Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1912 — SUITABLE FOR BRIDE [ARTICLE]

SUITABLE FOR BRIDE

DAINTY APRONS THE FEATURE OF A RECENT SHOWER. Young Wife Just Beginning Housekeeping Would Be Especially Pleased With a Variety of # These Useful Articles. One of the phases of a bridal shower rained down upon a girl last week was a variety of aprons for every kind of occasion which a young housewife who is beginning housekeeping without a maid might possibly meet. ” The kitchen aprons included sturdy ginghams of traditional blue and white check and cooking aprons of white duck with and without pipings and trimmings of colored linen and figured percale. But even these homely utilities to a one were fitted at the hips to avoid every appearance of bungle , and not one among them waa. gathered into the band in the primitive fashion. Every kitchen apron had a bib of some sort. Most of these went around the neck and covered practically every part of the waist. Some of the kitchen aprons were accompanied by cuffs, and one pair of aprons supposed to be used for sweeping was matched up not only with cuffs but with cap. Somebody suggested saucily that the dust cloths ought to be made en suite too. dne of the coquettish members of the useful group was made of two India print squares—big bandanas would have done if the recipient had not been of substantial proportions. One square was employed for the skirt part and was used cornerwise, with the top corner cut off to give shapeliness at the band. This corner was used for a pocket. The other square was used for the tfro and the band, the square being cut into two triangular pieces with a bias strip left from the center for the band. These were used In an old cross-over way, with the square points falling over the tops of the arms and the sharp points going into the band at the back and front. This apron is to be slipped on. when a ftttle company supper or luncheon is to be prepared before guests. ▲ very practical idea which cropped out in looking over the display in the Kiri's room later was the nee of big

eyelets in the ends ot short bands —■ bands too short to quite reach around the waist, and in these eyelets there was threaded ribbon which tied across the spaee between the two ends of the bands. These eyelets are sometimes used in a band which goes just around the waist and a ribbon threading through them is tied in a big bow which serves the double purpose of holding the apron on and making a decoration. A little black silk apron fussed up with-tiny ruffles edged with black silk lace and little pockets with bows of tinted ribbon was another of the frivolities. It was as quaint as if it had stepped out of a cedar chest unopened until now since the civil war.