is, the card indicating its location is sure to have been disturbed. These symbols can be outlined or embroidered in crosstltch. Still another way of marking covers to show the different numbers of the tables is to embroider one bird on

the corner of one cover, two on another, and so on. Bluebirds embroidered on gray linen make a charming display.