The Butterick Book of Recipes and Household Helps

The pattern people's household book, 1927 — five hundred recipes, then how to lay a table, take out a stain and stock a first-aid cabinet.

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With Carpet Rags

Keep them in a box at the end of the sewing-machine. When sewing, instead of pulling out the goods from the machine, leaving an inch or two of thread, sew to the end of the seam, pick out two carpet rags, run them under the presser-foot and stitch across; cut the thread between the sewing and the rags, start on a new seam, cut off the rags and wind on the ball. In a short time you will have a large ball without noticing the time spent.-Mrs. E. M. A.. Sherbrooke, Quebec.

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