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Show Christmas Presents and Things That Can Be Made ONE of the annually recurring problems of the Christmas season sea-son Is: "What unusual and attractive gifts are simple and inexpensive enough for the children to make?" Here are a few suggestions: Among the easiest is a lovely perfumer per-fumer made by sticking an apple with cloves until it is completely covered, and appears to be a brown ball. It will last for years, lending a delicate fragrance to lingerie or handkerchiefs. The hostess who entertains often will welcome a scrap book of party ideas, games, refreshments, etc., which may be clipped from the newspapers aud magazines. These may be grouped as to seasons Christmas, Halloween or Thanksgiving. How-to-do-some-thing items and recipes also make good collections. The latter may be either arranged as menus or classed as soups, vegetables, etc. These books should preferably be of the loose-leaf type, and in any case, the pages should be numbered and the items indexed. A dainty plnholder may be made from six empty match boxes, pasted together to form a chest of drawers. Cover the front aud back of each Inner In-ner box, glue the outer boxes together, and paste a colored cover around the top, bottom and sides. If cloth is used, unless It is exceptionally heavy. It will be necessary to paste a cover of white paper on first, so that the printing print-ing on the match boxes will not show through. To each drawer attach a hook, snap, button, pin, etc., to serve as a handle aud to indicate its contents. con-tents. Not alone women, but men, too, appreciate ap-preciate handkerchiefs. Some are made of crepe de chine or georgette and edged with lace. Colored threads may be drawn in them, although this work is easier in pongee or linen. To make- them exceptionally distinctive and personal, In place of an initial or monogram, trace and embroider the signature of the person for whom they are Intended. Helen Gaisford. (cX 1527, Western Newspaper Union.) |