May 16, 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 discussion of a bedroom, a coupon for the Detroit News Wonder Package, an advertisement for the Quilt Club radio show, a coupon for Quilt Club Corner membership, and an advertisement for the Trip Around the World Quilt Pattern.

Beauty in the Home
…Copies …and Setting
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.

Quilt Club Corner Changes Radio Time
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 10:30 every Wednesday over WWJ. Listen in and then write and tell the Corner how you like this idea.

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of the week. But, later to make it a bit more convenient, the upper drawer was divided and it is this type which you will see copied in this house.

A small chest of drawers which might be used between two windows or at the side of a large bed (for it is just the right side for a night table) is a copy of an old chest in which choice possessions were hidden from the curious eyes of neighbors. And there were many jealously guarded secrets in those days - one outstanding one being the method for obtaining shades and colors; and it is said that one woman passed away without ever disclosing how she ws able to get a
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A chest of drawers with glass framed over mirror quaint little rocker with foot stool to match and a barrel Windsor which is upholstered with a view to ease and comfort- a rare thing in the olden times and lamps with candlewick trimmed shades, all add to the charm of the room.

The small dressing table with toilet mirror and Windsor bench are evidence that vanity is not a twentieth century ideal and this little grouping is as appropriate for the girls room of today as it was in the middle of the eighteenth century.

0It is interesting to note with what honesty these pieces have been made for even the worn corners are prominent in the reproductions and the pegged construction which was such an important method when chairs, tables and chest were built to withstand hard usage is also included.

The Barnstable chair, Fairmouth and Plymouth pieces will be a delight to those familiar with New England in general and Cape Cod in particular and to those who are not they will be an inducement to furnish a room or a house in this manner, for who can deny its charm? This is the opening week for this quaint little house.

Quilt Club Corner
Enjoyed your visit over the radio this morning and hope I am among the first to write. I am clipping and saving all the valuable hints sent in by the Quilt Club members.

I had planned on making a Dresden Plate quilt but mother sent mea spread made from that pattern so will attempt one from the “Trip Around the World’ pattern. I should like to send mother the pattern also if you can spare one for her.
Mrs. J.E.E

I am delighted to include a pattern for your mother and hope that she enjoys making this quilt. Everyone who has seen it so far has been very enthusiastic about it.

I heard you on the radio this morning and enjoyed the program immensely. I listen every Wednesday. I have finished the "Dresden Plate" too. Does this make me eligible to join the club?

I received my Wonder Package and think it is wonderful.
Mrs. D.C.

If your quilt is made from a News pattern, of course you are eligible for membership, so be sure that you send in the membership blank the next time you write. Am so glad that you sent for a Wonder Package for I know you will be able to use the designs for many things about your house.

The Detroit News
Beauty in the Home Department

Enclosed please find 56c for which I wish you would send me THE DETROIT NEW 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 Lafeyette the price will be but 49 center. Please do not send coin in letters.

On Account of custom regulations, Canadian orders cannot be accepted.

Trip Around the World Quilt Ready
Well, it is all ready and waiting for you-the Trip Around the World quilt pattern, and I know that you have been watching for it this week and hoping to see an announcement for it.

Why not be among the first to receive the pattern? Once you have it and begin to look it over you will want to start right in to make it, and I feel certain that you will find it one of the most fascinating quilts you have ever seen or made.

To receive this reprint from the Detroit News all you have to do is to send your request for it accompanied by a self addressed stamped envelope to the Beauty in the Home Department, The Detroit News.

If you prefer, you may call for this at the Detroit News Public Service Bureau in either the Majestic Building where it will be given you free of charge.

Be sure to write in and tell the Corner how you like this pattern.

Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.