Save the Feathers!
Dear Aunt Daisy, I have just renovated a quilt, It was supposed to be a down quilt, but I found it all feathers. Now I used extra feathers from a pillow easily 35 years old, and have made this quilt like new -warm, yet not heavy. It is worth two blankets! It has occurred to me that at a time like this, one should save all (Continued on next page)
(Continued from previous page) the good feathers from any poultry, and make use of them, either for oneself, or for the refugees, Really, there must be terrible waste in this direction, and if only the women on farms saved the soft feathers, particularly from ducks, in no time there would be enough for a "down*®
quilt. Of course, they would have to be scalded, and then hung on the line in a bag-they soon fluff up again when dry. Also, the bag has to be of fine weave--a good calico is excellent, I know that every pound of wool is needed for our war effort, and thought that this suggestion might appeal to your listeners. -"A Soldier's Wife,’ (Epsom), Yes, indeed, an excellent idea. I hope it will be taken up enthusiastically, It is a good idea to rub thoroughly over the inside of the ticking with soapor beeswax-before filling up with feathers, which ‘prevents the feathers working through. Beeswax was the old-time cure for. this, but I’m told that soap does nearly as well.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 56, 19 July 1940, Page 43
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248Save the Feathers! New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 56, 19 July 1940, Page 43
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