BORACIC BAGS FOR SOLDIERS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2581, 1 October 1915, Page 9

BORACIC BAGS FOR SOLDIERS

"Soldier's Mother" writes: I have made bags to hold boracio powder for soldiers to shake into their socks, and they have proved so popular that I would like to explain how they are made and used. The little bags are 3i x 21 inches when finished. One yard of white or pale sateen will make three dozen bags, and a J yard of ,mosquito net mil be sufficient for scorcs. Cut the sateen, allowing for turnings; a piece 5\ x 4} inches, folded in the middle) will do. Sew together from fold not quite two inches, finish firmly. Turn it round, and sew together from ljin. distance from fold, to 2} inch up other side. This leaves 11 inch space to put boracio iu, and a free triangular comer. Now comes the difficult part. Turn back one flap of corner, and, laying a piece of net in its place, sew very carefully, as if finishing the bag. Now turn hack this sewn flap and treat the other the same way. Turn inside out. You will now see that the bag is complete. It can be filled with almost 1-Joz. boracio and. sewn up. The mosquito-net corner forms a soyt- of mouth, which closes automatically until it is opened to shako out the powder. The simplicity of its use pavs for the trouble of making. The soldier can stoiv it away so easily into a corner, whereas a tin or Imx could not be carried; and the powder is availablo instantly, yet cannot escape to waste. A fine thread (easily broken) passed onco through the netted comer will help to keen the bag neat until it reaches its destination.— "Sunday Times."