Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 9, Number 45, DeMotte, Jasper County, 28 September 1939 — HOT TO SEW [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOT TO SEW

by Ruth Wyeth Spears

THERE were rocking chairs * hanging from the ceiling of a certain second-hand furniture store. “Nobody wants them anymore,” mourned the dealer. “I’d sell any one you see for 50 cents.” The little bride with me promptly chose one. Perhaps she would paint it for the porch. What she actually did is shown here in the sketch. The result was the small but comfortable, modern looking chair at the upper left. The bride raided mother’s attic for two things that went into the making of this chair. One was an old quilt that she used to pad the

back. The other was feathers from an old bolster which were used to stuff a scat cushion tightly so that it would raise the scat which had been lowered by removing the rockers. Cotton basted to muslin could have been used for the back padding and a cotton substitute for the cushion filling. * The new sewing book by Mrs. Spears contains 32 other useful homemaking ideas, with all directions clearly illustrated. You will be delighted with it. The price is only 10 cents postpaid. Enclose coin, with name and address. to Mrs. Spears, 210 S. Desplaines St.. Chicago, 111., and book will come to you by return mail.