Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1918 — USE MADE OF FOOD CARTONS [ARTICLE]

USE MADE OF FOOD CARTONS

Oatmeal Containers Easily Transformed Into Attractive Bcrap Baskets for the Table. "Why in the world are you Hooverizing all these oatmeal cartons? I always burn mine,” said the visitor in astonishment as her friend opened a cupboard and disclosed a shelf filled with a collection of oatmeal cartons, the round kind. “I will show you,” said her friend, leading the way Into the living room an object from the table. “What do you think of that? I call It a table scrap basket” “A table scrap basket!” exclaimed the visitor. “What could be more useful and what could be prettier?” “You know,” explained her friend, “I

always save the odd lengths of wall paper left over. There Is a box full in the storeroom. One of these pieces of wall paper Is of a wonderful blue, the j kind with green In It, a mat tint I took a carton, cut and fitted the blue paper to It and pasted it on. Then there was another end of wall paper left over from the dining room frieze. It was a French paper showing a riot of gaily colored birds In a jungle of leaves and flowers. From this paper a rich blue parakeet, balancing on a red stem, was cut and pasted on the darker blue background, taking care to paste it over the seam where the paper on the carton Is Joined together. “Then the edges, top and bottom, were bound with furniture gulmpe which matches the blue paper. For handles I took two large rings such as are used for curtain pulls, covered them with buttonhole stitching In black and hung them on either side of the carton, forming little drop handles. The bottom and inside of the carton were dyed a deep red, harmonizing with the touches of red in the parakeet. Other cartons were covered with a light yellow paper and mounted with brown a^d- yellow birds with gulmpe to match and black handles. "My table scrap baskets, I find, make useful and much-appreciated gifts. And that is why I am Hooverizing the oatmeal cartons.”