Show now that christmas Is near f 74 4 A t wt just now christmas fills the horizon and empties the pocketbooks of shoppers who find a greater number of novelties than ever to tempt them there Is a furore for chick bags of all I 1 kinds shopping lags opera bags and vaulty bags for personal use and bags for li holding nearly all their belongings make it easy to please woman friends but not to overdo this particular luxury there are other dainty receptacles made to be decorative while they are useful on table or dresser here ilera are two pretty gifts which can be made at homo home or bought in the shops one of them will serve sere as a gift to a man who will find come some use for a small basket in a world given to swallowing up collar and cuff buttons tie clasps and pins it way may be made large arge enough to hold handkerchiefs it Is a wicker basket in the form of a small hamper with a lid anait and it la Is gilded elded and decorated with ft band and bow of narrow ow bright green satin ribbon although I 1 the ud ild ison Is on a sma small ll 11 impish doll appears to hd be escaping through it t ar or ilse else holding it down the doll is s dressed in skating cap and cont coat of white eiderdown eider down and makes a rollick ing looking pin cushion an elegant and utterly feml feminine nine belonging appears appears in the round box which may serve to hold handkerchiefs handkerchief i or dr yells veils or ribbons or others of the many accessories of dress which must bo be kept within easy reach anthe on the well ordered dressi dressing hg table it Is it a paste board box with a lid and Is cove covered fin ed first with rose colored silk 0 or satin the top Is interlinked interlined Inter lnier lined ined with cotton butting and the satin covering and lining are glued to place after the silk covering Is adjusted it ls covered with fine alne kalfe val lace sewed to the silk gold braid Is sewed about the side elde oi of the lid and just below it on the he b box an orna mantal braid ot boy green leaves ind and pink ro roses Os Is used to form a star on top with a little bouquet of ribbon flowers at the center the same braid is placed below the gold abrald on oa the ibe box tf |