Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1915 — GUEST GUIDE WORTH MAKING [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GUEST GUIDE WORTH MAKING

Will Be Found a Great Convenienoa, Both by the Visitor and by the Hostess.

It is s good plan to have a guest guide in the spare room, then the visitor will see at once the times for meals and the last mail, etc. This will be found a great convenience, both to the visitor and the hostess. The guides are quite easily made at home and make a very dainty ornar ment for the mantelshelf or the dress-ing-table.

Take a piece of stout oardboard, rule out on it an oblong shape about seven inches by six inches, then rule an inner shape so that a border an inch and a quarter in width is formed. The cardboard inside this inner shape can now be cut away with a sharp penknife. Now take some chintz, cretonne, poplin, silk or satin, just whatever is to hand, and lay a piece a little larger than the cardboard frame over it. Then with a pair of scissors nick material in the center, and cut so that the material will fit over the frame shape and be neatly glued at the back of the frame: For this allow sufficient material to go to the back of the frame, and the inside corners will fit quite nicely if the material is nicked, then turned under. The color of the material should be a fairly light shade, such as buff, cream, pale blue, green or pink; the maker will be guided as to the ex-

act shade according to the color scheme of the spare room. If plain material is used, a simple little design should be painted on it either by the pen-painting method or in just the ordinary way. At the back' of the frame glue a fairly stout piece of paper to exactly fit the opening of the frame.

On this paper should be written the words: “Breakfast, Lunch, Tea, Dinner, and Last Mail,” and the time for each event to be written opposite to each word. The guide can hang up or stand; If the latter, a back will have to be fixed on; but for this purpose it is better that the guide should hang up. Simply glue to the back of the frame the ends of a pretty pink or blue loop of ribbon large enough to hang up the guide by. This guide makes an uncommon and useful gift for a friend or a good article to make for bazaars; in these cases the spaces for times are left for the purchasers or recipient to fill in for themselves.

Dainty Guest Guide.