The household (of the Detroit free press)

These comfortable and serviceable little hoods are knit on two common coarse knitting needles. Three or four balls of Angora wool are required. As fast as this wool is knitted a fleece arises on it resembling soft white fur. For a very small hood set up ninety stitches or more to make a piece long enough to go around the child's face and meet under the chin. Knit back and forth, plain quarter stitch, until you have a piece wide enough to cover the top of the head. Then slip and bind off on each end, leaving not quite one-third of the original number of stitches in the center, to be knit back and forth for a crown piece. When the crown piece is long enough to fit exactly in the back, cast off LADIES' KNIT JERSEYS. 219 and with a needle and the wool sew the crown to the front on the wrong side. The fleece will cover up the seam. With a fine crochet hook make a border of small shells all around the head and run a ribbon in around the face and around the neck. By means of this ribbon you can draw the hood in to exactly fit the child. A pleating of fine lace all around and a bow of ribbon on top and in the back completes a warm, pretty little hood. Angora wool comes in white and gray. Children of all ages wear these hoods. Washing does not injure the white ones. IMITATION CORAL. Take two steel needles, No. 14, and a skein of coral-colored, narrow worsted braid. Cast on three stitches, take off the first- and knit the other two in each row. Every row is exactly the same. Another way : Cast on three stitches, slip one, knit one. This makes a pretty necklace for a child's rubber ring or for catch-ups for short sleeves. SAXONY INSERTION. Cast on eighteen stitches. 1. Knit two ; thread over twice, seam two together ; knit ten ; thread over twice, seam two together ; knit two. 2. Knit two ; thread over twice, seam two together ; knit five threads over four times ; seam four together ; knit one ; thread over twice, seam two together ; knit two. 3. Knit two ; thread over twice, seam two together ; knit two ; knit first loop, seam second, knit third ; knit five ; thread over twice, seam two together ; knit two. LADIES' KNIT JERSEYS. No. 9 needle ; merino wool. For the back — Cast on seventy-eight stitches ; pearl three ; plain three in ribs for one hundred and forty rows. One hundred and forty-first row — Knit eighteen stitches ; now turn (these eighteen stitches form the shoulder straps) ; pearl the eighteen ; knit them ; turn and pearl them. You ought now to be beginning the row again, and this time you pearl ; pearl the seventeenth and eighteenth stitches together ; turn and knit back ; turn and pearl back ; knit a row, taking the sixteenth and seventeenth together ; turn and pearl back, knit a row, taking the fifteenth and sixteenth together ; turn and knit the row. Go on in this way, remembering always to decrease at the left side, at the end of every row, until you have done five ribs altogether. You should now leave on twelve stitches ; cast off ; these ribs should be crosswise, instead of lengthwise. Now begin to cast of the remaining stitches until you come to the last eighteen. Work this shoulder like the other. For the front part of vest you cast on seventy-eight stitches and knit one hundred and twenty-five rows. Begin the righthand shoulder by pearling and make ribs as before, only this time you