Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1918 — TO MAKE YOUR TREASURE BAG [ARTICLE]

TO MAKE YOUR TREASURE BAG

Simple Instructions for Making the Ever Handy Convenience Needed in Every Home. A piece of blue and white flowered ribbon, half a yard In length and six inches wide, a bit of the same ribbon three and a half inches square, a bit of white satin ribbon of the. same dimensions, a piece of white satin ribbon half-a yard in length and two inches wide, a yard and a half of white silk cord, spine white embroidery silk and a cardboard circle three Inches in diameter, are all that are required for the manufacture of the bag itself. The cardboard circle is covered on one side with the small piece of blue and white ribbon, and on the other ■7lth the white ribbon, the whole whipped neatly together with white sewing silk. This forma the bottom of the bag, with the .blue and white ribbon on the outside and the white on the. inside. To it is fulled the half-yard length of blue and white flowered ribbon. At the top a half-inch heading is turned down and featherstitched along the outside of-the bag, with the white silk. Through this is drawn the white silk cord. The ends are cut and knotted and the outside of the bag is then finished. The white satin ribbon is hemmed neatly together and whipped along its lower edge to the inside of the bag, just above the cardboard bottom. Featherstitching of the white silk, on the outside of the bag, divides the white satin ribbon into 10 neat little compartments, each with its pocket top left open.