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800 Designs for Only 49c In News Wonder Package
April 26, 1933
Detroit News Quilt History Project; Michigan State University Museum; Susan Salser
Detroit, Michigan, United States
A portion of a Beauty in the Home column including a description and form to order the new Detroit News Wonder Package, an advertisement for the Quilt Club corner radio show, and an advertisement for the 25th quilt block in the Horoscope quilt, a coupon for Quilt Club membership, and letters from Quilt Club Corner members.
Beauty in the Home
800 Designs for Only 49c In News Wonder Package
by Edith B. Crumb
This department seeks to give assistance to all who are interested in beautifying their homes and will be glad to answer questions pertaining to interior decoration. In order to serve all who, seek advice promptly no more than three problems will be discussed in any one reply. Readers are invited to write to this department as often as they wish, but to limit each letter to three questions. State your question clearly write on only one side of the paper, enclosing a self-addressed, stamped envelope and address Beauty in the Home department, Detroit News. Letters with their answers will be published for the benefit of all homemakers but names and addresses will not be made public.
JUST look at Mrs. Bunny all dressed up in her “Sunday-go-to-meeting” flowered frock! Doesn’t she look just perfectly lovely, though? And she is very nice, for she is willing to be used for a laundry bag and does not say a word if you use her nice, long slim slick ears with which to hang up the bag.
Mrs. Bunny is only one of the more than 800 designs in The Detroit News Wonder Package. All of these designs (with the exception of 12 quilt patterns which are included for good measure) may be transferred by dampening the backs with water and rubbing slightly with the bowl of a spoon. Could anything be more simple. And isn’t it a relief to get away from the nuisance of a hot iron?
There are patterns in this Wonder Package that the children will enjoy and because they will be able to transfer them instead of having the depend upon some of the grown up members of the family, they will be certain to prove helpful to mothers on rainy days.
ARMY OF SOLDIERS.
The little soldier at the right of Mrs. Bunny may be transferred to cardboard, painted and cut out to make an army. You see, this design may be transferred 12 or more times, so it is very practical.
The clown at the right would make a good pattern for painting and might be used for the decoration of a toy box.
The bunny pattern is about eighteen inches long, and just the right size for a laundry bag for the baby’s room.
In one of the small illustrations is shown a steamboat, and what boy does not delight in painting boats and if carefully done one of these might be framed and used for a wall decoration in a little boy’s room.
The little fisher shown in the other small illustration would also make a nice picture for a child’s room.
HUNDREDS OF USES.
And the Wonder Package is not limited to designs for the children, for there are motifs suitable for furniture, draperies, bedspreads, slip cover decorations, pillows, canisters, and really one could go on and on describing the different uses to which these fascinating patterns could be put.
The nice part of this Package is that the designs may be transferred to wood, metal, paint, enamel, leather, oilcloth, cotton material, silk—in fact any flat surface on which one might wish a decorative touch.
If you would like to call for this Wonder Package (and , of course, you will not feel that you can possibly get along without it) you may obtain it at the main office of The Detroit News, Second and Lafayette, or at The Detroit News Public Service Bureau in either the Majestic Building or the General Motors Building; and the price will be only 49 cents.
However, if you prefer to have it mailed to you, please fill out the coupon which is in this column for your convenience, enclose 56 cents in stamps or a money order (do not send coin in letters) and the package will be sent out to you immediately upon receipt of your request.
Brightening Room.
I would like some help with brightening my living room and adding character to an otherwise drab appearing room.
I would like to know what to put on my fire-place shelf, which is broad and low. At present I have a medium sized mantel clock.
Is the lighting as shown in my sketch adequate? What changes should be made, if any?
What type of picture shall I put over the fireplace?
The rug in this room has a gray taupe ground with…(clipping cut off)
(clipping continued from different cut off point)…light ecru marquisette. This room measures 13x15 feet.
There are two pillows, one of green velvet with rust and tan figures and the other green damask. The sofa is covered in gray taupe mohair.
MRS. C. K.
Leave the clock on the mantel and add to the ends pots of ivy. Select a picture in dark greens with touches of gold and blue to be placed over the fireplace.
The sofa may be equipped with a slip covering of natural ground linen with lattice design in green…(clipping cut off)
Horoscope Quilt Pattern No. 25
HERE it is—pattern No. 25 for the Horoscope quilt and when you send for it be sure to enclose a little note and tell whether you would like to have the “Trip Around the World” within a couple of weeks instead of waiting until the end of the summer when the Horoscope will be finished.
If you call for your leaflets instead of having them mailed, then drop a one-cent post card to the Beauty in the Home Department or the Quilt Club Corner and “vote” for the “Trip Around the World” pattern if you want it. I don’t see how you can resist it. It will be the prettiest you have ever made and everyone who sees it will want to start to cut and sew pieces for one.
The leaflet for this week has the last of the zodiac signs but there are more designs to come for the border.
To receive this leaflet, just send your request for it to the Beauty in the Home Department, The Detroit News, enclosing with it a self-addressed, stamped envelope.
If you prefer, you may call for this reprint from The Detroit News at The Detroit News Public Service Bureau in either the Majestic Building or the General Motors Building, where it will be given you free of charge.
And don’t forget to vote for the “Trip Around the World.”
Quilt Club Corner to Be On Radio
WOULD you like to have letters to the Quilt Club Corner read over the radio? If so, write immediately so that they may be here in time for the broadcast which is at 11:45 every Wednesday over WWJ. Listen in for your own and others and then write and tell the Corner how you like this idea.
Beauty in the Home Editor:
Please enter my name as a member of the Beauty in the Home Quilt Club.
Name………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Street and number…………………………………………………………………………………………………………
City………………………………………………………………. State………………………………………………………
This enrollment in the Beauty in the Home Quilt Club entitles the member to enter her quilt in the exhibit which will be held after the completion of the series of Horoscope patterns. Date of announcement will be made later.
Anyone who has completed a quilt from any Detroit News pattern will be eligible to become a member and enter this contest.
The Detroit News,
Beauty in the Home Department.
Enclosed please find 56c for which I wish you would send me THE DETROIT NEWS WONDER PACKAGE of over 800 transfer patterns.
Name………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Street and Number…………………………………………………………………………………………………………
City…………………………………………………….. State………………………………………………………………..
If you prefer to call for this at The Detroit News Public Service Bureau in the Majestic Building, the General Motors Building, or the Main Office, Second and Lafayette, the price will be but 49 cents. Please do not send coin in letters.
On account of customs regulations, Canadian orders cannot be accepted.
Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.
800 Designs for Only 49c In News Wonder Package
by Edith B. Crumb
This department seeks to give assistance to all who are interested in beautifying their homes and will be glad to answer questions pertaining to interior decoration. In order to serve all who, seek advice promptly no more than three problems will be discussed in any one reply. Readers are invited to write to this department as often as they wish, but to limit each letter to three questions. State your question clearly write on only one side of the paper, enclosing a self-addressed, stamped envelope and address Beauty in the Home department, Detroit News. Letters with their answers will be published for the benefit of all homemakers but names and addresses will not be made public.
JUST look at Mrs. Bunny all dressed up in her “Sunday-go-to-meeting” flowered frock! Doesn’t she look just perfectly lovely, though? And she is very nice, for she is willing to be used for a laundry bag and does not say a word if you use her nice, long slim slick ears with which to hang up the bag.
Mrs. Bunny is only one of the more than 800 designs in The Detroit News Wonder Package. All of these designs (with the exception of 12 quilt patterns which are included for good measure) may be transferred by dampening the backs with water and rubbing slightly with the bowl of a spoon. Could anything be more simple. And isn’t it a relief to get away from the nuisance of a hot iron?
There are patterns in this Wonder Package that the children will enjoy and because they will be able to transfer them instead of having the depend upon some of the grown up members of the family, they will be certain to prove helpful to mothers on rainy days.
ARMY OF SOLDIERS.
The little soldier at the right of Mrs. Bunny may be transferred to cardboard, painted and cut out to make an army. You see, this design may be transferred 12 or more times, so it is very practical.
The clown at the right would make a good pattern for painting and might be used for the decoration of a toy box.
The bunny pattern is about eighteen inches long, and just the right size for a laundry bag for the baby’s room.
In one of the small illustrations is shown a steamboat, and what boy does not delight in painting boats and if carefully done one of these might be framed and used for a wall decoration in a little boy’s room.
The little fisher shown in the other small illustration would also make a nice picture for a child’s room.
HUNDREDS OF USES.
And the Wonder Package is not limited to designs for the children, for there are motifs suitable for furniture, draperies, bedspreads, slip cover decorations, pillows, canisters, and really one could go on and on describing the different uses to which these fascinating patterns could be put.
The nice part of this Package is that the designs may be transferred to wood, metal, paint, enamel, leather, oilcloth, cotton material, silk—in fact any flat surface on which one might wish a decorative touch.
If you would like to call for this Wonder Package (and , of course, you will not feel that you can possibly get along without it) you may obtain it at the main office of The Detroit News, Second and Lafayette, or at The Detroit News Public Service Bureau in either the Majestic Building or the General Motors Building; and the price will be only 49 cents.
However, if you prefer to have it mailed to you, please fill out the coupon which is in this column for your convenience, enclose 56 cents in stamps or a money order (do not send coin in letters) and the package will be sent out to you immediately upon receipt of your request.
Brightening Room.
I would like some help with brightening my living room and adding character to an otherwise drab appearing room.
I would like to know what to put on my fire-place shelf, which is broad and low. At present I have a medium sized mantel clock.
Is the lighting as shown in my sketch adequate? What changes should be made, if any?
What type of picture shall I put over the fireplace?
The rug in this room has a gray taupe ground with…(clipping cut off)
(clipping continued from different cut off point)…light ecru marquisette. This room measures 13x15 feet.
There are two pillows, one of green velvet with rust and tan figures and the other green damask. The sofa is covered in gray taupe mohair.
MRS. C. K.
Leave the clock on the mantel and add to the ends pots of ivy. Select a picture in dark greens with touches of gold and blue to be placed over the fireplace.
The sofa may be equipped with a slip covering of natural ground linen with lattice design in green…(clipping cut off)
Horoscope Quilt Pattern No. 25
HERE it is—pattern No. 25 for the Horoscope quilt and when you send for it be sure to enclose a little note and tell whether you would like to have the “Trip Around the World” within a couple of weeks instead of waiting until the end of the summer when the Horoscope will be finished.
If you call for your leaflets instead of having them mailed, then drop a one-cent post card to the Beauty in the Home Department or the Quilt Club Corner and “vote” for the “Trip Around the World” pattern if you want it. I don’t see how you can resist it. It will be the prettiest you have ever made and everyone who sees it will want to start to cut and sew pieces for one.
The leaflet for this week has the last of the zodiac signs but there are more designs to come for the border.
To receive this leaflet, just send your request for it to the Beauty in the Home Department, The Detroit News, enclosing with it a self-addressed, stamped envelope.
If you prefer, you may call for this reprint from The Detroit News at The Detroit News Public Service Bureau in either the Majestic Building or the General Motors Building, where it will be given you free of charge.
And don’t forget to vote for the “Trip Around the World.”
Quilt Club Corner to Be On Radio
WOULD you like to have letters to the Quilt Club Corner read over the radio? If so, write immediately so that they may be here in time for the broadcast which is at 11:45 every Wednesday over WWJ. Listen in for your own and others and then write and tell the Corner how you like this idea.
Beauty in the Home Editor:
Please enter my name as a member of the Beauty in the Home Quilt Club.
Name………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Street and number…………………………………………………………………………………………………………
City………………………………………………………………. State………………………………………………………
This enrollment in the Beauty in the Home Quilt Club entitles the member to enter her quilt in the exhibit which will be held after the completion of the series of Horoscope patterns. Date of announcement will be made later.
Anyone who has completed a quilt from any Detroit News pattern will be eligible to become a member and enter this contest.
The Detroit News,
Beauty in the Home Department.
Enclosed please find 56c for which I wish you would send me THE DETROIT NEWS WONDER PACKAGE of over 800 transfer patterns.
Name………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Street and Number…………………………………………………………………………………………………………
City…………………………………………………….. State………………………………………………………………..
If you prefer to call for this at The Detroit News Public Service Bureau in the Majestic Building, the General Motors Building, or the Main Office, Second and Lafayette, the price will be but 49 cents. Please do not send coin in letters.
On account of customs regulations, Canadian orders cannot be accepted.
Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.
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