. Godey's lady's book . which theinterests of the house-hold are sometimes tax-ed in payment of theoversight. The blank-ets of a house are fre-quently left without anymark, and when theseare sent out to the laun-dress of the scouringworks, mistakes are eas-ily made in restoring theright article to its rightproprietor. To preventthese exchanges of pro-perty, every blanketshould be marked inbold and striking cha-racters ; and, with a viewof facilitating what wemust consider a neces-sary precaution, wehaveintroduced a couple ofdesigns of blanket ini-tials, as samples of astyle which may at oncest
. Godey's lady's book . which theinterests of the house-hold are sometimes tax-ed in payment of theoversight. The blank-ets of a house are fre-quently left without anymark, and when theseare sent out to the laun-dress of the scouringworks, mistakes are eas-ily made in restoring theright article to its rightproprietor. To preventthese exchanges of pro-perty, every blanketshould be marked inbold and striking cha-racters ; and, with a viewof facilitating what wemust consider a neces-sary precaution, wehaveintroduced a couple ofdesigns of blanket ini-tials, as samples of astyle which may at oncestrike the eye and markthe, ownership. Theseletters being interwovenshould be worked inBerlin wool, of two dif-ferent colors, red andblue, both being outline having beentraced in the Berlin wool,must be well raised andthickly sewn over eachletter in its respectivecolor. Worked in thismanner in the blue andred, this marking notonly prevents the blank-et from being exchanged,but becomes quite a cor-ner
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