Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1915 — OLD HATS NOW MADE NEW [ARTICLE]

OLD HATS NOW MADE NEW

Sunburned Straw Transformed by Oil Color and Benzine to Fresh and Pleasing Appearance. In the August Woman’s. Home companion a New York woman tells ai follows how to make an old hat intc a new one: "I want to tell you how to transform your old hats into new and charming ones with only a tube oil color and a bottle of benzine, Into a cup ol benzine (do not use near a fire) pal a little ’color, mix well and strair through cloth wet with the benzine Apply this thin dye with a broad, fla bristle brush to a sunburned Milan oi faded dark straw, and, lo! it is fresh and new, and the color will not fade is the sun nor run In ashower. Faded flowers can be dipped into this saaM dye and be renewed.”