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Show FOB LITTLE FOLKS, Columbian Souvenirs. "When the Columbian year is passed, we will all begin to vrsh to possess something some-thing to recall this historic time. Only a few of rs have the souvenir silver half dollars, 1 ut almost anybody can obtain canceled Columbian postage stamps, and of these a very pretty souvenir can be made. The mere denominations you can collect the better, both for the sake of appearance and value. Soak the stamps for a few minutes in very hot water, so that they can be easily removed from the envelope, and then let them dry. Get a queer shaped bottle or a common earthen vase of some pretty form and gild the inside of the neck. Then paste the stamps neatly on the vase in "rows of brick" fashion, so that the entire surface of the vase is covered. Use a separate denomination for each row, being careful to combine the colors of the different rows 30 that they look well together. Another way, which you may perhaps prefer, is to gild the whole vase and arrange ar-range a design of stamps in contrasting colors in the center, with a border of them at the top and bottom. Any boy or girl who has ever been to a kindergarten kinder-garten will be able to make a good design de-sign for this decoration. A plaque can be decorated in the same manner, starting the pattern' from the center and allowing it to spread outward out-ward like a star. Boston Herald. To keep tortoise shell combs bright rub them after each wearing with soft leather. When they become dim, clean with rotten stone and oil applied with chamois. |