Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1909 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

With butter scarce and high, buy New Home Honey. Only 15c a pound, at John Eger’s. Before drawing threads In linen for hemstitching, make a thick lather of soap and apply with a shaving brush to the fabric. When the linen dries the threads draw easily. In sewing lace which has a good heading on an edge of material where a narrow hem is desired, as for a small ruffle, make but (me turn of the material on the right side and the lace stitched directly over this bides the raw edge.